How to create a Water Color Necklace
2 commentsCreating your jewelry using nature as your inspiration is something I have been enjoying for most of my beading life (don't ask me how many years!) Take a favorite photo and use it to...
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Guitar String Bracelet with Sheet Music Paper Beads
1 commentHere is another one of my guitar string and paper bead cuffs. I used both wound and unwound coiled guitar string beads. For this guitar string bracelet I kept to the music theme by using paper...
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Rockabilly Summer Dress Redo
1 commentThis little summer dress was so easy to put together..I started with a plain Hanes tee strap dress. I styled a hem ruffle from some really pretty cotton floral fabric. Added some vintage ball fringe...
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Dress your Baby!!!
I decided to do a line of baby tee's. I have painted a variety of subjects on cute little cotton tee's. Again using acrylic watercolor technique and ink. Heat set for permanency. Very sweet ...
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100 ways to wear a Convertible Dress!
I will be adding more to this blog soon... Please be patient and feel free to share your own designs for the Convertible Dress! The Sewinlove Convertible Dress can be worn 100 different ways...
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Paper Beads Made From Recycled Vintage Foreign Books
I have been having a lot of fun lately making handrolled paper beads out of vintage books, especially foreign language books. These are some examples of beads I have recently made.
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Rustic Linen knitted tarot wrap
The sturdy rustic look of this wrap is enhanced by the slightly nubby texture and changing thickness of the yarn. The knitted fabric is slightly irregular but one of a kind- and in shades of white...
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guitar string braclet- paper bead and guitar string cuff
I enjoyed making my bronze guitar string and paper bead cuff so much I decided to make one out of steel guitar strings. This bracelet features handrolled paper beads made from a vintage book on...
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Guitar String Jewelry- bone bass string necklace
This unusual choker is made from a steel wound electric bass guitar string, two round bone beads, a dark reddish brown horn bead, and a couple of bass guitar string ball ends. The choker measures 16...
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Orange Crush
5 commentsThis bag is a very stylish. The colors are beautiful shades of blue,orange,green,cream and a little brown. It is lined w/a quilt backing and medium weight interfacing for great comfort and...
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Art Inspired Custom Tote
This Tote/Laptop carrier was a custom order from a lovely lady in France. She is a filmmaker and photographer. She very often incorporates images of gazebos into her art. I happen to have the perfect...
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Cute Baby Girl Quilt
2 commentsThis was a really fast quilt to make, so fast I ended up making two of them over the weekend. You can check out more of my projects on my blog: http://jandidean.wordpress.com
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Guitar String Braclet- French paper bead and found object cuff
I made this bracelet out of handrolled paper beads made from a vintage French book on French history titled "Histoire de France". The bracelet also has hand coiled bronze guitar string beads...
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My love of pom poms
I love pom pom yarn. Very hot in Europe and Japan now and this fall. For sale in my shop, www.blackcatboutique.etsy.com
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Animal and Floral on canvas
16 x 20 canvas w/ painted animal print background and floral print over that. Glazed to make it look antiqued.
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Upcycled Custom Drapery Panel...Go Green!!
1 commentI created these lovelies from a curtain panel I found at one of my local thrift shops. They were so much fun to design and play with. If you don't shop in thrift stores by now, you don't know what...
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my girls and some new stuff
I have seen so many crochet dolls online that I finally decided to try some of my own. They have been tons of fun to make and I decided to give each of them their own outfit!
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Teacher's Gift 1..A Flocked Linen Tote Bag
Here is the bag my 8 year old and I made for her 2nd grade teacher as an end of year gift. Her teacher loves black and white and she is especially fond of damask prints. So this flocked...
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Not Your Mamas Craft Apron!
2 commentsIf their was a high fashion category for aprons..this one would be in it. Lots of different designer remnants, doilies, lace, vintage buttons and pearl buttons...it has it all. I have so much fun...
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Just For You
This is a set of four cards titled "Just for you". For some reason this card was a nightmare. I was completely at a loss as to what to do to it. Everything I tried just didn't seem right....until I...
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