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.ContinueContinue reading “Wood stick crafts from our backyard maple tree”
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Movable color palette on a magnetic board
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.ContinueContinue reading “Movable color palette on a magnetic board”
Cross stitch Van Gogh Café Terrace at Night
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 whyContinueContinue reading “Cross stitch Van Gogh Café Terrace at Night”
Japanese Yuzen style hexagon panels – 4 seasons
After finishing the bamboo garden I painted pumpkins. Once I put the bamboo garden and pumpkins together on the wall, I realized something. I can make them into a series representing the four seasons of the year. Bamboo represents summer, pumpkin represents fall, all I need is one for spring and one for winter. SpringContinueContinue reading “Japanese Yuzen style hexagon panels – 4 seasons”
Experiment Mandala with wood slices
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 withContinueContinue reading “Experiment Mandala with wood slices”
Revised Japanese Yuzen hexagon oil painting with frame
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 readyContinueContinue reading “Revised Japanese Yuzen hexagon oil painting with frame”
New Experiment with Japanese Yuzen style
Finally, in July 2021, 2020 Tokyo Olympic Game is on. But long before this Olympic Game I was interested in all kinds of Japanese art and craft works. I like the washi paper, parquet work, lacquerware and kimono and so on. Among those fantastic works I love Yuzen painting style the most. Background story YuzenContinueContinue reading “New Experiment with Japanese Yuzen style”
My toy figures collection
I started to collect some animal toy figures when I started to paint animals. The idea is I can’t go in wild and find a real tiger or red fox or even polar bear for me to study. Even I can live in the zoo the animals won’t listen to me or obey my instructions.ContinueContinue reading “My toy figures collection”
My favorite cookie/cake art channels and more
One day a cookie art video jumped into my YouTube feed. I fall in love with it right away. And then You Tube starts to feed me more about cake/ cookie decoration channels. And here are the two I love most. Yuyu’s Sugar Art 【Yuyuのお砂糖アート】 One of her videos–> https://youtu.be/GHgTB8R-2EI Isn’t that amazing~! That isContinueContinue reading “My favorite cookie/cake art channels and more”
Some of my wood works
Background One day when I watched TV with my husband in our previous house in GA, he said “you should get a bookshelf for your office area.” I answered, “I can build one by myself. I love wood works.” He replied “Nah, you are just saying, you can’t do such thing like that.” I lookedContinueContinue reading “Some of my wood works”