Happy Easter

I've been playing with clay,

yesterday I watched a video on
Creating Dollhouse Miniatures blog  ,
showing how to make daffodils  with
cold porcelain.


I think that the techniques adapted well to polymer clay.


The basket, eggs and orange vase were
also made from polymer clay.

My daffodils are a bit oversized and not
super life-like.  I will call them decorative daffodils.


The cutter that I used for the petals
was meant for use with gum paste/fondant
for cake decorating.

I really enjoyed making the daffodils but I disliked
making the leaves and could not get them quite right.



I'm going to try making leaves with floral tape,
I need to buy some in light green, I only have dark green now.


The vase is a ceramic bead.

I had difficult time getting a nice ruffle
on the trumpets, this one is the best but
I  could not seem to repeat it.

The cute little bunny was a gift from
Maria of  Pretty Things Ireland blog . 


I think he enjoyed being part of the
decorations.














I hope that your Easter is warm and sunny and that you have a wonderful day.

Thank you for visiting, Mary

Happy St. Patrick's Day

Jaynie put on some bits of green to celebrate the day, little sequins earrings, a shamrock necklace, an elastic bracelet and a green carnation.



I've been playing with the basic Paint program on my computer, cutting, pasting and resizing scrapbook paper images to make book covers.

This is the easiest one that I put together.  Just resized a striped paper into a thin strip for the spine, pasted it onto a rectangle, picked a color from the strip and filled it in.

It's fairly simple but I think that it makes a nice looking book.

Here are some of the books that I finished for Jaynie. 

I have a lot more cutting, folding and pasting to do.

This is Jaynie's favorite, a journal



(ignore my fingers, it was hard to get at the right angle to photograph)

with pages that she can write on.

I cut the pages from the bound edge of a pad.











Thank you for visiting, Mary

Happy Valentine's Day

What do you imagine when you think of Valentine's Day?

Maybe a mailbox

over flowing with cards.

Jaynie got many cards, she had a very happy day.

I hope that you all had a wonderful day.

Jaynie found some puffy hearts/pillows to put on the igloo chair that we got in a swap from Cyd, of Mini Mod Pod
















I had planned on doing a series of Valentine's projects  but real life got in the way,
including a blizzard that dropped about 27 inches of snow on us in 24 hours,
a 24 hour travel ban, all roads closed,
3 days without power, so no heat, it got very cold.

After the roads reopened and we finally got plowed out, we were very lucky to find  a motel room,  where we could bring the cat, Spot, with us.  He was not a happy cat, he meowed at me all night and hid under the bed all day.  We were very happy when the power came back on and we could come back home after about 24 hours.

I hope that you like the little bit that I got done, even though it's a bit late.


Thank you for visiting, Mary