Remarkably Askew
An excerpt from out Halloween decor. This is a new vignette, we usually pack away this lady with the rest of our normal decorations, but Mary and I, who did the decorations this year, kept it out. And the eyeball is in the place of an old watch head. I made the eyeball while waiting to be picked up from a friend. I wrapped white yard around a paper ball and Sharpied the iris and pupil.
Mary and I considered how well this statues head would work for a ping-pong paddle.
It’s the beginning of the rainy season. I love it. Last weekend when it was pouring, Mary and I went out and picked flowers to press. It was very festive, we wore rain boots, coats, and carried an umbrella. We were one of the few people out, and we walked around the neighborhood picking flowers. We had sneaky picking down. When we saw a bush that had lots of flowers on it, we would smell the flowers, or admire them, while plucking a stem casually. Or we would walk by, pretending not to notice the flowers, and stick our hand out to grab one.
Aren’t they gorgeous?
We lay them out of paper towels to they could dry and so we could pull any extra leaves off.
Then we loaded them into tissue paper pages.
And pressed them a little before we but them into big books.
Alice and Wonderland, and a craft book were sufficient. Then we put them under a big heavy basket on the bookshelf and tried to forget about them.
Here are some old pressed flowers, these ones above are a year are more old. It’s amazing to hold up the biggest flower and look at it full on. It looks 3D, but when you turn it 90 degrees it’s almost gone. Reminds me of Flat Stanley.
But these I did this summer, and they still smell good. I cant wait to open these new flowers in a couple of months, it’s the best part!
Striped nail polish! I did my nails and then Mary wanted to do it. So I helped her and took pictures along the way.
WARNING: Give yourself lots of time to get this done, I did one layer and then did the others later in the day so I wasn’t stuck with the nail polish stink for so long.
Step 0: Clean nails… obviously, so it’s not going to count as a step.
Step 1: Bottom layer painted.
Step 2: Give the first layer plenty extra time to dry. Not wet, or tacky at all. Tape a line up to a third of your nails.
Step 3: Paint above the tape with the second color.
Step 4: Wait for a minute or so and peel off the tape slowly and downwards.
Step 5: Clear coat
Step 6: Again let dry. Give them lots of time. Then tape again and paint with the third.
Step 7: Pull the tape off again after a minute or so.
Step 8: Clear coat.
And you’re done! There is so many different combinations of colors. And they’ll all look good!
I think mine looks like sherbet but I’ve heard that they’re Easter colors too. I can’t wait for Halloween, I’m going to try candy corn colors; orange, yellow, white!
For even crazier nail art visit The Dainty Squid and search nails on her site. She comes up with wacky designs regularly. And they’re so fun and colorful!
Look what’s growing in the window! How did this happen? Such a nice surprise from mother nature.
Have a good week. On Wednesday I’ll have a tutorial…
Hint Hint…
My mom got her hair done last week, all pretty, straight, and smooth. So I messed around with it from dinner until dusk. This is the first and only good braid I complete. I t doesn’t look good from any angle but this one. But ohh this angle! It reminds me of a halo or a Greek crown.
