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:

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

thesunflowercupboard@gmail.com

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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

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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!

A starlit winter’s evening with a full moon shining down upon a quaint New England village with lots of snow and a stray whale cruising by…..the idea of this cooled me right down (was a very hot day).  One of the benefits of designing and painting for me is that I get to escape into my own little world. I don’t always know where I am going but the journey is always fun and rewarding. 

This pattern was published in Pixelated Palette in December 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.  

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

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I have many fond memories of being at the shore and collecting sea glass especially after a storm.  The blues and green shades were so beautiful!  I have tried to replicate the colors in this soap I made. The soap is made with detergent free shea butter melt and pour soap base, colored mica colorants of Grasshopper, Mint Julep and Silver White as well as Frosted Sea Glass Fragrance oil and LOTS OF LOVE!  Each bar is hermetically wrapped and weighs approximately 4.7 ounces.

All of my MELT and POUR soaps are being sold through SHOP JOBIE and their link is shopjobie.com

I found this adorable green enamel pail, spring was on its way and I thought the pail would be wonderful with spring chicks in red boots! There are three designs for the chicks and these can be scattered in whichever way you choose.  A pail or container of any size can be used!  If you have a container that you want to paint and then add the chicks, that can be done!  The green color of my enamel pail is very close to DecoArt Hauser Medium Green.

This is my original design, one of which I hope you like!

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 was inspired to design these ornaments after hearing one of the songs from the Sound of Music, My Favorite Things, written by Richard Rodgers.   I decided to use the star cut out shapes as they are readily available and usually very low cost.  The front and back of each star is painted and stenciled which is a feature I really like – an extra step, but really nice!

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 soon after receiving it as there is a time restriction.

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

thesunflowercupboard@gmail.com

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I first came across this Scottish nighttime prayer in a very small gift shop near Seattle, Washington and it stuck with me for all these many years.  It was a small piece of wood with lots of decoratively painted flowers on it.  I was in IKEA recently and saw these wonderful square mirrors and immediately thought of the saying with a painted night scene, a candle in the window of a red house, plenty of stars and plenty of fireflies in the tree tops.  I thought it would be especially sweet in a child’s room but I could see it in any room.  Of course, there is always a "Halloween angle" to this as well (ghosts, ghouls, oh my!). This is an original design.

This pattern was published in Painting E-Zine in the July 2018 issue.

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!