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… said my new colleague last week. “Do something with this tunic. It’s boring!”

Lou: “What do you want me to do with it?”

She: “You’ll think of something!”

Ok… a task was born. One where I was asked to do whatever the hell I want. YAY!!

Sunday I woke up and had an idea as I looked at our curtains. They’re from Ikea and the fabric is just beautiful. As they were too long I cut them shorter and with the rest of it I renewed the tunic.

Simply cut out some leaves and sewed it on the fabric.

In addition to the leaves I covered some buttons with the same fabric and added them on the little pockets.

If you ever want me to change clothes for you – I’ll get paid with cake.  Feel free to contact me :-)

I did it again. It’s so much fun my head is full of ideas now.
This one is for a sweet couple in my agency who brought me a pack of Sharpie’s recently from the US and as they didn’t want to see my money I made them an egg. They love Las Vegas and so that’s the theme done in an old-school tattoo style. Hope they will like it!
Mark and Shy! This is for you! Thanx a lot!!

I had this idea yesterday. I haven’t painted one egg since kindergarten but today I landed on the Sharpie’s homepage and when you can use Sharpie’s to paint on Chuck’s well… you can get freaky on an egg as well. Easter is coming faster than I thought so all I needed was a pack of white eggs as the pens were already there (ordered them from all over the states as in Germany they’re nowhere to find).

Easy task I thought but I was not aware that eggs get stamped before they hit the stores so I had the problem how to get rid of those pink numbers. Tipp Ex works. Works perfectly fine. But looks bad. Really bad. Don’t do it. My fabulous new colleague Annette had the idea to use a nail file and YES that is much better. I took a picture of the result but as there was nothing to see anymore… you get the hint.

I decided to have a theme. “Tattoo Eggs” As I’m turning 30 this year a new tattoo is due so I painted the eggs with potential designs. First I blew them out which was a real mess but it provided dinner as well. Then drew on them with a pencil.

Right after this picture here the egg fell down. If you consider to do something similar I recommend you let the eggs dry for a day so that the rest of the slimy inside isn’t all over your hands. First: it makes the egg slippery which isn’t the best factor to work with. Second: it’s sticky, your hands will get dirty from it and the mess will be all over your working area and now try to use an eraser on an empty egg….

This is how they got finished – I just used a black Sharpie for the outlines and colored the rest in whatever color came to my hand. That’s all the magic. And I like them a lot! They will make a super easter decoration arranged in a bowl.

I’ve made 3 traditional tattoo themes: Happy Easter with cherries, a diamond and a star. 2 swallows facing with a star underneath and a sacred heart.

Here we have a koi fish and a swirl with some cherry blossoms representing japanese tattoo style. Here I’ve found out that Sharpie’s don’t mix with water because I thought of making a more watercolor -ish design but unfortunately that doesn’t work. For the swirls on the koi egg I used a Copic marker with a paint brush tip which worked pretty nice with a bit of water.

And here we have a sugar skull which actually looks like an egg head which wasn’t meant to be but as it was the first egg I’ve painted I wasn’t aware of the bowing (and here you can still see traces of the pencil)

That was the first round of painting eggs. I plan one more session using something different. Don’t know yet. Wouldn’t have thought it could be so much fun. Before this year easter was all about eating chocolate and loads of lamb. But my creative juices are flowing now and I will not stop them :-)

Are you making easter deco yourself? What are you up to? Is anyone having an idea for a nice wreath? I’d love to see your suggestions.

Uh.. I think a new blog label is born. Due to lack of time right now I’m not doing huge projects but sometimes I NEED things so urgently that it has to get done. Quickly. NOW. So today I will be cruisin’ round town and hopefully will need some business cards. I checked my belongings and got started.

colored paper – check!
stickers – check!
woven labels – check!
stamps and inkpad – check!

Actually this is the list of things that I used at the end because when I sat down I had no idea what I’d need except of paper. I grabbed the paper, then the labels… as I was sewing the labels on the paper the stamping idea came up…while stamping and not having an idea how I can implement my email address as its too long and the stamp is too short I took some stickers from the “Crafty Stickers” book, wrote it on, put it on the back of the cards. That’s ok for now. The whole abracadabra took me 30 minutes maybe and now I have 6 handmade business cards (one I screwed up).

Quick and dirty. As I said.

No the numbers aren’t weird. I photoshopped a bit on my phone number. You never know who wants to stalk you…

Today I designed some cheesy iPhone wallpaper that you can download and send to your loved one.

Have fun. XOXO