star fish pattern

School is almost out (just two more days!) and my thoughts are already turning to the beach.  We always go in July and stay at a small quiet beach where we rent the same house, year after year. 

Often, when there is a storm we can find tidal pools with starfish and sea cucumbers. (I can't help but think the sea cucumbers often look more like shriveled up potatoes.) I have also found sea dollars, hermet crabs, sand crabs and once, even a dead sting ray about a foot long. Of course I tried to use it in a craft project, but just ended up with a bit of smelly mess. My husband still won't let me forget that one!

Vintage Image of Mars Pendant

Pattern without colour numbers

Pattern with colour numbers

The two patterns above are identical, except the bottom one has numbers included to help differentiate between all the shades of blue.

For some reason, the idea of having The Red Planet depicted in monotone blues just appealed to me. Plus, Blue is one of my favorite clolours.

I based this pendant on a vintage image of Mars from Vintage Printables.

The series of pendants I have been working on lately can also be modified to be a bracelet, just extend the ends to make it long enough.

Panda pattern and Vintage Printable

This piece was based on a vintage poster created just after the depression. The Federal work program provided paying projects for artists, including this poster advertisement for a zoo.

I want to share a neat site that has a lot of vintage images that are copyright free.

Vintage Printable is an entire blog dedicated to images that are in the public domain. I know I spent several hours just cruising through all of the images. I think a lot of these would be fun to play with, not only as inspiration for beads, for use in scrap booking, A.T.C.'s, and other collage work.