New dominos

These are my latest dominoes. All of them are already in my shop, but now they can be used both as a pendant and a key chain.

I have also been getting a lot of questions about where to get the supplies to make the cake-stands I showed you here and. So I have added the information for those that are interested.

 http://www.savvysouthernstyle.net
http://www.myrepurposedlife.com

Domino pendants

Christmas was very busy this year. I attended 5 Christmas fairs and even if it was a lot of fun it was a few to many. In preparation to these fairs I made a few new domino pendants. Some of them sold and the rest is going into my shop as soon as I have time to get individual photos of them.

New pendants

It’s been a long time since I made some domino pendants but yesterday I was finally able to update my shops here and here.
All of my pendants are one of a kind. I use magazine clippings, scrapping paper, lace, rub ons, napkins and whatever else I can find to create these small unique collages

If you don’t live in Norway I recommend Pipler. There the prices are in $ and international postage has been added to the products. But I have to warn you, Norwegian postage prices are very high and so is the cost of supplies so I’m not able to compete with sellers that offer similar products on Etsy. (This is why I don’t have any products in my Etsy shop at the moment)

Later this week I’ll be adding these. They are made from a different type of game piece decorated with magazine clippings.

http://savvysouthernstyle.blogspot.com/

http://www.myrepurposedlife.net/

2011 summary

As we are coming to an end of 2011 I have decided to do a summary of my 10 most popular posts of this year.  My top 3 had about 3 times as many visitors as no 4 on the list so they are most defiantly in a league of their own.  (I do also have a blog in Norwegian, and the list over there is very different from this one, so if you want to see you can take a look here : )
To see the original post click on the images.

 

Number 10 on my list is shared between two posts. One was my first attempt to make a tutorial and I think it went down well. These posts are number one and three on my Norwegian list so it has boosted my confidence and I’ll be making more in the year to come.

Number 9 was a post about some Christmas stars I folded and my first visit to a craft fair. It was a fun experience and I hope to participate in a few more nest year.

Number 8 are some of my pendants. Domino and puzzle pendants are a passion of mine. All of the pieces are individual and one of a kind. I cut out every tiny bit of paper and glue them on to make unique pieces of art.

Number 7 is my experimental chair makeover.Used my favorite material and covered the chair in paper. It doesn’t go with anything in my house so sadly its still just stuck away in the corner waiting for its true purposeJ

Number 6 were my Christmas bulbs tutorial. I’m so glad you liked it!

Number 5 is one of my repurposed trousers bag. I really like this one and were using it dayly until I made this one.

Number 4 were one of the first owls I did sew together with a matching display shelf. Not sure how happy I’m with this project now, but for a first attempt it wasn’t too bad.

And then we have reached the top 3, they were in a leage of their own and the number one even surprised me a little so here we go:

Number 3: was my suggestion on how to organize your boots. This made my life easier this winter, being able to hover the floor without it turning into a huge project every time. Hope those who tried it found it helpful as well.

Number 2 you’ll find my owls I think their cute and apparently so did many of you J

And my number 1 most visited link this year was my denim bracelets. I like them very much but still didn’t expect them to become so popular. I have gotten a lot of emails requesting a tutorial, and I will be posting one in the first week of 2012.

All in all I’ve had far more hits than I was expecting and I’m very grateful to all of you who have visited me the last year and made my blogging experience so much fun! Hope to see all of you again next year!

My latest pendants

Its dark when I go to work and its dark when I get home. So these pendants have been lying around for more than a week waiting for enough daylight to be photographed. All of them will be added to my store tomorrow.

   

Game piece swap

A while back I participated in a swap on Flickr. It was me and four lovely ladies from the US and lucky for me all of them were willing to ship abroad.

My contribution to the swap can be seen here

I definitely feel that I drew the longest straw in this swap. Just look what I got back… 3 fantastic pendants!

Please visite these lovely ladies here:

HA design

Cindycrafty

Take a break

 

New header

Eventually I have made a banner for my blog. It’s been on my “to do” list for a long time, but other projects has always had priority But last weekend I pulled myself together. When the dominos were finished I took pictures with different colored backgrounds. On my daughters request I decided to use the white background. But looking on it now I start thinking that maybe it’s a little boring, or maybe the colored ones art to busy… definitely not an easy decision. The pictures below are of my top 3.

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Repurposed china

It’s been quiet on my blog for a while, but fortunately that doesn’t mean that there has been a creative drought as well. Some new pendants, both dominos and puzzles have seen the light of day. 
Some can be found in my Epla store and some were sold before they got there.

Otherwise, I came across this blog a while ago. It has unfortunately not been updated the last year, but the plate silhouettes it featured was absolutely amazing. Since I've had a new Dremmel lying around since Christmas I decided that porcelain plate figurines would be the perfect project for inaugurating it. Nothing as advanced as the portraits of course, but a little bird or maybe a butterfly.

It turned out to be a time consuming project because the porcelain gets very heated so it is necessary to stop quite often to let it cool down. I must also find a more practical way to cut because it was impossible to get to the corners without cutting into the actual figure.

 

Note to self; this is an outdoor project for a sunny day.  It generated a lot of dust so my living room looked like it had been covered with snow. Also I need to get myself some safety goggles because the occasional larger piece of china decided to jump out and I don’t think I would like them in my eyes.

New pendants

It’s been a long time but finally some new pendants are being added to the shop. Here is a little taste:

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Domino picture

As mention i my last post my pile of broken dominoes were getting quite big. So big that I had enough for one more picture, this time in warmer colors.

The photo below is taken in a bad angel and the reason is that my living room is so dark at this time of year that I had to use flash. And with blitz this was the only way to get  a picture without glare :)

A collage of collages

With time I have been making quite a few domino collages. By first glands it might seem like an quick and easy job, but I can assure you that isn’t so.  It’s a lot more difficult to make a small than a large collage. That’s why its so annoying when I have to throw one away for whatever reason.  But instead of throwing them in the bin I started collecting them and the pile is getting quite big. So, as with everything else, I had to find some way to use them and the result was a collage of collages :)

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My latest domino pendants

Since today is the first Sunday of advent the appropriate thing to do would be to have a post to mark the occasions. But as I have mentioned before I’m not really a Christmas person so instead I’m adding my latest domino pendants. They have all been added to my Epla store and a few are already sold (which makes is so rewarding to make new ones :)

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