Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

violins as decor

i display my love for the violin around my house. 
like these beautiful bookends i got from my sister-in-law a few years ago:
love them! 
and i love this print, a gift from a student:

{i keep it up here and i know how badly it needs a frame}

and the other day i got this little beauty from my favorite vintage place. i think it looks just like an f hole {i just need to figure out where to hang it!}

i'm excited for the day when i have my own craft/music room and i can hang my instruments on the wall, too. but for now, they're better in their cases.

Sunday, October 24, 2010

chalkboard doodles

just before my gloomy week i did this little chalkboard doodle.

it was a great reminder and helped me {try} to stay positive.


i loved it so much, i took a walk today and left these little doodles all along the way...




 and i couldn't resist my staircase...


i may have found my new favorite sunny-day activity.

Sunday, September 19, 2010

monogram extravaganza!

we've been in our new apartment for just over a month, and so i've been doing a lot of crafting lately. and furniture rearranging. and general "nesting" stuff. it all started with the wallpaper, and now i have totally redone our livingroom artwork.
i've gone monogram crazy!

i went bigger, i went better, and i used the existing nail holes! {which explains the random placements} i'm really digging the whole thing. and since our last name won't be changing anytime soon, i'm thinking these little jewels will work in all our future housing.

my favorite part? i used craft materials i already had around the house. nothing new needed! i'm all about using what you have on hand.
{a stenciled "m" on a burlap coffee bag in an old record frame}

 {husband's favorite. this was an {ugly} metal wall-hanging. i covered it with contact paper with a scrap paper "m"}

 {my favorite. this is actually a frame which the glass was broken out during the move. i covered it with a piece of wool to make a stretched canvas of sorts, and embroidered the "m"}

  {a blank canvas i already had. it's just wine corks sliced up, painted, and hot glued on.}

 {another blank canvas i had on hand. painted, with buttons hot glued on}

{a frame that was already on the wall. i used my exacto knife to cut the "m" out in white card stock, glued that to the dark green, and glued that to the bright green}

{another frame already on the wall. just a variety of "m"s drawn out in tan fine-point sharpie}

i want to add a few more that aren't square or handmade by me, so i'm keeping my eyes peeled for vintage "m"s-  something along these lines.

i've definitely got a few other things going on in our place {both big and small}, so this may just end up being a week of apartment posts!

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

subway art by me

so we've been in our new apartment for about a month, and it looks pretty bare. 
so i decided it was time to jump on this subway art bandwagon and make us something. which i hung in our teeny-tiny little "hallway" over the fuse box. 

i used one of husband's favorite quotes, from dostoevsky's house of the dead.


i painted the letters in orange and outlined them in orange and brown sharpie {classy, i know} i didn't want it to look perfect- i like a little sloppy in my art. but i think it might just be all sloppy. oh well, i still like it!