Fortune Cookie Charms

My little fortune cookie charms are out of the oven and glazed up! It was fun thinking of the verbage for these little goodies.  I will be making more in bright orange, lime, and pink for spring.I also created some clay viking knit end caps and hope to see how they hold up to the pulling thru of the wire.  I will test that theory this weekend.

   Well tonight I have sleepovers with my two little ones.  May have chance to finally set up that lap loom I got for Christmas.  It sits near my workstation wondering why I wanted it.  Sometimes I wish I was just interested in one creative task rather then EVERYTHING! Hope your day is going as wonderful as mine. Be creative!

Playing with My Stash

Played in my studio over the past month with all sorts of fibers. I have a real thing for any kind of fibers, be it fabric, felt, ribbon, cords, linen or any woven material. The more texture and color the better. It doesn't stop at fibers either, I love buttons, vintage jewelry and any thing dangly (my word for anything that shimmers and dangles!) I had decided that my stash needed to see the world, it's not enough to just go down there and look thru it. It needed to be put out there in some form and that's when I proceeded to make cuffs. I just love how they all turned out. I started with either a felted background piece or a piece of ultra suede cut to a 1-2" width and long enough to wrap around my wrist.


I then just began to place different things upon each background. Like a little canvas. Checking to see what colors went well with one another and how I wanted to achieve different textures in the piece. I used some fiber flowers that I had needle felted and some polymer charms that I had created. I also went thru my vintage jewelry stash and added a little shimmer and blitz to some of the cuffs. Some of the edging I had crocheted with different cotton skeins that I had. It was fun creating colorful ruffles for the edges. I also added glass beads, ribbon, and embroidery stitches....anything that called to me. I sewed some of the items by hand and many of the trims by machine. Once the piece was filled with goodies I went in by hand and added any accent beads or embroidery stitches to complete them. It's funny, some of them I packed full, others I just felted a pattern, some bright and vibrant, others demure and muted. It was just so much fun! Hope you enjoy. Three cuffs were purchased by friends but the rest are in my newly opened etsy shop thirty2ndstreet,etsy.com. I plan to post DIY kits to my shop soon so you can Do It Yourself!

Thought I would share more fabric charms...

Thirty2ndstreet is finally open to the World!

I am so glad to finally be opening my doors to the blogging world! I set this up last August and then life got in the way. That can happen when you have five kids but I am not complaining. I am lucky to have been blessed with such chaos. I grew up in chaos with 5 sisters and one brother in a lovely little mid-western Ohio town and that's all I ever really wanted out of life. Lot's of things going on around me.

I just signed up for another charm swap at Charms2007swap@yahoogroups.com and am very excited. I am currently working on some little polymer clay fortune cookies that I will be posting pictures of tomorrow. Tried adding a little Pearl Ex Powdered pigment to my diamond glaze to seal the clay and I must say it dried to a very pretty shimmer! I love it when ideas actually work out!

Must say I am getting a little tired of all this snow. This is the ugly stage of winter when the dirty snow plowed piles are gray and sitting all around. I need some sunshine to invigorate my soul. However I will probably lose a lot of creative time to the outdoors. It's often hard to choose between my 2 favorite things on pretty sunny days. A beautiful afternoon run or an hour of uninterrupted creative time in my work room. Oh well at least today I know I am headed to my work room!