Auntie's Workshop

   Round Two:  Phase Two For Phase one, look here .    This phase was a painting frenzy for me.     I've still got several canvases--some started and some still in the package-- in the closet just begging to be painted. This is an alternate version of the painting I did at the now closed Pinot's Palette in Westminster.  It's a sample for a couple of upcoming painting parties.  I had to make another sample because (1) it had been so long since I painted the first one I needed to see if I remembered how to do it and (2) I had to adjust it from a 10 x 30 inch canvas to a 12 x 24 canvas, plus find a mix of paint that equated the color from Pinot's (I have no idea where they got either the canvas or the paint).  Like all my successful samples, it will go on my party wall (more on that to come).     I liked that painting so much that I decided to make a brush/pencil holder (a flower pot) and a box for my small ribbon spools (an empty...

  Round Two:  Phase One To see all of round one... For week one, look here .  For week two, look here .  For weeks three and four, look here .  For weeks five, six, and seven, look here . For the end of round one, look here .    Noticed a change on this blog? I finally made my sign/logo the way I wanted to all along.  I was never happy with the old one that I painted, but I made it do.  Thanks to a leftover 12x24 inch canvas, some craft supplies I don't use, and my friend Diana's Cricut, I now have a logo I can proud of. I was given some craft foam a year or two ago but really didn't know what to do with it.  Quite honestly, I still don't know what it's supposed to be used for, but I did find out that it could be painted.  I cut out some flowers, painted them and glued some leftover sparkly gems in their middles so they didn't look so flat. I also cut out a horn and painted it and added leaves for accents.  BTW-- all the gluing...