Finished piece from previous post...

20" tall $55

 I wrote about the piece in my previous blog. It was inspired by the broken ornament below. I need you as my reader to help me name the piece and/or give a possible use for it. When I showed it to my husband he said it reminded him of Russia and came up with the name Cyrillic Christmas. I showed it to another friend who thought I made a bong! I thought it could work as a ring holder or candy dish. Guess it doesn't have to be anything, it just is!  Please leave your comments below and let me know what you think...I do like getting comments. :)

A possible base with stars...nah...too clunky

the piece that started it all- I'm not sure what it looked like new...as you can see the red tip was broken, I assume it had something to hang from on that end. I snipped it off with wire cutters and it fit into the wooden candlestick holder.

detail of painting

Painted to match the top...almost finished...

A quick trip to the thrift store...I did not have the brass leg base in mind for this piece or the ceramic bowl. But when I got it back to the studio and started playing around with the pieces I saw that the bowl fit perfectly inside the base and that the piece fit perfectly on top of the base and the blue ceramic matched perfectly! If I had been searching for something specific to finish this piece, I don't think I would have found as good a match.

May you have a wonderful Thanksgiving and thanks for visiting!

Time to Change the Decorations

My daughter and her boyfriend flew into town on Thanksgiving and are staying till Tuesday. We have had fun cooking together, playing games...Scrabble, Mexican Train dominoes and went bowling.

We are happy to say we did not buy a thing on Black Friday except we did visit the local store that was opening for the very first time that was showing my art and I bought a "Think Boise First" coupon book which was more of a donation than anything else.

Saturday we did go out shopping but at thrift stores, the ultimate green shopping. I bought the PEACE sign above and then spent this afternoon adding some red paint to match our front door and added some more bling.