Pirate Monkey

This past Thursday was my older brother's birthday.

I was in a dilemma of what to make for him.

I have had this little monkey figurine sitting on my shelf, waiting to be painted.

I didn't want to paint it like just a plain old, two tones of brown monkey though.. that would be boring!

I finally decided to paint it like a pirate! Michael loves pirates and monkeys!

Why not combine the two?!

This is what I ended up with:

I am really happy with how it turned out!

I just used acrylic paints to paint him and then sprayed him with glossy sealer to give him a shine.

Michael seemed to really like him!

Skull Nightlight

I work at All Fired Up, a paint your own pottery studio that offers

ceramic painting, glass fusing, and wet clay building projects.

Until the other day, I had only done a glass project as a sample for the store.

I had been wanting to create something for myself.

I decided to create a skull nightlight for my bathroom.

I started with a 3" clear square base.

I covered it with two layers of black glass line, letting each layer dry completely.

I then used toothpicks, removing away the unwanted glass line

until only the image that I wanted remained.

I then put another 3" clear square piece of glass on top before fusing it in the kiln.

If you don't add another layer of glass when doing this technique, your piece will remain textured.

I am happy with how my project turned out!

It is now nestled nicely under my newly painted shelf in my bathroom!

(Blog post on the shelf is from yesterday)

Bathroom Shelf

I was getting tired of all the clutter of products on my bathroom shelf.

All of the shelfs at the store were kind of pricey, and there weren't any that I was particularly fond over to pay that kind of price.

I decided to go to the craft store, buy a cheap wooden shelf, and paint my own.

I used acrylic paints.

I painted everything a base coat of white first so that the colors would show up better.

The front has three wooden cut outs that I glued on - two anchors and a skull.

I hot glued them on after everything was painted and sealed.

I painted the cut outs first.

I then started on the shelf itself, painting some areas white and some with a black that had glitter in it.

I then painted a skull with an anchor through it on either side of the shelf.

I sealed everything.

Then the last step was to hot glue the cut outs on.

Now it is happily hanging on the wall in my bathroom, freeing up counter space!

P.S. 

- The sneak peak for my next blog posting is the night light that's underneath my shelf!

- (And please excuse the ugly wallpaper, I live in an apartment!)

Skull 'Stache Set

Who doesn't love mustaches?

How about mustaches on skulls?

With top hats?

How about all of that in a Clipart file?

Cute skull set with different mustaches!

Four of them have top hats and four do not!

There are three different types of mustaches and one goatee.

You get eight skulls total and also get each mustache and goatee as a clipart file as well.

Available for purchase at my Etsy store

https://www.etsy.com/listing/123476974/skull-stache-clipart-set-mustache-top

Secret Sister Day 6

I am participating in a Secret Sister/Secret Santa swap over at Scraptastical Kreations, among the design team ladies. We sent a box of 25 small gifts to our Secret Sister and we open one gift each day.

Day 6 of Secret Santa

Halloween glitter bling images and birthday tokens!

Halloween is my favorite holiday and I make a lot of birthday cards!

Rob said they hit the nail on the head with that one when I opened them!