Showing posts with label frozen Charlies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label frozen Charlies. Show all posts

Saturday, September 19, 2015

Shotgun Shell Vials....Inspired By Lynne Simon Suprock


I was looking through my pictures to see if there was anything I had missed sharing with you.

I realized I did not share these.

I gave you a taste of them when I shared the post for over dying silk strips.

Today I wanted to show you all of them.


Lynne Simon Suprock is an amazing artist.

You can find her blog here: Simply Pretty Stuff.



Her original pieces first appeared in an issue of Belle Armoire Jewelry.

I made my own after I tracked down the right size tubing.


Because my shotgun shells were not brass, the etching did not work the way I wanted.


I do like the patina I got on mine.


I love filling each little reliquary.

That is half the fun.


I also like determining what the rest of the necklace will be like....


Old hardware, crystals, silk strips, polymer beads, patinaed chain....

It is all good.


I gave a makeover to cheap mall jewelry chains with mad scientist patinas.

Because I do them myself, each has a whole different look.


I even stamped some of the vials with StazOn black ink.


Uh-oh!

Sometimes when I revisit something I made, it gives me an itch to make some more.


I am definitely feeling itchy...


Hope you have been working on something that inspires you too.



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Friday, October 10, 2014

Distressed Donna Down Home...I Won!

I am a very lucky person...

who never wins anything....

Does that make sense?

Good things happen to me.

And I can do well in a contest that is based on skill (writing a poem, designing a sticker, etc)...

But just regualr contests...

No luck there.

So I was super surprised when Donna at Distressed Donna Down Home emailed me to let me know I won a $10 certificate to her Etsy shop.

It took me forever to choose.  

There were so many great things to choose from.

Finally I made my two choices and let her know.

A few days later, I got a box in the mail.

WooHoo!



I chose some vintage Bingo cards and a Prairie Girl Tag that Donna made.

I have admired those tags since she first made them.

And that clock face on it clinched it for me.



The BINGO cards came wrapped will all sorts of extra goodies...

vintage paper

a really cool crow playing card

a corrugated book page 

and black seam binding wrapped generously around it many times.

She also included a coupon for her shop.

That will come in handy...


Gotta love that it's a 13 on the back of that crow card...


I slid it apart to show you.



Then I put it all carefully back together because it's just so gorgeous that way...

But there was something else in the box...

What is this?

And it has 2 more watch faces....

Score.

I almost don't even want to open it....



Curiosity gets the best of me.


That vintage calico is fantastic....

Such a sweet little tag inside...


Wow!  

Charlies!

2 Charlies!

I do NOT have any of those!


I recently swapped Donna for the Swap and Tell and I got her cool jar with a Charlotte and lace.

I told her how much I love these.

I can't believe she did that....

Thanks Donna!



These will be used to make molds so I can make dozens and still have these....

What an awesome win!

I highly recommend her shop and blog....

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