DIY Christmas Ornament

This year I made a few interesting easter eggs. I've decided to translate the same technique to the christmas ornaments (more or less).

Materials:

• Styrofoam balls (at leats 8 cm in diameter)
• Thin marker
• Beads
• Glue
• Snow Liner/ 3D liner (anything that dries in 3D)
• White paper towels
• Glue for napkins
• Acrylic paint ( I used Brilliant silver, Venetian gold, Ivory and Alabaster white)
• Brushes
• Clear varnish (shining)
• Half-pearls
• Glue
• Ribbon
• (napkins with different prints)

Firstly, I sketched the design on the ball with a marker, then I used beads and half-pearls to add dimensions (they simply make better circles than I'm capable of doing) and then I traced the pattern with 3D liner.

When that dried, I went over it again. after that I coverd whole ball with layer of paper towels.

I mixed together white, ivory and silver paints (I wanted pearly base - you can use any colour you want) and painted the ornament. When the paint dried, I sprayed the ornament with two layers of clear varnish. At the end, I painted the 3D parts with golden paint, added few details and voilà - finished ornament!

Here is finished ornament and also some of the easter eggs:

NOTE: If you use napkins with prints, add print you like before painting it with gold (or any other accent colour you like)

DIY Summer Wreath

Finally it's here - my DIY project I promised you to post a little while ago.

Things you'll need:

•  Faux flowers (for this one I used daisies, tiny sunflowers and lavender) and leves
•  Glue gun and glue sticks
• Burlap ribbon
• Sheer light green ribbon (I used light green for two reaasons:  a) the woman who wanted this wreath has light green paited facade and b) I thought it went well with the overall concept of the wreath)
•  and of course, wreath base

Wrap the burlap around the base. Mine was aprox. 25-30 cm in diameter and I used 6 m of burlap ribbon.

I added light green ribbon on three spots. The top one had two pieces "sticking" out, ao it could be hanged on the door.

I started adding the faux flowers. Just pick one spot and start adding them a bit randomly. I didn't cover the whole wreath with flowers.

I kept adding flowers and leaves 'till I was happy with it ( in all honesty, I didn't buy enough flowers so I had to plan carefully). During the process I asked my mum for opinion few times, simply because no one was ever hurt by hearing a second opinion ;) 

And here is final result. (I made  a tiny bow from leftover green ribbon and glued it on the wreath)

UPDATE: The woman I was making this for really liked it. Yay!

ZOO Ljubljana

I've been working as a volunteer in ZOO Ljubljana since mid-March. 

It's fun but also hard work and I've learned quite a bit. There are few things that I can do to help around (with other volunteers); mostly cleaning animals' poop, cleaning windows and so on. This also means that I get to go in the enclosures - sometimes animals are in them (zebras, alpacas, zebus, farm animals, antelopes (I think they are lechwe antelopes)) and some are not (camels, giraffes, ostriches, cheetah).

 Here are few photos that I took while working or when I had breaks.

Hope you like them :)

Geting Started

Hello everybody! 

So, I finally decided to start posting up here. First big thing will come up next week (a DIY summer-wreath) but I have to upload the photos to my laptop first (and that won't happened until next Monday at least - so more than a week from now).

For now this is it, wish me luck!

Love, Anja