I've had these blank peg dolls from Goose Grease for quite sometime now. I have been waiting for divine inspiration to hit, and here are a few experimentations... The one pictured above is a jewlery box for my sister, Nina's 30th birthday. It was inspired by santos in virinas, a piece of aesthetic that I grew up with in this part of the world, where some say, we may as well be South Americans lost in Asia because of the heavy Spanish influence on our culture, but another post on that. For Nina's gift, the idea was to capture some of the santo aesthetic, but to make it fun and free-spirited. After all, in her 28th year of existence in this world, she dared to dream, and for that, my heart proclaims me to be the proudest sister. There are 30 punched out butterflies, from a page of an old dictionary, stuck to the piece. The box was from Michael's, burnt, stamped and embossed with patterns, then painted, antiqued and laquered. Here are other views:
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For Mothers' Day, I was so inspired by these, I just had to try my own version. I used the same boxes from Michael's and much of the same techniques. The music box motion was from here. I wish they had a better selection of songs. My mom's box plays "Ave Maria." Here are some views:
and don't forget the rear:
The good news: I may be including some of these ideas in a shop update soon!
These are gorgeous!!
Posted by: Aditi | June 19, 2009 at 02:46 PM
Hi, Aditi!
Thank you very much for visitng! I had fun making these. I am happy you like them.
Take Care,
Anna
Posted by: Anna M. Rosete | June 22, 2009 at 06:47 AM