Moonday, Moonday....

Happy Moonday, Everyone!

 

Really, it is!

  

Wikipedia says ~

 

 The English noun Monday derived sometime before 1200 from monedæi,

 

which itself developed from Old English (around 1000)

 

mōnandæg and mōndæg (literally meaning "moon's day")...

 

A number of songs feature Monday, often as a day of melancholy. For example, "Monday,

 

Monday" (1966) from the Mamas & the Papas, "Rainy Days and Mondays" (1971) from the

 

Carpenters, "I Don't Like Mondays" (1979) from the Boomtown Rats, and

 

"Manic Monday" (1986) from the Bangles.

 

It is a grey, rainy Moonday (doesn't that sound better, anyway?) here in Southeast Missouri

 

 and I'm trying to make the best of it!

 

Really, though ~ I've always loved anything lunar, even calling my arty-stuff

 

 October Moon Designs/ October Moon Art...inspired by my October birthday.

 

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Isn't this 1903 postcard of a lovely Moon Lady just wonderful?



Like the nursery rhyme says, "Monday's Child is fair of face"...


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And then there's one of my favorite books from when I was little,

 

Little Audrey and the Moon Lady...:^) (1960)

 

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You know I love playing with polymer clay and making all kinds of little

 

things to go on my Fairy Houses...the flowers I make to embellish them are

 

among my favorite things to create...

 

I've had clay and beads and beads and more beads collected

 

for a couple of years now, knowing I wanted to make jewelry,

 

but not sure just what...lots of polymer artists make beautiful,

 

realistic flowers, but I wanted to do something unique,

 

and it just hadn't come to me.

 

A few years ago I got Christi Friesen's Dragons book,

 

and right then I knew I wanted to add beads and pearls and crystals to polymer clay...



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This is the little dragon I made after reading Christi's book in 2007.



Looking at him now I can see that he could use a little refinement,



but I was hooked!

 

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Back to moons and flowers...



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A few days ago I was waiting for my little "mini" Fairy House to come out



of the oven, and I was conditioning (playing with) some clay with which I'd planned



to cover the house's base...



I'd used my Grandma's biscuit cutter



 to cut out a round of clay for covering an area of the house ~



(I know...who would have thought? ~ Wish I



had learned to make her biscuits with it, but...)



Anyway, I cut a circle with it and then moved it over about an inch and cut



another circle, accidently making a perfect crescent moon, and I thought ~



"What a good shape for a flowery brooch!"



It would be perfect, curved "just so" on a sweater or lapel...



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So here is my first pin/brooch...the crescent shape works really well, I think,



with the gently curving flower, buds and leaves.



I also added some copper jewelry headpins with Czech glass flowers



and Swarvoski crystals...(love them!).




Then as a finishing touch,  I wired in some genuine peridot briolettes...



(I didn't think I'd ever find a use for them...they are so pretty,



but the holes are too tiny for most headpins.)



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One thing led to another...



And now I have all sorts of ideas...



I have a smaller round cutter as well, so I plan to make



two sizes of moons...



Finally something for my Etsy shop, October Moon Art!






I will post a tutorial for the rose pin later this week. :^)



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Now ~ Can you believe it?



Another "oopsie"...



I should be too embarrassed to show you!



I had finished the little leaf and tendril on the Fairy House,



and had it curing in the oven.



Jonathan came downstairs to fix himself a pizza,



and I told him I was baking something (he would instinctively know it wasn't food),



 but that I would put it in for him as soon as mine was finished.



A few minutes later, the oven timer went off, signaling that the little house was ready.



I turned the oven temperature up to 400 degrees for the pizza,



and went about playing with more clay.



About ten minutes went by; maybe a little less.



The oven beeped to let me know the temperature was right.



Something made me look around...



where did I put the Fairy House?



Uh, oh.



Yep.



I opened the oven door, and stinky, burned-polymer smoke rolled out...



Oh, shoot, shoot, SHOOT!!



I couldn't believe I had done this...but sometimes you just have to laugh!



As I said previously, polymer clay is wonderfully "fixable"...



So I laughed. So did Jonathan.



I told him that if it had been the new little moon brooch, though,



I would have been sad!



(I think the papier-mache is finally truly dry, however...)



This will make me think, the next time! (Hopefully!)



I let it cool and peeled off the blackened blob of clay...



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And here it is, one more time!



I think I like this leaf and tendril better, anyway. :^)



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Isn't this a cute vintage post card?



Look at the little acorn "light fixture" ~ Like mine!



I guess the pull-cord is the doorbell...



I think I like my tiny acorn "button" one better ~



I do like the little window-sill/shelf, though!



That's all for now...back to making little moons!



(Thank you to all the new folks who have visited me...welcome!)



Love,