30 December 2014

New prints available

I've recently made a available a few prints of the base artwork of my spirit boards that I sale. These are prints of the artwork only and do not have the lettering.

These are available on deviantart and Etsy


The following have been made available:

The Morrighan



Surfacing


The Arrival of Wisdom


Day of the Dead Altar



Witch By Choice


The Thinning of the Veil


The Visitor



Benzaiten, Goddess of All That Flows







Brightest Blessings
Saga




28 December 2014

Holidays and New Artwork

Brightest Blessings everyone! Have you all had a good holiday season?

I sure did! I have the new work area and everything was merry and bright. I decided not to put up a Yule tree this year, too many kittenish cats for that. I have several antique ornaments and I didn't want them ruined.

I did buy a few things to put up in place of a tree. I love the Tomtes and I found a couple here and there. I found myself a lovely little mobile with Yule goats, I made a wreath with my daughter and made some gnomes for it. I saw a lovely idea on Pinterest using ping pong balls on lights and I made that, and they turned out quite well. So, even though I decided against the tree this year, my home was still festive. I also decided to go a new color with my hair. Here's a few pics of everything and links to the pins that I found for these.

First, my new tomte that found a home in front of my fireplace:

Next, my daughter and I made some crafts for our home. We made cinnamon ornaments and turned them into garland.

I didn't really use a pin for this, as I have made these before. I usually start with a cup of applesauce and then keep adding cinnamon until I have a stiff dough. I also put a bit of cloves in. Here's a helpful link: Cinnamon ornaments

Next, I found a pin that used pinecones as the base of a wreath. I had been picking up pinecones for days on my walks with Tesla, my pittie. We decided to make this one, but I also added a few gnomes to it. The gnomes were another pin that I found.

 


Aren't they cute??

Here are the links to the ideas for them. Pinecone wreath and gnomes

Here's the ping pong lights


Link for directions here:  Ping pong 



I found a cute little Yule goat mobile


I made my first Yule log cake! I found a gluten free recipe and I even made the little mushrooms for decoration. 
 


The one that I used for the mushrooms is here: http://www.eatingwell.com/recipes/meringue_mushrooms.html




And I had my hair colored a beautiful silver color with blue ombre, which I adore and plan to keep for a while. 

 


All the Tomtes and vintage swedish Christmas cards on pinterest had my art wheels grinding in my head and I made a new plaque. I love the look of the vintage cards, some with glitter. This is a 3D plaque. I painted the background picture and then I create the main pic with clay. I made each of the little lights on the tree and strung them on green thread and placed them on the tree. I placed holly around the edge and put the Swedish "God Jul" at the top which means "Merry Christmas" or "Good Yule". This lovely plaque will be listed in my shop this week. I have another that I am going to make, plus I'm going to begin work for the Imbolc edition of Imramma Magazine!

I hope each and every one of you had wonderful holidays with your families and I hope to have more pics soon. In the meantime, here are some pics of my latest plaque!







Brightest blessings,

Saga



07 December 2014

My New Desk

I've been doing a lot of organization work in the home. I'm also trying to work on my home a bit more. I have tons of stuff to do, so this blog will probably be showing my updates for a while and nothing else.

My first act of crafting organization was to build a craft desk. My things were spilling over in the corner that I have them and it has gotten to the point that I don't want to make or do anything. I have to drag stuff out to get to what I need and I had to do something about it.

I saw this awesome craft desk on Pinterest not too long ago. I knew when I saw it that it was just what I needed, only bigger.


Here is the one that I saw:


The original idea is from Ana White, but this is someone's desk they made using the idea on Ana White.


Isn't it just divine? Well, I wanted it. We followed the semi-instructions but I added a few things.  I added length to it, a middle cubbie section, 2x2 for the support boards, and backing to the cubbies instead of wallpaper.

It cost almost 300.00 and I painted it to match my livingroom mural.

Here is mine.




Here is my wonderful hubby building it.


And here it is waiting to be painted.




The top is mdf board, but I wanted it to look like planks. I didn't want to put planks on it, I wanted a solid top, so I'll just paint to look like planks.




Here is the top when I finished it.


I added runes around the edge.


I forgot to mention that I painted the cubbies with oil based kilz so that I could paint them. After painting I put two coats of polyurethane on the whole thing.


Here are the rocks that I started painting on the cubbies. Hecate likes to inspect my work.




And here it is after I have finished. I need to buy the cloth drawers and I may add a climbing vine to the artwork later.








Brightest Blessings,
Saga