Couple of Diamond Art projects..........

I was in Michael's craft store the other month and stumbled upon a section with items that were designed by Johnathan Adler.  Now I have no idea who the heck he is, nor am I interested, but there were some things I fell in love with, including the diamond art kit that I made in the photo.  This is not a great photo of it, as it is framed and behind glass, so you can see the reflections.  However you can see the piece here online.

It took a little while to do, but was very straight forward and is really nice in person.  Also what was nice, was I was able to buy an off the shelf frame to put it in.  It is 16 inches by 20 inches, so a nice size.

The poppy print was given to me by a friend who was visiting Austria (I think), and is so pretty.

Then I had the girls visiting, so picked up some crafts, and one of the crafts was a set of three bookmarks to make again from the Johnathan Adler collection.  The one below was the one I kept, and the girls got one each as well.  Super simple and a very fast make.

Have you done any diamond art work?

All done............

 with actually a couple of days to spare.......

It was a mystery one that daughter and grand daughter picked up for me.  It's not really my cup of tea, but I did enjoy doing it.  I will hang it up for Halloween.........now to start on the next project, which I think will be the Christmas cross stitch sew along.  Plus I have some good books to read and review.......

Books........

Here are a couple of books I have just read.  The War Librarian by Addison Armstrong and  The Hollywood Governess by Alexandra Weston.   Both are good in their own right and both highlight gender prejudices.  I think I preferred the The War Librarian better as I didn't figure out the twist in the story, whereas I figured it out in The Hollywood Governess.

My next book up is Come Fly With me by Helen Rolfe.  It's the first book in Skylark series.  I have never read anything by this author.  Have you?

Update: from when I originally wrote this post I have read this book and it was really good, plenty of action in it.  I need to look out for the rest in this series.  

All three books were purchased at Indigo in the 3 for $10 section.

Daughter picked up this diamond art project for me on clearance.  Not sure if I should start it now or leave it until the colder weather appears?

What are you reading at the moment?

Crafting....

 I had picked up this diamond art kit a while back from Michaels.  As you can see it's a bookmark kit.

I had the girls overnight on the weekend and we decided to do this project as I knew it would be a fast one.  The girls are nearly 12 and 9.  Now in the 9 year old's defense she is more of an outdoors girl, so she lasted probably half an hour if that before she was bored.  The 12 year old and I completed our bookmarks in probably 90 minutes.

I also did a little bit of the background of the 9 year old's one as well.  So from left to right; 9 year old's one, 12 year old's one, and mine.

The quality of these are really nice; pretty heavy duty.  It's a simple project especially if it's your first time doing diamond art.  I would say it's probably suitable for ages 10 and up, unless they are very crafty; then possibly younger.

I would buy these again, and I have used these diamond art kits before from Michael's.  

New to me craft.......

I got a diamond art kit for Christmas.  It's something I had never done before and I fell in love with it.  The kit made this picture:

A close up of the cardinal.

Hubby bought me this house one for Mother's Day.

I have just finished it and finally glued it to a canvas.  It's a cheaper way of doing it, than having them professionally framed.

The cardinal canvas was from the dollar store.  I mixed up paint leftover and made up the green colour for the cardinal one.  I had to buy the canvas from Michael's for the house one and just painted it black.

Have you done any diamond art?