Etsy Treasures

I am slo-o-o-o-o-o-owly stocking the "shelves" in my Etsy shop.

I have way too many fabulous finds here at home - and need to purge some of the inventory in my brick and mortar shop, sooooo.......

Here's a peek at the first couple of items that are in the Etsy store  right now!

A couple of denim hued 100% wool cell phone covers, in varying sizes. The one pictured is mine - and sorry, I have no more of these cute pewter lamb buttons!! But, I promise the others will have nice vintage buttons!
Since I don't know how to knit- these are crocheted, preshrunk, my own design.

Next, vintage zinc canning jar lids - will be sold in groups of 4. These are great for display, they will hold a candle, or you can wire them together for an interesting wall hanging! I have a ton of them - well, maybe not a ton........but enough so I can part with some!!

And, who knows, I may have an insulator or two on Etsy, like the above.


Here's a great old cigar box, from an estate sale,with some little wooden bits and pieces, -great for the mixed media artist!

Well, just thought I'd give you a sneak peek, of a couple of the "new" items. I may even be parting with an item or two seen in  previous Tea on Tuesday posts!!

Gotta run and work on a baby quilt .

If you see anything you like above, these are on Etsy  now!!!!! More stuff coming.
 

Pin Cushion Swap

Check out this blog for a cool pin cushion swap - http://creatingbythelake.blogspot.com/2009/05/pincushions-for-my-first-swap.html

I just signed on - I love making pin cushions and one can never have enough of them, I say!!!!

Coming soon - a post with more pix of felted wool goodies to tempt you into signing up for my woolie round robin!! I just KNOW you'll want to participate!!!

Now, it off to the field to help the husband plant some trees.......................

Look What I Found!!!

Yesterday, I finally got to it - I started cleaning the garage!!! The husband was doing "his" half and I dove into mine. We have a 3 car garage which will never have a car in it!!! Actually, none of our garages have EVER had cars in them!!! It is a standing joke with some of our friends!!!
This time, our garage is stacked with boxes from our move - almost 3 years ago!!!! I have boxes from my shop, my mom (who lives with us) my son (who does not live with us), my daughter, and household stuff still packed from that move.

I am proud to say, I made quite a dent on MY side of the garage!! The husband got lost in reminiscing, and then had to load the truck for the trip to the dump!!! I have a yard sale pile, which will later become a donate pile, and a dump pile!!

While going thru the boxes, I came across my quilts,( which can't be hung until we paint), and found some treasures, long forgotten, in other boxes!!

These wool penny rugs were made in 2001!!! They smell like Great-Aunt Taimi's moth balled cedar chest - but that protected them from getting holes!! I am airing them out as we speak!!

The floral basket was a round robin- our own Pat Sloan made the blue forget-me-not in the middle! Other participants were Joanne Sangrey,quilt designer Ann Weber,Sandi M,Linda, Maxine, and Dot Elliot. I'm glad I saved the card that accompanied the wool piece, but I wish some of the ladies had put their last names down!! Joanne, Pat and Ann were local, but the others were out of state, I believe. This group also did a spoolie exchange, and if I can find that box (!)- I will post pix of those!!!

My poor little basket of flowers needs a little careful steaming to get the wrinkles out, the edge needs finishing, and maybe some additional embellishments or embroidery.

The other wool piece is one I made to fit an antique coffee table that I no longer have!!! I will have to find another use for it - any suggestions??? I am not sure if this was part of an exchange or I did this myself- word of advise - save all paperwork with exchanges or round robins!!!!

If anyone out there in cyberspace is up for a 'woolie' exchange of some kind - I'm ready!! At a later date, I will post some other pix of ones I participated in - I have a wonderful needlecase that I use every day, and some multipurpose wool "envelopes" that are great for holding sewing supplies. I am just "itching" to get back in wool!!!!!

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Thought for today: Less clutter=clear head!!

Another Challenge......

......from Linda and Rosie at Awfully Big Art Adventure

I managed to start it today, and finish it after a hectic evening (read about that tomorrow on my other blog!!!!!)

Anyway, the challenge was to create something out of felt- and I used hand dyed felted wool. The ones shown on ABAA's blog are soo cute!
I decided to do one of my 'Mugger Huggers'. These are a classier version of the cardboard sleeve you get when you buy coffee at Starbucks, etc.
They will also fit thru a handle and around most pottery coffee mugs- hence the name!!!

There will be a tutorial, per request, coming sometime soon, on how to make these!!!

Challenges

There are always challenges in life. I prefer the ones of the artistic variety- and love finding the challenge of the week on different blogs. The big challenge for me is finding the time to finish all these little things I start!!! Being of distracted mind, I flit from one thing to another, leaving a trail of incompletes in my path!

The BIG challenge for the past 2 weeks, for me, has been getting over bronchitis! I dread the end of winter, because just when I think I have escaped the cold or the flu- my husband comes home with something!!! For me, it always is bronchitis, and I have to make sure it doesn't turn into pneumonia.

So, having spent the better part of last week sitting on the couch, sewing, reading and watching mindless tv, I managed to finish a few projects, and dig up ones long forgotten!!!
I am working on a painted rock - a challenge from Awfully Big Art Adventure. I have been participating in The Altered Page's Disintegration Project. I really need to go out and take pix of it's progress - Seth is posting pix on his blog. There are over 75 participants worldwide in the Disintegration!! How cool!!!It is always interesting to see others' interpretations!

My computer has been suffering from' satellite outage' problems the past few days- keeping me from posting pictures- or doing much of anything online.
For this brief moment in time - it appears the clouds have cleared and I am connected to the satellite- so I will post a picture or two of what I've been working on, then zoom over to Etsy and see if I can put up the listings before the computer dies again!!





This above is a quilt I started years ago, after reading an article about an artist in NY who was creating these from old kimonos. They are just handstitched together, and I don't think his even had backs. I have to hunt for the article! This one is old silks and kimono pieces with some modern repros of kimono prints.

Below are a group of 'make-do' pin cushions I am making. They will be in my Etsy shoppe as soon as the computer allows!!! They range from felted wool applique, to vintage crochet, feedsacks, and more. Some are on top of vintage jars, footed bowls, and molds. Each one different and one of a kind!! I love making them - I never know how they are going to turn out- it's always a surprise!