Craftsy Saturday!

Today while taking inventory of all of my crafting items, I find my mind swarming with ideas & projects! As I sit here in my rather organized mess (oxymoron) :) I am trying to slow down the whirling tornado of ideas & trying to focus on just one idea. As I dig through this veritable clown car bag of tricks, I am finding pieces of projects of yesterday's, yesterday's! I am finding add-ons for current ideas & wanting to pick-up old projects & complete those as well?!?!

Ohhhhh!!!!! Where to begin?!?!

My head is rushing! But HARK! What goes there?!?!?! Some old Jute cord from a macrame project I never started...ahhh! I think I will soothe my mind a bit to the numbing twisting of cords to create perhaps a lovely plant holder? :) I sit here holding the ring at my toes, as I begin my series of knots. I am taken back to my childhood, when I first learned macrame, when I was maybe 10 years old or so? :) I went macrame crazy back then, much to my mother's benefit! But it has been literally decades since I did anything of the sort. Well, I am glad to say...it is just like riding a bike! You never forget!

I will do this for a while...I think. Or at least until my head begins to swirl with yet another dozen ideas & I hop to the next.

I did however focus long enough to create a bracelet someone commissioned me for today.

Off I go! Back to my project!

Putting my idle hands to work...for the long weekend ahead.

Craftsy Therapyyyy!!!

A Dark Lovely to share...

In a bit of a oogie mood...listening to The Cure, Cocteau Twins, Sting & other moody music...how ever-so tragically Gothic of me. While I surfed the internet gazing at dolls I can clearly not afford...I came upon these Dark Lovelies to share.

This is the reason I love this film...
Sally & Jack in Tim Burton's "Nightmare Before Christmas".

Sally's Song...


And the finale...

The Elf

Last night I started a new drawing...

She is a little elf girl, friend to all butterflies in the forest.
She is only a rough sketch as of now, as I am trying to capture a certain essence of charm in her face.

I do have a lovely idea of lollipop flowers & spirally, whimsicle trees, as well as my usual framing...this time with swirly Dr.Seuss-like style.

Perhaps the leaves on the trees will be pink or purple?
It doesn't really matter, so long as it is truly as make-believe as possible!

I will post her once she is completed!

A little bit of night music...

(this lovely painting of Sleeping Beauty was paitned by Henry Maynell Rheam in the late 19th century)

Tonight, I sat down to draw & hours later, one distraction after another...I sadly have nothing done.

So I sat and listened to music, which usually helps begin the creative flow...but, all I ended up with is a small playlist that I thought I might share.

Just a few pretty songs...


SeeqPod - Playable Search

Now off to bed...with prayers of a restful sleep & much inspiration on the horizon for the morrow.

Oh where...oh where have my butterflies gone?

I'm looking for my butterflies!
Has anyone seen them?

The last time I saw them was in a daydream a few days back or so. They usually flutter amongst the posies & have tea with the hummingbirds everyday at noon! I am truly alarmed at their most recent disappearance, as the last time they went missing they did not return for quite some time!

Perhaps they are lost in the land of oogie's where everything nonsensicle & negative lives? In the past few days I have ventured there & was lost in the darkest recesses of the swirling vines & branches.

I have filed a Missing Butterfly Report with the head of the forest & he assures me that they will have an all points bulletin out for they're hasty return.

Until then, I wander with my heart in my hands in hopes of their return.

I will dabble & tinkle amongst my bobbles & bits for now...perhaps the glistening of the lo-ver-ly colors will help signal them home.

Sighhhh....

Please, oh please return to me most hastily my little winged friends, I am not myself without you!

Fragile

"As I sit down to begin creating, thoughts of this song come to mind, as the rain falls outside my window"...

One of my favorites by, Sting


If blood will flow when flesh and steel are one
Drying in the colour of the evening sun
Tomorrows rain will wash the stains away
But something in our minds will always stay
Perhaps this final act was meant
To clinch a lifetimes argument
That nothing comes from violence and nothing ever could
For all those born beneath an angry star
Lest we forget how fragile we are

On and on the rain will fall
Like tears from a star like tears from a star
On and on the rain will say
How fragile we are how fragile we are

On and on the rain will fall
Like tears from a star like tears from a star
On and on the rain will say
How fragile we are how fragile we are
How fragile we are how fragile we are

Bits & Bobbles! Bobbles & Bits!

I am posting some of the lovely glass & gem stone beads I have been playing with this past week! I Just wanted to show how beautiful & vibrant the colors were. I fell in love with them when I saw them, as I often fall in love with alot of arts & crafts bits & bobbles & whatsie whoozit's!

I managed to make a double stranded necklace for my sister, as well as two bracelts to match for her Birthday this past weekend. She put them on immediately & left all the boxes & wrapping, so I guess she liked it?

Here is the best photo of the necklace...unfortunately, I didn't remember to take pictures of the bracelets.



And here is a velvet & leather-lined corset choker I created for myself last year. (It also laces up the back! A reproduction of a Catherine Coatney)-boning & all.



As well as the glass lovelies I purchased for creating other gifts!


Amethyst, Lapiz Lazuli, and various sized multi-colored Murano style glass beads.

The colors! The colors! Ohhh...the pretty, pretty colors!

Just sharing! That's all for now, over & out!