Glass Vase's

Now that you have all those clean wine bottles, what do you do with them?

Here are some of the things I've been doing:

You can see most of these items for sale in the Glass section of my Etsy shop!

Enjoy!

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!

New Camera! (And Printer)

I got my new camera today! It's a Canon EOS Rebel T2i and I am in love with it! I also bought a new Canon PIXMA  Pro9000 Mark II printer with it so I can print my own photo's. I just charged the battery and took a few pictures to learn some of the settings, and this camera is amazing! Here are my first few shots:

All of these photo's where taken one after another with different settings on the camera, in the dark, from about 45 feet away from the tree. I can't wait to play around some more! There will be many more photo's taken tonight!

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!

Painting And Pricing

Since I'm new to selling anything I make, I'm still trying to figure out the right pricing. Lots of people favorite my items, but I've had very few sales. So I think I'm going to go through my Etsy shop and reprice a few items. Maybe that will help. I also need to paint faster so I have more things to add every day, and I need to start listing glass projects.

There just aren't enough hours in the day to get every thing done I want to!

It's also a bit cold for painting right now. Since my favorite medium is spray paint, I can't exactly paint in the house. I need to set up a few heaters in the garage so I can bring out my paints =) I've been working on a few projects with oil paints, but I get frustrated with how long oil takes to dry.


But anyway, here's a sneak peek of my latest painting:

I know it looks like a bit of a mess right now, but just wait till it's finished! Now I'm off to my day (I mean night) job!