Gitzferald the Fox

Painted the clay fox, named Gitzferald, just now; 

glad I used up the leftover clay instead of just chucking it back in the craft cupboard.

 He's a very smug little fox. Must be the golden nose...

Revontulet

Had this red bag (also free, from kierrätyskeskus) that needed some tlc:

There's nothing really wrong with it, except that the shoulder strap is almost worn through in one part, but the colour red, as much as I love all colours, has never been the colour for me, at least clothes/accesories wise, so I figured I might as well spruce it up somehow and maybe I'll end up actually using it some day!

So I used this sketch by my sister as an inspiration and got to it:

   

I toyed around with the idea of making it more square, 

and thought I'd build up the fox out of small rectangles:

So I sketched out this fox shape, cut it out...

...and scratched it on to the leather with a thin metal pen tip:

I then painted it a stipply white...

...and pondered how I would paint the rectangles, 

ditched the idea cos it would take too long and the rectangles I painted with the yellow paint 

(which is the only colour I initially planned to use) 

just didn't stick out enough for it to work. 

So, I did some more stippling, with the yellow, 

and then got carried away and included pink and turquoise as well

In hindsight, I shall name the other inspiration for this bag as revontulet, or northern lights in Finnish. Revontulet literally means fire of the fox and there's a Finnish tale about how they are created, 

and the stippling and all the colours are kind of aurora borealis meets fox, yes..?

Now I just need to figure out what to use for the strap... 

some kind of thin but durable white rope, perhaps... 

A foxy pair of earrings

Let me just start off with: pardon the pun.

So for my 27th birthday last year, I made myself some fox earrings using the aesthetically pleasing print on some Fazer candy wrappers of the old classis candy, Pihlaja (which is old school, all the way from 1895!).

It all started with some candy that I receiver from my sister (I wanted the wrappers, mainly) and this was a long time ago, but then I cut out the foxes from the wrappers and glued and varnished them onto cardboard and went to the shop to buy more so I could cut more fox heads and a long story short, here are some pictures to tell it:

Action photo from my birthday party, nts nts nts (disco sounds).

These earrings are definitely a make-do project, since I really used whatever I had available for them. Well, except buying a bag of the candy... but that doesn't count, right...?

My plan is to, eventually, make these again, but more durable, using stronger glue and strong ribbon instead of cardboard.... etc etc.

Birthdays are awesome.