I’ve been drooling over some of these amazing statement necklaces that Anthropologie has been charging hundreds of dollars for … but would never spend that kind of money on something I could easily make myself.
I didn’t realize just how easy.
This necklace was cobbled together using some of my old jewelry and fabric scraps. After picking the pieces, it took about 1.5 hours to assemble.
How’s that for resourceful?
It’s been so long since I had a weekend of hermiting and crafting. The cat’s away so the mouse will … be lame and stay indoors on a Saturday night?
This used to be my typical Saturday night: run, shower, laundry, movies, crafting, sleep.
Lately I’ve been doing things. Like a lot of things. I went to a concert last night with Shelly (I will blog about this later once she gets pix/video up), I’ve been going out with friends to Welch Ave., Fong’s, The Lift, etc., we had prom last weekend … eeeeep! This is entirely too much stuff for me — it’s been fun — but I need a break!
So, I’m hermiting.
Tonight is going to be a craft-a-thon. I’ve had a request for 2 tea wallets and 2 market bags since posting on facebook that I was going to have a craft-a-thon. I’ve got a Ziggy Stardust tea cup I want to finish, some potholders, a zip pouch and I have a couple of new hot projects that I’d like to crank out quickly to stash bust my scrap fabric.
Anywho — as I finish things, I’ll be posting pix here of what I accomplish tonight. Let’s hope I do a few more things so I don’t look like I spent the night thinking about crafting and not actually crafting.
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1. Two Bags for my niece
My mom requested that I make Emee a couple of bags for some of her toy sets. These need handles, but I haven’t come across anything that I’d like to use for handles just yet. I made these bags out of a skirt I had in high school that I never wear anymore. It’s really cute purple fabric that shifts to blue in the right light and has a metallic silver brocade on the edges.
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2. Potholders
I started making a string quilt a while back with a bunch of random scraps, but I wasn’t pleased with what I was getting. So I decided to make the blocks into ugly potholders. The potholders have been lying around for a while awaiting the binding edge, so I’m sewing the binding on tonight.
Here’s what my potholders look like …
As you can see … I’m pretty excited that I finally finished these.
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3. Lil Zipper Bag
Over the summer I’d made some little zipper bags with some fuschia and gold Heather Ross mendocino fabric that was given to me by my friend Adria. I love this fabric sooo much, might I add. Definitely one of my all-time favorites. Anyway, for whatever reason I’ve had one little zipper bag sitting around unfinished. So I finished that off tonight as well.
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4. Ziggy Stardust Tea Cup
I made Mark a cute tea cup for our 2-month anniversary with the lyrics to our song on it … and I decided I wanted one that’s similar for myself. Yes — I said — FOR MYSELF. I never craft for myself. I wrote out the lyrics to Ziggy on a teacup last week … but decided that it needed to have a bit more pizazz, considering it *is* Bowie. So, I painted it up. I’m not too happy with the results, but maybe it will grow on me after I bake it. I like the one side, but I think if I would have left it a bit simpler it would be nicer … oh well. This can end up on craftastrophe I guess.
As you can tell by my face, this is the side I’m not too happy with. I dunno what to do with it just yet … Probably just bake it and hide it away in my apartment. 
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I think that’s all I’m going to get to tonight, but I’m going to continue tomorrow and get 4-6 tea wallets done, possibly some dis-cards (Denyse Schmidt style) and maybe another craft for myself — heating pad cover.
apparently i’ve been blogging way more about hobbies/crafts/design lately than running, but I’m taking time away from running. I went to the dr. today and I was told to start physical therapy.
THUS I will be doing a lot more blogging about crafts, and probably my new endeavors with Mary Kay (w00t).
I’ve been pining over Esther Coombs’s work for a very long time. I’m in love…smitten… oh man. (www.esthercoombs.com). I noticed her doodles are a lot like my doodles and I’ve been wanting to make my own dishes for a while and never could find the supplies to do so. FINALLY I found the supplies at Michaels in Des Moines. I dropped 40 bucks and had some fun the last few days.
Unlike Esther, I’m incorporating color. I did some black on black (well dark silver grey on black) but my cell phone camera didn’t capture it. YES I NEED BATTERIES FOR MY GOOD CAMERA OR A POINT AND SHOOT. Seriously. I have an issue with this. The last 5-6 months I’ve been posting cell phone camera pix for all my crafts on craftster and it’s just not cutting it.
Anyway, without further ado…here’s what I’ve done so far. When I find time to setup propery photography for these I’ll probably list some of them on etsy (the ones that aren’t chipped or stained!).
