Dala Horse Designs Inspired by Garden Photos

 One of those things that I want everyone to know and remember is that inspiration is eveywhere and the shape of a dala horse adapts itself to any design easily.

One of my favorite things so far is that I can use the flowers in my garden so that I can enjoy it all year.

When everything has stopped blooming I just work from the photos that I've taken over the summer.

Here are my two new horses. You'll find them used on all sorts of fun products in my zazzle store.

zazzle.com/dalahorse

This was the finished project page

The first thing I did was to cut the images apart.

Next I cut out around each item.

Then came the fun part as I made greeting cards out of them

 
I send the originals to friends and family and any design that we really like gets made into commercial printed cards on zazzle.com. as well.

 I like to draw on the envelopes to make matched sets with the cards.

Dala Horse Lamp

This project turned out to be a lot of fun. My Husband built a wooden lamp about half a century ago in junior high school but we never quite knew what to do with it so it spent most of it's time in and out of boxes, closets and basements.

It's just made out of little squares of scrap lumber but after all of the spindles I painted for my wheelchair ramp while working on ideas for designing Dala Horses it suddenly occurred to me that it would be a perfect way to show off those designs and maybe a horse as well.

What do you think of the results?

Here are some In progress photos too taken in better light.

If you look through older posts you'll be able to see the wheelchair ramp, lampshade and the dala horses that I've mentioned here.

It was fun to find a project that ties it all together.