Fini Friday! Progress, Part Deux!

Hello Everyone! 

Welcome to Fini Friday! 

My week has been full of unexpected blessings and today is (happily) no different! I hope the same can be said for you!!

I've shinies and progress to share, so let's get started! 

First, the progress! 

You might remember this Fini Friday, where I showed you the stages of resin on the faux British bank notes. 

They are finished and ready to be used in a creation! Take a look! 

This photo is full of beginnings and progress! See the balloons? 

Their first sides are painted with resin and the second side awaits! 

Onward to the shiny, shiny loot! 

I found these today on Walkabout and had to bring them home!

It was the pale sapphire blue vintage glass jewels that I fell in love with! 

The moon is actually a glow-in-the-dark material, meant to be positioned on an inside room wall or ceiling. I'm not certain yet if I'll use them in that manner or invent a new use! 

Stay tuned for that! 

And a last photo of the 'new' loot! 

The shooting star is another glow-in-the-dark celestial body that I'm intrigued to play with! 

However, the chain draped around it is what really caught my eye! I've yet to see a chain quite like this one and fell in love with the texture, colour and possibilities! 

YAY! 

So there you have it! 

The fini of another Fini Friday! 

Have ideas or suggestions on what you would see these raw materials turn into? Leave a comment! 

I love spreading the creativity! 

See you on Wednesday! 

Ciao!

Whimsy Wednesday & Fini Friday! Faerie Treasures!

Hello Hello!

Welcome to both Whimsy Wednesday and Fini Friday!

I'll be at the Saint Paul Art Crawl this Friday, so this post will do double-duty today!!

Let's start with the whimsical first!

I've more Faerie treasures to show you!

Faerie Dust and a Faerie Message in a Bottle...

The titles of the Faerie Dust bottles are (from left to right) Colours of Spring and Island Paradise.

What is that Faerie Message in a Bottle? 

You'll have to adopt it to find out!!  

Moving along to our next treasure, this is a brand-new, fully-grown Faerie Treasure bottle!

Working Title: Healing from Ages Past

There is a Faerie pebble, old watch parts, a cobalt star, golden rose and shell, a sterling silver wrench (Faerie-sized!), Rose quartz, Garnet, cut-glass "crystals", and more!

Onto the Fini Friday portion of the post!

I was on Walkabout yesterday and discovered a treasure trove of good stuff!!

Photos are below!

I absolutely adore the 'cat buddies' charm and can't wait to see what that grows into!  I already have designs in mind for the filigree chain encircling those cute kitties!  I'm excited to work with all the bits and pieces of the 'galaxy chain' (on the right) as I call it!!! So many fun colours, shapes and sizes!  

The elegance and wonderful mixture of textures of the creation on the left is what drew me to it.  I don't often see iridescent beads cut or faceted in this way.  

I've snapped a close-up to show you what I mean!  

Isn't that just gorgeous?  I've ideas for those as well! 
Tune in to see what they grow into!!

Of course I'll have the Faerie Dust, Message and Treasure bottles with me at this weekend, so stop by for a visit!

Here is when and where I'll be!

The... Saint Paul Art Crawl!  
I'm so pleased to be a returning Guest Artist at the Lowertown Lofts Artist Co-Op - in the 3rd Floor Atrium!

Come on out and see me

Friday, April 27th; Sat. April 28th and Sun. April 29th!

Click the links above for details!

Ciao!

Fini Friday! Balloons, Bank Notes and a New Creation!

Hello Everyone!
Welcome to Fini Friday!
I hope this week has been full of warmth and joy!
As with many of the other Fini Friday posts lately, I've a finished Popcap Pendant creation (first shown to you here) to show today!
Let's start with some raw materials I gathered on Walkabout yesterday, though!
These are scrapbooking supplies that I brought home recently!  They are heavy paper stock balloons and faux English bank notes.  I'm pondering possibilities that include painting them with hand-coloured resin (and thus sealing them, making them far more durable) and earring creations! 
Stay tuned to see what they grow into!

On to the finished creation!
Title: Elvan Fire
Ingredients: Popcap Pendant (Swarovski Crystal, paper, hand-coloured non-toxic resin, popcap), Earthenwood Studio gear link (ceramic, USA), lead-free pewter (USA), light bulb pendant (Zoa Art, USA), anodized aluminum, metal.
I've included a photo of the clasp as well!  The firey teardrop in the Popcap Pendant is a Swarovski crystal!  The gear link is hand-crafted by Melanie of Earthenwood Studios! I love her work!  The light bulb pendant to the left of the Popcap Pendant is from Zoa Art in South Carolina (USA)! I adore the work of this husband and wife team so much! It is sculptural, architectural and sensual all at once!  This necklace creation is Elvish, Steampunk, Dieselpunk and absolutely unique!  The pendant, link and clasp are secured with jumprings woven in a mobius or infinity chainmaille weave using golden yellow and true red colours!  There is definitely a story to this creation! I can feel it!
I'll close this by wishing you a week-end of good times, good friends and many, many smiles!
See you on Monday!
Ciao!

Fini Friday! Beginnings!

Hello Hello! 

Welcome to Fini Friday! 

As the title implies, today is a blog post full of beginnings! 

Let me show you! 

This is the beginning of some sort of jewelry art. I'm not certain what these will grow into. Yet I couldn't pass up a wonderful opportunity to 1. dismantle something and 2. create with such wonderfully vibrant-coloured keys...from a computer keyboard!!! 

Wheeee!!! 

In celebration of the beautiful, soft, big flakes of snow graced our home today, I've another winter photograph to show you! 

Title: Steampunk Story Beginning There is just so much here that begs to be written into a Steampunk story! What is that metal thing? What was it's purpose? Why is it out there in the snow? Was it abandoned? Will someone, or something return for it? All sorts of questions that want answers! I love art that inspires more art, don't you? And so we come to the end of our brief list of beginnings (and this post)! 

Have a fabulous weekend! 

I'll see you on Monday! 

Ciao!

Fini Friday! Flashes of Creation Insight!

Hello Everyone! 

Welcome to Fini Friday! 

I hope your week has been full of Joy and Adventure so far! 

This post will be a bit shorter than others as I'm still in a bit of vacation mind-set from celebrating Thanksgiving yesterday! 

So, I'll show you a bit of the raw materials I've received recently and natter on a bit about what I hope to use them for and then be done! 

These are flash drives! 

They vary in storage capacity from 4 to 8GBs. I'm going to embellish them with all sorts of shiny-goodness and some will become necklace creations! 

I've a few materials of which I am awaiting arrival before creation for some of these. Others are waiting for ideas! 

Stay tuned to see what grows up! 

That's it for this Fini Friday post!

One final thought before I bid you Adieu for the weekend...

We'll be at the Holiday Geek Expo, in Plaza 5&6 at the DoubleTree in Minneapolis the first weekend in December! This hotel is nestled near the intersection of 494&Hwy 100 and is the hotel of choice for many of the Midwest's largest and best Science Fictions/Fantasy and Anime Conventions! Look for us on the first floor, in the "Short Tower"! 

We'll have flash drive creations, faerie adornments and finery, original photographs and more! 

Also! There will be food and drink and space to hang out whilst browsing all manner of geeky goodness! We'll have chain-mail, comics, hand-made clothing and coats, jewelry, and so much more! Stop in to shop for those hard-to-buy-for Geeky Loved Ones and for yourself as well!

And with that, I wish you a lovely weekend! 

Ciao!

Fini Friday! Raw Materials!

Hello Hello! Welcome to Fini Friday! I've some new acquisitions and raw materials to show you as well as a fun little bit of bartering that was completed at the Johnstock last weekend! But first! New goodies!

What a neat little collection of bits, huh? I think so!

Let's move from left to right in identifying what you see here! At the top left is a little box I found in my Walkabout yesterday! It has a little latch and a faux leather interior and I think it might be destined to be a table display! In the lower left, we see an Art card from Pamela Watson! It is a little note that she sent my way as we communicated back and forth regarding her Custom Creation! It is so lovely to be able to create art for an artist! YAY!

As we gaze at the top right of the photograph, we see a collection of bottles (also procured on yesterday's Walkabout) that I intend to fill with interesting things and to become pendants! Or.....?

And finally, we spy a locket-watch in the center! Yup! That watch is open, so you can see the face of the watch in the photo. It closes up just like a pocket watch into a little ball! And it opens by depressing the top, just like a pocket watch! Fabulous!

This last photo is of a pixie skirt which is the result of bartering with Ava of LivingTreeDesigns, who was a booth neighbor at Johnstock! She creates fabulous clothing (and more) out of upcycled fibers and in this raw style of serged edges as hems! I fell in love with this pixie skirt as soon as I saw it! It is really as soft as it looks and the colours are wonderful and vibrant! YAY! More Faerie gear!

Speaking of Faeries...check out my BlogTalk Radio Interview with Cheryl Patton of 1Woman's Wisdom!  Tuesday, June 19th 3-4pm (CST, USA) 

We'll be chatting about Faerie Message #8!

That about wraps this post up!

I hope you have a fabulous weekend and I'll see you on Monday!

Ciao!