I’m not sure if you’ve seen this or not, but apparently, some guy in Japan turned a package of aluminum foil back into a shiny polished aluminum ball, and people went nuts and started doing it too. this is the first video I...
Otto, a Wire Wrapping Challenge
Vines or as I see it, fancy kelp Let me introduce Otto Otto is a steampunk squid, made for a commission. The squiddy bits are polymer clay, but the kelpy bits were created using the vines tutorial from the book. So this is my contribution for the vine cuff from the...
New Year New Challenge- Wire Wrapping
One of the purposes of personal challenges is to find and make opportunities for oneself to grow. This year I’ve decided to start working on projects from this book....
Enchanted Challenge wrap up
I began work on the Enchanted Challenge well over two years ago. Like many crafters, I purchased the book Enchanted Adornments more for the inspiration of beautiful projects that I did to actually duplicate the projects. I found that the techniques discussed took a...
Creative Gifts: Bath Salts
DIY bath salts More DIY Christmas. Bath salts make an easy group gift -you know that gift that is easy to make in mass and give to large groups. Most people fall back on baking, I don’t bake much–only unless its as a set up for cake decorating. This was my “group”...
Rocks!
On the edge of town in Holbrook AZ, 19 miles from the back door of the Petrified Forest is the best rock shop, ever! Jim Gray’s Petrified Wood Co. They have a rock yard where you can pick up peridot chunks, rose quartz chunks, geodes and you pay for them by weight. On...
Enchanted Challenge: the Nixie’s Necklace
I probably didn’t make enough vine pieces for this one. I wouldn’t make them longer, ’cause you want them to be functional links, but definitely more of them. I didn’t have any resin leaves lying around, and I didn’t want to make polymer clay ones–I was being lazy. I...
Comic Book Cuffs
Before anyone gets mad at me for destroying comic books, these were already pretty mangled and in the free bin at the used bookstore. You will need: Mod podge cardboard liners from tape rolls (ok I have big wrists so this works for me, if you have smaller wrists you...
Enchanted Challenge: Urban Faery Earrings
I began prepping for this project a while back. In March I made a bunch of polymer clay molds for some of the upcoming projects. This was one of them. I did something kind of stupid, I used “whatever” as the circle bases when I created the original. So when it came...
Galaxy cabs -Wire Wednesday
I need to do more wire work. I’m thinking of working through a craft book, like what I’m doing with Enchanted Adornments. I’m not sure which book I should tackle just yet. I have a few in my collection already, it’s a matter of ienie-mienie-minie-moe. These gear...
Galaxy Glass Cabs
They are shiny and sparkly and sooo much fun to make I tripped over this youtube tutorial the other day by CraftKlatch. I seriously have no idea how I found it, or what I was looking for. But there it was and it was sparkly, so I watched. And how cool are these...
Painting my shoes WIP-it Wednesday
I wear Z-coils because I have bad feet. I lust after Fluevogs because they make awesome shoes, that aren’t always just black. So I’m taking a pair of old Z-coils, and painting new life into them. Mostly because I really want some new shoes that aren’t black and I...
Enchanted Challenge: Time and Memory Necklace
To be honest, I didn’t look very hard, but I could not find glass beads shaped like the ones in the book. I went with what I already had, and I just happened to have some of these vessel pendant pods left over from when I was making tesseract fan art jewelry from The...
Tidepools nope
This challenge blog post is more about why I’m not even going to attempt the tidepool project than it is what happened when I did try. Honestly, if I were truly committed to the “challenge” aspect of this endeavor I would go for it, but you see, glass and metal clay...
Make Your Own Krampus Stencil
The plastic sheets that come in bacon packages make excellent stencils. Of course, wash it off. LOL. When using any kind of spray adhesive, be sure to spray outside in a well-ventilated area. Spray booths really don’t do the trick. And make sure to cover your...
Enchanted Challenge Sunset Baubles
These necklaces were six-months in the making. All because I am pretty certain that resin has a personal vendetta against me. I will say the results are pretty outstanding, I just wish the process had gone a little more smoothly. I did have to do my own take on things...
Making Magnets
Turning computer prints into glass magnets is relatively cheap and easy. Materials • Printouts of your image (ok you can use cut-outs from magazines, but I’m making swag for a writer, so everything has to be the same promo image) • Glass bubbles they use in florist...
Enchanted Challenge: the next step
My next big undertaking so that I can continue with this Enchanted Challenge is to clean up my work space.About a year ago the big window was replaced and everything had to be moved out. I honestly have not successfully managed to put everything away properly. Any...
Enchanted Challenge Cuff
I bled for you this month. Stabbed that needle straight into the pad of my thumb. I couldn’t scream cause I currently have no voice due to some other fun illness issues. This month’s challenge is a layered sewn cuff. The original design is intended as a way to show...
Enchanted Challenge: Treasure Heart
This hollow formed heart with encased resin treasures took multiple steps. The projects are more complex now, so you have to plan ahead. You can’t get them done in one sitting. And since resin and I are having relationship issues, I really need to work ahead on the...