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Another glass pendant with matching earrings. I should have taken a photo from another angle, because the piece I used is slag glass and it looks almost like malachite. Faith and begorra! Wouldn’t that be a fine thing to be wearin’ on St. Paddy’s Day?

I started a memory wire bracelet yesterday. These things are so darned hard to photograph. (If you want to see what a finished one looks like, go back to my second post.) I string a base course of crow or tile beads onto the memory wire and then bead over top of that.

Spring mixed with chocolate brown!

And my son working with me this morning…

Shirley

I’ve been more productive today then other days. There was a lot of cleaning and then a stitch marker set and some envelopes. It seems my envelopes run out faster then I assume they will. I made around ten thinking no one will buy anything and they do! I’m trying to use the scraps of paper from the other envelopes that I have made to make more. This set of stitch markers I have made similar ones before and they have sold fairly fast. Like always I hope these sell well also.

I found these hyacinth bulbs on markdown because it is now too late to get them to bloom for Easter.  Since that date holds no significance for me - I made them a cool dark place where they can get started on some roots.  I know this is very little, and is not very ‘creative’ but, it will require a thing-a-day commitment of opening them and checking to see if they have the water they need and so I am counting this as participating in the work of creating the flowers which will result and which would not have resulted if left to wither in the store.

They will bloom long after this  adventure is over so I will not be able to post their pictures then.

I love this color. And the blue is a nice distraction from all the green

Shirley

     another!!  this is another new design, i used paper hot off the presses!  again with the scalloped edges,    i LOVE the delicate pink flowers on the number blocks!  i may end up re-working this one, there’s something about it that doesn’t flow for me, but that’s just my opinion.  this might be just perfect for someone else.  it’s new in my etsy shop right now!

i am very busy doing nothing at all today.  i’m not even tryin’, i can’t get out of my own way.  saving myself the hassle of irritating myself!  i finished this one early this morning,

and got it up on etsy!!      new scalloped edges.  i think i’m in love. *sigh*

I had a long day today. Bad things just kept happening (first I fell on the ice while carrying our daughter, then our kitchen sink faucet broke, the replacement faucet was broken, the second replacement faucet was also broken, our daughter fell inside and busted her lip, we broke one of our favorite bowls…etc). ugh. I wasn’t feeling inspired so I just started drawing a linear design on my latest duck egg. It looks a little like basket-weaving. Tomorrow I hope to finish the main wax design and add more colors.

I love making wreaths, obviously, so I decided to get a jump on St. Patrick’s Day when I saw these glitter glasses in the dollar section at Target today.

Green blooms, with a touch of purple.

Shirley

Last minute thing for the day. I plyed two super thing yarns I’ve spun and have been sitting on bobbins for months.

-robyn

This seemed like it would be a quick little project, but….

I have not done any calligraphy for years and forgot many of the simple techniques that would have prevented me from having to start this five times including: counting spaces and letters when centering lines, making sure the paper is not so porous that the ink bleeds, making sure that the paper is porous enough so that when you erase your guidelines you don’t erase your work, to stop thinking about anything except the current letter. and so on.  Well at least it is inexact enough that people will not think I cheated and just used a computer font…

This is a saying that my dad had hanging in his basement for years and I always loved it.  Now I am thinking I need to do an entire series of subversive calligraphy –  maybe some mildly rude stuff in pseudo latin…..

(and yes, I did cut the mats off-kilter on purpose. In my twisted mind I thought that was funny)

Title: Hearts of glass
Description: Green glass hearts necklace & earrings with copper accents
Inspiration: Today is Valentine’s Day; the music of Blondie (Deborah Harry)

I saw these little stones at the bead shop yesterday and just had to have them.  The colors are amazing! 

If this set sells, I’m making one for myself, lol.

i think this might be the last one of these for this week!!  =)  again, i’ve lost track of what day it is, but you get the gist!  this one has such pretty colors, green with just a little pink and turquoise.  paper by K&Co.  LOVE!    man, i love the smell of modpodge in the morning!!

and only now i realize that it is showing the wrong date.  but i’ll get over that.  this one has a travel theme, with airplane paper base, map papered months, and directional arrow numbers.  the color scheme is pretty, but not too feminine.

  i’ve got my act together today, and i’ve already listed this one on etsy!  =)

I took my boring planner and made it pretty with modge podge.  yay!

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So right now I’m reading Jane Austen, and you Austen fans know what that means — a senseless craving to own empire waist dresses, or at least look a pictures of them. (*cough* and Hugh Grant and Colin Firth *cough*)

I made this desktop from a picture of a woman from 1817 on Wikimedia Commons. Eighteen-seventeen is a little late for Austen, but it’s the only picture I found that I could really work with. I’m just sort of experimenting with styles on this one, so she looks all blown up and grainy on purpose. The quote is, of course, the famous first sentence of Pride and Prejudice.

Feel free to download and use this if you like it.

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Made some stitch markers using some new beads and old beads. I finally got my bead order from February that I have been awaiting for. When I opened the package I was amazed at the tear drop bead’s size. They were tiny tiny beads and it just never occurred to me they would be that small. These beads were bought on sale half off and I just didn’t bother to look at the size. I like them but they are harder to work with. I’m sure I’ll find some really great way to make them into stitch markers. I used some today as an experiment to see if they will be successful. I’ll be selling them as stitch markers for knitting socks with and for those that don’t want large stitch markers. The end result is a tiny stitch marker the dangle is .50 inches tall and the bead is .25 inches tall. Itty bitty. Then I used my gold stone that I love so much.

I finished up my set of cards to go sell at the flower shop.

This is one of the versions I did today.

I liked the non-traditional colors of these papers.