GOODNESS GRACIOUS we had good food, good wine Villa Bellangio's Red Scooter, good apple hard cider and best of all good art making.
Saturday:
Washi tape clothes pins with hand made tags. The tags could include photo's, hand stamped papers, stamping, sewing, washi tape, metal embellishments. All finished with Mod Podge, metal rivets in matching colors and ribbon hangers. Made for a holiday fair to sell and as personal gifts for family and friends. The trick was to make enough to have some to sell.
A Hanukkah (Chanukah, Hanukah you pick your favorite English spelling) wall hanging owl- made from a hideous Salvation Army piece-we pulled off the plastic flocked Jewish symbols stitched on a tatted cream piece for the face, made fabric feathers, used a piece for the wings, sculpted with fabric ruffled leg feathers and added black lace talons, placed a felted beak--suddenly an adorable wall hanging was created. This is not for sale instead it is already hanging in my home studio.
We created earrings for sale at the holiday fair.
1 pair-Silver frog with shell body and repurposed metal flowers and heart.
5-pair Day of the Dead earrings made to resemble Frieda Kahlo and Salvatore Dali---some were made with glass skull beads and some with "stone" skulls-all adorable with crystals, metal finding, rosary beads.
6 pairs-Metal owls with bumpy brown beads that look like logs.
Sunday:
What we did not have a lot of was sleep as we were up creating until 3:30 AM. Seriously we got busy and forgot to watch the clock.
After a restful sleep we took a mini-road trip to Watkins Glen for some house viewing. Savard's excellent breakfast and on the way back stopped for wine tasting at Idol Ridge newly opened winery. Lovely wine and a breathtaking view of Seneca Lake. We left with Traminette and Rieling to enjoy later.
Then back to the studio where art multi-media magic continued to occur.
I will add more pictures after the holidays as many of the items created are gifts and no sneak peeks here.
