*Basketweaving. This didn't thrill me. It's made from 2 round hoops and long skinny strips of bendy wood. The liner is from a wooden bread tray Darling Man and I received as a gift many, many years ago...wedding maybe?
*Cardboard loom weaving using yarn, yarn needle and a fork to make a pouch that was lined and embellished to make a purse. The blob in front of the purse is a pom-pom attached to the handle which is an old 70's era chain belt. The big button for the closure loop is my old Target name badge covered with yarn.
*Latex Mask, stuffed and mounted on foam board. First a clay sculpture was made, then a plaster cast in which may layers of stinky latex was applied in thin layers. Every layer had to be dried with a hair dryer. It was tedious and hot work and the result way better than what I expected. The background is cloth and the mask is painted with acrylics.
*Enameling on copper using stencils (the yellow flower on green background) It's glued to a wooden box from the craft store - one of the few things I had to go out and buy what with being the Queen of Clutter. The inside of the box is finished with fleece squares leftover from a tied blanket I made a few years ago. I knew they'd come in handy someday!!! Also learned cloisonne using silver wire to make the pattern for the enamel but I couldn't find it for this pic. Sigh.
*Wire Sculpture. Can't tell from the pic but it is a woven wire bracelet with spiral wire and bead embellishments. We had to embellish everything.
*Metal Working. We learned to use a drill and a thin sawblade to cut patterns in copper to make a bracelet. It's way too big for my wrist and the cutting was painful to my old joints so this project, like basket weaving, didn't blow my dress up either.
*Paper Mache bowl. Used a pottery dish I already had as a mold. Decorated with decoupaged flowers I already had cut out for some other undone project from the past...sigh.
*Book with handmade paper pages. I really enjoyed this since I already have dabbled in making books and was excited to learn how to make paper. It was messy and the paper was too thick to be really useful but it was a fun project.
*Final Project was a Concept Book and this was my favorite thing we did. The book was supposed to be non-traditional and tell something about me through color, text and concept. I wanted to do something about the secrets I keep and what I've learned from them.
I go back to work full time tomorrow and I don't know how that will affect the Small Life Big project...but that is another post.
