● Arsenic ...and old lace ●

I still didn't find enough time to work on my handicraft, I've just got back from a trip abroad (again) and currently I'm trying to push myself into everyday life. I travel too often to go in ro...

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Happy Halloween / Samhain / All Hallows Day / Fiesta de muerte / Shattenfest / and anything else what you celebrate at this very day! Have fun and light few candles :)) by artarsenic.blogspot.com

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How to express respect for people who live together for 50 years already? I've been asked by my grandmother to make a nicely-looking congratulation card for such occassion. Her friend's friends ...

http://artarsenic.blogspot.com/2012/07/golden-anniversary.html

I've used this pattern once already to decorate two cobalt-blue wine bottles ] and I had some of this pattern left for later, so I used it for a garden teapot. This teapot was red and old hence ...

http://artarsenic.blogspot.com/2012/07/one-of-my-favorite-patterns-again.html

This is the time for a proper painted tea-box for my own kitchen. The top - like my previous ones - is conpletely painted with acrylics. Sides of this box are made with decoupage technique. I wa...

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In past weekend my husband - Jorund (Jurriaan) de Jongh Jorgensen - was presenting his black and white photography during an official city exhibition. It was a multimedia presentation on LCD scr...

http://artarsenic.blogspot.com/2012/06/my-husbands-exhibition.html

Spring is in the air... Still, it's cold outside, even if it's already April. My wisteria plant has survived the winter and got few more branches with buds - good news! Two or three years more a...

http://artarsenic.blogspot.com/2012/04/its-getting-warmer.html

Another part of my lost-and-found photos I've made few years ago. That time I was living in the Netherlands and Poland and got first ideas about this blog - unfortunately I didn't have time to m...

http://artarsenic.blogspot.com/2012/01/vintage-memories.html

It's snowing outside and melting at the same time. The wind reaches 100 km/h this evening. Not quite a weather I like. My husband has lit the fireplace and we're trying to stay warm. That's why I...

http://artarsenic.blogspot.com/2012/01/glimpse-of-summer.html

The last creation of 2011 I wished to publish earlier but I went for vacation to the Netherlands. Now I'm back with mind full of new ideas and I already announce a new kind of jewelry which will ...

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Arsenic and old lace goes HIPSTAMATIC a bit! I decided to use Hipstamatic software for my I-Phone to improve retro feeling of my blog. Not all will be Hipstamatic since the beginning of 2012 b...

http://artarsenic.blogspot.com/2012/01/after-new-year-changes.html

For the turn of seasons I've painted the reproduction of another art nouveau litograph. Of course it's Alphonse Mucha again, and a very famous picture. This time I took a pinewood box and covered...

http://artarsenic.blogspot.com/2011/12/autumn-art-nouveau-painted-box.html

Another gift for my friend who wanted me to combine her own purple tissue (with swirly pattern) with some of victorian ladies motives. I had a proper decoupage paper full of nice reproductions of...

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To express my gratitude to my friend, I've made something to remember for her. We're chocolate-freaks, my choice is dark chocolate with a huge ammount of cocoa and minimal ammount of sugar, usual...

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There was the time I didn't have access to wooden easter-eggs for decoupage because they were very rare in internet shops and became quickly out of stock. Now they can be found almost everywhere ...

http://artarsenic.blogspot.com/2011/09/vintage-capsules.html

A quick view of decoupage'd pastel project I've made as an addition to romantic bedroom however it's been already taken away from me ;) Fortunately I still have some more of those tissues and I c...

http://artarsenic.blogspot.com/2011/09/pastel-roses.html

I didn't post for some time due to lack of time, however I'm coming back with new ideas. As the very first project I've made a glamour black and white set for which I used one of popular motives ...

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Inspired by work of Alphonse Mucha from 1901, I've sketched and then painted it on a wooden box. It was previously another cigar box made of cherry wood, about 21 x 15 cm. I've painted the Ivy on...

http://artarsenic.blogspot.com/2011/08/art-nouveau-ivy-reproduction-on-wood.html

In another blue creation I've decided not to use decoupage. Painted art over an item is much more beautiful. I've collected some photos of blue morpho butterflies and blue clematis flowers to see...

http://artarsenic.blogspot.com/2011/08/morpho-butterflies-clematis-lanterns.html

As I wrote before I promised to make more Arsenic-related creations. I've enjoyed designing bookmarks a lot, so I decided to make another two of them to add to the set. Here they are: I used p...

http://artarsenic.blogspot.com/2011/08/two-additional-arsenic-bookmarks.html

This kind of thing happens when you clean your house up :) - you always find some strange items that: 1. you thought you've thrown away ten years ago, 2. you kept because someday they could be f...

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I have a precious box which was accompanying me for years. When I left home and went to study at University, it was always with me. I kept my collection of incenses inside of it along with other ...

http://artarsenic.blogspot.com/2011/08/art-nouveau-dance-reproduction-on-wood.html

My friend needed protection, so she gave me a piece of wood and asked me to paint Hamsa for her to hang above the doorstep... For all people that don't know what Hamsa is yet - a short introduc...

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The idea about Arsenic blog was crawling in my head for a long time and I was also thinking about giving it a personal touch, creating a website which won't be only a presentation of things I mak...

http://artarsenic.blogspot.com/2011/08/my-unique-retro-bookmarks-for-arsenic.html

It's been a long time since I'd got an idea of making this blog. I've actually abandoned it for a long time being occupied by my job (graphic design), family life (my husband and my alaskan malam...

http://artarsenic.blogspot.com/2011/08/finally-my-very-first-humble.html