I was browsing Pinterest one day looking for Christmas gift inspiration and I saw the cutest crochet dinosaur! I immediately found the pattern and broke out my supplies. The dino consists of 50 flower motifs in a variety of sizes and is a great project to finish off your scraps!…
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Painting Chip’s Flowers
Chip’s roses were made similarly to Mrs. Potts. Since I made Chip’s after Mrs. Potts, I changed the process slightly. I grabbed a teacup and sketched out two roses measuring roughly 7-8 inches – a smaller scale to match our dainty little actress. After painting a base green, I added…
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Finishing the Mrs. Potts Apron, Pt. 3
Continuation of Part 2Once I finished painting the flowers I moved on to the leaves. I added a few vines and branches to get the leaves farther out and fill up a bit of the white space. To paint the leaves I laid down a dark green layer of paint…
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Painting Mrs. Potts Apron, Pt. 2
Continuation of Part 1After receiving feedback from MelRae and the director, I moved on to starting the actual apron! They wanted three different colored roses in a similar color palette. I chose to go with pink, purple, and reddish purple as my final color scheme. We wanted the apron to…
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Starting the Mrs. Potts Apron, Pt. 1
We are a part of a local theater group called CCT, Christian Community Theater, and we performed Beauty and the Beast over the summer of 2023. MelRae was the lead Costume Designer and she and the director, Bobby Tschoepe, worked hand-in-hand to design and create the costumes. One of the…
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3D Printed Articulated Dragon
We purchased a Creality Ender 3 3D printer and started with your average beginner prints. Once we mastered that, we moved on to more ambitious projects. We hopped on Thingiverse, began searching for the perfect project, and stumbled upon this 42 piece articulated dragon. A lot of other creators on the…