The last few weeks have been crazy busy! Between modeling gigs and working at La Crepeie, I had to finish the paper flowers for the wedding on July 1st and then right after that get on a plane to go and visit family for a week in California. It was a much needed vacation. I was running on empty. I am well rested and I did get all the paper flowers done in time. There were 60 altogether, not including the centerpiece I made as a gift. There is no way I would have gotten these all done in time if it weren't for my best friend Val and the wonderful Steph! Thank you so much you guys :)  Here are some photos of how they turned out!

Set up. All the petals have to be glued on the stem individually and then wrapped with floral tape. Tedious.

I died some coffee filters and used these for the centerpiece roses. The branch I made from gluing wires together and then wrapping them in brown floral tape.

Here is the centerpiece.

Wallpaper petal flowers.

Flowers made from a bible that was given to me. The bible was falling apart because it was made in 1880. 

And there you have it!  I will write more soon.

Until then...

Best wishes,

Pesha 

xo

Sorry, I have been MIA. I took a short hiatus from my blogging and other things but, it seems like I have still been super busy. Doing what? Not...quite....sure...

I'm back in the swing of things again so, here is a look at some of the things I am working on and have gotten finished.

This one is Penelope. She is for Cara's friend Mo.

This one I just got done last night. His name is Professor Hoo.  He was custom made for my friend Cara in the UK. I was tempted to name him Dr. Hoo...but I digress. 

Start of a pigeon for Cara as well. Should be done in no time!

Also, Gina Wolfe came down from Denver and we did a photo shoot together. Here is my favorite shot...

And Val and I did a shoot as well. Here is my favorite shot...

Photo taken by Valeri Kimbro

That's all for now.

Until next time...

Yours,

Pesha xo

I haven't worked on some of my projects the past couple of days due to other things taking up my time. Yesterday I worked with my Pop's at his Mom's house and helped out with some painting. It started to rain and we got distracted looking through old boxes in the garage. Here are some photos of what we found...

Old Ticket stubs found in my Pops' brother Kenton's desk.

Old glass slide photo of the moon.

Another glass slide photo. This one looks really old. The photo is in focus but some of the features are soft.

Old photo slide of a rabbit. Taken by Kenton.

Another old photo slide of a Chinese village (I think it is China) Taken by Kenton.

Old Singer sewing machine

Look at the detail!

And there is nothing better than smoking a cigarette lit with gold tipped matches.

That's all for today.

Until tomorrow...

Yours,

Pesha xo

Last night I tried to get as much boring work out of the way as I could. I cut out 8 lil' nugget owl bodies and sewed up 4 of them. Also, I named the other lil' nugget. His name is Reginald. When I was first putting him together he looked a little emotionless so, I gave him some eyelids and a fancy scarf. Check him out...

Yesterday morning I woke up to a lovely surprise on my work desk...

Naz's girlfriend/my friend Christine made me some beautiful flowers from yarn. I added them to my antlers in my bedroom above my bed. I love handmade gifts.

I'm going to work on some more lil' nugget owls tonight and there should be some more up in the store shortly.

Until tomorrow...

Yours,

Pesha

Little Priscilla is all finished! Mark showed me how to use the sautering iron and I was able to put together her feet and sew them in. Also, I started on another nugget sized owl last night and now all I have to do is get his feet done. Here are some photos and the link to the etsy shop.

Haven't named the other lil' guy yet.

Link to where you can purchase Priscilla.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/100414004/priscilla-the-lil-owl

Until tomorrow...

Yours,

Pesha

So, unfortunately there was a miss communication  on my part when I started making the Elephant for Shannon and she wants me to make a smaller one for her. No worries! Once I get the wedding flowers finished, I will make a new one. If anyone is interested in purchasing Ellie the Elephant you can go to Valeri and I's Etsy shop. Here is the link 

https://www.etsy.com/listing/100207383/ellie-the-elephant

Here are some progress photos on the wedding flowers for Adam and Ashley. Thanks to Valeri...we made some pretty good headway today.

Patterns drawn out for petals and getting ready to cut them out. The paper we are using is from an old bible that is falling apart from the year 1880.

Valeri cutting out the petals.

We made about 17. Got quite a bit more to go...

Until tomorrow...

Yours,

Pesha xo

Started on the wedding flowers last night but didn't get as much done as I wanted to since I was out late for a friend's show. Here are the deux fleur I made last night. One has interchanging petals and the other has all peach colored flowers. I think I like the all peach flower best.

I'll be making close to 200 flowers. I will post more progress photos later.

Until tomorrow...

Yours,

Pesha