I skipped Junicorn 7th. I wasn't feeling great that day and I said to myself: "Self, this is supposed to be a fun and enjoyable experience and you don't have to force it." So I decided not to force it...
My Junicorn 8th picture is this chocolate wrapper. Zotter is a fantastic, eco friendly Austrian chocolate manufacturer who makes delicious (and sometimes downright wacky) chocolate - and lots of other (organic and/or fair trade and/or vegan) products.
(Their lemonades are amazing... You can visit their factory and take a tour which includes tasting everything you want, they have their own farm, restaurant, hot chocolate bar, shop, beautiful grounds, etc. If you're ever in the area you should definitely count in a trip - calculate an extra two hours just for the shop, I promise you will need that time.)
Anyway, I love their fun and stylish packaging design. I've used many of their wrappers and images in collages and art journaling already.
I had this thoughtful wolf (or is it a fox?) sitting in a pile on my desk and I decided to turn him into a unicorn. I cut the horn into the card stock and backed it with a little piece of coloured acetate. It glows when you hold it up against the light. (You can actually see a better picture of it on my instagram, if you want to take a look.)
On the 9th I chose to simply take a picture of a crochet unicorn I had made for R when she was maybe three years old. Green was her favourite colour then so naturally I went with that. I used some cotton yarn I had in my stash from some other project.
The pattern is called "Ragdoll Unicorn" by Spin a Yarn Crochet and you can find it on ravelry or on the spinayarncrochet website.
It's not new but it's still a unicorn I created so I think it counts.
For the next day I drew a little picture of the crochet unicorn because I didn't have any ideas and not much time to think of anything. I love how it turned out actually, it's really cute and looks almost even more dreamy than the original... (And I only just realised when uploading the picture that I forgot to draw the ears - hahaha!)
Today, 11th of June, I made a quill and ink drawing on old book pages. I love using a quill and ink and I should use them much more often! I think it's just a really unique look you can't get with any other tool. I cut the tip of the quill myself and I have no idea if I did it right but it works. I have to dip it fairly often but that just adds to the effect in my opinion.
I googled "medieval unicorn" and scrolled thought the pictures until I found an image I liked (and that seemed like I could copy it - most were way too detailed). The original is a mosaic but I don't know (and don't care) if it's a real medieval one or an imitation. Also, the unicorn is actually wrestling a lion but I decided to have it dance in an enchanted forest instead. I didn't have enough space for the lion and he looks kinda odd...
I glued the page into my journal and only while I was doing that I thought that I could have measured the page before I started and included a nice medieval looking border or something but of course I didn't. It's fine though. The trees sort of act like a frame for my unicorn. I did ponder whether to colour the leaves in metallic copper (gel pen) but decided not to. I didn't want to ruin it... I'm sure I will do another ink unicorn this month and I can try it then.
Lots of love! And unicorns... xxx