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I recently participated in Sarah Elder's bead swap. Sarah's bead swap was fun and I was lucky enough to have Sarah as my bead swap partner. Sarah sent me some really lovely beads. My assignment was to make something up from what I was sent. Below are pictures of the bracelet that I made up. Enjoy!
Hello Sisters, I am a bit late in posting my Rush, but our internet was down for a day and a half. I am so excited to see what everyone made with their image. I decided to make a wall hanging with my image. I used flowers, old and new, bling, ribbon, tule, old magazine print, glass glitter and vintage earrings. I printed the image out on fabric, liked that look better than paper. So fun to be a part of a great group of ladies.
And little old me with my project. Pardon the lack of makeup and it looks like lack of sleep, lol, I was a little frustrated with the internet going down right when I was ready to post! Just love technology. :O)
I am participating in Karen Valentine's Where Bloggers Create II - Here is my creative space story:
My creative space took close to three years to come into fruition. But when I sit down and think of it, it probably has taken all of my life really.
When I was small, I would often watch my Mother create. She created at a table in the garage, her sewing table in the house, or on the dinning room table. She could create something from nothing. I would stand in awe of her ability to take this and that and make something useful or just for fun. My mother and I share the same birthday and first name and it was only obvious that we would share the same passion for crafting. From childhood, I longed for my own space to craft.
In 2009 I got my wish for the exact space I had always dreamed of. I am now the proud owner of my very own artist studio in my back yard. During the day at my full time office job, I dream of the moments when I can be home creating in my studio. When I am in my studio, I feel a million miles away from everything. I feel the gentle breeze from the open windows, I hear the birds playful chatter at their feeder just outside my patio door and the beautiful song of the running fountain nearby.
I starting crafting as a tole painter, which turned into t-shirt painting and then turned into scrapbooking. Scrapbooking is sometimes taken over by beading and jewelry making, which is sometimes taken over by altered arts of some sort. I never get bored, because my crafting is always changing with whatever swap I am preparing for, or event of classes I am just about to go to or have been from. I never heard of a craft I didn’t like and I hope that I never will.
It took me a year after I moved into my studio to even get close to getting my supplies in some sort of order and it changes from month to month, depending on what I just purchased, working on or getting rid of. It’s a process I thoroughly love.
I feel so blessed to have a place of my very own. It’s heaven on earth.
I hope you enjoyed looking at my creative space, as much as I loved showing it to you! Terry
I just joined this fun and exciting event this morning put on by Karen Valentine. I hope you will join me! I've cut out the guidelines that will follow below. Post your blog and what you do and where you do it, big or small and you may be featured in Jo Packman's Where Women Create. Other fun prizes too. Check it out:
2nd Annual Where Bloggers Create party- June 19th, 2010!!!!
It’s time again to share your creative spaces!!!
Is your space at the dining room table? Do you have a room of your own? Have you converted a closet? And what do you do in there? What kind of things do you create?
This year is special because Jo Packham and Where Women Create magazine is offering some fabulous prizes!
The first prize is your own feature in Where Women Create magazine! (How cool is that?) Jo Packham herself will pick the winner and boy is it ever a fun experience!
Then we will be offering to 6 random party goers,
2- 1 year subscriptions to Where Women Create magazine
2 -Sets of Jo’s books Where Women Create and The Book of Inspiration
2-WWC charm bracelets
So this is how it will work. If you want to participate go to: http://mydesertcottage.blogspot.com/2010/04/where-bloggers-create-ii.html Karen will add your name to the list of participants on her sidebar. On the night before the party, post your photos and stories about yourselves and your art. (This assures that the early risers or those bloggers in other parts of the world can see your post on time.) We all love lots of pictures so don’t be shy!!!! On the day of the party we will all meet there and you can spend the whole weekend blog hopping to visit everyone’s blogs and get a peak inside all the very wonderful and creative studios!!
I just signed up for this great swap put on by the oh so creative Cassandra, check it out girlfriend:
http://myartfuladventures.blogspot.com/2010/06/petite-bead-box-swap.html
I just sent off today my 3x3 squares for the Le Sirene Wall Hanging Swap Hosted by the lovely and very talented Joy Campbell for Kim Caldwell's event in July. I have never done a swap like this, so I hope I did okay. Sometimes you are not sure if you have done too much or not enough. I took three different fabrics and sandwiched a mermaid picture in between them. Embellished with gel pens, glitter glue and jewels. Added Midori ribbon and a tiny sea shell. Now I have three more swaps too go!
I am just as bad as real Mom's of real babies. I can't stop posting about my kids. How can I when they look like this. I melt, every time I look at his mug. LOL
I am horrible at computers and seem not to be able to figure out a darn thing on my blog. The only thing I can do is barely post a few words and a picture. And sometimes I get that messed up. LOL! I am creative, not good at computers. So until I can figure out how to add this link to my blog, I will post a post about "Bloggerette Sorority" hosted by the lovely Karen DeCapite, (Somedaysarediamonds blogspot). Come join the fun with other like minded creative women! ;o)
