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Pink Pirate et al

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I just finished this Pink Pirate outfit for Sienna. (click for tutorial here) I usually don’t do skull and crossbones (it upsets my mom) but I had this cute Michael Miller Goth Baby fabric laying around that I picked up at Mary Jo’s in NC this past summer. I am working on putting together a tutorial for it and should have it up in the next day or so.  I made it from a tank and skort that I found at Target and just added some reverse applique and rhinestones.  Reverse applique is so easy and anyone can do it.  I am such an impatient crafter…..I want everything done pronto. Yours will turn out a lot better if you sew a little slower than I do 😉
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Close-up of reverse applique on the tank. I added a little felt bow with hand-stitching to the head.
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Close-up of the skort.
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Since I am on the topic reverse applique I thought I would post some photos of another project I did a while ago.  I made the below t-shirt pants out of a plain white men’s undershirt for Sienna when she was a year old and added the reverse applique using remnants of a black t-shirt.  I made a matching shirt as well.  It was a cute outfit. The design was from part of a wall stencil I had.
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Close-up of reverse applique on the pants:
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Another close-up of reverse applique on the pants:
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Close-up of reverse applique on the shirt.  I added a spade shape under part of the wall stencil.
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"Dear God, thank you……"

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Happy Easter! The below painting is very fitting for the day.

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This original piece was hand-painted in acrylic on 1/8” hardboard and embellished using dmc stitching, shaped buttons, and rhinestones. This painting is one-of-a-kind and I will not be reproducing it for future sale so grab it while you can! You can find it on Etsy here. It features a favorite prayer of mine by E. Rutter that I remember from when I was little: Thank you for the world so sweet, Thank you for the food we eat, Thank you for the birds that sing, Thank you, God, for everything.

The Lost Paintings….

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The Lost Paintings via lilblueboo.comThe Lost Paintings 2 via lilblueboo.comThe Lost Paintings 3 via lilblueboo.comAs an artist I love looking back on work I’ve done to see how my style has changed and progressed over the years. I’ve always been diligent about taking pictures and documenting paintings and projects but there are a few that got away. I refer to them as my “lost paintings.” I know other artists probably go through the same thing. My friend Shari sold her first painting at age 19 and in her exact words it was her “absolute favorite painting” that she ever painted and she doesn’t have a picture of it.

There are two “lost paintings” that I wish I had photos of:
One was my first “real” painting as an art minor in college.  A distant acquaintance of my husband’s family bought it in 1999 for a few hundred dollars. It is one of a pair of paintings I did…..the unsold half of the pair “Ephemeral” hangs in our house today. I don’t even think I signed the painting I sold.
The other painting is a reproduction of Gustav Klimt’s “The Kiss” that I painted as a mural in our first house. It was almost 9 feet tall and 4 feet wide on a wall as you climbed the stairs to the 2nd floor. The finished mural had a gold dusting I did over it to make it shimmer just slightly. The photos to the left were taken of the mural in its beginning stages. Almost to the day I finished the mural the house next to my childhood home came up for sale and we jumped on it. The mural helped sell our townhouse but because I was finishing my MBA, starting a new job, packing a house, renovating a new house…..I never got a photo of the finished product. I’ve wondered many times if it is still there or if it has been painted over. I never signed it. No owner will ever know who painted it.
Update:  My mother read this blog post today and says she is going to visit and knock on the door of my old townhouse when she is back in NC to ask if the mural is still there 🙂
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