Jack and Roses

Not the booze kinda Jack, but I'd take that too.  My Canadian cutey commisioned a special pair representing a Jack and Sally kinda luuurrve...lotsa extra painted roses were a must.

Christmas Jack

More hand-painted jack jean goodness.  Jack lovers can order their own custom painted pair here: http://www.scatterbirdie.etsy.com/

Christmas Grinch featuring Betty Lou Who!

I have an adorable fan of my painted jeans in Canada and she asked me to do a pair of Christmas Grinch jeans, making sure her favorite character Betty Lou Who was front and center.

I sell  custom hand-painted designs on my ScatterBirdie shop: http://www.scatterbirdie.etsy.com/

Another pair-o-Jack-jeans

I guess one can never have enough...these are brighter and lighter with a slightly different layout.

Jack Witchy Shoes

I painted these to go with Tori's rad little black and white Skellington dress. I'll post some picks of her in costume at the kids party on my scatter-birdie blog later this week:)

Halloween Patches

I made several glittery, fun Halloween patches to be mostly used for pillows, but some to tack onto costumes and other clothing. Karen cut them out and sewed them on...one of these days I'll sit down and finish teaching myself how to sew:

What's cool about these patches is that they can just be lightly tacked on so that they are easily removed and replaced with something new for another holiday...that's as practical as it gets around here;)

(I'll add some more to this post later...)

Bottles, bottles, and more BOTTLES

I've always been a big fan of dumpster diving, but I took it to a new level with this project. Big thanks to my aunt and uncle for being winos and saving the evidence and to my mom for introducing me to the booze recycle motherload at Tierra Linda!

I literally washed, delabeled and painted like 100+ glass bottles and jars. Some were for the house and many were for the bottle trees we had made from my metal guy, Freddy. Please contact me if you want his info for any kind of metal welding/sculpture. Great guy to work with! More pictures of his bottle trees will be posted.

Here is just a small sampling of the glory. This was also a great way to involve the kids in the decorating too...we had a day of bottle painting/glittering and they got to display their handiwork as well. Fun stuff!

*Some were glittered, sprayed with various paints, painted with glow-in-the dark paints, blacklight reflective paints, paper collaged, stickered, google-eyed...all kinds of techniques.

HALLOWEEN TiZZY

My last post was err, in July....Halloween starts for me in July, so I pretty much go into a tombstone-making, skull-painting, bat-glittering, rat-mache-ing and all things spooky-creating frenzy. Please enjoy the next several posts.

Below are 2 you tube videos my client put together on the yard and inside her totally decked out Halloween house. The following posts will break down what I had a hand in.

Check 'em:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4Z-pJgdqxM


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGBumjZJmss

On to the images...

My business is basically custom interior finishes, frescoes, murals, and various plaster techniques, but lately I have found myself doing quite a few custom hand-painted jeans.
I am opening up an etsy shop that will sell these little wonders along with the possibility of various other items such as my personal artwork and whatnot.
Here is the link: http://www.rarebirdart.etsy.com/
I’m still figuring it out, but I hope to get it up and running soon.

Now, to add some pics….here goes, I hope I don’t flub it up.

The picture above is actually the first pair I ever did. My client and good friend, Katherine adores Jack Skellington. You may notice a skull trend;) These aren't as my bright as my more recent jeans. I changed the type of paint I was using for the most part.