Temporary Tuesday! Flights of Fancy!

Hello Hello! 

Welcome to Temporary Tuesday as it stands in for Magical Monday! 

I've a more imaginative post for you-all today! 

Let's start out with the more mundane and end with the more fanciful! 

I love this Harry Potter Quilt! I would proudly display it in my home! 

How many nifty items can you identify? 

The Sorting Hat? 

 Hedwig? 

Heeheee!!

One of the conversations with a treasured friend this weekend was about the Tiny House movement. I investigated a little about this on teh Intertubes and became enchanted by the Vardos, more colloquially known as "Gypsy Wagons". This is a Vardo that is hand-made by the Book Artists who use it to travel and sell their wares and in which they conduct their classes. Read more about it and them here! 

It looks like fun to me! I might have to consider something along the lines this, yet as a Faerie House! 

 

And finally! 

The awesome thing that I've been excitedly waiting to show you-all! 

A remote control Dragon!! 

Jet powered! It flies AND....! Breathes Fire!!!! Wooohooo!!! 

Click here for the video!

One little note of where you can find me this weekend!

 

Fall Art Festival 

Saturday, September 8th Only! 

10am to 4pm City Center Market 

122 North Buchanan Street Cambridge, MN (USA

Until Wednesday!

Ciao!

Fini Friday! Flights of Fancy!

Hello Everyone!!!
We've made it to Friday!!! YAYAYAYAYY!!!
Remember when you were younger than you are now and you loved to play with marbles and dream about fantastical creatures such as dragons, unicorns and faeries? Well, that's what this post is all about! Both of the creations I have to show you today fit this criteria as well as the theme of Fini Friday, since they have been languishing for some time and have now grown into completion!

Let's take a gander at the necklace first!
Title: As Yet Unknown (Although "Losing My Marbles" seems an obvious choice...)
Ingredients: Glass marbles, coated copper wire, anodized aluminum, leather (lead-free dye), sterling silver, metal.

Each one of those marbles is wire-wrapped by hand and each has a different design of wire that encircles and secures them! The marbles are woven together with jumprings in a mobius design and in rainbow colours! Last little details include a leather cord (dyed with lead-free dyes) and clasped at both ends with sterling silver cord ends as well as a vibrant violet ring as part of the clasp!
A friend of mine gave me the marbles last year and I'm so pleased to have been able to play with them!

Okay!! So there is the reference to childhood... how about the creatures of fantasy?
Do I have a treasure for you (literally!)
First, a bit of background...I found the beautifully intriguing Czech glass beads at Let It Bead in Monterey,CA some years ago. It is an enchanting little bead shop and Kris, the owner, was bursting with knowledge and creativity! I need to go back there soon!! But I digress!
So, these lovely beads have been lying in wait for the perfect design and they always reminded me of dragon scales! But to embark upon a design worthy of their mysterious gorgeousness took a bit of time! However, I believe I've done it and they've grown into beguiling beauties!
Title:Dragonscales
Ingredients: Czech glass, lead-free pewter(USA), black copper wire, surgical steel earwires (hypo-allergenic).

Incidentally! These are also listed in my Etsy shoppe!

I hope you enjoyed this brief journey with me and I look forward to seeing you on Monday!
Ciao!