Two of the most amazing artist

I have searched high and low for the artist who's work would compliment my new Scandinavian doll house. 
I  am happy to say I have found two! The first one is Angela Petsis , and  it was her sweet dreamy deer that caught my attention  a few days ago.I have since bought the original encaustic painting  know as Dear Love . This painting is actually 4x4  so it  will fit perfectly in the girls new home 
If you guys get a chance please drop in to her shop over at Etsy
http://www.etsy.com/people/TheLegendofNow?ref=ls_profile


The next artist who's work I adore is Kendra Binney . According to Kendra's profile she was raised in a small town with no shoe stores. Most of her time was spent barefoot searching the tall grass for  spiders and snakes, and other hidden treasures. 
http://www.etsy.com/shop/kendrabinney?ref=pr_shop_more


I fell in love with Kendra's whimsical paintings immediately . I went through Her shop and marked just about everything she had as a favorite !  It was incredibly hard for me to pick just one painting , but I manged to narrow it down to two of her pieces. And I like to add most of her work is on a small scale, so it's perfect for a doll house. Here are the two I'm deciding between .
This is a 4x7 . Tell me this doesn't take your breath away . 


This one is just as stunning as the other . And what I love about her work is the more you look at it the more stuff you find , kinda like a treasure hunt ,lol. This a 8x4 and it is so special to me because I raise painted ladies, which she has painted beautifully here.


If you want to see more of her incredible work I posted a link to her store ! 

Innovations with Dark whimsy

I  started making a new item for my recycled jewelry collection today. I found a Styrofoam ball and started transforming it. I quickly noticed it started turning into a fancy, ghostly, Tim Burton like creation . Here's a few pictures of what I've done thus far.
                                                   All work and images © Avabunny 2012

                                              

                                         
The funny thing is, I wasn't even trying to make anything that was Tim Burton-ish. I just started adding different things. The first thing was the mushroom on what became the side of his head. Then I added the swarovski brown button eyes. Then I added two jumprings around the eyes.Then the bow tie. And then the strips of black velvet with dazzled with black swarovski crystal rhinestones. Last but not least, I took out the brown eyes and added the two big black swarovski crystals instead.  When I was done I looked at it and noticed it had a Tim Burton flare to it. I like tho'!, I like it a lot!   

About me

                                                                   ~ Hello~

 I'm Ava bunny :)

  To start off with I'm an Artist  who's love of making all things whimsical started with me drawing fairies for fun while I was attending classes to become an EMT. I soon found out I couldn't take the sight of  blood and needed to find another career path. As I continued to try and find another career my love for fairies was never far from my mind. The fairies soon started showing up in paintings I was showcasing at local coffee houses.Around 2009 I ended up landing wall space at the Ward Nasse Gallery.It was around that time I came across my first jewelry magazine while looking for a canvas in Michael's arts and crafts.The magazine was called Bead Unique. And inside the mag was an ad for the prettiest animal charms by Burgard studio. I posted a link in case anyone wants to check them out. www.burgardstudio.com It was then  my love affair with making jewelry began. I ordered the little charms and set to work making my first necklace. Inspired by the Bryant park carousel here in new york and one of my favorite jewelry designers Betsey Johnson  
                                                 I came up with this necklace down here. 

                                                 
.If anyone would like to see more of my creation you can checkout my shop on Etsy  http://www.etsy.com/shop/avabunny?ref=si_shop

Most recently I moved into an old Victorian house that has an enormous plot of undeveloped land surrounding it.Yesterday I started clearing away the weeds for a butterfly garden I'm making for spring. Among the weeds and trees was the most amazing tree house.I posted a picture of it.

                                           
I'm going to start restoring the little treehouse by April. I think the inside of the treehouse would be great for  raising  my butterflies. I have been raising them myself now for a few years. Each year I order them online and they are shipped out as Larva. I keep them with me while go through their four stages then I set them free to fly away.I'm hoping this year that they will stay behind in my new butterfly garden. 
I've pre-ordered some of the plants for the garden. 

One Lavender  Twist Weeping Willow 

Twenty five  Fragrant Freesia Blend

Six Lily of the Valley

One  Top Hat Blueberry plant

Five Mixed Columbines -better know as a Butterfly Magnet :)

Sixteen Gladiolus -which are also great for attracting butterflies or in my case keeping them around ;) 

 I will have to order many more plant by no later then the end of this month.
  I will start ordering the butterflies by that time too! 

I'm going to go for now but will post some new pictures tomorrow of my progress on my butterfly garden