Domino Pendant Handmade Jewelry-Phase Two

These handmade jewelry pieces are moving right along.  The resin is dry and the foil is wrapped.  All that’s left to do is solder, add the bail, rhinestones & chain.

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The Alice Set has a real rustic grunge look to it.   While the Marie Set is elegant and graceful.

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And the Marie Antoinette Clothespins came out perfectly.  I’ve already received quite a few compliments on them.

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I can’t wait to use my set to hang laundry.  I love the smell of air dried laundry.  I’ve specially treated and sealed these so the colors won’t run as they’re used with wet garments and sheets.  These are truly functional art.  They’re meant to be used and enjoyed.

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You can find them in our Shoppe under Home Goods/Clothespin Art.

Spring into Some Changes Coming Soon

This past week I started on some new projects to add to our collection of whimsy. My brain is in hyper overdrive with creative ideas which means I’ve been pulling a lot of almost all-nighters making sure I get all the ideas down and trying different things out.

Here’s a sneak preview of some of the things that’ll be arriving soon…

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2 Domino Pendant Series

  1. Alice in Wonderland Theme (8)
  2. Marie Antoinette (12)

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Beaded Bezel Pendants

Also Coming

  • Gift tags in more shapes and sizes
  • vintage button cards
  • handmade note cards
  • Image Clothespins (we’re finishing up the Marie Antoinette series right now)
  • scrabble tile pendants
  • fabric gift pouches
  • aprons
  • and so much more

Some of these items are new ideas while others we’ve put on the shelf for awhile as we moved over to our new site and made different upgrades.  They’re ready to come out of retirement and we’re ready to make room for them.

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You may have noticed we rearranged the Categories of our Shoppe website.  We wanted to give you the opportunity to be able to shop by your favorite theme (aka Alice in Wonderland vs Vintage) and/or by the type of product you’re looking for (ie rings vs thumbtacks).

What else is there to watch for…

  • Alice in Wonderland Digital Art Kit,
  • more free images & twitter buttons
  • an improved website/blog newsletter
  • and more creativity projects.

Kreativ Blogger Award

I received the most pleasant surprise yesterday afternoon when
Terri G. of

http://www.terrisbloomingideas.blogspot.com/

informed me she had awarded my site a Kreativ Blogger Award.

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You can imagine being somewhat new to the Art Blogging world I was thrilled & honored.  Especially as you consider the gorgeous layout and workmanship of her site & art.  If you’ve never stopped by please do you’ll absolutely enjoy it!

Terri, thank you!

Here are the award rules:

List 7 things You Love & Pass the Award onto 7 Blogs that you love.

Be sure to tag them and let them know they have won!
You can copy the picture of the award above and put it on your sideboard
Letting everyone know…..you are KREATIV!

Seven Things I Love

  1. Christ Jesus My Lord and Beautiful Saviour
  2. My Sometimes Nutty as Squirrels but Always Loving Family
  3. the amazing nature of friendship
  4. singing worship songs to the 1 Person Who Matters
  5. being around superbly optimistic people
  6. expressing my heart through art
  7. helping others enjoy life

My 7 Wonderfully Kreativ Bloggers are…

  1. http://www.dudadaze.blogspot.com/
  2. http://thevintagemoth.blogspot.com/
  3. http://www.krishubick.blogspot.com/
  4. http://memoriesandtreasures.blogspot.com/
  5. http://buttonfloozies.blogspot.com/
  6. http://dubuhdudesigns.typepad.com/
  7. http://www.mosshill.blogs.com/

Marie… is here

Wow it’s been a week since my last post.  And it wasn’t a fun one either.  I haven’t been so sick in nearly 20 years.  Here’s to the next 30-50 cold & flu free.

The one good thing that did happen during that time was…

my copy of Somerset Studio’s Marie magazine arrived.  And there it was… my lovely choker necklace.  The photographer and model really did a good job making the piece stand out.  I was beyond pleased.  And Kudos to Amanda Crabtree who did an exceptional job of taking my long-winded babble and making a concise article for you to enjoy.   The additional artwork within the pages of the magazine are also simply stunning.  I’m definitely inspired to make more lavish Marie pieces in the near future.

I’ve already made a few pair of earrings to add to the Marie Antoinette Jewelry portion of the NanasGiftNook.com Shoppe site.  You can expect them to appear over the weekend.

Remember you can pick up your copy of Marie at Barnes & Nobles, most craft stores such as Michael’s & ACMoore and other booksellers on April 1st.

She wore a plate around her neck…

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She always wore plates around her neck… just because she could.

And it’s finally warm enough for me to make her a few more pieces.  Since the tools to create this piece require lots of cold water and they tend to spit that water everywhere you tend to get all wet.  Perfect for hot summer days.  A little more miserable during the cold winter months.  But yesterday was a lovely warm day to work with them..  I was still wearing a sweater, turtleneck and my work “overshirt” (to keep the glass pieces from sticking into my clothes-works kinda like an apron but I don’t have an apron so I use one of brother’s old workshirts.  ok enough babble) but I didn’t have to wear gloves on my hands or a hat on my head.

I’m not quite sure what inspired me to make this piece.  Perhaps it just seemed obvious… straight cuts into the edge of a plate will always form a fairly nice collar shape.

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front view

You can find this piece & other plates to wear in our shoppe.

Or… you can create your own.  Click here for details.

Make Mine Pretty Button Card Craft Project

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March is National Craft Month.  It’s also host to all St. Patrick’s day fun.  So it’s only fitting to offer a project dedicated to crafting for this festive holiday.

This St. Patrick’s themed 2.5×3.5 inch Button Card holds 4 vintage buttons sewn directly onto the card.  We digitally formatted the layout for the button card using one of our free St. Patrick’s Day images .  Then printed it using the finest setting on our printer and quality cream colored card stock (used for Professional Business Presentations).  Lastly, using a scalloped edge scissors we cut the outline of the card, inked the edges and spritzed the entire card with walnut ink to age the piece and stitched on 4 random buttons.

Now it’s time to give it away.

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leave a comment on this article

before 12pm EST
Thursday March 12th

We’ll announce the winner on
Friday March 13th.

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Tessie!

and each of you will be getting a lil’ prize via email just for stopping by.  Thank you!!!