The enchanting call of the Siren

Handmade by Megan Johnson of "The Midsummer's Night Masquerade"

"The Atlantean Mermaid" necklace pendant

-I believe I created this in either Dec or Jan of this year...

-One of my absolutely favorite pieces, this Mermaid inspired pendant turned out GORGEOUS!   It features polymer clay accents baked onto a genuine spiral shell slice and colored with pearl pigments. A variety of freshwater pearl beads and iridescent glass bubble gems, with an Angel Aura quartz point at the bottom center, and connected to metal seaweed detail pieces. 
(I took this piece with me to Florida during a family trip and almost lost it to the ocean while I was trying to photograph it in the sand when a wave nearly swept it away! Thankfully, my niece was standing next to me and quickly grabbed it before the water took off with it. I was nearly in tears over that!!)
(SOLD!)

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 -This one may have been my first Mermaid inspired creation. It's made up of a medium sized spiral seashell with a purple/brown cowrie shell and a rainbow moonstone cabochon, plus a variety of genuine freshwater pearls, Swarovski crystals, and iridescent glass bubble gems, accented with handsculpted polymer clay details.

-This one really turned out beautifully and with so many details, too!
(still available for sale in my Facebook SHOP)

**My art can be purchased, currently, through my Shop album in the photo albums section of my Facebook page, linked below.

Handmade by Megan Johnson of "The Midsummer's Night Masquerade" and you can find me and more of my art through my Facebook page: www.Facebook.com/TheMidsummersNightMasquerade The Midsummer's Night Masquerade 

and on Instagram: @TheMidsummers_Night_Masquerade 

Enchanted Vessel necklace pendants

Back around Oct/Nov of 2016, I was inspired by a fellow artist's creations on Instagram (will insert name once I get it looked up again), to create my own vessel pendants.    Entirely different styles and themes, but same idea. :) 
-Each pendant is handsculpted polymer clay baked onto a small hand-blown glass bottle and then painted with acrylics.

*Handmade by Megan Johnson of "The Midsummer's Night Masquerade"

-I even made little display stands for the pendants to sit up in. :D

 -This one was the first I had made and I really liked it, though, working so small is very very challenging!

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-This one shows a little bit of a before and after in the evolution of the lid. :)
(this one was my absolute fave and I was sorry to see it go when it sold)

 

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-I really wanted to try some designs with women's faces on them...really difficult to accomplish, but I like the effect. :) 

**My art can be purchased, currently, through my Shop album in the photo albums section of my Facebook page, linked below.

Handmade by Megan Johnson of "The Midsummer's Night Masquerade" and you can find me and more of my art through my Facebook page: www.Facebook.com/TheMidsummersNightMasquerade The Midsummer's Night Masquerade

and on Instagram: @TheMidsummers_Night_Masquerade 

The beginnings of my handmade Apothecary jars...

I believe I started making these either in Sept or Oct of 2016...can't recall which month exactly right now.   Where I was living at the time had an abundance of evergreen trees and various herbs growing wild on the property.  Autumn usually makes me feel most Witchy, so I started gathering herbs and drying them and then realized I didn't have anywhere to really store them.   Being a Virgo/Libra, and just an artistic person in general, I didn't want to just store them in regular jars...no, I wanted something magical feeling to store my herbs in! :)   So, I decided to recycle and repurpose a lot of the glass jars we had around the house and dress them up with some polymer clay, pearl pigments, and acrylic paints.  And I love how beautifully they turned out, too!! :D

 

-This was my first large jar creation and I really wanted to do something special with it. So I made it Greenman themed, he's beautiful!! :D (I claimed this one as mine for Keeps!)

 

-I love this very mushroom-y themed jar. Soo cute!! Sold this one before the end of the year. :D

-This one did later get a paper label for the front. I really like how the lid turned out on this one. :)

 

-I loved this one, the triangular shape was fantastic and the mushrooms on the sides look awesome!! :D    Sold this one pretty quickly! :)

 

-I find these apothecary jars soo cute and so useful, too! :D

Handmade by Megan Johnson of "The Midsummer's Night Masquerade"

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-And my art is for sale through my SHOP album in the photos section of my Facebook business page! :D

These polymer clay Fairy Doors have proven to be quite addictive. I'm loving making them and each one is so beautiful and colorful. :)

I ended up making a rather large one for myself...it's actually big enough to be it's own Fairy Door, but I'm still loving it as a necklace. :)

All of these, except for the large Fairy Door at the bottom, are currently available for sale in my Etsy shop.  
www.etsy.com/shop/MidsummersNightMasq

Thank you soo much!! :D

Greenman Mushrooms

My next logical step up from mushrooms was....Greenman Mushrooms!!!

Each one was handsculpted using Sculpey's Original polymer clay in white and then carefully painted by hand with acrylic paints.

My first one was small and grumpy looking, but really cute and I was soo proud of him!!

 

The next one was larger and MUCH grander, in my opinion...I immediately fell in love with this one. I spent HOURS just painting him. I was trying a watercolor effect technique, which involves lots of layering of watered down acrylic paint. But well worth it!

This one I call, The Autumn Greenman Mushroom!

 

And come Spring, with all the trees budding and the flowers blooming, I had to create this lovely Lady:

I call her The Spring Mushroom Goddess

*She is covered in a multitude of leaves and flowers from butterfly bush spikes, in a variety of colors ...which have attracted a couple of blue butterflies, to a mane of pink and apricot colored rose petals around her face.

I admit to having had a hard time capturing a feminine look to her face after having done the earlier grumpy old-men looking Greenmen...but I think I finally was able to capture the feminine essence in her face. :)

Her mushroom cap, much like the earlier Autumn Greenman Mushroom, is imprinted with knotwork designs and carefully painted in a gradient from light to dark.

My smallest Greenman Mushroom is currently available for purchase in my Etsy shop:
www.etsy.com/shop/MidsummersNightMasq

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