This year was my first time attending the Silver Kingdom Renaissance Festival, held at Ye Old Commons in Charlton, MA. The faire has been in business for six years now, and has a small following of about 500 attendants on average each year. Unfortunately, due to weather and perhaps bad… Read More »Review of the Silver Kingdom Renaissance Festival 2011
I love to sew, sew so much! Whenever I get spare time, I want to sew. This week, I had a little free time, and so in the past two days I’ve made two new things to wear to the Silver Kingdom Renaissance Festival. One is a 16th century blouse,… Read More »Summer Crafting Part IV: Sewing
Another part of my jewelry making endeavor has been to make necklaces out of recycled bottle caps. These youthful, one-of-a-kind necklaces are all for sale on my Etsy shop: http://www.etsy.com/shop/Shaunart I start with a bottle cap, currently all from alcoholic beverages. I clean them, and then fill them with pretty,… Read More »Summer Crafting Part III: Bottle Cap Necklaces
In preparation for the Silver Kingdom Renaissance Festival this June, I have been spending considerable time making jewelry by hand. I went to the library to look for ideas on things to make, when I stumbled upon a book on Celtic knot-work. I have always thought that knot-work is absolutely… Read More »Summer Crafting Part II: Celtic Knotwork
This summer I am going to be doing a lot of crafting, especially because I will be selling at a Renaissance Faire. To start the summer off, I have been making jewelry, and some of that jewelry has involved natural gemstones which are thought to have medicinal properties. The idea… Read More »Summer Crafting Part 1: Gemstone necklaces
Went to Elizabeth park the other day and took some great pictures of flowers.
I’ve been very drawn to owls lately. I love the way they look, and the many ways that they can be distorted and stylized but remain recognizable. So naturally, my last visit to Plaster-Fun-Time had me painting an owl bronze. I wanted the owl to look metallic; lots of owls… Read More »Plaster Owl.
About a month ago, my mom and I went to go check out a new Thrift store in town. In a junk bin of miscellaneous jewelry parts, I found half of an old, fake watch. It was terribly dirty–black even. But it was interesting non-the-less. I asked if I could… Read More »Unique, Homemade Necklace from a Thrift-store Find
For anyone who is wondering, I buy the Mehndi Henna Kit by Jacquard every time I feel like drawing all over people. I think that they recently changed their formula, because this time around, the mixture was MUCH smoother and stained a lot darker, and a lot faster. They also… Read More »“You should charge for this.” More henna.
What to do with these long summer days? I know, I shall learn how to knit! Or should I learn crochet? Let’s do some research on the internet before I invest in one or the other…..lets see….they say that knitting is harder to pick up, but crochet has more different… Read More »To Knit or Crochet?
Yes, I’m still on my henna kick. I did this design on my hand today during my film class. I can totally draw and watch movies at the same time. So I would like to clarify, first of all that the henna in these photo graphs is not the color… Read More »A little more on henna
Another day of henna in the beautiful weather. Unfortunately, I don’t have pictures of everyone that I drew on.
We’re in the middle of Spring fling 2010 at the University of Hartford, and so far, the highlight of my weekend really has been the henna that I have been doing. I have a few pictures here for you of the work I’ve been doing on people. Henna is a… Read More »Spring Fling Henna 2
As I did last year, I will once again be bringing henna to the festivities of Spring Fling at the University. I am very excited to get started and plan to do some practice henna on myself tomorrow in I have a chance. If not, it will have to wait… Read More »Henna for Spring Fling
Anime Boston is over and I have finally been able to update the costume page for Sheik (Super Smash Brothers: Brawl) with new pictures and information. You can take a look at: http://shaunartcosplay.wordpress.com/completed-costumes/video-game-original-design-cosplay/sheik-super-smash-brother-brawl/ Look foreword to my upcoming review of Anime Boston 2010.
A new online article titled “100 incredible web tools to indulge your creativity” was recently brought to my attention with the hopes that I would pass it on to my readers. The article lists, and gives brief summary of 100 hundred online services that allow the users to create and… Read More »100 creative tools
This Sunday I spent the entire day doing a photo shoot with my younger brother in order to promote him as a musician and give him some nice pictures to put on cds and posters. His myspace is located here: http://www.myspace.com/ericleva And the fruit of our labor can be found… Read More »Promo Photoshoot.