Christmas is approaching!  I love this time of the year!  This is the second soap bar I have designed for this wonderful season.  

This is a pretty elaborate soap to make with three colors of swirls (red, white and green} throughout as well as a "swirly top", snowflake sparkle mica and dried cranberry seeds. Each soap bar is scented with a new fragrance I discovered, called Juniper Berry and Cedar and it is wonderful!  

The ingredients used were olive oil, coconut oil, shea butter, sodium hydroxide, distilled water and titanium dioxide.  The soap is scented with Juniper Berry and Cedar fragrance oil. The mica colorants are True Red, Woodland Green and white.  I also used a snowflake sparkle mica for the top along with dried cranberry seeds.  The last item is added to all of the soap bars that I make - LOTS OF LOVE!

Average weight to each soap bar is 4.5 ounces.

Shipping charges are per soap bar.

Christmas is coming! I love this time of the year, don't you?

I designed, shaped and hand painted each sweater and then sealed each with a glossy varnish and attached baker's twine to each ornament.  Christmas sweaters seem to go hand in glove with the season! Wouldn't this be a sweet gift for a teacher, daycare person or just many other suggestions!

The ornament measures 4 inches wide and 2 3/4 inches long.

Great care will be taken to ensure that the ornament arrives at its destination in one piece!

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

Christmas is coming!  I love this time of the year, don't you?  

I designed, shaped, and hand painted each gingerbread man and then sealed each with a glossy varnish and attached baker's twine to each ornament.  I think this could be an excellent teacher's gift or as a simple gift to let someone know you were thinking of them, or for whatever reason!! 

The ornament measures 3" x 2" and I think, would look lovely in an open space in between the boughs.

Great care will be taken to ensure that the ornament arrives at its destination all in one piece!

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

I expect to see Christmas ads in the next few weeks and that has me excited - excited to be making great quality handmade soap just for you!  

These bars are made of top quality ingredients with a 3-color swirl throughout the soap bar, and the swirl can be seen on the top of the bar as well as holographic biodegradable mini stars.  I also used one of my favorite winter scents, Elderberry and Evergreen.  This soap loaf was made of my regular recipe soap base and it is great - lots of lather!

The ingredients used were olive oil, coconut oil, shea butter, sodium hydroxide, distilled water. The mica colorants are True Red, Gold Sparkle, and Woodland Green.  I also added holographic biodegradable stars, Elderberry and Evergreen fragrance oil and of course, LOTS OF LOVE!

Average weight of each soap bar is 4.5 ounces.

Shipping charges are for per soap bar.

Christmas is coming! I love this time of the year!  

I designed and made this air dry clay Christmas stocking.  It has a very simple design and I think elegant styling and will be sure to look fabulous on your tree!  This would also make a great teacher gift or a gift for anyone!  

As stated above, I formed and designed (hand painted) the stocking and made sure to put on a good coat of glossy finish.  A baker's twine was attached as a hanger for the ornament.  

This ornament measures 3 inches by 2 inches and would look wonderful in any open space between boughs!  

Great care will be taken to ensure that the ornament arrives at its destination all in one piece.  

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

I am starting to see Christmas ads and that has me exited - excited to be creating wonderful Christmas ornaments just for you!

These ornaments are so sweet - lovely bumble bees decorated with a wonderful Christmas wreath and sparkled with "fairy dust"!  

They are made by me from air dry clay and hand painted, glittered with fairy dust and sealed with an glossy acrylic paint medium.  Each ornament has a black and white Baker's twine ornament hanger, so they are ready for your tree!  Really, they are so cute and would be perfect for that special friend who is an avid gardener!

They are 2 1/2 inches tall and 2 1/2 inches wide.

The bee will be packed in a small box to keep it safe for travel with room for more than one bumble bee, should you choose.  Of course, the shipping will may be more than the shipping for only one and you will be charged accordingly.

I lived in New England (Downeast Maine and Cape Cod) for over 24 years and fell in love with everything about the area – the architecture, the people, the scenery, the food, etc.  I found this piece of wood and just started designing.  I actually named the lobster shop after a wonderful lobsterman/friend!  The piece itself is a peg rack which actually adds to its usefulness and value. 

A wonderful friend, talented artist and wood work genius, Sheila Bergner-Landry, can provide the surface for this piece

Measurements:  Height (from tip of mast to bottom of peg section is 20 1/2” tall and 16” wide (approximate measurements).

This pattern was published in Pixelated Palette in June 2016.

This is an e-pattern and not a finished product.  Upon completion of the sale, you will receive notification that the pattern is ready to be downloaded to your computer at a time that is best for you.  

If you have any questions whatsoever, please do not hesitate to contact me at:

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Happy Painting!

I have been reading a lot about soap makers using a combination of lavender and eucalyptus essential oils to scent cold process soap.  Well, I actually had both oils (and never would have thought about combining them) and poured a drop of each on a cotton ball and sniffed it all day and guess what....it is a very strong scent and very crisp and clean...just what I was looking for!  I chose a swirl using off white, lavender color and a teal color and then dusted the top with a biodegradable glitter on the top.

The ingredients used were olive oil, coconut oil, shea butter, sodium hydroxide, and distilled water.  As mentioned above, i scented the soap with a mix of lavender essential oil and eucalyptus essential oil. The mica colorants were lavender, off white and teal and then added a purple biodegradable glitter on top of the soap loaf.  When the soap is set aside, under a "blanket" to "go through gel phase" in which it heats up and then saponifies and voila...in the morning it is cooled and ready to be cut!  When I cut the soap bars, I am like a kid on Christmas morning looking at all the bars - very exciting for me!

Average weight for each soap bar is 4.5 ounces.

Shipping charges are per soap bar.

I have been painting witch shoes for a few years.  All of my unpainted surfaces (future witch shoes) have been found at thrift stores.  I look for black short boots and higher topped shoes and have even painted on funky clunky black shoes.  It would not be prudent to design for any one style of shoe.  So…what I have come up with is a series of designs (components) that can be used to paint any shoe and the colors I have used.  The nice thing about buying used shoes is that you can paint one to sell and one to keep or keep both…. These are great accent pieces and fun to paint.  Feel free to add any other details – customize to your taste for sure.  The components can be enlarged or minimized to fit your shoe. 

This pattern was published in Pixelated Palette in August of 2016.

This is an e-pattern and not a finished product.  Upon completion of the sale, you will receive notification that the pattern is ready to be downloaded to your computer at a time that is best for you.  

If you have any questions whatsoever, please do not hesitate to contact me at:

thesunflowercupboard@gmail.com

Happy Painting!

I love metal cake covers, don't know why, but I just do.  I love the fact that they can double as a cover for the cake as well as a seasonal or year-round decoration.  

The Aurora Borealis Cake Cover was an idea I came up with that would be more than a suitable decoration for both the entire Winter Season as well as the Holidays.  The cake cover has a lovely combination of reindeer, snow-filled night sky, a concentric aurora borealis on the top, glittery snowflakes and snow-covered evergreen trees all topped with a snow-dipped pinecone with glitter for the handle.  

This was just such a fun and festive cake cover to design and paint and I hope it gives you joy to paint it!

This is one of my original designs and was published in the Pixelated Palette in November 2017..

This is an e-pattern and not a finished product.

This  E-Pattern  will instantly be uploaded to your computer upon completion of the sale.  Written instructions, supply list, line drawing and photographs are included.

Please be sure to download the pattern within 24 hours of receipt as it is time-sensitive.

If you would prefer a paper pattern, please email me for more information (thesunflowercupboard@gmail.com).

I have long been drawn to cobalt blue glassware.  I had some wooden Mason jar ornament cut outs and put the two ideas together and came up with a cobalt blue Mason jar for each of the four seasons.  This was a fun project and hopefully you will enjoy it too!

This is my original design.  This piece was published in Painting E-Zine in January of 2018.

This is an e-pattern and not a finished product.  Upon completion of the sale, you will receive notification that the pattern is ready to be downloaded to your computer at a time that is best for you.  

Please be sure to download the pattern within 24 hours of receipt as this is time sensitive.

If you have any questions whatsoever, please do not hesitate to contact me at:

thesunflowercupboard@gmail.com

Happy Painting!

I originally designed one of these ornaments and painted it on a resin sand dollar and wanted to make it available as a pattern and ended up designing two more ornaments to go with it!  Don't these just make you smile?  These (I think) are really so cute and I hope you think so too!

This pattern was published in Painting E-Zine in September 2017.

This is an e-pattern and not a finished product.  Upon completion of the sale, you will receive notification that the pattern is ready to be downloaded to your computer at a time that is best for you.  If you would prefer a “hard copy” pattern, please feel free to contact me for further instructions.

Please be sure to download the pattern within 24 hours of receipt as this is time sensitive.

If you have any questions whatsoever, please do not hesitate to contact me at:

thesunflowercupboard@gmail.com

Happy Painting!

I had three Halloween cat-oriented themes running through my brain and finally had a breakthrough – put all three into a set of tags!  They are enchanting and so feline!

This is an e-pattern and not a finished product.  Upon completion of the sale, you will receive notification that the pattern is ready to be downloaded to your computer at a time that is best for you.  If you would prefer a “hard copy” pattern, please feel free to contact me for further instructions.

This is my original design.

This pattern was published in the Pixelated Palette, June 2017.

Please download the pattern soon after you receive it as the information is time-sensitive.

If you have any questions whatsoever, please do not hesitate to contact me at:

thesunflowercupboard@gmail.com

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I came across a few of these wonderful old metal trays and picked them up.  When I got home I was thinking of what I could do with these.  Of course the first thought was “paint them” and the second thought was Fall and pumpkins, and leaves and berries!  It didn’t hurt that had just harvested my pumpkins and it was a very good year for pumpkins!  I used a set of leaf stencils I have (information is included with the pattern) but they of course can be hand traced for this pattern. 

This pattern was published in Painting E-Zine in September or October 2017.

This is an e-pattern and not a finished product.  Upon completion of the sale, you will receive notification that the pattern is ready to be downloaded to your computer at a time that is best for you.  

Please be sure to download the pattern within 24 hours of receipt as this is time sensitive.

If you have any questions whatsoever, please do not hesitate to contact me at:

thesunflowercupboard@gmail.com

Happy Painting!

This is a painting pattern and not a finished product.

This piece came directly out of my childhood memory of the night before Christmas when our Mom would read this wonderful book to us right before bedtime.  I found this wonderful surface that looked like a stamp to me and thought it would be just perfect. The surface is a wood composite. The house mouse is all tucked in with presents and popcorn under his bead and through the mouse hole to the living room you can see that everything is all ready for Santa to come down the chimney.  Looks like the house mouse also helped himself to a bite of cookie!  This was a fun piece to create and I hope it brings happy memories to you as well!  

This pattern was published in Painting E-Zine October 2017.

Upon completion of the sale, you will receive notification that the pattern is ready to be downloaded to your computer at a time that is best for you. 

Please be sure to download the pattern within 24 hours of receipt as this is time sensitive.

If you have any questions whatsoever, please do not hesitate to contact me at:

thesunflowercupboard@gmail.com

Happy Painting!