Man I just realized how little I posted when I first made this account. I still never post or reblog anything but I'll add something for now. Time stamp this at 1/31/24 1:32 a.m.
This is a ceramic tree I painted to look like the night sky with the holes for light acting like stars. It's not very good, but I got to do this with my mom and sister so it's okay.
The first Christmas trees I knew were cedar and chopped down in the woods near our house. When I was five Mama and I made paper chains to circle our tree and she cut stars out of cardboard that we covered them with aluminum foil. I didn’t know it was because she couldn’t afford to buy ornaments. Those foil colored stars remained among our treasured decorations even in the years when we had shiny…
I wanted to challenge myself with something REALLY tiny and HOO BOY this was difficult! I used a needle to get the details and it's still not the best! Going to try to clean it up more I think.