Drift wood sticks from Second beach, Washington

July 10, 2022.Reading time 5 minutes.

Second beach It’s been years since my last travel. I was happy that my family could take a vacation trip to Seattle, Washington on July 4th weekend. During this visit, we took a day off the city and drove all the way to coast of Pacific ocean. We saw the snow mountains in Olympic National […]

Etched and painted wood stick

May 22, 2022.Reading time 1 minute.

OK, I have to admit that I am really having fun with these wood sticks. 😀 I have no plan for this stick. I just play with it. After etching some tribe style patterns I apply a little wood stain. But I am not satisfied with the monochrome color. So I draw on it with […]

Experimental project with wood, macramé, mosaic and painting

May 21, 2022.Reading time 5 minutes.

The goal of this experimental project is straightforward. I want to try to combine several elements into one project, including oil painting, wood burning, mosaic and macramé. Mosaic is kind of new to me but I think the idea is similar to cross stitch. Materials 1. Wood tray 2. Cradled gesso board 5″×7″ 3. Tiny […]

Wood sticks with macramé

May 14, 2022.Reading time 3 minutes.

Continue with last post, I made more wood stick crafts with macramé. I believe the interest of macramé comes from my childhood. Back then every girl in school liked to make own bracelet and personal backpack decoration with colorful cord. In college one of my classmate could make really complicated traditional Chinese macramé. I learned […]

Wood stick crafts from our backyard maple tree

May 5, 2022.Reading time 5 minutes.

In April my husband decided to chop down one of our backyard trees in order to give our boy more soccer practice space. It was a small maple tree. By small I mean we can handle it ourselves. Therefore, we got a lot of branches. I get a little excited about all those wood sticks. […]

Movable color palette on a magnetic board

April 10, 2022.Reading time 3 minutes.

This is one of my rough ideas, a movable color palette on a magnetic board. So you can play around little color blocks as you wish. Materials Magnetic Board 2. Magnetic Label Holders 3. Swatch book Result Summary I got the color swatch book of Behr paint from Home depot. It was 20 bucks online. […]

Cross stitch Van Gogh Café Terrace at Night

March 4, 2022.Reading time 3 minutes.

In my earlier post I mentioned that I was working on cross stitch Café Terrace at Night. Well, finally, I decided to push it harder in order to finish the entire piece during the winter season because it has been so long. And I want to move on to other side projects. The reason why […]

Japanese Yuzen style hexagon panels – 4 seasons

December 21, 2021.Reading time 3 minutes.

After finishing the bamboo garden I painted pumpkins. Once I put bamboo garden and pumpkins together on the wall, I realized that I can make them into a series, four seasons of the year. Bamboo represents summer, pumpkin represents fall, all I need is one for spring and one for winter. Spring is straightforward, traditional […]

Experiment Mandala with wood slices

November 4, 2021.Reading time 2 minutes.

One day when I look online I find out some wall décor piece made by wood slices. As you can see from the search results, there are so many kinds of this type of wall art. But I like the idea, I want to try it myself. I plan to make a mandala artwork with […]

Revised Japanese Yuzen hexagon oil painting with frame

October 20, 2021.Reading time 7 minutes.

After the first experiment with Japanese Yuzen style hexagon painting, I don’t like the way it frames. It is flat as my planned but it is not easy to put hanger on the back. My original thought was to use mounting tape but I think I can do it more straightforward and make it ready […]