Sharpie Art- Ceramic Candlestick Holder

It’s fall! While everyone is high on pumpkin spice, I’m high on the idea of fall crafting. Having a child sometimes limits you on the activities you used to love that you can continue to do. Fortunately, crafting is not one of those limiting activities. Give a child the opportunity to use scissors, glitter and glue and they will never turn you down. While not all attention spans are created equally, I usually find time to work on whatever projects I’m interested in at the moment while my young daughter is dumping pink and purple glitter all over a piece of paper… or floor. Lately, I’ve been a bit obsessed with what I can create out of doodles. Everyone doodles, right? Maybe not so much anymore now that less and less paper is being used daily; this is a good thing of course! But, for those lucky enough to find a scrap of paper, I hope you doodle. I have especially been drawn (pun intended) to doodling on ceramics with sharpies. Now, not having a lot of time to run down the aisle of my local craft store with an impatient child in a shopping cart, I still managed to grab a few sharpies. Finding the right ceramics was a different story. In an online ad, I found ceramics on clearance. Unfortunately, my local store did not have these clearance items. I think this was fate, however. I was determined to grab any ceramic I could find so as to not let go of this crafting urge. Because of this determination, I grabbed two candlesticks that were made of unfinished ceramic. After I got home, made dinner, filled my daughter’s juice cup 10 times, and inhaled my own dinner, I was able to spend a few moments doodling. I was hooked. The first design I decided on was a geometric design in purple. The curves of the candlestick holders made some of the progress slow but I found the sharpies to be forgiving of my unsure beginnings. Once my daughter saw I was doing something for myself, it was game over. But at least I had a beginning! Over the next few days, I doodled whenever I could. I also googled sharpie doodles on the internet. I found that most blogs/pins/etc. would indicate that sharpie paint markers worked better on ceramic. I realized my fateful decision to purchase unfinished ceramics actually worked in my favor. Regular sharpies worked perfectly fine on unfinished ceramic. Fixing mistakes was a bit trickier but, otherwise, the going was easy. A few weeks later (did I mention I had a daughter) I was finally able to add ModPodge to the candlestick holder for a finished look. The picture below is my final result! I enjoyed the process so much that I made another candlestick holder. Here’s hoping that you too can distract your child long enough to get your craft on! If you are interested in purchasing either of the items above, please visit my Etsy Store: Crafted on Grace.