Category: Miscellaneous

Antique heart bracelet, maybe a queen and king?

These eggs are a little different than others I have made, in that they have embedded in them tiny pieces of fabric from the stash of a mother of a friend of mine who found a bag of 9 quilt tops that she had made in her lifetime but that were not finished.  There were just a few pieces of scraps and so i tried to give a feeling of a couple of the fabrics in the design of these eggs, but also included some threads from each fabric kind of as a “keepsake”.  For me, life is about having fun making remembrances, even as much as we would like to be remembered,  memories are pretty short.

See  the fabrics used in these decorated eggs on the left.

I made a polymer clay cane for the light fabric, not entirely successfully, and the other fabrics i used a backing of single color and added the elements and then flattened them into the flat backing of polymer clay.  Some of the eggs have texture, some dont.

Because the quilt tops made by this mom were all “granny’s flower garden hexagon quilts” i did use that hexagon style on a couple of the eggs.

 

Thomas Arthur Turner, Hollywood High School year book cartoons: the first selfie.

14 inch diameter mosaic pot, recycled terra cotta pot, all scrap tesserae

Very large mosaic pot, original pot created using type s mortar, then thinset with additive to adhere the tiles, grouted with a sanded grout,.

Blue marble and flowers, decorated flat egg, refrigerator magnet. This refrigerator easter egg magnet was made not made with half a chicken egg as the mold, rather, a rounded solid piece of white polymer clay, and a thin sheet of marble blended clay over top, and trimmed with a knive around the base.  The arc of the center of the egg shape is much lower, and this is an easy alternative to making the egg shaped magnet with half a chicken egg as the mold.

The flowers leaves and stem were added after the whole egg base was complete, but I believe the marble sheet and flowers can be added at the same time.

This product is going to have to have added shipping unless you want to pick up yourself at my location. LOL, shipping would be too much to think about since the egg itself weigs likely around 10 lbs maybe 15. This egg is at least 1 foot tall, and is decorated with scrap mosaic and plastic tiles using thin-set mortar with additive, and brown grout. It probably could survive outside in very very cold weather but should be brought inside in the winter. The base is a salvaged hollow plastic egg (not hard plastic but kind of a mix of a flexible but still rigid plastic… no clue what kind it is). I have used other plastic eggs left over and salvaged from decorations and they have survived for several years.

If you have a plastic egg you want to drop off to me, i can do this for you, no size limitation, only limitation on size is that you have to move it when its finished LOL.

There are two views to look at on this website “eggsorcism” and “pinterest”