Happy new year! We’re bringing in 2022 with a round-up of your favourite projects from 2021.
Happy New Year! Can you believe it’s 2022?! The past 2 years have whizzed by, no thanks to COVID. I always enjoy looking back at what projects you have all liked the most, and having a bit of a round-up from the previous year, and so I thought that this New Year’s day I would share with you the most popular projects on Isoscella in 2021.
LOOKING AHEAD
The last time I did a year round-up was 2018. So much has happened and changed in that time. We got engaged, moved home and welcomed two little fur balls to the family. The year started with us off in lockdown here in the UK and then after the vaccinations began rolling out, all bets were off by the summer. We’re starting 2022 in such a different position from last year, and it’s hard to believe we started 2020 with no idea of what was to come. I can’t imagine how hard these two years have been for those who have directly affected by COVID. At the very least for me, these past couple of years have highlighted what’s important in life, and hopefully 2022 will be the year that I can make some changes in line with this.
THE TOP TEN
I love this moon ring dish, and it turns out you guys loved it too! I used air-dry clay to make it, and adhered the base and moon together with clay slip. It wasn’t too tricky, but if you want to make it even easier, you could let both pieces dry and then adhere them together with superglue.
My lunar/celestial obsession continued… Such an easy way to jazz up an old terracotta pot. I thought about painting it at the time but I’m so glad now that I didn’t. I love the terracotta colour and how simple it is visually.
This project on the other hand was so tricky! Many expletives were said during the process. If I did it again, I would definitely get a shade that already has the top and bottom wires stuck together, it was so tricky balancing skewers in just the right place to do it myself. Still, I got there in the end, and despite being completely supported by bamboo skewers, it is still going strong!
These little bunnies brought me and my niece so much amusement. I love the pepper against the natural tones of the air-dry clay, it really gives them a faux stone look. These were so easy to make, and you could definitely adapt these for all sorts of occasions.
Inspired by the genius that is Geneva from Collective Gen (formally known as A Pair and A Spare), I took my first foray into glass cutting and turned an Ikea mirror tile into this lovely organic shape. Using cardboard and clay I made this frame before finishing it off with this pretty neutral colour. Not going to lie, I’m pleased with myself for this one!
Rainbows seemed to be everywhere earlier in the year and so I jumped straight on the bandwagon and created this planter. The old baking powder + paint trick worked wonders here, you’d never know this was clay!
I don’t seem to have much luck when it comes to drying out flowers and so when I got a beautiful bunch from my sister-in-law for designing her wedding invites, I went about finding an alternative way of preserving them (or at least their memory!). This turned out pretty well, and the paper hasn’t browned too much at all.
The other half and I have differing opinions on the priority level of getting a fireplace and so when it looked like it really wasn’t going to happen anytime soon, I took matters into my own hands and made this one out of cardboard. 2021 really was the year of cardboard projects!
You guys loved this idea and I was so happy with the pop of colour it gives my living room. So simple, but so effective!
I first saw and fell in love with Raku ceramics during the Pottery Throwdown (if you’ve not seen it, you need to!). It was a lot of fun attempting to recreate the effect, and it always feels like a win when you can repurpose something!
Happy New Year!
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