Moth And Vine...new mask

[merimask]

Ever busy.  Last night I was pining for a spot of green.  Spring can't come soon enough for me this year...I really hate February with a passion.   So, to make myself happy, I thought about the color of Spring.  To me it's the color of new green & wet earth.  That's where this mask comes from.

I'm calling it "Moth And Vine"...original, neh?   Everyone seems to love my luna moth, so I just used the same luna moth that I use for my large barrette, & put it on a brown mask.  It needed balance though so I did this cute little vine on the other side...

Like a little viney eyebrow.  It's not anything I researched...just a cute little green tendril with gold buds on one end.  I used two different kinds of browns, for the base mask color.  I wanted a rich wet chestnut brown & I think I got it.  

I put it up on Etsy already, for cheap!  $50 for a prototype...but I'm okay with that because I want to make many more of them.  I drew the vine freehand so it'll be fun & different every time.  It occured to me, as I made it, that I like  the combination of brown & new green almost as much as I like brown and turquoise together.  It just makes me happy. 

Speaking of brown, I ordered the cutest top for myself from Anthropologie.  It's just a simple dark brown gauze baby doll top with fluttery cap sleeves...it looks like a mini dress but you wear it over jeans.  When it comes, I'm going to embellish it with brown/gold/turquoise paisley baroque trim (I already bought the trim).  It's going to be so fun & fluttery.  ^_^   I'm a Bohemian in my dress style, if not lifestyle. 

Char is finally feeling better.  That's a good thing.  She's had the flu & has been coughing & sneezing & moaning & sputtering all over the house.  If I don't get sick it'll be a freaking miracle.

My Brother is in Brussels again, with Franco.   He'll probably be heading to Greece with him again.  Later next month he's off to Hong Kong.  I am so...conflicted when I think of that.  I'm feeling proud/jealous/excited for him all at once.  What an awesome adventure his life is.  

Well...my life is busy enough right now.  I think though, once Char is in college, things are going to change for me.  My business is taking off, too.  I want to travel & see new places & spend more time with my family (I miss my brother & sister so much).  Why not?  There's so much out there to see & do.  I should be seeing it & doing it.

 
EDIT...I just hit 600 "hearts" on Etsy.  Six hundred people have faved my shop, as of 11:30 AM.  That's freaking amazing!

Comments

[golden-meliades.livejournal.com]

Ooh, that's beautiful. Granted, I don't like the butterfly that much as that is my least favourite of the butterflies you do and I am just generally not a butterfly lover...but I LOVE the colour of the mask and the vine/eyebrow with the delicate flower at the end.

I'm sure you WILL travel. :)

[merimask.livejournal.com]

I like the color combo so much, I think I want to try something REALLY different (maybe tonight) & do a carved Bohemian print mask...the entire surface will be carved in paisley patterns & colored green, brown, silver, gold & tan. I want to do the same thing in my favorite colors too; turquoise, dark brown, gold, red ochre. Maybe a third in blues, black & silver...cool winter colors. It's going to look like a colorful henna-painted hand, you know what I mean? I'm gonna call it my "Boho Mask".

Yep...just decided to do it. See how inspiration happens? Just like that.

Oh yeah, I'm definitely going to travel...alone if I have to. Just recently decided that, too. Life's too short. ^__^