Crafting again

After feeling pretty sad for the last few days, I forced myself to start doing the other Dr Marten boot yesterday. To my surprise it's come on really well, despite the fact I haven't enjoyed doing it, but I think that's probably down to me feeling low rather than anything else. This time I've used different sized pieces of glass and mirror to give it a different look to the first one. Today all being well, I'll be doing the beading round the edges of it. Last time I used tiny seed beads this time I think I'll try slightly bigger ones.

When I was way visiting my daughter, I woke up one morning with a very painful shoulder blade. I thought I'd just sat in a draft or something, but 5 days on it's still really painful. Typing seems to aggrevate it, so I've kept this to a mimimum as much as possible, but it doesn't seem to be helping. I think I'll have to make a quick trip to the doctors if it isn't any better by Monday :o(

Once I've finished the boot, I'll be finishing off some dichroic glass pendants I've made, at a very reasonable price. These pendants come complete with a 16" chain and in a gift box. I'll be putting these for sale on here, at a ridiculous £10 plus £1 P/P.

Another day gluing !!

Well I've spent another day gluing bits of brown paper on to the pair of Dr Marten boots. I really do question my own sanity at times lol. The boots seem pretty solid now, even though they haven't dried out properly from this last assault of paper and glue.

I'll be using beads, tiny pieces of mirror and various sorts of glass tiles to decorate them. I'm thinking that I might have to cut the glass even smaller than the usual 1/4" squares of glass I do, so that the tiles mould as much as possible to the shape of the boots. That alone will be very time consuming as it's much harder to cut tiny pieces of glass than you might think. I'm sure that my fingers will be smoothered with tiny cuts as usual, which despite their size can be quite painful.

No matter how much these boots sell for, I doubt very much whether it will actually ever pay me much above 50p an hour, if I added up the amount of hours that it actually takes me to do them. But that is my choice, I'll never be rich from my crafts, I do it for the love of it.

I've always been one of those type of people that likes to keep busy, which is probably why my crafts often turn out to be quite intricate a lot of the time.

The first photo today is an oil painting I did, this measures about 12" by 8" and is done on board. Most of my paintings and drawings are either nude or semi nude as I love to draw the human form.




This mirror is a style of mirror I do called jester mirrors, it was a commisioned mirror. It is made from stained glass with nuggets and copper wire embellisments



The last photo today is of little copper foiled stained glass guardian angels, they're about 4 " tall and come with their own little bags. I've made and sold more of these than I can count, but I always end up with burnt fingers as the size being so small means the glass heats up very quickly ...ouch !!!