State String Art

Wow, the last time I've posted was January 1st! But I am happy to report that I am right on track with my new year's resolutions, and having much fun completing my goals. Here is some state string art that kept me busy for awhile.

Most of these supplies were purchased from a hardware store (I love Ace!) the silver thread is from here.

I googled images of whatever state I was looking for, then I changed the scale when I printed them.

This is the island of Oahu, way easier to just do one island instead of trying to squeeze the entire island chain on a 12"x12" board.

I liked making the Texas art because you know, Texans love Texas.

For the most part, I followed this tutorial. I changed it up a little bit, and I really like the way they turned out. All of these were gifts, but I was thinking about maybe making one for every state I've lived in; but that would be a whole lot...not sure if I'm up for the task!

Westcott Art Trail

This weekend I strolled through a central New York neighborhood that was participating in the annual Westcott Art Trail. Creative homeowners set up shop on their front porch/front yard to sell their handmade wares. Now this sounds like something I would like immensely, but I did not care for it too much. There was a strange new age vibe in most of the handicrafts and most of the people walking around bore a striking resemblance to the wizard Gandalf. I can imagine that many of these people owned home decor that included the likes of faeries, wizards, dragons, and magic crystals. All was not a bust though, I did find this cute albino bunny button, which was given to me free of charge. The bunny was sitting in a bowl of buttons, but my eye was only on the bunny. I do wish I bought the whole bowl of buttons though, why you ask? Well you will see tomorrow.



What a cute albino bunny. Notice that my picture is not blurry? Courtesy of my dearest D. who has sort of given me his camera. Oh, he's so nice.