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This was the first piece I ever painted at Firehouse! A friend had told me about this cute little place so I decided to give it a try..:) For a long t
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So one Christmas, I decided it would be a great idea to paint everyone a personalized gift. I agonized over everyone's personality and likes and individually painted everyone an itsy-bitsy (little character thing on top) and box to match. (The pieces are
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I was working in a daycare at that time and painted this as an incentive for the parents to turn in their "all about me" sheets.It worked! :)
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This might be extremely disturbing to know. But I got the idea of doing a design out of the dots from a piece of toilet paper, and the flowers of some
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I have a thing about texture. Therefore, I have a thing about add-ons, and snowfall, and bumpy doodles.
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Made this for a friend that lost her twin boys. Wasn't quite happy with it so I had a lot of re-dos.
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Made this for a friend that lost her twin boys. Wasn't quite happy with it so I had a lot of re-dos.
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Made this for a friend that lost her twin boys. Wasn't quite happy with it so I had a lot of re-dos.
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Made this for a friend that lost her twin boys. Wasn't quite happy with it so I had a lot of re-dos.
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Made this for a friend that lost her twin boys. Wasn't quite happy with it so I had a lot of re-dos.
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Ended up not going with this design at all, but I don't have a picture of what I ended up with!
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Made this for a friend's "roasting" party. :)
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The birds were off the most beautiful wedding card and the verse off another wedding card! I love me some Hallmark moments! :)
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Anniversary signature platter take one. It was late, I was rushing, this might have been a failed attempt.
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Take two: a lot cleaner and cuter.
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Sample vase from the cutest kid ever!
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Sample, the picture is kinda yucky but the colors are dark pink, burnt orange, eggplant and chocolate brown.
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I may or may not have gone through an animal print stage. Because, who doesn't need zebra print and giraffe print salt and pepper shakers?!?! :P(before firing)
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(after firing)
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Stole this design off a wedding invitation and added an awesome little verse!
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Amie felt passionately about this design so I painted it up!
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Summer camp sample.
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Very rarely do I use crystal glazes but when I do, I love it!Malachite(?)/Copper Adventurine/Clear Cascade
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Painted up a christmas box for a sample on how you can fuse pieces together as well as how "snowfall" really looks like snow, and how stamps are awesome and blue and green together make my heart happy! :)p/s random trivia: It says "leah" because I might h
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Monsoon seas, the camera phone distorts the color just a litte.
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Matching special order pigs!
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Because you should always commemorate Earth Day with a "Recycle" tile! :)
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I'm not sure how it started but Nicole is Nicole Sparkleberry to me and therefore she gets a plate. Summer Camp sample plate. We were teaching the kids to use stickers and stamps and showing them what it would look like!
