Free Beaded Basket Tutorial #2

This sweet little beaded basket tutorial is from Elizabeth Hackbarth of Beadwork.About.com (click HERE). Happy Monday.

Free Tutorial- Polymer Egg Garland

Polymer clay Egg garland or..........

some cute pendants to tuck into an Easter basket. These are from Charlotte's Fancy (click HERE).

Free Tutorial for Egg Box

A polymer clay egg "box" by Candice Jedrowicz. Just as cute as can be. Her instructions are easy to follow (click HERE). FaveCrafts.com is another good site for great tutorials. I'm catching up on some projects and cleaning my studio (again) so am posting some tutorials in the meantime. Hope your weekend is great.

Free Beaded Basket Tutorial #1

The free tutorial can be found (HERE) on Beadwrangler.com's Workshop page which is filled with free beading tutorials. If you've never visited Beadwrangler; you must. I learned so much about bead crochet, design, fibers, needlework, etc. The main (home) page can be found HERE.

Polymer Clay Egg Free Tutorial

This tutorial is from Lesley Shepard, About.com (click HERE). What is really great about her tutorials is that they include color recipes and detailed instructions. She has taught miniature craft and polymer clay projects for over twenty years. But, as you can see from the above photo, it's not only miniatures.

How Does This Bench Look?

So does this bench make my butt look big??????? They're benches in China. Made me laugh out loud. Image is from Mogg Blog - one of my very favorite blogs. Take a gander HERE. Always, but always something new and interesting.

Handmade Jacket

This jacket is completely handmade from scratch.....the jacket design, cutting of the leather (which was unbelievably soft), making of the fringe, the horn buttons,

the embroidery design, each bead hand sewn,

the horse tail fringe...all of it....hand made by

J. Parsons, the gentleman wearing it. Obviously, it was an ongoing work for quite a while. Now that I'm thinking of it, I believe he said he killed the deer, skinned it, tanned the hide and softened the leather himself also. Unbelievably beautiful.

Industrial Charm

I finished my bracelet (sort of)! I say sort of because I still want to incorporate some polymer in there. A good friend and her husband spent 6 weeks in Europe. As my gift, she brought back an organza bag full of beautiful crystals and an antique bakelite component she got in a Paris flea market.

I've been wanting an industrial charm bracelet forever. But I wanted something with meaning to me and something I could afford. Michael's craft store now sells industrial jewelry charms, components and findings in three different colors of metal. Perfect.

The pencil=art, the compass=direction, #7 & #17=luck, G=gratitude, bucket=bucket list

the wheel=keep going, key=risk, blue metal flower=growth, the little light bulb and spring=an idea that springs forward and the spirals=that creative idea that spirals into a finished piece. I added the crystals to the bottoms of the charms. They equal friendship.

Just Me

No polymer, just me.

Oh, Photophunia is so much fun, it is addictive. Hope you had a fun weekend.

Polymer Photos Part 5

Some of my polymer clay pieces in a window display (through Photofunia, a free photo editing program), and

oh my gosh....who is that? Kind of looks like Brad Pitt adding a few words on the photos of my polymer clay sculptures? Only through Photofunia.