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This evening I took part one of a class on textile surface design. One of the projects we worked on was marbling fabric using shaving cream and acrylic paint! It was fun. My friend Isolde took the class too. Hope she’ll post hers!

To make these, we spread cheap shaving cream on a plastic bag (surface protectant), dripped thin acrylic paint on the cream, and then swirled it around using various implements (fork, chopstick, spatula…). Then we took a piece of cotton muslin and patted it down over the whole mess. Left it to soak/set for about 5 minutes, then peeled it off and rinsed it under running water. I liked making swirl patterns! These aren’t quite dry yet.

I think I’ll do some cool random stitchery over these later on…

Cross-posted at Thing-a-day

Due to my Superbowl party yesterday, I slacked off on the first day of Thing-a-day, but I made two things today to make up for it!

Thing 1: A crystal ball made from seed beads and Swarovski crystal beads (4mm size). I’ll probably make another one of these on another day, so I can make a pair of earrings.

Thing 2: My husband is off on a business trip for a few days and I miss him a helluva lot. He’s a hardcore retro gamer, so I thought I’d do a little pixely cross stitchery in his honor.

Itsa me Mario! With fire power!

Cross posted at Thing-a-day

Wow! For some reason Thing-a-day just happened to pop into my head today, the last day to sign up! I did it last year and had a great time, so I thought I’d give it a go again this year. I’ll post my things here, as well as on the thing-a-day site.

What is Thing-a-day, you ask?
Basically, it is a group of a few hundred artists and crafters who have signed on and committed to making one “thing” every day in the month of February. The results of everyone’s efforts are documented on the website in blog form: http://www.thing-a-day.com The “things” can be any art or craft. Last year, there was jewelry, drawing, musical instruments, electronics, videos, design, sewing, 3d modeling, music, writing and poetry, photography… It’s pretty much wide open, and most importantly, whatever you decide to do each day should only take 20-40 minutes. You don’t need to make an amazing work of art each day, just something.

Last year was my first year, and definitely a challenge for me. I think I missed 2-3 days, but persevered on through the entire month. The most helpful thing for me was simply to stay on top of my schedule. If I knew that I was going to be busy in the evening, I had to complete my thing during the day. Procrastination always seems to result in failure on a project like this.