Cross stitching done

I don't know when I started this picture, but it has been a few years. It was always being set aside for other projects and it wasn't an easy picture to do. I might try to do some knitting again now, at least make a small afghan for my pets. Then I will start the next picture in that book of cross stitch patterns. There are still three that I haven't done.

I also finished some polymer eggs this week.

Clay Valentine

I spent all day Monday making a Valentine's gift for my husband. It was one of those days when nothing goes right. My plan was to put a heart shaped photo on a circle of clay and decorate it. I tried laminating the photo with iron on stuff, but it turned out all bubbly, twice. And then the clay circle that I made with a mixture of red and black turned out really nice, until I broke a piece off it. I thought about patching it, but in the end decided to cut a heart out of it, and stick it on a black circle with a heart cut out of the middle, and I stuck another photo on the heart, which got ruined in the oven. So finally a fourth photo was used and I finished decorating in the evening with sparkle paint and pre-baked clay hearts. I haven't given it to him yet because he is away at work, but I sure hope he likes it.

Catterflies

Here are the two thank you gifts I painted for friends in the Creative Home Arts Club. I had been wanting to create butterfly wings for a while, and when I thought about what kind of bodies I would give them, I decided on cats since I love them so much. So the gifts were a good opportunity to try this idea out. I'm sure I'll do more someday.

Catching up

I didn't even realize how long it had been since I last posted here. Well, Christmas was good. I did some drawings for a short story I wrote last year and got a new scanner for Christmas, so I was able to colour them. I posted the story and pictures on my MSN group.

Christmas also supported my gaming addiction, and I have already played Destroy All Humans 2 (fun!) and Shadow of the Colossus (ok). In between I painted two 5x7 pictures for thank you gifts, which I still have to get online. This week I'm doing some stained glass suncatchers for gifts eventually. And I have been doing quite a bit of cross stitching. Unfortunately I haven't done much drawing lately, and I really need to get back to that.