Clam’s Nest

Hi Everybody!
Today’s creation I absolutely LOVE. Hands down my favorite so far. I intend to wear it everywhere.
I saw this and knew I had to make one for myself. Luckily I had the materials I needed to make it, therefor I did not have to go to the store. Which is a plus! Michael’s always sucks me into their awesomeness.

It’s a Clam’s Nest! That’s what I am calling it anyways.
I found a tutorial on how to make it and honestly it took such a small amount of time to create. What’s really great is how it doesn’t have to be perfect. In all of my creations I always have to get them as perfect as I can. This can be messy and twisted as long as it is around the pearls in somewhat of a circle.

Happy Crafting,
xo-Brianne

Posted: March 8th, 2010 under Brianne, Crafting, Thing a day - 1 Comment. Tags: beads, bird, eggs, necklace, nest, pearls, tutorial, wire

TaD- button rings, pompom garland, suitcase

I’m missing the charger for my normal camera so my TaD things are late posting but I did them over Saturday, Sunday, and today. So I’m still meeting the project, I just didn’t post it everyday. Moving on

Saturday I made some rings and hair bows

Sunday I was a bit ill so I kept it fairly simple and made a pom pom garland

Today I did a piece of luggage

Posted: March 8th, 2010 under Crafting, Thing a day, etsy store stuff - 4 Comments. Tags: button ring, felt hair bow, geek details, hairbow, panda hug, pompom garland, those were the days, vintage suitcase drawings, Warrensburg

A New Craft Room

Today’s TaD had to do with the house!! I moved my crafty things into another part of the house and had to clean of some shelves and rearrange some furniture. It seems like there is just to much stuff in this house. But we are working on that.

Anyways, I now get a really big room with alot of bright light(not now because it’s night time xD)! It’s got a sliding glass door so I get a nice big heap o’ sunshine for a better part of the day as well.
The shelves below my two shelves…not that pretty. I cropped them out of the picture and will probably post again later(like tomorrow hopefully) with a before and after.

I like the space. No more spilling paint and glaze on myself because I have no room to put anything anywhere.
So yes. That was my thing of the day.

xo -Brianne

Posted: March 7th, 2010 under Crafting, My creative Space, Thing a day - No Comments. Tags: creative space

I Heart the Pen Tool

Today’s creation was inspired by the Zombie Pandas. Amanda makes Prints on Dictionary Paper. I’m sure some if not all of you have seen them.
Well, she wanted the Zombie Panda off her suitcase. Take a nice picture and use it as a print but that would have been more trouble than it was worth. Instead, I drew it up in Photoshop!! So now we have a cute little Zombie Panda Print that will be joining her etsy store eventually.

This picture has randomness over it, but the actual print will not. I don’t usually care about watermarks on my art, but since we are selling this one I thought it might be important.

Color can be added or taken away depending on what Amanda thinks will look good.
I finished it early, like noon. I wanted to print it out to show everyone but no one I know has a darn dictionary. They are completely obsolete now. Amanda is doing them a kindness by making them useful again. Way to Go Amanda!! Dictionaries everywhere will rejoice with a sense of Purpose!

Tomorrow’s project? Turning the other room into a craft room. Well, at least moving all my stuff into there and all the other crap out.

xo-Brianne

Posted: March 6th, 2010 under Brianne, Crafting, Thing a day - No Comments. Tags: art, dictionary, etsy, panda, photoshop, print, zombie

Suitcase Mania!

Okay, so finished at 11. I have never painted a suitcase before. It was nice but I should have started earlier in the day. I couldn’t have, but I should have. I had to wait for the paint to dry in between layers and I had to do a few layers to cover up the red.
Day 5 is complete!

This suitcase I went and found this morning at St. Vincent’s. It’s in decent condition. A little scrub from Mr. Clean’s Magic Eraser and it will be good to go!
Happy Birthday Amanda!

I also got a three piece Hardcover suitcase set for 17 dollars and it is in AMAZING condition. It looks almost brand new! I will be keeping that for myself. And then another Blue hardcover suitcase for 3 dollars that I want to try something with later in the month.
So! Yeah. All in all, Very good day!

xo -Brianne

Posted: March 6th, 2010 under Crafting, Thing a day - 1 Comment.

ugh! aka painting the dining room

I started painting the dining room floors black because i was vetoed on the white. That’s fine and all, but painting is a pain. I finished the first coat and had to go buy more paint… which was also fine, but I didn’t have a chance to paint the floors yesterday. Well, I had the chance but I picked lunch with the husband over painting the floor. Sue me.

So I’m finishing up the floor today and it’ll still take several days to cure before I can put furniture on it. I’m moving some of my stuff to the back living room though because my front living room looks like this.

Say it with me now… UGH! The table and chairs are in there as is Cody’s new bar and the pillows I was working on. It’s also where I’ve been crafting and the whole room just looks like crap! Normally I let people in to my home to visit no problem, but I would be so embarrassed if someone came over and saw this mess. So I’m moving chairs to the back room, painting the dining room and then cleaning up the random things that are just all over the front living room. It needs to be fixed, badly!

Posted: March 5th, 2010 under Dining Room, Living Room, Personal, The House - 1 Comment. Tags: dark floors

TaD – Panda piggy bank

I was up early this morning (6:30 eww!) and sat making panda banks while Cody readied himself for work. The pink panda is one I made last night before bed and the black panda is the one I made this morning. I changed the black panda’s nose to be heart shaped and I’m going to attempt to do the same to the pink one but I don’t know if I can since I already drew it.

I tried to shape pink panda’s nose but it’s just slightly less pink, not white. Oh well, it was the first one and it’s allowed to have flaws. Right? Right. I love the black one though and will be listing it on etsy later. I also have some more flower specimens to list and a teacup or two too.

So what are you making today? Post a link to it so we can see (and please post a link to the actual post and not just your blog. thanks!)

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Posted: March 5th, 2010 under Crafting, Thing a day - 1 Comment. Tags: geek details, panda bank, panda piggy bank, TaD, thing a day

Small TaD It Still Counts…

Today’s TaD is a little pathetic. I was in a lousy mood for no apparent reason. It was weird.
Also, I didn’t get down to St. Vincent’s to look at their suitcases. So tomorrow I will go and do something big and awesome!!!

Day 4 TaD was inspired by yesterday’s creation.

It’s a nifty lil’ button!! It’s cute and I intend to make more. But I ran out of the shrimp skin color and could not be bothered to make more ^.^’ .

So yeah, that was it for today.
<3 Brianne

Posted: March 4th, 2010 under Brianne, Crafting, Thing a day - 2 Comments.

TaD- White chair with pink cushion

There will actually be two of these chairs – one for my booth at twtd and one for my house. These were some beat up chairs that needed to be fixed and reupholstered. I decided to paint them white and Cody and Udom both said to use the pink flowered fabric on the seat cushion. I wanted to use teal fabric with white polka dots but apparently that’s too 1950s housewife. Anyway.