A sneaky peak

Just a sneaky peak of things to come...

Cream faux leather bird with cut out patterns on the wings and tail

trio of faux leather birds with cut out patterns from left to right, tan colour, dark brown and cream

Blue faux leather bird with cut out pattern on feathers and tail made into a keyring

I picked up some faux leather pieces in various colours and smoothness and decided that I needed some new things in the shop so I've started by cutting these birdies out.  I shall fashion them into things that can be worn or used so I can sell them in the shop.  What do you think of them?

Pretties and noms

Tell me if you're getting sick of seeing me cut shapes in leather.  I won't listen but you can moan all you want! ;)

I've finished the chrysanthemum and I've made another bird cut out but this time in a circle.

chrysanthemum

bird cut out in a stripy circle

I really like how they look held up to the light:

bird cut out held to the light

chrysanthemum held to the light

The chrysanthemum makes me think of the inside of a lotus root.  I didn't do a pattern for this, I just cut and am amazed at the pattern I can see in it!  I find it a bit mesmerising.

And so onto the noms.  We have a blueberry bush in the back garden and so far this year it's yielded 210g, so I made them into muffins!  Mmmmmmm!  Haven't tried one yet as they're hot out of the oven.  I've also just finished making blackberry muffins too as had five punnets for £1 as the green grocer was trying to sell them off at the end of the day.  Have to say they're the most enormous blackberries I've ever seen!  So that's one punnet down, only four more to go!  I'm thinking pie...

blueberry muffins mmmmmmmmm

Can't you just smell them?  Go on then, have one!

Under the knife

Here's some more under operation leather, they're both a work in progress as think the flower needs more petals and the squirrel needs friends!

what will hopefully become a chrysanthemum

Miss Squirrel

Ok so the photos may be a little blurry but I'm not taking them again as just had a bit of a meltdown in the kitchen and hoping for a bath and to watch Carnivale on Sky Atlantic!  Yay!  I like having cool things to watch!

So what do you think of my leather work?

Leather bird bracelet

So I chopped up the bag and realised that it wasn't faux leather after all but real leather, yay!  I drew round a bird motif I've got here and then cut out a design from my head on it's feathers, this one will be mine all mine as it's based on that motif and don't want to plagiarise, but anything else I make from this bag will be wholly my own design so I can sell them. 

Red leather song bird bracelet

Close up

View of it on my arm as it would appear to someone looking at me

I'm thinking some butterflies, owls and maybe some cats and possibly trees and leaves and flowers of course!  I'm really excited by this as it looks pretty darn good even if I do say so myself!  I've also gained useful things in salvage from the chopped up bag so it's win win!