Kelly Averill Savino

Category: Random Makes

  • Towel tags in Altoid Tins

  • My headboard

    Somebody asked about my headboard… about a dozen years ago we put picket fence around all the back yard gardens, and I used this leftover piece to make the headboard for our bedroom. We have a big slider door that looks out at the back yard and I wanted the bedroom to seem like an…

  • Globe lamp shade

    I had a cardboard globe somewhere but this curb harvested plastic one lets light through. The base said “Room 205”. It might hold a bird bath one day.

  • Molly’s Christmas surprise

    Jeff and I installed this as Molly’s bedroom door as a surprise on Christmas eve. She’s a Doctor Who fan, and the time traveling machine from that series is The Tardis, a British police phone box. Her room has an odd sized doorway, so we had to cut down the length of a hollow core…

  • Making spring

    I cobbled together a quick cold frame in front of my house where the sun comes early… mesclun on the left, bok choi on the right. It’s been below freezing at night but it all looks happy ;0)

  • Making nonstop, daily…

    It’s not a thing-a-day fail, really… though it’s a post-a-day fail.  I’m making a big, complicated, multifaceted thing, a thing that involves the making of more things, by more hands, in a way that has me loving the dance of work, and rest, and plan, and work some more. I can’t officially “go public” with…

  • Make 50: Hand made hand decals

    The project I am working on involves the phrase “Hands On” — and these are for that.  I’ve made six or seven more since I took this pix. It’s hard to photograph suncatchers on a cloudy day, but these are really fun to make. Klutz squirty bottles full of stuff that looks like bright colored elmer’s glue. You draw a…

  • Makes lately: Not telling.

    Really, I’m not.  Makes 47, 48 and 49 are on a really big project that will consume a lot of my spring and summer, but I can’t really go public with it yet. Hint: It has to do with restoring a grubby place with amazing potential and lovely surroundings, for use in a joyful and artistic…

  • Make 46: rabbit ocarina.

    I made these with my grown up arty playgroup over the weekend — just finished this one. There is still tissue stuck to the wet clay but I peeled it off so you can see the rabbit.

  • Make 45: Gooseberry whole grain breakfast cereal.

    No picture, but I wish you could smell it. I used the rice cooker, ten grain cereal (which my kids used to call “bird seed”), half a cup of wheat berries, extra flax seeds, raisins, rolled oats, butter, and a quart of gooseberries I canned last summer in apple juice syrup.  I cooked it tonight so everybody…

  • Make 44: made my kid look normal again.

    Connor performed in TSA’s Xzibit Red at the Valentine Theater, and decided that traffic-cone-red hair would be festive.  His friends helped and mom was quite surprised when he walked in. After a few days he was tired of it, and I was happy to restore him to a darker-if-still-not-natural shade.  I’m grateful that a) he’s…

  • Make 43: The steamer trunk is done.

    Well, mostly done. I want to find those little brass library drawer window-thingies and label which drawers containe liniments and pomades, and which contain remedies and tinctures. And we nneed to resolve the series of boxes and such supporting the trunk… but I got towels to go with the colors of the drawers, and hung them. This…

  • Makes 41 and 42

    Two days worth in one blog — I had trouble gettign a picture off my phone and had to retake it. The octopus I bought as a shiny new thing and then antiqued and sanded it… really a remake more than a make. The plant lights are kind of cobbled from a bookshelf, shop lights…

  • Make 40: henna again

    This time Tyler, who wanted to do something interesting for the Xhibit Red performance tomorrow night.