A week away from Christmas and we don’t have any snow on the ground. Fortunately, I photographed my wolf pup sculpture enjoying a snow day last winter. Now he’s starring on handmade gift tags to grace my family Christmas presents this year.
Evette is coquettish, spirited, and glamorous. In other words, she is the exact opposite of introverted me 🙂 It is hilarious to picture me snuggled up in my favorite pink hoodie while I sculpted her big blue eyes. Sure, I can find a little sex appeal for a night out with the hubby, but for…
Every Christmas season, I handcraft about 20 ornaments to give to my family and friends as gifts. They are a labor of love for sure! This year I choose an “enchanted deer” theme.
My friend Kristina asked me to create handcrafted Christmas ornaments for her children. She liked the ones I showed her where I turned hollow eggs into animal ornaments. As they rattled off a list of animals that they liked, “giraffe” piqued my interest. I had never tried sculpting a giraffe and the shape provided a…
No beach house is complete without a whimsical one-of-a-kind cat mermaid ornament! Maybe she’s a “mer-cat” or maybe she’s a “cat-fish,” but this little glamour puss has big mermaid aspirations. She’d make a great gift for a water-loving cat parent or even a little luxury for yourself. Making of a Cat Mermaid Ornament I sculpted this sweet…
These “zombie love birds” are Halloween presents for my niece and nephew. They are polymer clay sculpted over hollow egg shells. The lady bird for my niece, Jessie, is a mainly frilly with a touch of ick. The one for my nephew, Ryan, oozes ick, but that was a happy accident. I had his head…
Yay, It’s Ornament Season. Ornaments are tiny little windows into the soul. Each one holds special meaning for both the creator and the one displaying it. Most of the ornaments in my 2016 collection feature whimsical critters. They offer me joy through the creation process and you, the collector, a little bit of fairytale escape. Sculpted from…