Showing posts with label hot air balloon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hot air balloon. Show all posts

Sunday, 29 July 2012

Hot Air Balloon Mug And Plate For Handmade Monday

Its been an exciting week! The Olympics have started here in the UK (wasn't the opening ceremony fantastic!) and as i write this we have just won our first medal - well done to Lizzie Armistead for taking home silver in the women's cycling road race!


There has also been excitement in the world of Free Spirit Designs... i am currently 'featured seller' on the Wow Thank You  homepage :) AND i finally got my new website up and running! 


Hot Air Balloon Mug And Plate

If you read my last Handmade Monday post you may remember the peek i gave you of the hot air balloon mug that i had started. Well, here is the completed mug, accompanied by matching plate!


If you're super observant you might notice that the baskets of the balloons are now smaller than they were on the picture i showed you last week. I knew there was something not quite right about the proportions, and i realised what it was when a few balloons helpfully flew over the garden...


The baskets are actually really tiny in comparison to the size of the balloons. So, i adjusted my design to give more of an idea of the true proportions and it looks more 'right' to me now :)

Here is the other side of the mug, and also the plate on its own so you can see the whole design.



Thank you so much to those that left lovely comments last week about the mug in its early stages... i hope you like how the finished project has turned out! Both the mug and plate will be available to buy in the next couple of days from My Website and my shops on Etsy and Wow Thank You.

What have you been up to this week i wonder... i look forward to popping over to Handmade Harbour to find out!