Woodburned Wooden Spoons with Jellyfish!

This little project was a joint effort between my husband and I! He has been on a quest for a hobby, because he sees all of my different artsy hobbies and gets a little envious when he's bored and I never am :) He bought a woodburner a while back and used it a couple of times, but lost interest because he "can't make up designs."

So I bought him some wooden spoons and drew some sealife doodles on them for him to burn! I think they turned out pretty cool! I got the idea from another artist on craftster who burned seagull silhouettes into some wooden spoons.

On the octopus, you can see where the woodburner was acting up on one of the legs... Unfortunately, the temperature started to go berserk, then the woodburner finally quit. SAD! I'm sure it's easily fixed though, it's gotta just be what? A heating element attached to the on/off switch? We'll see, because I'd have fun making more of these....

So now, my crafts have spread to the kitchen! I'll let you know how they stand up to real usage....

Watercolor textures! More wondrous colors

Man! I have been SOOOO tired lately! I went to bed a little before 11 last night and when I woke up, I expected it to be around 7 AM like normal, but lo, I looked at my clock and it was almost 9. Why the heck am I sleeping so much??! Plus, I've been super-tired during the day, too! Glarph, I'm so sluggish... It's taking a toll on my creativity....

So I needed a little blast of color last night, and I made more of these watercolor textures for my papercrafting, since I used up everything I had made from last time...

This time I did it on pages ripped from an old book... Watercolor paper was a bit too thick last time.

I love the way watercolors run together and make such pretty effects....

Happy Friday! Here's wishing for a less-fatigued weekend... I guess there's a street fair here in Enterprise tomorrow, so I hope I can wake up in time to go and be inspired! I LOVE street fairs... Maybe there will be some fresh veggies I can buy... YAY

Movable Papercraft Yeti

Tonight I painted a bunch more watercolor textures for my papercrafting and then made this yeti ATC! His arms are anchored with brads behing the yeti's body, so they are completely movable... Well, movable in two directions: up and down.

"I eat snow food and live in a rainbow cave"

"Oh hi fish! You're pretty cool, let me touch your head for some reason."