Holiday Ornaments

I made these for a holiday show at the folk tree gallery.
I waited till the last minute to get these done ... the deadline was Sunday at 4 and I made it in the door at 3:30 on Sunday to droop them off ... now you may be wondering just when did she make them well I got up around 8am Sunday morning and started and some how I was even able to take a shower! why do I wait to the last minute? I did 12 in all, you can see the rest at flicker flickr

Explore & Life (fronts)

Explore & life (backs)

I used a little bit of batting in these and a bell inside so its soft and jingles a little :)

Happy Halloween!

domanatrix and Naruito
now how is it that its harder to get a 16 and 13 year old dressed for halloween then a 6 and 3 year old?

look at my beautiful new banner!

I feel so special!
all I want to do it stare at my lovely new banner !
It was created by the always wonderful Julie O'Neil, AKA tisjewel
Thank you so much Julie for transforming images of my art into magic!
its just crazy what can make a 40 year old happy!

Of course I haven't forgotten society

and this is never easy to express.

(layers of resin paper, cloth, fiber and book text on wire frame)

Earrings

I Really never make jewelry any more ... for over 10 years I had sold my jewelry in galleries and like a fool never got a helper ... this resulted in my getting carpal tunnel ... so due to pain I stopped making jewelry... I even hated jewelry for a while because of the pain...
Seeing wildflowerdesigns'earrings made me actually want to make something ... and I did...

Thank you wildflower for reminding me that I can still have fun making jewelry,
I just can't make 100 pairs like I used to, but I can make a few :)

Kembo: 24 K gold fused to silver.

Bezel set carnelian on silver.

14k tube set faceted Peridot on silver with 14k ear wire.

Spirit Cards

It was insane how long it took me to make this ATC! its for an RR where 10 of us will pass our cards around and each person has to add a ATC with an inspiring word :) this is my card for my deck... my word as you can tell is heART :) we also had to make a "pocket" or something to hold our cards so I did this little felt pocket ... each of girls in the RR will also alter the pocket as well... I am really excited to send it off and see what comes back!


Spirit Card Holder

Open with Card

heART ATC

heART ATC Open

Bruised Love (on the mend)

ATC for trade at my flickr
this is the only one that I have for trade right now but I will be adding more soon!

he was lying, she knew.

and that hurt... really hurt,
because in her heart she knew.
(back of he was lying)

this month deco colors are lime green and purple...
Its a 4 for 4 trade and I liken it to my yoga class I always feel better after I make myself do it :)
I wanted to try to steep away from the style that I have been trapped in... I did not want to use an image of a person ... so I started with the background... I had some really cool buttons that I almost used then I decided to cut out some hearts out of felt ... but they just did not work with the grunge background that I had came up with so I cut down the middle of the felt heart to create a broken heart and then sewed up the center with yarn ... but still it needed a little more grunge ... then I remembered seeing Jackie's work on her flickr she does some truly inspiring work,her Shibori Felt and burnt felt just jumped out to me ... so I got out my little candle and lit it ... oh my its was so much fun ... then I punched the holes with my hole punch and burnt the felt from with in the holes... WOW! WOW! WOW! It was so much fun... I did have a little miss hap when the flame got to the yarn that was acrylic... but even that looked cool :) I see a lot more burnt felt coming up!
I found a few fun sites about burning fabric, ditzyprints has a chart on how diffrent fabrics burn, and then at DIY
there is a little how to.

Don't talk...

"it's over, my darling. All over"

Yes my love...
She was staring at him with glazed eyes.

There's no time to waste...
Darling, do you hear me?

My Dear...
why couldn't I find you?

How are you, Cherie? Innocent hope.
(last of the 5 part deco series)

Sour Hope (atc)

All the pieces in this series are acrylic painted background with burnt felt hearts,fibers and book text.

just simply charming

(click on the bracelet to veiw true size)
I hosted a charm swap with 25 supper creative mixed media girls!
And we all wanted to share what we did, so I made the group a blog that showcases all of our charms and a little about how we did them, so please take a look :)

just simply charming