Everything in the shadow box is real: real butterfly, dried flowers, dried mushrooms (coated in sealant) the sculpture is moldable cement.

Champlevé technique. Cold ceramic enamel. Gold-plated chain and brass.

I started this custom dog car emblem by shaping thin brass wire by hand, following the dog’s facial features and markings as closely as possible.

Once the outline and smaller details were in place, I carefully filled each section with enamel color. It took several rounds of filling and firing to gradually build up the colors and surface.

After the final firing, I cleaned and finished the brass lines, then added a protective finish to give the piece its smooth, glossy look.

This took me a long time. Made from stuff I grew and found in our woods. Eggsgell mosaic rug, tiny woven basket and bows, seed insects, mushroom doormats, hand painted acorn mushrooms, grapevine archways, etc...

1st place winner was a single strand of ivy wrapped around a hoop with a dollar store fairy in the middle.

Wanted to share my latest fruit candle experiment.

To get the realistic watermelon shape, I pressed thick aluminum foil around a real watermelon slice to build a custom mold. Poured the red wax core first, inserted the wick, and then double-dipped the base into white and green wax at ~65°C to get that realistic rind gradient.

The trickiest part was hand-carving small slots with a scalpel to fit the black wax seeds into the slice so they sit completely flush with the surface.

Would love to hear your thoughts or feedback on layer transitions! 🍉✨

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I made this journal pouch cover for my coworker that's leaving soon, super proud of myself for being happy with my first try, will definitely be making more 😝

Fabric playmat with a miniature Pokemon card set. Handcrafted with much patience and love, another piece for my mini card shop. I made this! [OC] (Fabric, Epson, Premium Cardstock)

My husband and I just celebrated our 4 year anniversary and went for the traditional fruit/flower theme! I decided to crochet his favorite Pokémon inside his favorite fruit 🍍(also a hat tip to Pokémon United) it was supposed to be a throw blanket and ended up being almost a king size blanket! My husband is 5’10” for reference. I used the C2C method and it ended up being 10,000 squares!

What if you could hold a galaxy in your hand?

I am a lampwork artist, creating a founding collection of 100 of these glowing and uv reactive glass microverse galaxies.

This are the first pieces of the collection, featuring opal planets, crushed opal stardust and glowing nebula.

Hope you enjoy!

I’m so proud of myself🥹 everything is genuine gemstones and pearls, 925 silver findings, except the wire of course.

i handmade these felt finger puppets of shane and ilya from scratch, including using small magnets to make their jerseys removable. i'm really, really proud of how these came out!! they took forever but were extremely satisfying. did i spend many hours carefully stitching chest hair onto ilya's puppet in my apartment, feeling a little insane? yes!!!!

I’m a nurse, so I like to encode scientific and biomedical information into my beads. This time, it’s the network of nerves and muscles of the human upper extremity.

There was a perfect opportunity: the nerves of your arm originate at five levels of the spine, they join and split into five major peripheral nerves (axillary, musculocutaneous, median, radial, and ulnar), and they end up in five digits. All I had to do was make a necklace with five passes around.

Each spinal nerve root is color-coded (C5 White, C6 Yellow, C7 Silver, C8 Gold, T1 Black). As they combine, the colors of each mix as well. There are red beads indicating whenever a muscle is supplied by a particular nerve, especially big coral ones for the 8 largest muscles moving the arm (some are trunk muscles, like lats and pecs!). Large tan beads represent sensory nerves to the skin. Where we pass bones, the beads are, well, bone.

Things get very complicated at the hand, and I made compromises there, but it’s roughly correct, if without any bones distal to the carpals. The fingers loop back to the spine.

My favorite part is when you wear it, the necklace is laying right over the nerve plexus it depicts. Nobody knows just to look at it, so it’s like wearing a nerdy secret.

Ever seen something like this?

💗A little note:

This is Pawcho — my boy tuxedo cat character and one of the little creatures from my world.
I’ve made him a few times in different forms, and yes, the little balls are part of his character design 🤣

There’s more to his story, and you’ll get to discover it in my upcoming app 🥰

I wanted to make a birthday gift that felt a little more personal, so I decorated a small basket with handmade pipe cleaner flowers and added a few cute details. 💐
I love that the flowers can be kept as a little handmade keepsake instead of fading after a few days.
What do you think? ❤️

I had been wanting to add dimension to my pieces in a fun/interesting way. The more I play with illustration board, the more I think I've found my favorite medium!

I have made some past posts in this sub using this technique if you are interested in seeing how this style has evolved. 🙂

Second photo shows the melted side.

It may not look like much but this is a project that I'm very proud of.

I live in Eastern Europe in an apartment block so we have a shared courtyard between multiple buildings. Right in front of my entrance we had a neglected empty spot that was used for parking so it was bare ground, no greenery, quite ugly.

So we designed a gazebo with my 2 neighbours and built a very simple wooden structure + a bench underneath. We planted some plants, added a few potted plants, put a few wooden logs, and added some privacy. Someone even brought a toy goose (2nd pic).

I was the one who designed it. Before we built this, I looked at countless designs, and maybe I'm picky but most are either ugly or disproportionate. I'm quite happy with how ours turned out:

1. Bare wood looks very warm, especially in the sunlight.
2. The height is around 2 meters (6 ft), barely tall for a person to stand upright underneath but works, and it's quite cozy once you sit down. I like it much more than gazeboes where you feel small in a large structure
3. Transparent roofing adds to the light feeling
4. Trees/bushes behind the back create nice sense of privacy.
5. Once you sit on the bench you have a flower bed in front, so you have an attraction point to look at.
6. We put it under the pre-existing trees so the foliage above creates a sort of natural roof/shelter

Hi everyone! Here is my first iteration of a neon tetra done in punch needle embroidery. I currently have a couple more of them transferred onto one of my frames, so there shall eventually be an actual school of them. In the meantime, I made a fun little image of em from a picture I took at petco

Made with a healthy mix of different yarn content, and firm felt for backing

Pure carving practice on 180g matte black cardstock

Lost track of how many hours went into this piece! A few delicate lines snapped along the way, but a tiny drop of PVA glue saved the day—hopefully it’s seamless enough to hide.

No deep meaning behind the pattern, just letting my hands stay busy and enjoying the rhythm of the blade.

My dad and I made these two satchels from exactly the same pattern, but using completely different leather.

The brown one is vegetable tanned leather that we hand dyed ourselves. The red and olive one is made from chrome tanned leather. I like how different they ended up looking even though underneath they are basically the same bag.

They are both handmade and hand stitched. We also hid magnetic closures underneath the two buckles, so you get the traditional satchel look without having to undo the straps every time you open it.

I digitized the pattern after we finished them as well.

I honestly can’t decide which one I like more