Oscar loves twine

 he likes to pretend like it's a fancy necklace.

so pretty.  so fancy.

bottle bottoms

I got inspired a few months ago when I found a project on Etsy where the artist cut the bottoms off of plastic bottles and decoupaged them to make a brooch/pendant/cool piece of art.  So here's my take on it.

I put a little clip on the back to attach the bottoms to a necklace or a pin or a barrette.

Maybe a new hot seller???

resin madness

I decided to play with resin yesterday.  I found a container of buttons that I've had for quite a while sitting around and decided to cast them.  It was my first time to experiment with it so there are definitely a few kinks to be worked out, but this is my result!

the white ones are sprinkles.  yum.

give me your scrabble tiles!

Since NaNoWriMo is over, I can finally blog again!  Whew!

I've been seeing these little scrabble tile pendants all over Etsy.  I like them so much, I figured I'd try to make some myself!  Here's what I ended up with...

they look better in person.  I need a better camera... or better lighting.

How can you resist a fat cat, nonetheless?

beads!

what better to do with old glass seed beads than to make bracelets with them? So that's exactly what I spent the last waking hours of this past weekend doing!

it's kinda fun to wear 7 bracelets all at once!

more bangles and the cookies I hate.

My weekend consisted of a woodburner, bangle bracelets, decoupage, and David making no bake cookies.

We'll start with the cookies... I'm sure to many they are delectable. Not my favorite treat...

I bought a woodburner to try some things out on the bracelets... for the ones I screwed up, I just decoupaged on top! you can't go wrong with decoupage.

woodburner... Zoe was interested but I wouldn't let her sniff it.

unfinished bracelet on my knee.

my bracelets for the weekend!
woohoo!

bangle sale!

I couldn't resist buying out all of the wooden bangle bracelets marked 90% percent off at my local craft store last weekend. I busted out the Modge Podge and decided to decoupage the bracelet with an old magazine I wanted to cut up.

So here you have it! I may even list it on Etsy!!

shrinky dinky dinky doo!

My new found love... shrink plastic. I bought some plain clear PolyShrink and have been playing with it the last few nights. Here is my first project I made...

before: 2 weird looking trees on plastic.



after: 2 little hard plastic jewels ready to be turned into earrings!

Fun times! You can get PolyShrink here.

Birmingham Folk Festival

It was weekend before last... I'm finally recovering from it. Made a little money... here's what went down...

found my stake...

Got all set up with Katie...


check out some close ups of my stuff...





and Katie's stuff...

a link to her store...

honeypie designs

Other stuff at the festival...

Robbie and Dana's hoops... they make for fun times!


Emily's stuff...

Emily looks like a dude in this pic... weird.

and David's band...

It was a hot day. It was a fun day. I'm glad it's over... leaves more time for blogging.

my crafty weekend...

so it wasn't this past weekend but it still happened fairly recently...

I went to visit my niece for her 5th birthday and we spent quite a crafty day together.
first, we bought some beads and made bracelets...

which arm is the 30 year old and which is the 5 year old?
almost hard to tell except for the 30 year old has big mama veins in her hands :(

Then, we decided to buy some t-shirts and paint them for fun... it was very important to have pink, purple, and something sparkly on the shirts. So we went with sparkly paints.

kat hard at work.



our finished products.

More blogs to come... I PROMISE!!

a not-very-bizarre bazaar.

Yesterday I participated in a Bake Sale/Craft Bazaar. It was nice... I made entirely too many baked goods but it was fine. I made almost $40. Yay for me!

This is me making a ring while sitting at my table...

this is my friend Robbie a couple tables down from me... she crochets, sews, and makes hula hoops.

It was a nice day. Maybe it will happen again soon!! I met a crafty lady there named Beth who wants to start a Craft Mafia chapter in Birmingham... it may be in the works!! woo.

ring it up!

I got some use out of my mandrel and made 2 wire rings. Not my best crafting... but definitely worth posting.

Check out the rings...

my mandrel.

a little trip to ebay and what do I come back with? nothing more than a mandrel...

It's time to make some wire rings!!! Let's do it!!!!!!!!

earrings and a ruff

I have been busy lately... but not too busy to make a couple of things. So let me share...

I have fallen in love with this website www.cutoutandkeep.net
It's kinda like a myspace for crafters... I LOVE it!
And I saw these earrings on there so I had to try and make them myself in black and in green... rhumba earrings!!

Now the other creation I have came from this nifty little book that my brother and his family gave me for Christmas....

I made a ruff. It's like a small little ruffly scarf that fits around your neck and keeps you warm... just in time for a hot Alabama summer, right?? At least I'll have it for when the coldness comes back at the end of the year.

In other news, Oscar is doing much better. He had surgery Wednesday and everything is flowing nicely! Hooray for healthy, happy, shaved cats!!

he's happy because he doesn't have a cone on his head in this pic!