Carbide Willson Ruins

 This 1911 mill is an enthralling structure of abandoned ingenuity!

Its massive, warped window frames have an elegant industrial feel.

Salt patterns on the stone

Contemporary cave drawings

So much rough texture

A grand spot for photoshoots

Ponte Vittorio Emanuele

Ponte Vittorio Emanuele by June Woodbridge, oil on canvas. The palette is gorgeous. 

Inspiration: Brick Alley Ad

Colour blocking, typography, and rustic red brick.

Hammered Copper Kettle

 I found this gorgeous copper kettle at Value Village for $4.99. I love the curvy shape, gleaming copper, hammered hexagons, and painted ceramic handles.

Plus the inside is pristine!

These papers were inside.

It has such wonderful texture.

Thrilled to Bits

This contest theme was a bit strange. Ha! My Thrilled to Bits design is in Spoonflower's Watercolor Power Tools challenge of the week.

Finely Carved

My Finely Carved design is in Spoonflower's Wooshop challenge of the week. It was inspired by the carvings on 18th Century commodes.

Green Vignette

From celery to mint to Kelly, green is the colour of Spring.

Inspiration: Book Stack

Rusty greens and browns, gilding, texture, and typography...

On the Porch

As a blend between the lush outdoors and comfortable indoors, the best porches are lounge-worthy spaces. I am so in love with these sturdy, ornate, dripping-with-flowers verandas on homes in Picton and Bloomfield, Ontario, because they are gorgeous examples of the kind of porch that invites summer lingering!

Thrifted Rose Painting

This vintage oil painting caught my eye at a church rummage sale. It was sitting next to the frames I was looking through and I kept glancing back at it. The pink, chartreuse, and mint green combo was too cheery to pass up, and the price, $0.50, made it all the more worthwhile. It has fantastic texture and is totally shabby chic! As an artist, I wonder who this talented "Lyon" person was--or is--what their other work is like, and if they loved this painting as much as I do. I adore scooping up lonely yet truly gorgeous art in my thrifting jaunts!

Clay

These are the first things I have ever made out of clay--a pedestal, doily tray, beads, and (quelle surprise) roses. Now I am totally in love with the medium!

There were a few cracks in the edges of the tray after it was fired so I filled them with plaster and then painted the whole thing white.

The "Robin's Egg Green" glaze took me a while to find, since I didn't expect it to be pink!

On the roses I used clear glaze, although I was similarly surprised when I opened the container.

The glaze on the pedestal makes it look like a chocolate chip cake--an unintentionally cute result!

The tray is going to display some of my jewellery so I gave it a gold rim.

I made these into robin's egg beads to use for a necklace or bracelet.

I will use the white roses to decorate my shelves, and the pink ones will be used as pendants.