plus five!!!

Yee haw! I have five more finished designs to share from my upcoming installation the beauty of life! My kickstarter campaign is inspiring me to keep plugging away and I love watching this repeat pattern come to life.  Anyone who has no idea what I'm talking about should click here and catch up with me! And for the rest of you, onward ho!

Here's another of the bird pins. Its fairly straight forward, using various found woods for the bird itself.  The wings of all 24 birds in this design will be made from different Scrabble tiles.  Oh, yes, almost forgot to name this one.  I'll call her St. Catherine after this beautiful tapestry done by Morris' wife Jane.

This ornate floral pin is titled May, after the daughter to William Morris. She was an expert in textiles and a champion of embroidery techniques and design.  

Here's another bird pin, which I'll call Grafton. This name comes from a simple wood block wallpaper print that Morris designed in 1883, and the impressed designs on the bird's body is somewhat reminiscent of this pattern.  I found a bunch of picture frames in different colors with this same pattern at SCRAP, so they'll be used for the entire series. As with the Sussex brooch, each one of the flowers in this bird's beak will be a different carved, colorful flower. If you click on the image, you'll get a closer look at the eye--I found some beautiful nails many years ago that have numbers on their heads, and decided to use them in this series.

The rest of the pieces I'll show you will be smaller in stature, adding more designs to the $25 level for my Kickstarter supporters. The piece on the left just begged to be left alone, so there's no color on this rose and leaf combo.  The title of this piece is Loop Trail, after another memorable wallpaper design.

 The pear and strawberry pins will be eponymous.

The last one is a simple nut form, which will also be self-titled.

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