Kristian Beverly

A Western Side Saddle and Poetry Book

November 27, 2014December 28, 2024Kristian Beverly14 Comments

It started out as a mass of tooled leather.

Then it became a more organized jumble of leather.

Now it’s beginning to look more like a saddle.

I never realized just how many pieces there were to a western side saddle! Yet, even though there are many pieces, it’s been alot of fun so far.
A while ago I got a letter in the mail saying that a poem I had written had been selected to be put into an accolade. I found my copy in the mail today!

How To Make A Miniature and Regular Sized Ornament

November 26, 2014December 28, 2024Kristian Beverly14 Comments

How to make a miniature Harry Potter miniature and a Regular sized winged keys

Picture from here

So this year I have two trees to decorate. One is a dollhouse sized on and the other one is regular sized. So I thought why not make them the same? After that I thought why not make them fandom inspired? I decided to have the first one be Harry Potter themed. The keys were from the first book/movie. 🙂

First, I bought keys from my local Joann Fabrics.

I made sure that the keys for the miniature one were tiny. The regular sized one can be any size, but I bought large ones.

I painted them gold. Then I wiped the paint off because I wanted the keys to have a rustic feel.

From there I grabbed a piece of tooling leather and drew wings. I wet the leather but did not cut the piece out so it did not stretch.

I cut the wing design I wanted with my exacto knife. I didn’t cut all of the way through the leather, just the first layer.

Using my stylus I pushed, outlined and made impressions into the leather until I was happy.

I cut it out. I also wet the wings again so that I could ‘sculpt’ them into the shape I wanted them to be.

Then I painted it white, and then glued the key to the wings.

Done! Add a piece of wire and they can be stuck onto a tree. 🙂

The Giveaway

November 26, 2014December 28, 2024Kristian Beverly48 Comments

My laptop and I have many disagreements. Yesterday was a huge one where it decided to take forever to update. But our relationship is intact again so I can blog!

Anyways, back to the giveaway. In honor of hitting 50,000 page views and since it is Christmas time (too soon? haha) there is going to be a giveaway. A saddle giveaway. Since I never decided what type, the winner will be able to pick the type of saddle (within reason of course).

So the giveaway will start now, November 25 to December 12. The winner will be chosen that weekend.

I decided to do it by comments instead of the rafflecopter. Comments are more personal, so I can comment back 🙂 Any comment from now to then is an entry. Can be old or new posts. Be reasonable though. Don’t go on one post and make a string of separate posts like this.

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The giveaway is open for those in the United States. I would love to have it open to everyone in the world, since my blog readers are from all over the world, but until I have more experience with international shipping, I’m going to say United States only this time.
I can’t think of anything else that needs said, so good luck all!

50 Thousand!

November 24, 2014December 28, 2024Kristian Beverly14 Comments

Five Paws Studio hit 50 thousand page views today!
So in honor of that milestone I decided to show something that also had come a long way.
For the past couple of months, my mom said she wanted to redo the craft room at my house. She has wanted to have something she’d finished on here, so here’s the finished craft room!