Saturday, August 17, 2013

No-named fun

One of the many projects I work on as Renaissance Woman is taking ordinary old-fashioned wooden spools (okay, many of the spools I use are newly purchased, but the idea is the same :-) ) and making them beautiful pieces of art that have a message attached.  Here are a couple of examples:




The message on the one above is playful (who says wisdom can't be fun?!)!




Pretty cool, huh?  Well, I think so!  Surprisingly, these take a lot of time to put together.  Each requires time to determine which embellishments to start with (in the case of the two above, I started with the black ribbon for the scared-y cat spool and the ladybug bead in the garden spool), several coats of paint, more time to determine the proper quote to go with the spool and how to attach it to the spool, etc., etc.  So, not surprisingly, I have several of these projects going at the same time.  Here's one that is almost finished:




Yep, even the bottoms get attention (you'll see I like to complete the entire piece of art with the other stuff I do, too).  

Now all I need to do is come up with a name for these little pieces of wisdom/art. Spools of wisdom?  Artful wisdom?  Fun stuff on a spool?  

Help!!!   

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