{"id":5542,"date":"2015-04-19T00:52:49","date_gmt":"2015-04-19T00:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galeblair.com\/inspiration\/?p=5542"},"modified":"2015-04-19T00:52:49","modified_gmt":"2015-04-19T00:52:49","slug":"spring-maiden-by-michelle-talley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galeblair.com\/inspiration\/?p=5542","title":{"rendered":"Spring Maiden by Michelle Talley"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"Michelle <\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n

Happy spring to everyone. Happy April, the fourth month of this new year, brings us closer to warm weather, flowers, and hope. Like, I hope we will not need the snow shovel again. I hope the April showers are followed by lovely blue sky, white billowy clouds and warm sunshine. I really hope it doesn’t snow\u2026<\/p>\n

My first visit to Italy to meet my family,(my mother was born in Florence), was in the spring. Our son was going to have his 2nd birthday, it was the first time my mother had both pieces of her family(parts of it anyway)together. And that spring was different then any other.<\/p>\n

My husband and I went to the Uffizi, and everything was so beautiful! \u00a0Of course, Botticelli\u2019s Primavera was spectacular. The quintessential representation of rebirth, spring, of becoming. The Allegory of Spring.<\/p>\n

It is the month we get a glimpse of longer days, the sun is just that much warmer, and we are hopeful. So I hope you feel the same sense of \u00a0expectation of better things to come, bluer skies, and happiness, and\u00a0 the warming rays of the spring sun.<\/p>\n

I decided to create a lovely creature, who in this story is as beautiful as spring itself, as full of hope as the budding flowers, with a wish in her heart for the happiest of spring days while she dances in her garden under the April sky.<\/p>\n

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When Spring came, even False Spring,<\/em><\/p>\n

there were no problems except<\/em><\/p>\n

where to be happiest.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0–\u00a0Ernest Hemingway<\/p>\n

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Supplies:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Goodies from PaperWhimsy:<\/em><\/p>\n

Curious Garden Santos<\/p>\n

Face from Sheet 211<\/p>\n

dress from Digi sheet 234<\/p>\n

Base and wings and ruff Magic Garden 10PNG<\/p>\n

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Other bits:<\/p>\n

InkaGold Old Gold paint,\u00a0Distress Ink,\u00a02 Purple stone brads,\u00a0PanPastel in Burnt Sienna Tint,\u00a0ModPodge Matt Glue,\u00a0Super Glue,\u00a0Faber-Castell Gelato sticks in:Red Cherry, Guava, Green;\u00a05 inch piece of paper leaf garland;\u00a04 small metal roses;\u00a02 small pieces of rusted wire;\u00a01 brass butterfly;\u00a01 round metal charm;\u00a0Quote from Ernest Hemingway.<\/p>\n

My Method:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

I started our dancing maiden by painting the back and edges of the Curious Garden Santos with InkaGold Old Gold paint. While that dried I started cutting out the components of the dress, and all the accouterments(wings, ruff, waistband and base)and her lovely, demure face. I used ModPodge glue to attach the images, and InkaGold to paint the lovely scrollwork at her hemline.<\/p>\n

I ended up using Super Glue to put all of this piece together,save the papers. Maybe I wanted to see how many times I glued my fingers together\u2026<\/span>, actually it just seemed smarter with so many metal pieces to attach. And hello, instant gratification!<\/p>\n

I used the PanPastel to paint her arms, and the small rusted wire to connect the arms. I used two purple stone brads to attach the arms to the bodice. I wanted her to look like at any moment, she might start dancing in her spring garden, so I had her arms reaching up to the sky, holding onto a leaf covered vine,intertwined with the multicolored thread . Her bodice is adorned by a brass butterfly, and her waist and lower skirt are sporting lovely metal roses. I used some of the paper leaves around the roses, and used the green Gelato to stain the leaves on the skirt.<\/p>\n

\u00a0I used a snip to cut the circle charm to make an adornment for the ruff of her dress, and used the Gelato sticks to add color before I glued it to the ruff.<\/p>\n

\u00a0The final touch was the lovely quote, and hoping that our biggest concern, is also about where we will be the happiest\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

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