Fuzzy Photography

I got some fuzzy new Ameraucana chicks and I just had to take some pictures of them. Aren't they so adorable?! 

I love how curious they are! The darker one runs to me every time I put my hand in his box. Pretty soon they will be big enough to go into the coop with the older layers! I also snapped this picture of my cat Honey the other day:

She loves to sit in the cupboard! I think its so funny she is the almost the same color as the wood. In other news: it's spring! My tulips are starting to come up and that means it's time to bring out the spray paints again, so I will soon have more items in the painting section of my shop. Check back often to see what's new!

It's Official!

I have my printer set up now! A photography section will be open in my store soon! Here are some pictures of my set up:

The Set Up

Printing The First Picture

Here It Comes!

More Printing!

Hooray For Printers!

My On Screen Set Up For Photo Printing

Printing Matt Vs. Gloss

This photo printer is amazing! The only down side is that it is HUGE! But that means that I can print calendars with it =) I'm so excited, I'm going to list a few pictures on Etsy RIGHT NOW!

Happy Printing!

Camera Updates!

Here are a few more pictures I've taken with my A-M-A-Z-I-N-G new camera. None of these pictures are edited.

I will soon be able to print my photo's out and post them for sale! I can't wait to have my printer all set up!

Behind On Everything

I know I said I was going to try to blog several times a week, but since I haven't been doing many art projects there hasn't been anything to blog about. But today there is!

Here is my latest bit of glass art:

Patron Chrome and Gold Candle Holders

I painted the bottles with a different technique and am very pleased with how different they turned out. Both are painted with the same two bottles of chrome and gold paint, but the first one looks almost like it has a coat of black flecks as well. Both of these will be going up on Etsy sometime today =)

Also my camera and printer should be arriving today, so there will be many more things to blog, like pictures of art and artistic pictures! I'm so exited to play with all the camera settings and have a photo printer! I'm sure I'll blog again soon with the first few pictures I take with my camera!

What's Up Wednesday

Well today I don't have any messy projects going for a Wacky Wednesday, so I thought I'd just tell you what I've been up to lately. It's a What's Up Wednesday!

I made almost a dozen egg ornaments yesterday, so there are new eggs in my shop! Here is a picture of my favorite one:

Fading Cheshire Cat from Alice's Adventures In Wonderland Egg Ornament

I've also been playing around with spray paint ideas since we've had a few warm days in a row here. Maybe I'll bring out the spray paints tomorrow if its warm in the morning. I also need to hunt around some specialty paint shops in town for a few specific colors I need =) I have several ideas for stencils and reverse stencils for spray painting that I need to have made before I can take on any big spray paint projects.

And coming soon to my Etsy shop: A Photography section! I'll be ordering my new camera and photo printer this weekend and I'm so excited to have be able to take pictures again! And this will be my first photo printer so I'm sure it'll be an adventure figuring out how to use!

In other news, I'm in the process of figuring out what I need to make.... Wine Bottle Tiki Torches! I'm excited to get everything here so I can make a few test tiki torches for myself and my family!

I have so many projects going right now, I really need to slow down and do one at a time, but that's just not the way my artistic creativity works! I hope all your artistic projects are going fantastic as well!

Sneak Peek Sunday!

I am so, so very excited about today's sneak peek! It is for an all new, never before tried art project, and if it works? EEEEEEEK! Ok I need to calm down now. I'm off to the hardware store in a few minutes to gather supplies for this new project, and I can't wait to show you in next weeks Finished Friday!

I'm so excited I feel like I need to be secretive. So here is the only bit of sneak peek I can give you for now:

SAND!

Finished Friday!

Today is a day of finished projects! This week I worked on a whole bunch of eggs (it's still to cold to paint outside). So here are my finished projects!

All of the new eggs on a tree.

Here are some close ups of the newest eggs!

Ready for Valentines Day?

Sleeping Kitten

Be Mine!

Love

Marry Me?

Easter Bunny!

I'm so excited about all these eggs! I can't wait to have more eggs to etch. Its so fun picking designs and deciding which egg fits the design best. I've found smaller or more complicated designs work better on white eggs. Words or bulky designs work well on brown eggs, and the shells layers burn away differently, creating a picture that can be anywhere from white/grey to black or brown. Some eggs even look almost stamped! I am happy to say I will be continuing with these projects!

(Sorry this is posted a little early, but I'm excited about these!)

Fan Page!

KTBelleCrafts now has a facebook fan page! The fan page will be updated with new projects and new items being listed in my Etsy shop! Feel free to stop by and look around!

Motivation Monday And The End Of Holiday Vacations

Well vacation time is over for some of us, or for me, filling in for everyone at work is done and I'm back on a regular schedule! So it's time for more art! But for now this is what is motivating me this week: EGGS!

I'm always so amazed at the variety of colors I get out of my 5 backyard hens. Everyone is supposed to lay brown eggs, but what is brown? I've gotten eggs that where such a light brown they were almost pink, eggs that are so dark they could be called chocolate colored and eggs that are a pinky brown with white specks. And then there are the occasional white eggs from my brown laying girls. I think the shell color depends on what they eat, and my hens get whatever food is left over from meals as well as an egg layer feed supplemented with cracked corn in the winter and rolled oats in the summer. They make great composters, and oddly enough, my chickens will eat everything but onions!

Here are a few pictures of my girls and their beautiful eggs!

A few of my chickens when they were little. Some of these guys are meat birds, I only have laying hens left.

One of my Barred Rocks. 

Beautiful eggs.

Light Brown

Dark Brown

Almost Pink

Brown with white spots

And I do get the occasional tiny egg!

In case you missed what I do with my eggs, here is a laser etched egg ornament! It can be found in my online Etsy shop!

Tree of Life laser etched egg

Finished Friday!

So what have I finished this week? Only one painting sadly, but I did manage to blow out and string a few more eggs for etching! I really need to move out to the country though, this whole 4 chickens per back yard thing (OK so I have 5, shhhhh!) is making for slow egg production. The fact that it's winter doesn't help either. But I digress, here's my finished painting:

This painting is a mixture of oil paints and oil pastels.

I don't have any pictures of my eggs, but there are about a dozen that are ready to be etched. And I do have a few more projects that are in the works. I can't wait until its warm outside again so I can spray paint again. 

In other news, I made it into another treasury on Etsy =) You can find it here, <3 My Whimsical heart <3. This is the piece that made it into the treasury: 

Butterfly Glass Candle Holder

I hope all your projects are going well this week!