mini ornaments

How has your weekend been?

It's been very toasty here..
  Monday and Tuesday are supposed 
to have a high of 114.

As you can imagine,

we don't venture outside much during these months 

I prefer to stay in and create.

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I finished up a few ornaments I started yesterday.

this first one is made out of Sculpey and pipe cleaners.

I made this with pipe cleaners,

paper flowers and a Lisa Kettell doll face.

This little box ornament holds a tiny girl, glittered trees & stars.

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I have to get going now, hope everyone has a  
great Sunday.
I'll be dropping by your blogs for a visit really soon.

 

Looking for my muse.......

I mentioned having a bit of a creative block on my last post..

Feeling like I couldn't start anything from scratch, I decided

to play with some old Starbucks bags..

 

After I altered each image I cut it out

 and glued them to 5x7 canvas.

This is what I ended up with

Coffee Witch

 

Coffee Vamp

 

Coffee Goddess

I Think these creations might help me get out of my slump.

What do you do to get inspired??

I'll be back soon!

M

Bohemian gyspy fairy house

Good-morning!

 I wanted to share a little project I created this week..

I started with an old Christmas tree ornament I found in a clearance bin..

It's very large, about 15 inches tall and it's made out of a heavy metal/wire.

Really can't imagine the tree this was intended for, other than the huge department store ones.

It was bent and much of the glitter was falling off, showing the dark gray underneath.

I used a pair of wire cutters and broke off one of the little bars, to create a doorway.

Then it was time to repaint and glitter (my favorite!)

After adding silver tinsel trim,ribbon,  moss, beads, artificial flowers and a bitty chandelier,

I hot glued a broken earring to the front.

I used a couple of doll parts from Lisa Kettell's Shop.

1 frozen charlotte

1 circus tent..

After I cut the Charlotte in half, I hot glued her to the circus tent to create a full skirt.

Scrapbook paper arms and Little Birdie paper flowers (for wings) were added after I painted her dress

in a variety of  dark pink, turquoise and purple acrylics.

when she was done, I added  some highlights with gold fabric paint.

As a finishing touch I sprinkled some iridescent star glitter on her 'floor'.

I sprayed everything with a clear acrylic, so now she's safe to be outside.

 What are your plans for today?
It's 60 degrees and mostly cloudy right now so
I'm going to put up some lights on the back patio and hang up some more stars:)

Hope you have a magical day!!

Little surprises

Hi everyone!
what do you get when you combine glittery stars and polka dots?? Well, I'm not sure either, but I'm know it's going to be something fun, especially when the stars were only fifty cents.

I love finding magical little treasures on a regular day. Look at these adorable cupcake ornaments that were 75% off.

And this kitty...he's perfect, no knocking iphones off the sofa and shattering the screen...no jumping up and landing in the toilet...no smacking you as you walk by..

And who else has seen the glittery bunches of daisies at Walmart? So cute!

It was a day filled with little surprises, the perfect kind of day to have I think.
And speaking of surprises....I have one for you, My two year blogiversary is on the 30th and I'm working on a glittery give away just for you!
Now to finish off the day I'm off to have a freshly baked brownie:)
see you soon!

Glitter and stuff

Hello!
I hope everyone had an amazing Christmas! We had a great time...watching a four year old zipping around preparing for Santa is very funny and a little sad at the same time, I know it wont be long before she outgrows this.

we tried to create something festive every day.
Some salt dough and cinnamon ornaments,

Felt gingerbread boys,

Glittered paper trees,

cotton beard Santas,

An assortment of oddly decorated cookies,

More cotton ball usage,(remind me next month when I rant about how we've run out of cotton balls)

I also made a sugar plum fairy mobile to hang over Helena's bed, which was so fun to do I am going to make some more to hang out in my fairy garden in a few days.


Have a wonderful evening, take care this weekend and I'll see you next year:)

Birthday week (give or take a few days) & it's December

I love December!
makes me think of gold & silver glitter softly falling, pink frosting, the smell of gingerbread! Wonderful magical happy stuff.

And it's my birthday this month on the tenth:)So you know what that means???
Cake!
Candles!


And of course a giveaway for you!
I'll let you know what goodies I have in store for you soon.
Meanwhile, it's time to go outside and soak up the December weather, it's overcast, 57 degrees and sprinkling!
Have a magical day!

OWOH give away winner

Hello everyone, I hope you are having a great Thursday.
I used the random number generator to choose the winner for my OWOH give-away...and it's:
Threads of a tatting goddess thanks to everyone that entered.
I will be having another give away next week so stay tuned:)

one world one heart

I'm Marfi and I'm participating in the final one world one heart event, for the first time!
I'm a mixed media artist with two daughters, a husband, four dogs and a clowder of cats.
I love:
to paint
use glitter(lots)
paperclay
wax
GLUE
And I'm addicted to decorative paper:)
I also love to create little works of art and leave them for unsuspecting strangers!
When it's breezy, cloudy or raining my muse is in overdrive.
On the 17th of February I will chose a winner of my little door prize...

just leave me a comment so I know you were here.
So come in, take a look around and (hopefully) have a good time.
Thanks!

A pink tree and a glitter skelly...

Happy December to everyone!
I have set up the bitty pink tree in my studio...I love it, we use it as a night light all through the month.

Here's a picture of the holiday skeleton I left at a house around the corner from ours.
Last year this family set a skeleton out for Halloween, but left him up through December, just put a little Santa hat on it. He was so cute sitting on the fence post...well he disappeared before Christmas..(maybe he was stolen) so this year I dressed a skelly up and at 3 am I went and put him in their yard on a bench. With an attached tag saying 'Happy Holidays!"
I hope they like him.

Ok, I'm going to go paint some left over pumpkins to look like elves...there's lots more houses to 'decorate':)
Have a great day.