Happy New Years Eve!

I hope you all have a safe and happy New Years Eve!

Cheers to a wonderful new year!

Welcome 2015!

Looking Forward to 2015

Welcome 2015!

A Happy New Year wallpaper for you!

I've been busy hand drawing snowflake shapes.  I scanned each hand-drawn shape, created a digital stamp of each shape, and then used each stamp to create a page of dark blue digital scrap-paper (for the 2015 text) and a page of light blue, almost white, scrap-paper on top (you can barely make out the light blue snowflakes on the white - just enough to give it a bit of texture).

Grab them here:
Desktop wallpaper - click here - (right click on image and save as desktop image)
Phone wallpaper - click here - (click on image and save as wallpaper image)
iPad wallpaper - click here - (click on image and save as wallpaper image)
iPad mini wallpaper - click here - (click on image and save as wallpaper image)

Have an awesome day!

Be Wonderfully Odd!

Sugar Pears

Sugar Pears

I've never seen sugar pears before.  When I spotted them in the grocery store I actually gasped and said "oh, these are so cute!" (I was shopping by myself) "these would look so adorable in photographs". 

As I reached over to grab a box of pears, I noticed an older man looking at me from the other side of the fruit bin.  

I was about to explain myself - but I thought better of it - how would I even explain it?  You either look at a piece of fruit and think "Wow, I'd love to photograph this" or you don't!

At least he walked away with a story about a crazy lady at the grocery store, talking to herself about how cute the fruit is!

I used Kim's Burntpumpkin and Paperstainlight textures on the image above.

Have an awesome day!
Be Wonderfully Odd!

Winter Fun

A little old fashioned winter fun <3
Sharing with both Texture Tuesday and BeStill52

Winter Fun

I used Kim's "Edward" and "Desert" textures on this image.

Have a wonderful day!
Be Wonderfully Odd!

Winter fun detail

Candy Cane

For me, the holidays always start with a package of candy canes.  I love how they look arranged in a glass bowl and how they taste stirred into a mug of hot chocolate.

Sweet, minty, and pretty.

I'm joining App Happy Wednesday with a picture of my holiday favorite!

Candy Cane

I used the basic in phone camera app to snap this image.  Cropped and lightened in the Snapseed app and used the Mextures app to add a light leak, texture, and grunge.

Have a cheery day!
Be Wonderfully Odd!

Cozy

A warm woolen scarf, knitted gloves and a cup of hot chocolate
~ with lots of mini marshmallows ~

So cozy!

Cozy

Joining Bestill52 with this square, topdown and two sides image.

Hope your day is a cozy one!
Be Wonderfully Odd!

Paper Pinecones

It is always this time of year when I see such wonderful DIY craft projects for holiday decorating.

I've been seeing a lot of these paper pinecones around Pinterest lately - don't you just love Pinterest!
Last weekend I decided to devote a bit of time in making my version of the paper pinecone - I found the process of punching paper, scoring, and folding the circles of paper to be so relaxing - meditative really.

Plus - it gave me a chance to play with glitter {gosh, I love glitter!}

Paper Pinecones1

I posted a similar image on Instagram as part of Kim's new #mystillsundaycompetition - lots of awesome images in that feed!

I used one layer of Kim's "Belize" and "Avery" textures on the image above.

Paper Pinecones 2

This is how I made this version of Paper Pinecones:

1. The paper pinecones start with a 3-inch round styrofoam ball (squish it a bit to make a pointy-like end).  
2. Glue a loop of ribbon on non-pointy end.  I used 10-inches of ribbon so that I could have a 3-inch loop (which takes takes up 6 inches of the ribbon) and I then had two inches, on both ends, to glue in place.
3. I punched out a bunch of 1-inch circles of paper - heavy paper that is printed on both sides (I ended up using a little more than two 12x12 inch squares of paper for these three pinecones).  
4. I scored each circle with a "Y" shape and folded along the scored edges. (Put aside a few circles without folds to start and end the pinecone.)
5. Use hot glue to glue down a circle of paper on the pointy-like end.  Then begin gluing the folded circles around the styrofoam ball in overlapping layers.
6. Keep gluing circles until you reach the ribbon end.  To finish, cut a slit in the center of a paper circle, slide the ribbon through the slit, and then glue down.
7. I added glitter to the tips.  The glitter that I had is very fine, white, and sugar-like.  

I may make more of these - maybe with white paper and silver glitter.  Wouldn't a nice scripted paper or an aged sheet-music paper look pretty?

I hope your day is awesome!

Be Wonderfully Odd!

Paper Pinecone3

Morning Tea

I'm playing along with Susannah Conway's - December Reflections

Day one - drink = my morning tea - and my new favorite mug <3

I hope your day is awesome!

Be Wonderfully Odd!