Do Your Best

Many things going on in the house today.  I say "house" because I pretty much have a project going on in every room!
Currently, the kitchen table is set up for photography...and photography means pulling out props for "lifestyle" shots.  When you are photographing 20 + samples, that's a lot of different vintage pieces, backgrounds, and linens.  Just waiting for some afternoon natural light today and I will be done!

The CHA aftermath continues in the living room.  All samples have been organized into their respective boxes for shipment back to the designers on Friday.

And back in the craft room, my work desk is a mess - still working out some class ideas for my spring classes.  Gotta use a little Cracked Pistachio! 

Anyway, as you can see there is always a lot going on and that is GOOD.  Keeps me busy and lucky for me, I'm married to someone who does not give a care if there is a photography studio set up on the kitchen table or a pile of boxes in the middle of the living room.  If fact it probably bothers me more than it bothers him.  No worry though, it's all in a days work!

So on to the project for today...
I'm sharing one of my CHA projects - "Do your Best" cigar box.
I use a vintage cigar box I picked up in TX last fall to house a assemblage of letterpress, thread, a thimble, a new trophy cup and a Salvaged Doll. 

 

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I did not change the front of the box because the graphic was just too good to cover up.

On the inside, I used burlap from the new Textured Surfaces and Emporium Ephemera for the background.  And yes, you are seeing that right...I used tack nails to secure the burlap to the wood box.  The Foundry Frame has been painted with Weathered Wood and Brushed Corduroy Distress Paint and Alcohol Inked.  A small Adornments Arrow added (gold alcohol ink).  The photo is from the new Photobooth set.  I also used a Screw Eye and some chain to hang the Shield Charm from the top of the box.
You might notice there is a Mirrored Star on the Letterpress.  I used the star to cover up the "leg" on the Q, as I really needed two O's to spell out the phrase, with one set of Letterpress.  I'd like to buy a vowel please...

I used the new Trimmings- Lace to add a skirt to the Salvaged Doll.  The metal flower came from a vintage earring that I clipped off.  The little bottle is one of the new Tiny Vials that has been filled with glitter.  In the background you can see the trophy cup that I alcohol inked with silver (to cut back on the shine) and then burnished with very fine steel wool.

Hope you enjoyed today's project.  I sure had a great time making it.  Now it's back to doing the things that need to get done today so I can at least get the kitchen table cleaned off for dinner tonight!

I am teaching in Iowa and CA in March!

Hope you can join me!

Memory Bound

Ankeny, Iowa

 March 6 and 7th

Down to Details

Stevenson Ranch, CA

(Valencia area)

Saturday, March 28th

Please contact ginger for more information

gingbugg@cs.com

now carry on,
paula

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