I'm Featured on this Blog!

I've very excited to be a part of this blog for the Pure Handmade team on Etsy!  I wanted to share it with you all since Maria Palito did such a nice job!  Please check it out here!  As a part of this team, members have the opportunity to be a part of this blog to help gain more exposure for our Etsy shop, and I'm very happy to be a part of this team!

Treasuries!

I see my new tile pendants have been very popular for treasuries since listing them!  I'm really excited about that!  Here's a list of treasuries I've been in and ones I've made!  Thanks everyone for clicking and thanks so much to those who have featured me!

Entwined With Vines by AngelicaV

Earthy Tones, Spring Accents by leebweeb

Red Poppies Scrabble Tile Pendant

Mother Earth by heversonart 

Tree of Life by HookedOnLaura

Spring is in the Air by PZDesigns

After Every Storm, Bluebirds Sing by tacomacustomjewelry

Feel the Fresh Spring Breeze by AnartIsland

Gift For Yourself by Ebruk

Hand Painted Vintage Scrabble Tile Pendants!

Apple Tree on Copper

Cafe

Many of you have already seen the first batch of my pendants, and they seem to be getting great feedback so far!  I've never had anything get hearts so quickly or been featured so quickly in treasuries!  I think I've done well by choosing to make these!  As you know, I love to paint and of course I make jewelry, so why not do both at the same time?  They are super fun to create and I've had years and years of experience in painting small with microscopic round brushes back when I used to recreate scenes from my favorite graphic novels by Jhonen Vasquez.  If anyone knows who this unique artist is, I was a very, very weird kid in my early teens and I had a borderline OBSESSION (yes it needs to be bold) with Johnny the Homicidal Maniac and Squee and also Invader Zim, ok anything Jhonen Vasquez, lets leave it at that.  Come on, GIR is AWESOME is he not?  Ok now that I'm sure many of you think I'm nuts, I will move on :)

Happy Bluebird

I won't get into details on every tile I've done since I don't want this post to be a mile long!  For the most part I am recreating versions of some of my favorite paintings and adding lots of cutesy designs I came up with on the spot.  My all time favorite painting subjects are flowers and apple trees along with earthy abstracts, so expect lots of those as well as bright cheery images and landscapes since spring is coming!  I'll be making more tiles with copper leaf as well, the 3D glaze looks awesome with the bright copper leaf, making it almost glow.  I like the cute look of folk art designs, things like coffee shop art, curly designs, birds, and fat cat art too.  Speaking of fat cat art, I did do a tile with a fat cat using my cow spotted Maine Coon, Jasper, as my muse and he turned out just adorable!  I'll have him listed soon enough once it cures and I get photos done along with several other designs.

Red Poppies

I've seen tons of Scrabble tile pendants using printed images, which look very nice, but I feel they can lack personality and that handmade feel vs a painted image.  So by personally hand painting mine, they are truly unique and you know a ton of love went into making them.  I do plan on repainting any that sell, but of course no two will ever be exactly the same, making each one one of a kind as well.  they'd make wonderful gifts for that hard to shop for someone or art lover!  They aren't just for adults either, they'd be cute as gifts for children (ages 6 and up due to choking hazard) and teens too!  I plan on painting a few to save for my daughter when she gets older too, right now she'd probably just squirrel them away with the pair of angora hair gloves that I still cannot find! Don't forget I also have a listing in my shop for a matching ball chain in antique copper for a couple bucks in the same section as the tiles!

Sweet Birdie's Nest and Coming Soon: Scrabble Tile Art Pendants!

Sweet Birdie's Nest

I've haven't stopped for much of anything lately and I've been quite productive lately!  The first item I'd like to introduce is my Sweet Birdie's Nest copper wire necklace.  This little sweetheart features a hand crafted bird nest with three little frosted blue glass "eggs" awaiting for mama birds return.  I really enjoyed making these cute little nests out of 24g solid copper wire that I wrapped and twisted by hand to make it look like twigs and vines and then finished it with a lovely warm patina.  To protect it I used Renaissance Wax, a clear museum quality preservative, meant to protect to patina finish (among a thousand other uses) and also shields sensitive skin from metal reactions without wearing off.  Due to it's unique properties, you can gently wash it with soap and water and the wax will be unaffected.  I made myself a pendant too and since I am very sensitive to copper myself (how ironic right?), I thought I'd test the wax's claim.  I've been wearing it for two days now and not a single itch nor yucky green mark on my skin.  You can't even tell the wax is there-no oily residue, no build up, and no overly glossy shine.  Just natural and beautiful copper!

Wild Things Bracelet

Sand and Sea Charm Necklace

The next two items I recently listed are Wild Things bracelet and Sand and Sea charm necklace.  The bracelet is made with these awesome leopard print wooden beads and dark brown wooden beads.  I made each link myself and used pretty antique finish copper glass beads in between.  The Sand and Sea necklace features a beautiful brass plated sand dollar and a dainty copper plated sea horse charm on a bronze plated mother and son chain.  I made six beaded links using gold finish glass beads to add a unique touch to the 18" chain.  It's a simple and elegant addition to my Ocean Inspirations jewelry line!

I've decided to jump on the Scrabble tile trend bandwagon by starting to make my very own hand painted Scrabble tiles!  None of these are prints or designer paper, they are 100% original painted artworks done personally by me!  I really love to paint and I've seen domino tile hand painted pendants but thought they were just too heavy and clunky to wear so I thought Scrabble tiles would be a lighter and easier alternative.  I have put a use to the vintage Scrabble game collecting dust in the closet (I made sure it wasn't worth anything first)!  They have been a real joy to paint on and I will be putting out my first batch once the glaze completely dries and I get the bails glued on.  The bails I chose are, you guessed it, copper!  They were rather hard to find, but I found some lovely antiqued heart shaped ones and some matching dainty antique copper plated ball chain that I will sell separately for a low price.

Check out my Etsy Store for the new items I've mentioned and keep a look out for the Scrabble tiles coming soon!  I will have an entire section in my shop for them!

Treasury List!

I wanted to put out my treasury list for the week!  Thanks everyone who has included me in their awesome treasuries!  I really appreciate all the exposure I get from them!  Please take a moment to check these out!

Hearts For You

To the Garden by Jewelrybynala

Love and Kisses by efratjewelry

Seaside Fun by heversonart

Swirl Power by geehandmade

Fishing With Fisherman Bob! by FishermanBob