I'll have to ask you to excuse horrible lighting from the dark walls and yellow lights, the brush ends and jar of glaze, the CDs, the woot monkey in the background, the fact that this is being hung on the ear of a stethoscope....and uh... everything else. I just wanted pictures before I gave this away, and it was already Christmas Eve!
Here's one more picture of it standing straight, just because I haven't gotten used to the charms dangling while the stocking is hanging yet, haha.
My boyfriend picked out everything for this one, and of course he's not a sewer, so he picked out the slinkiest, hardest-to-work-with polyester lace weave for the decorative side of the stocking. It looks nice, but I had to utilize some old wrapping paper to stabilize it while making it! We bought the snake from the bead department of the craft store, and it's held on with some gold wire... as is the ankh, which I think turned out a little too gold for the stocking in comparison with the snake, but oh well.
I made the ankh myself, by the way, out of polymer clay that I had pressed some glitter paper onto to give some texture. It also just happened to have some nice authentic "cracks" from when I was folding it to warm it up--perfect! Add a stippling brush and some paint to make an uneven, mottled layer of gold all over, and it came out pretty neat looking...but unfortunately, I have no great pictures of it because of the lighting and flash.
Here's the thing that I find the funniest of all about this stocking: the ankh symbol is associated with death/eternal life. Perfect for a Christmas stocking...uh...right?!?!
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