christi friesen originals

Ring of Fire – quick and easy project

Hey, make this if you wanna!

When I travel, i look at things. duh. but i mean really look because color inspirations are everywhere.

Ready, set… GRAB!

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Free how-to: Glowy Zombie Worms, because, you know, Halloween!

Wanna click to the online store for eyes, powder, texture sheet? click here

World Chocolate Day – yum

It’s world chocolate day today. oh boy. i’m kinda into chocolate. it’s a girl thing. or an artist thing… or possibly just a human thing. anyway, here’s a fun lil’ chocolate-inspired project i made a while back, in case you not only want to eat chocolate, but want to wear it as well.    

This piece is called “Becoming Self-Aware” because i was thinking about plants and if they have any self-awareness in the way that animals do… and then i thought that it’s really a continuum, isn’t it? from being a living thing to being a living thing that knows it’s alive… So how does that awareness happen? how does something alive start to become self-aware? I don’t know… but i think it has…

Hawaii always inspires me. Everything is lush, colorful, full of life.

I’m finishing content right now for the June edition of The Circle (the paid-membership side of Christi’s Creative Neighborhood, an online creativity-booster) and the theme is “Island Time”, so that’s why my head is on holiday.  Maybe your head will join me in a few days?

Time to make is hard to come by. The needs of the days eat it up and fritter it away. It’s hard to get anything done. So I really enjoyed 5 days of time. Time to create. Time to relax. Time to snack and chat and giggle.

If you are hoping to push yourself into a more creative place, might I suggest finding some event where there is enough time to really get into the swing of creating.

It’s all about time.

nope.

the clay had other ideas, so here are more – several bowls, and a few cabochons too (which are just inside-out bowls, really)>

apparently, the clay will say when i am done, it’s not my call to make.

things with wings, and a gecko

ok. done with bowls for now, but had to get in some dragonflies, bugs and a random gecko. the end.