One button necklace so many options

Halloween (purple, lime green, black)

Red script and black

Turquoise and white with turquoise Great for winter 

Fall (maroon, orange and white with dark green edges)

Christmas (Maroon and dark green edges)

Spring (pink, lime green, purple)

Halloween choice 2 (orange, lime green, and black)

So I have been thinking about those really cool necklaces that you see now that are short of set off center and most of them a beautiful but probably can be only worn with one outfit and I'm one of those people that will buy something cause I love it then it just sits there because it is out of my comfort zone to wear it.  I was looking at my rose pins and thinking how much I love them and I was wearing a simple long white button necklace and though hey what if I combined the two.  Here is my newest idea.  I took two or three rose pins set them off center on my necklace and use a special pin back to create they various looks with one button necklace.  I'm loving them I started off my day wearing the Red and Black roses cause I had a red knight meeting and they matched my vest and then after switching out different ones landed on the turquoise and white with turquoise edged roses.  I like when I can take one item and jazz it up.   Pin It Now!

finally some Art to share

So I have been busy again but finally I got myself organized enough to create!!  I felt like doing some halloween inspired altered cabinet cards.  I have a whole box of cabinet cards but I'm too afraid to do something with them.  Of course until now.  Then I have been organizing, purging and just try to make my craft space a good place to work in again because summer left it a scary and messy place that wasn't inspiring.  So as you can see the purging and reorganizing is working if I have already been creating.  The other photo I include is a self made (with dad's help) ribbon holder.  I use to hang my ribbon with tole from the window, but things have changed and that doesn't work anymore, I have these really great boxes they were drawers from cabinet my great Grandpa made for a wood lathe he had.  We got rid of the lathe and the table but when I pulled the drawers out and saw how cool they were I couldn't get rid of them.  They make awesome shadow boxes, or shelves and of course ribbon holder lol.  I'm pretty happy with how it came out.  The drawer are actually made out of ammunition boxes my Great grandpa was green before being green was cool.    

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It's been too long

Hi guys and girls.  I know its been way too long.  I hate not blogging at least once a week but my summer ran me over.  At lot has happened in my personal life over the last few months and craft got put to the side for awhile.  With the weather cooling off Maybe just maybe I will have some time create in the near future.

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A fabulous Bag

So I received a Donna Downey canvas messenger bag as a gift about a week ago and I was pretty excited to start it.  I just took my time thinking about it cause I didn't want to ruin it.  It didn't take too long cause I started adding beautiful green paints with a foam brush and used a spray bottle to cause the paint to move around the lid.  The purple is tattered angel glimmer mist that it added in a similar way as the paint I sprayed it heavily, added water and used a foam brush to move it around the bag.  After throwing the bag in the dryer cause I am impatient I added the bling flourishes and the big purple flower.  The bag came with the word dream which was also canvas but it was white with yellow polka dots.  It didn't really go with the bag.  Yellow matched but I didn't like how stark it looked on the bag so I sprayed the letters the same color as the bag. After it dried I attached with glue and sewed the letters on.  Once I was done with the front I thought how cool would it look with buttons covering the sides.  So I began sewing and after about two days of sewing buttons on the bag is finished.  I figured the buttons would protect the sides of the bag if I decided to use it.  If I need to set it on the floor or anything the sides should not get dirty.  I think it might need a little more but for the most part I believe it done. 

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I'm a sister in a Bloggerette Sorority

I recently came across the Bloggerette Sorority over at Some Days are Diamonds.  I missed out on Rush but decided to do it anyway.  The requirement to rush for the sorority you had to use the image in my art above and take your picture with your completed piece, so here is my take on our rush project.  A canvas beeswax piece using all things girly.  Ribbons, lace, pearls, buttons and beautiful paper.  I really enjoyed doing this.  I'm excited to be apart of this group and can't wait to see what things are in store. 

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Your all winners in my book

So because only three people posted why not just give you all a prize.  So the winners are as follows:

Tabitha
Helen
Fran

I will get your little prize packages out to you by the end of the weekend (cause I feel like doing a little more then a book).  I still have a stack of books to give away and I will be doing another giveaway soon so if you want to winner a prize free and clear I would post a comment next time.  I hope you ladies enjoy your gift.  Much love and creation to all. Pin It Now!

Vintage Women

So here is my take on my friends idea.  Tabitha set up a swap in the Vintage room.  The stipulation was that you had to use images from the college sheets she made for us.  The images were black and white so I took the time to color them with colored pencil (so is watercolor pencil). So vintage ribbon, vintage repo papers borders, stamps and some embellishments.  I haven't really created anything for a trade in quite awhile I think these came out pretty good. I'm just saying I would keep em.  Lol. 

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