Hey all,
Well, it's been longer then I wanted since my last post. I apologize for the delay. Lots of health issues occupied me for a bit, (nothing serious), and then I had some guests. Today is the first day I have had to take pictures of the projects I have been working on. I am going to post them gradually over the next few days because it takes some time to edit the photos for being on the net. Anyways, here is a project that I had been meaning to do for a long time. I started it a few weeks ago, but I only finished it a couple of days ago. I had ordered the fence part and it took quite awhile longer to get here then I thought it would. This is the project that contains the insects I posted awhile ago as a teaser. :)
This is a pincushion. All of the insects, flowers, grass, mushrooms, and cattails are made with polymer clay, specifically sculpey iii. They are mounted on a small terra cotta flower pot and a miniature white picket fence. The actual pincushion part is made with a styrofoam ball covered in green felt and then covered again with a white and green checkerboard cotton material. It is glued into place with elmer's glue. The pins are pearl colored pins available anywhere you can buy sewing materials. The polymer clay pieces were glued on using a gel super glue. The flowers are mounted on jewelry wire for the stem. Which made it easy to poke into the pincushion. This piece stands 8 inches tall and 5 inches wide. I have included pictures from different sides so you can see all the little things on it.
This is also the first piece I am taking pictures of with my new close up lens, tripod, and lightbox. Looking at the pictures I think I am going to have to starch the material and iron it, you can see wrinkles in the pictures that are hard to see with the naked eye. I am still learning about photographing, so hopefully my pictures will get better with time.
I hope you like my whimsical pincushion. Thanks for visiting my corner of the web. :)
Sharon Mhyre
