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Tuesday, September 13, 2011

It Was A Very Good Week

Last week was a very good week. 
 It started out on Tuesday the 6th 
when I realized that I had orders in my Etsy shop
 for several sets of earrings. 
 I don't normally sell a lot on a Tuesday so I was pleasantly surprised.
  I also received this in the mail:
I'm not sure why
or even how!
I know I didn't buy them
but they are really COOL!
Clear rubber stamps that are the very kind
I would have bought for myself.
Thank you to whomever sent them to me!

I stayed up until well after midnite makin' up the earrings
that I had orders for.
These!

I didn't give it alot of thought.
Several people had included them in some very nice treasuries.
Like this one.

That one night in October



Curator










Here's the link:

I took a good long look at it this weekend.
Holy Cow!
It made the front page!!
I had over 400 hits that day
and silly me - 
I had NO clue!

That got me all goosed up and I made jewelry all weekend.
I made these


I got out the dye
Managed to make the kitchen look like a crime scene.



These


Bingo Bathtub Bunny
(the spinner actually spins!)


Very Halloweeny with a little bit of "Camp."


A pendant made out of a
Madagascar Sunset Moth wing.
I rescued the butterfly from a really awful
coffee table piece from the 80's.


Soldered broken china earrings.

More creepy Halloween fun


And I finished up with a pair of blue earrings.
They look like a hurricane pattern on the front.


I guess all of the hurricane talk
just has that on my brain.
After all this jewelry making
my brain is tired!

So I finished with jewelry from Oz.





Don't make me get my flying monkeys!

Hope you have a great week too.
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Sunday, September 11, 2011

You Had Me At Hell No

This is a song.  A real song!!  
John Rich and L'il John perform it on a sixpack CD 
that they made after Celebrity Apprentice. 
 It's good!

It inspired these earrings!



I also made these.
I'm selling all three together.


That way,
you can wear either
Hell No!
or
Hell Yes!
or
Yes on one ear
and
No on the other.

Back to finishing these:


They are going to be necklaces for right now.
Maybe earrings later.
Gotta love True Blood
and
John Rich!
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Monday, September 5, 2011

It's A BEAUTIFUL DAY!

My husband and I took the train into The City.

Everyone calls Chicago 
THE CITY.
That distinguishes it from all of the other cities, I guess.

The train was crowded.
I sat next to a giant sunflower seed eating gerbil.
She was disguised as a woman.
For 1 and 1/2 hours
this gerbil/woman
methodically ate sunflower seeds off of an actual sunflower head
which she held in a bag on her lap.
1. Pluck seed
2. Put seed in mouth
3.Crack seed with teeth
4. Fish seed out with tongue
5.  Chew
6.Spit shell in hand
7. Deposit shell back into giant Sunflower Head bag
8. Repeat

The amazing part is that it had - rather - a rhythm to it
and
SHE NEVER STOPPED!
Not once.
Although, surprisingly enough
she was able to continue talking.
It was oddly fascinating.
And disgusting all at the same time.
Not as bad as the time I rode the train and watched a man shave.
Or, as my friend observed-
watched a man clip his toenails.
Yes.
It's FUN to ride the train into
The CITY.

We walked to the Wrigley Building
(The building that gum built)
Yes, folks, I'm here to educate you
To see a large crowd of people
and
THIS!

No.  Those are just skyscrapers.

THIS!


Can't tell?
Wait.  I'll get you closer.


It'a a giant 26 foot statue of
Marilyn Monroe
From this scene in Seven Year Itch

I don't know why she's there.
It's Chicago!
We do things like this.
Taking wedding pictures under the 
Amazonian Marilyn is apparently
another thing we do.


We also like to set babies down next to the giant foot
and
stare, gawk and laugh at Marilyn's "nether regions."
Every man there HAD to stand under her dress and look up!!
It just had me and my husband laughing our heads off.
My husband refused to stand under her dress and point
so that I could get a good picture.

The artist had the good sense
to paint undies on our dear Marilyn.
I knew you'd want proof.
So, I took a picture.


She's pretty cool in a Sci-Fi sort of way.

We left there.  Found some cool beverages.
AND - decided to take the river taxi to China Town.


I took some nice photos of the river while we waited.


The river taxi drops you off at a nice little park in China Town.


We walked from there to the restaurant and had a fabulous dinner!


We ate too much.
Had a great time.
Missed our train by 1 MINUTE!
Had to wait 2 hours in the train station...
But, it was a perfect day.
A beautiful day.
Cue Bono

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Saturday, September 3, 2011

I'd Catch A Grenade For Ya


I had the day off yesterday.
The short story is:
I blew a tire 
on the way to Michaels 
to buy these beads:


And, while I usually try to buy Czech beads
or handmade beads
these just called to me when I first saw them
I should've bought them then!
All was going well until  the tire blew out.
And I had to wait for the tow truck for an hour.
Then I had to wait another several hours to get the tire (s) replaced.
4 hours later.
I was at Michaels.
So,
I did it.
I finished the grenade necklace.


And-
I Love it!!
It makes me laugh.
Hopefully, someone else will love it.

I made this too.
It has more of a calming influence.




There you have it.
My schizophrenic mind at work.
Have a great weekend!
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Friday, September 2, 2011

Here We Go, Here We GO

Here we go again!
Even though my daughter hasn't been in school for a long time
for some reason 
Labor Day feels like the end of the year to me.
September is the beginning.
Fall is coming.
Yay!
Winter is coming...
I'll think about that tomorrow (she says)
and so forth.

Time marches. (cue violin music)

Thinking of that,
I made this.
This is the
skewed view.
Ah.
Here we go.


Then my brain took a sharp left turn
at
Albuquerque.
I am currently working on this.

I call it -

Before the Bathtub Bunny.


Made some cute pumpkin and spider earrings.


Leaf earrings.

Spooky BOO earrings.


Black Cat earrings.

And finally.
I started working on
the grenade necklace.

It's different than I was actually planning.


It's not finished
I don't think that there's actually anything called
a G50 Grenade
but it sounds cool doesn't it?
I think I'll add a ceramic heart to it.


I think it's going to make all the difference.
Don't you?
Thank you Bruno Mars...

Oh, I'd catch a grenade for you.
Put my hand on blade for you...
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