I got inspired from some fun pictures on Instagram a while ago to draw on porcelain. I headed to my favorite art supply store in Prague ( yes miss it very much..) to purchase porcelain paint and pens. I have also bought and collected some different white porcelain pieces to try on. It is fun but not as easy as I thought as the material is very slippery but I guess I will learn the technique give some time. Here is a few pieces I created. Very hard to take good pictures of them that's why all these fun arrangements.
During week 24 I have been working on preparing thank you gifts for kids teachers and friends. I like to give something symbolic which also can be useful. This year I decided to buy water bottles for the teachers and to make them personalized writing their name and some flowers on them. I bought plain smaller bottles at IKEA. With my Cricut i designed and cut it out of permanent vinyl. With adding vinyl on the bottles, they can only be hand-washed otherwise the vinyl will come off. After five years in Germany I have gotten so use to saying Frau Janssen rather then using her first name. So I decided that I will use the last name because that is the only name the kids use. Funny how you get use to something that I from the beginning thought was so stupid and old fashion. When I was playing around with my Cricut I also figured out how to transfer my wine ladies into svg file which is needed so the machine can cut out my illustrations. I did a test with iron on transfer vinyl. I made the
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