wherein Liz decorates hearts
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edenfallingOne thing Miss Cactus likes to do is decorate the rental office's package counter (and sometimes our cupboard doors) with seasonally appropriate displays. This autumn, we put up a swirl of colored leaves. Currently we have a gentle fall of snowflakes. (We also had strings of paper Christmas lights on the cupboards in December.) Next week we're going to put up a Valentine's display, but her plans for the arrangement are kind of elaborate so we actually made the hearts today.
(Saturdays are very slow, which is how we get away with this much extraneous labor.)
About two thirds of the hearts are either plain red or pink, but for the remaining third, we got a little fancy. Miss Cactus adopted a strategy of drawing patterns over an entire sheet of paper and then cutting hearts out afterwards. I got a little more artisanal and decorated a full sheet individually. (We also added some individual touches to some of the hearts cut from full-sheet designs, since one pattern came out a little plain and needed some jazzing up, but I didn't photograph those.)
I find this sort of artsy-craftsy work very soothing. It's nice because you don't have to decide on any grand artistic vision -- you know exactly what you are doing, and what you are doing is decorating paper hearts -- but you can still have a lot of fun within those constraints. :)
The photos below are my initial designs, and then the final versions after I decided some of them were a little plain and added more colors.
Our tentative plan for March, incidentally, is raindrops and rainbows over crocus and snowdrops. We will add more flowers as the weeks go by, which should keep us going strong through May. We may need a new theme in June, assuming we're both still working there by then.
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(Saturdays are very slow, which is how we get away with this much extraneous labor.)
About two thirds of the hearts are either plain red or pink, but for the remaining third, we got a little fancy. Miss Cactus adopted a strategy of drawing patterns over an entire sheet of paper and then cutting hearts out afterwards. I got a little more artisanal and decorated a full sheet individually. (We also added some individual touches to some of the hearts cut from full-sheet designs, since one pattern came out a little plain and needed some jazzing up, but I didn't photograph those.)
I find this sort of artsy-craftsy work very soothing. It's nice because you don't have to decide on any grand artistic vision -- you know exactly what you are doing, and what you are doing is decorating paper hearts -- but you can still have a lot of fun within those constraints. :)
The photos below are my initial designs, and then the final versions after I decided some of them were a little plain and added more colors.
Our tentative plan for March, incidentally, is raindrops and rainbows over crocus and snowdrops. We will add more flowers as the weeks go by, which should keep us going strong through May. We may need a new theme in June, assuming we're both still working there by then.
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Date: 2017-01-29 05:51 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2017-01-30 01:38 am (UTC)Roses will probably be among the flowers we add -- I think daffodils and tulips and such as well. The idea is to sort of follow along with whatever is currently in bloom.
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Date: 2017-01-30 02:49 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2017-01-29 02:53 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2017-01-30 01:38 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2017-01-30 12:07 pm (UTC)Maybe Roses in June?
I usually save the fruit/orchards/grapevines for closer to harvest season in August etc but they make wonderful patterns too.
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Date: 2017-01-30 03:32 pm (UTC)I will pass on your suggestions to Miss Cactus. :)