I've always wanted to make dress up clothes for my daughters. I made an Elsa princess dress a few years ago that I enjoyed creating, but not much else since then. A few weeks ago around my youngest daughter's birthday, a lightbulb went off. You might remember from my last post that I created birthday table displays using inexpensive party decorations, including plastic tablecloths that cost about $1. As I was picking up the latest display, I got the idea to recycle the tablecloth into a play dress! The first one I made was from the pink tablecloth in the display shown above. I felt I had to create at least one more so they wouldn't fight over one dress, but it soon escalated to a total of four dresses that I made over the following weeks. I bought more tablecloths, solely for the purpose of making dresses this time. It was fun stocking up on different colors, hehe. I drafted my own patterns to my girls' measurements, and I had fun getting creative
Happy Halloween, everyone! It's the last day of October, which means InkTober for this year is wrapping up. For the last week, I chose to work with a paintbrush and bottled ink (in the color siena only because that was the color I happened to have on hand at the time). And I also thought it would be fun to create these circular pattern pieces.
So there they are—my final InkTober doodles for 2015. I fell behind a few times, but in the end, I came out with 31 ink doodles before the end of the month. I had a lot of fun, and it was certainly a little challenging not only to keep up with it, but also to come up with different ways to play with ink. I love this medium, and I hope to keep improving my skills with it in the future. I hope you all enjoyed following along as well.
Niki
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