Day 25 - Tea and Stars

I'm very happy with my drawing for day 25. :)

 I found a great blog with very inspiring pictures the other day, and one of the pictures inspired me this drawing. :)
The blog is Marguerite Gisele. And here is the original picture:

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I love getting inspired by pictures over the internet! It's not the first time it happened to me recently. I stumbled upon this picture by Love Elycia :

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And did this:

It's fun to do and the result is always so different from the picture. I should do that more often. :)

Now, it's cutie pie time :)

One Week Worth Of Work

Here's all the things I made last week! 25 pieces. I'm tired just looking at this! :) (Week: March 17-23 )

25 pieces for the week before that as well (March10-16).

Day 23 - Little Artist

Yesterday's drawing. :)

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Day 18 - The Nice Couple, and Sewing Open Eyes

I'm a little behind on the schedule for this drawing since I did it a few days ago but here it is!

Today I decided to only make portrait brooches with girls with their eyes open. :)

And I snapped a few pictures of all the brooches I made the last 3 days :) Thank God my assistant was by my side! :)

So colorful! :)

Let's skip to the random and gross section of this post! Yesterday I was making soup and I burned myself! :o It hurt like hell the very first seconds, now it's very ok but it looks really gross! :)

The bottom blister is now ten times bigger than it was on the picture!

That's all :)

Three Things I'd Like to Try

Before starting this blog, I've been lurking around and I found very inspiring blogs. They gave me so many ideas! But for now, they all come down to three craft ideas I'd really like to try!

The First one is print making using rubber blocks that you carve yourself. I got the idea from the beautiful blog of Jen Hewett. Here are a few pictures of the beautiful blocks and  prints she makes.

So lovely!

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In her blog Jen recommends using Speedy cut blocks to carve. You can find them on ebay in a variety of sizes.

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But look how pretty these are!

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The second thing I'd really like to try is crochetting with Zpagetti yarn!

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And here's exactly what I'd like to do with it! Baskets to store all of my craft supplies that are all over the place. 

I found a very nice shop on ALittlemarket selling those. But I'd much rather do it myself, the yarn looks so soft and nice to the touch!

Here are the basket from Tangerinette. Her pictures are so GOR-GEOUS by the way!

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I also found an awesome tutorial to make those! By My Poppet .

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It looks easy enough in the tutorial. :)

And finally the last thing I'd really love to get is a button making machine! I used to have one. It was a toy, nothing professionnal! But I've seen on ebay that they are selling the real thing! You can make different sizes of buttons but also pocket mirrors! I would love to turn my drawings into buttons and pocket mirrors!!

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Something like that... :) I'll try to find my old toy machine when I go back home. It was so much fun making buttons! I love instant satisfaction :p

Week End Activities

I totally dropped my goal for this month! :s I've been busy doing other stuff, so not a single watercolor drawing to show right now....
Here's what I've been up to!

On Friday I met my friend Estelle, we had lunch in the park and we shopped for fabric!
So during the week end I was able to make the following bags! :)

You can find them here.

I also made a bunch of brooches here is one:

This is Magda :)

And I made two more pastel drawings on canvas, that was fun! :) and messy, that is why it's so fun. :)

Both are in my shop right now!

The first one is Elycia inspired by the lady wrting the blog Love Elycia

and the second one is Mimi Petite Souris.

I also played around with my camera and my cat :) He must have been a model in another life! he's posing for the camera and takes a different pose for each picture!

So far I've spent the afternoon getting in touch with shops all over Paris that might be interested in selling the things I make... My hopes are not very high about this, but that would be so great! So I'm keeping my fingers crossed! I'm not asking for a dozen shops to take my stuff in, just a couple couple would be awesome!
We'll see!

Day 11 and 12 - Fun Fair Girl, Geisha and Ballerina

I tried to catch up with my water color drawings. I did 3. I'm not really happy with them but I have more ideas for my sewing so...

This is the one I did for Day 11.

Day 12.

Day 12. I just hate this one... I wanted to paint a tutu. The drawing is just awful.

Here's the drawing I'm the happiest with. It's pastel on canva. :) Pastels are fun!

Today's Work. The purse is the best I've done so far! Everything is straight and in place. :)

And here's a picture of my nails :p Just because! :p For once they are all even! I used my favourite nail polishes, the golden one and the gold glittery one.

I feel weary tonight...Probably because I work so hard every day on my shop and the results are so far from steady.

Well, tomorrow I'm seeing my gal pal Estelle; it will do me good. :)

Next week I planned to go get more fabrics, because I used up all of the velvet. I use it to make bags. I want to make more bags!! And shopping for fabrics is so much fun.

Most pictures were taken by my boyfriend, he wants me to credit him. :p

It's done now.