Tuesday Tote!

Greetings everyone! I hope your tuesday is full of love, peace, and joy today and every day.  I'm busy in my little creative nook, putting together a super cute toe made from 100% found and recycled items.  Today's tote is a Tyvek masterpiece, handpainted and fully sealed, that could be used as a purse, beach bag, or my fave an eye catching grocery bag!  Insulted with industrial strength duct tape inside, the outside is recycled Tyvek postal bags! Virtually indestructible, you can carry just about anything in this tote and there is no sewing required! You could sew it up n the same way I did the duct tape, but I found myself without thread for my sewing machine, and improvised.  Video tutorial coming soon!

Here's the almost finished results! I just have to decide on the kind of handle for this piece, and nothing is really standing out for me just yet.

TOday's Goodies!!

Oh my goodness!! Today I got not one, but two packages in the mail, and I'm still so excited just looking at them!! In the one box I finally got my order of glass beads, to use as accents for necklaces and bracelets, while in the other was a super awesome huge assortment of tumbled rocks from the UK!! I'm so in love with all of them it's going to be hard to make them into something to sell...but it has to be done..here's the photos of my haul today!

Beads, beads, beads!!

Check out the stones!

Today's project.

Yesterday I shared the awesome goodies I got in the mail, and had too big of a headache to bother really digging into them.  Today i did just that! THe little tubs of assorted beads were nothing less than amazing! Metal beads, stone beads, and acryic beads...ooooo the possibilities..I dislike using too much plastic or acrylic beads in anything i make, but if the beads are high uality and you can't really tell, I'm all for it...and that's what occurred in this case....

So...........here's what I put together in about half an hour, using upcycled ceral box paper beads, metal and acrylic accent beads..and some stretch cording...

WHat was in the mail today?!

Ohhh emm geee!!! I love love love getting packages in the mail from friends, they are always full of so much goodness! Today, my third box of tumbled rocks from the UK arrived, along with a couple little cups of pretty beads!!   I have been down and out with a massive migraine today, but i can't wait to use these babies to make some awesome things!

Getting mail!

There is nothing better than getting something you ordered, or special little gifts in the mail when you aren't expecting it.  Today is one of those days! I have spent the last month ordering the wrong chains to finish my slave bracelets and anklets, and today (finally!) i got the four spools of silver chain I ordered in the mail!

If you are an artist or jewelry maker and looking for a great deal on some gorgeous chain, make sure you check out the Glass Tile Craft Shop on etsy @ Favorite this shop! They have some really amazing deals on some really great stuff!! Now to turn these into some fancy wearable's <3

Nature's GIfts

Hey everyone, today I was sitting poolside, trying to de-stress and clear my mind, when i noticed several branches of my palm tree hanging dead just over me.  At 5'3, there's no way I can try to give the palm a hair cut, but as i was looking around the flower bed around it, I noticed a squirrel had left me some beautiful halved walnut shells, that lay among some gorgeous pink quartz stones.  I hadn't taken time to really look in this bed before, since we moved in two years ago.  Man, it has been two years hasn't it.  In any case, I took the time to look around the yard, surrounding the pool, to see that nature has a wonderful way of taking care of herself when left alone, and in giving us some really awesome inspirations (even when we least expect it!).

Today's projects are going to be focused on wrapping the stones I have been so fortunate to rec eive in the mail, and gather the ones I know I c ant use and put them for sale so that maybe someone else, somewhere else, can use them for a project that they are working on.  Wouldn't it be great to have a place that artists can go to post what they have to give, or that they need without all the other lots of items to scroll through!? Artists and crafters working together so that maybe, just maybe we can each finish a project we have been working on.

I get easily distracted as of late, my health and busy life seems to take hold and come first even when i need some me time.  That being said, i have several new ideas, it's just a matter of figuring out how to get them funded and working together.  I'm a big fan of self-sufficiency and this fall under that category.  The one lesson i have learned this far along, is that everything has a time and place, and without a schedule you don't know if you are coming and going.

Todays proejct idea!!!

I love scouring the web for new ideas and projects to try.  The problem is, there are so darn many!! I have palm trees in my yard, and they seem as of lately, to be shedding their outer bark in these wonderful paddle shaped pieces.  I have no idea how to upcycle them or what to do with them t clean them, all i know is that i have this crazy idea that they could make wonderful centerpieces for the upcoming holidays.  Have any of you tried to use tree bark or materials in anon traditional way? If so, SHare it with me and everyone please! I would love to see what you have done or what ideas you might have!

Super Sunday!

Well nothing in life is perfect or goes as planned, and if there's one that the fires here in California have taught me, it's to be ready for anything at any time.  That goes for creativity as well.  It seems like every time i sit down to start a project, something comes up and I can never finish.  Over the years I have tucked away numerous goods and half started projects, and find that I only think about them or see them when we've moved or i'm looking for something else.  Open the drawer or cabinet and tada!! I seem to be a hoarder of good intention craft projects!! Ahh!!

Over the past few days, I have noticed that facebook and various other social media platforms, have really taken up a lot of my time.  So much so, that if i were to be charged for time online (doing something non business related), at the rate of 10.00 an hr..I'd be spending 200.00 a day on social media alone! That would be fine if it were making money, but instead it's played on my soul and really gotten me down.  So today, I have decided to not chat or play games online, but instead to work on organizing my craft stuff and working on jewelry to sell.  SO far so good!  I'm also creating a blog schedule where every day I share and show a new project or idea.  We'll start tomorrow.  If I can muster the camera, I'll even do some videos!

I am so grateful for my family and friends! Have a blessed Sunday!