Posted: August 12th, 2010 | Filed under: Art, Fawn Love | Tags: Peregrine Honig Fawns | 3 Comments »
Peregrine Honig‘s piece last night on Work of Art freaked me out, but I also loved it. We all know my fawn love and in looking at them, I just wanted to crawl under the glass with them and snuggle. The shock behind how they came to be can be a tough pill to swallow, but I think it’s actually a wonderful story.
Via PeregrineHonig.net
You’d have to be stone cold for that not to break your heart, just a little….no?
Posted: July 8th, 2010 | Filed under: Art, Fawn Love | Tags: Shawn Smith Branchlers | No Comments »
Just seen on the Jealous Curator and my fawn love got excited. By Shawn Smith. There’s some good avian obsession items too!
Posted: July 2nd, 2010 | Filed under: Fawn Love | | No Comments »
Smarts and Crafts new Photo Assignment was the view from your window…I couldn’t resist a little fawn love….
Posted: June 14th, 2010 | Filed under: Fawn Love | Tags: Fawn Love | 6 Comments »
Geeking out in fawn bliss….yes…our second spring has brought us a new fawn to admire. The CC was mowing the lawn in the front when he saw a fawn run up the hill. He had apparently scared it from it’s hiding place somewhere in the bushes..Oops. When he came back up the driveway…where had the fawn decided to recover? In our muddy area under the dogwood at the front steps!
As it stayed under the tree for the rest of the afternoon, we kept watch for the reunion…we sat in the nook at dusk to observe the does arriving in the front yard so we could see which one was the fawn mama. This little one clambered back over the retaining wall to go to the does. We couldn’t get any good shots of the doe/fawn reunion, but we hope there will be more visits!
Posted: January 1st, 2010 | Filed under: Art, Fawn Love | Tags: Bob Willoughby Photos Hepburn and Ip | 2 Comments »
…..and Happy New Year! Nothing like a little fawn love to start off 2010. I swoon over these photos by the late, great Bob Willoughby of Audrey Hepburn with her fawn Pippin, or Ip. Then husband, Mel Ferrer, gave her the fawn from their Green Mansions set following her 2nd miscarriage.
All photos by Bob Willoughby… his Flickr feed is here…via one of my fave blogs…The Jealous Curator.
Posted: December 8th, 2009 | Filed under: Avian Obsession, DIY, Fawn Love | Tags: embossing powders on gift wrap | No Comments »
…with a Martha Stewart Crafts heat gun.
I have started the wrap-a-thon, and this year I and am having a go at heat embossing with the powders. Never done it before, so the crafty set might sport a big yawn here.
Every year, I like to pick a look or aesthetic and wrap all my packages that way. One year, it was all faux bois papers, another it was plain white with pin-up girls that doubled as tags. Last year, I lamely phoned it in and got some patterned paper at Target…I’d only had a working kitchen for a few weeks, I was still unpacking boxes and I was grumpy and tired. That said, I hated my packages. They weren’t cute, clever or personal. They were ordinary.
On the whole, I don’t do bows, although I’m not against ribbon. Bows are fine for a single gift event. During the holidays, I need stackability and you can’t stack shit on top of a bow now, can you? This year, my preference is no ribbon, no bow, but an embossed graphic on solid paper. I picked up my supplies at Michael’s, plus a smattering of solid color papers, and even tried using some kraft shipping paper again this year. (It’s always a winner…thick enough to create nice edges, and plain enough for cool graphics to shine.)
The embossing WORKS best on the kraft paper, but LOOKS best on the glossy gift wrap. The problem I’m having is that the glossy papers create a static cling with the embossing powders making it harder to keep a clean image. I’m using a dry brush to try and clean it up around the edges. I’m also finding that Martha’s embossing powders work better than the other brands I’ve tried.
The key is making sure the stamp has enough ink and is perfectly flat. No ink…no emboss. It works best to stamp/emboss the paper BEFORE you wrap it unless your package is totally solid. Any give in the box will cause a missed spot on your stamp/ink. You see at the bottom how it looks when the image doesn’t quite make it due to stamper error…Oops.
I also bought a set of sans serif letters and numbers so I can personalize the packages without ribbon and tags, although I am making a bunch of tags to have throughout the year while I’ve got this mess going.
I imagine my last packages will be the best, but if anyone else wants to try it, I figured I’d better get it posted now. I’m getting the hang of it, and having fun picking which family member gets which image or scene. I know it’s a complete shock that I’m using birds and deer.
