rachael rice » holiday

Happy Hannukakwanzamasolstimas!!

rachaelrice — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 06:33:26 +0000

The holidays have been awesome here in Portland so far. It’s not all Narnia with snow like in Vermont, but the truth is, I don’t miss it. We had, like, the most Christmassiest Christmas ever…visited some of Dan’s family, ate Chinese food, went to parties, made snowflake garlands (I should post a tutorial! That shit has SIX SIDES PEOPLE!!), wandered around Peacock Lane, drank eggnog, went to Crafty Wonderland, made crafty gifts (including a TON of custom order dream catchers), watched Scrooge (fave Christmas movie) and It’s a Wonderful Life (fave movie ever), listened to holiday tunes on the radio, donated to charity…really pretty sweet.

Me, my man Dan and our dog The Beak using Incredibooth iPhone app

Peacock Lane

Tiny tree and tinier tree!

Peacock Lane

Snowflake Garland

Tree & tv "fire" at a friend's party where I met Courtney Taylor-Taylor of the Dandy Warhols, which made me kind of freak out alllll the way home

I'm a reindeer!

Photo I took of Randi, mugging with her mugs before an ugly sweater party

Snowflake Garland

YES

Free People Catch A Dream DIY Event!

rachaelrice — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 20:49:28 +0000

The DIY dream catcher event at Free People Portland was totes amazeballs (lol)! It was featured on their corporate blog, and lots of people came out to get their craft on. My inner art teacher was so excited to share my creative pursuits! And the pieces that people made were unbelievably beautiful. Plus, we had Maple Butterscotch cake with EDIBLE GLITTER (!!!) from Cake & Mukti (check out her blog The Yoga of Cake), and supplies donated by Relica Vintage. I hope I get to do it again! Valentine’s….?

from the FP blog

Best. Cake. EVER.

Samantha Cullen from Cake & Mukti

exterior shot of the store window with raffle piece

Epic Dream Catcher Raffle at Free People Portland!

rachaelrice — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 20:21:24 +0000

I made a huge-normous dream catcher to be raffled off at the Free People Portland store as part of an upcoming DIY event on December 2nd. I also made a smaller one, so there are two chances to win! Raffle tickets are $5 at the store and some of the proceeds will benefit Adopt-a-Family Portland. The drawing will be held on Dec. 15th via Facebook.

This piece took about 3 days to complete and features vintage metal fringe, a detachable fox tail fur charm, earrings from fortune cookie fortunes and vintage lace, with a huge vintage doily behind a hand-woven “web” with vintage button “spider”. There’s also a plastic water bottle feather garland, which was featured on the Free People blog! You can see tons of photos here on my Flickr.

the beast! it's over 6 feet tall!

detail of the large piece at Free People

this piece features a detachable fox tail charm!

on either side of the piece hang earrings featuring fortune cookie fortunes and vintage lace!

The second one I made is MUCH smaller, but no less charming! It features vintage trims and gold painted feathers.

here are the two raffle prizes!

raffle prize #2!

pic of me and the beast!

holiday bath salts

rachaelrice — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 04:57:46 +0000

i’ve been making bath salts for friends for several years now, and it’s always at the last minute before the holidays in december. i get like five pounds of epsom salts and stand in my kitchen and bathroom scanning for random herbs and essential oils i can throw together for gifts.

this year i scrounged around and found some dried clementine peels (god knows why i was keeping those), some “panic button” essential oil (lavender, petitgrain, neroli, tangerine, rose), some coriander seeds and some cardamom pods. i put the dry materials in the coffee grinder and mixed them with the salt. some glitter for good measure.

covered the jars with some paper and glued some lace and cut up doilies on the side, ET VOILA. done!

bath salts

bath salts up close

more bath salts

retro vintage holiday wrapping paper

rachaelrice — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 06:16:13 +0000

this stuff blows me away. i got it last year at ReSTORE in burlington, and i use a little every year, and finally i scanned some images so i’ll feel more free to use the rest…

holiday paper with trees

holiday paper #2

holiday paper #3

holiday nature ornaments with deer and butterfly

rachaelrice — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 21:21:12 +0000

another in a long series of deer-obsession pieces…a project for a snowy afternoon in Vermont: holiday nature ornaments. these look pretty nice even though they’re plastic and not glass. I used some scrap sheepskin but cotton batting would work too. Craft foliage and random little animals are so cute — if I had more globes I would put in some acorns and whatnot.

deer & butterfly ornament

deer ornament

butterfly ornament