Button Flowers around the house

I love making button flowers and whipped up a bunch of them several months ago. They were put in a cabinet and forgotten about until recently.  Took them out and I’ve been adding them to our plants around the house. I think they’re particularly lovely in a vase of flowers or a fern. I like them, I think some of you might like them too

They’re in my store. You can click this link or the photos to be taken to them. I like adding them to plants or flowers around the house. They add just a little bit of sparkle and I like that!

Edited: July 30th, 2010

TAD – A display case

I’m attending R.O.S.E. soon and needed to work on the displays for my booth. Visioncon taught me that people like their things out where they can touch, but some of the stuff i sell is so small and I don’t want it to be stolen. Especially since some of it is made by my sister Brianne and that would make me feel awful. The solution? Display cases! I found this particular one on clearance and snatched it up without measuring. Luckily for me, my ring display fits in it perfectly! I actually made this during my thing a day and didn’t post it. Bad Amanda!

The nice part about this is everything is under glass and yet easily seen by buyers. I’ll also have little labels above the various rows so that everything is clearly priced. I hate with a passion when products are not clearly priced and I have to ask to look at it! Anyway, the case has rings I’ve made, hairpins I made with Brianne’s charms, hairbows and a bracelet. I have another case for necklaces I’ve been working on too. I also have another case upstairs with just Brianne’s charms.

I made some hairbands yesterday too. Most of them are going up for sale at ROSE and later in my store. The bunny ear one is for Jordan and I’m making one for myself later. If I don’t hate them after that, I’m making some to sell as well.

I like them all My desk is a little messy now, but that’s okay right? I’m slowly rounding up my stuff and actually organizing it and making things before another friend moves in to the house. It’s not Une Vie Chic, but I’ll still enjoy it I did joke with Cody that we were opening a house for aging gamers… If only the sitting room for my bedroom weren’t the only access point for my bedroom because then i could fit one more aging gamer I love our big old house and I love that friends live here too. It’s been lovely to live with guys who cook and clean and help with the yard and just all those things chicks say they want in a guy. (My male roomies are single btw and lovely guys and would kill me if they knew i posted that. Here’s hoping they don’t read my blog!). Anyway. I have to go pick up some more stuff and make things. It’ll be fun!

Edited: April 2nd, 2010

Oh Em Gee A Post!

Hey everybody,

Whew! It’s been a rough couple of days. Saturday we spent 20 consecutive hours moving my mom from one city to another. That includes packing, unpacking, and driving there. It was quite a day. Then Sunday we got her house mostly arranged, the big stuff at least and I spent 6 hours driving home. It’s only supposed to be 3 and a half. So, yeah. Turn left next time not right.
But all in all it’s good.
Monday I went driving around town with my boyfriend and one of our soon to be room mates. They were putting in job applications all over the place, trying to find a new job. It was okay until my car freaking died. Then it was not okay.

After that I came home and started cleaning. It is trashed. Everything is everywhere! But the living room is livable and the kitchen is clean so that’s a start.
Thursday all the carpets are getting cleaned, then I can really start getting this place together. Our roommate is all excited and really wants to help us get it decorated and put together.

Eventually we will get to our garage sale and get the garage all de-cluttered. It’s going to take a couple of weeks though. Unfortunately getting my store up and running is not possible at this time. And I am going to have to put thing a day last on my list.
I suppose house stuff counts, but I don’t know that I will want to blog about it when the day is done. Haha, as it is I am a walking zombie. I think I’m passed the point of being tired. But not quite exhausted yet.

Tuesday we destroyed the house again to get it ready for the carpet cleaner. Everything is getting taken onto the tile. We can’t even get into our kitchen. Hm, I should take a picture and show you. Haha, We have so much to get rid of. It’s almost depressing to see everything we have to do. But I keep telling myself it will be so awesome when we get it all done.
We’re painting the walls a darkish brown, and my cupboards are going to be a really deep red. (I loved Amanda’s red cabinets. So much so that I am going to paint mine that color. Woot!!) Then the ceiling is going to be relatively the same color as the floor.
Mom’s was like that and I freaking loved it! It’s going to look so nice.

Anyways, Staying up late again tonight to finish moving everything. Then Friday it will all be moved back. Yay! Then the real work can begin.
As soon as my house is livable I will start up my creative stuff again. All of this will take months so, I will have some free time I hope.

Alright, well I am going to go get going.
Happy Crafting Everyone!
Xo-Brianne <3

Edited: March 31st, 2010

Paper Boxes of Awesome!

Hey everybody!

Early morning Thing A Day!
I was watching a tutorial last night and I wanted to make it my Thing a Day.
The tutorial was how to make boxes out of paper! So, now I don’t have to buy any to ship my items in. Amanda gave me a bunch of really nice paper a while ago too. So I have a crap load of paper that has been sitting around for years and now I get to use it for something awesome!

These boxes are so neat. I have a problem getting them to fit into one another and with making perfect squares out of rectangles…But other than that it’s working out great!
Looky!


The thing in there was a new little make up circle thing. I cut it into a square and shoved the ball chain through it so it looked nice. Well nice-ish. I have to cut it better next time.
I might use cotton instead. I just happen to have some of those, so I don’t have to buy anything else yet.

I made 4 boxes this morning, chances are I will make more.
I am trying to find a way to make them even without doing the first two folds. It leaves creases on the top of the box. Which isn’t bad, I just want them to not have creases.
The big one you can see the creases on, the little ones were made crease-less.

The lady that did the tutorial has a lot of neat stuff on packaging your etsy items. It was really neat to watch the videos.
But since my mouse has been sucking, it didn’t save when I tried to bookmark it. Thank you mouse. Now I hate you. I click click click the left button but I get nada.
So! I have found another tutorial for the same box. It’s not a video though. I will post the video later if I can find it again.
Nifty Paper Box Tutorial! – http://askthesky.wordpress.com/tutorial-paper-box/

Now I’m going to go back to bed.
I love sleep <3

Happy Crafting Everyone!
Xo -Brianne

Edited: March 25th, 2010

I made it pretty

Hello everybody!

A neat little thing of the day today. I have a new obsession with bunnies and scarves. Although, I forgot to draw the scarves on the bunnies….Darnit.
That’s okay it’s still cute.

I bought this wallet at St. Vincent’s for 50 cents. It’s got lots of pockets and keeps my money nice and straight for me. It was boring and black and I felt kind of silly with it. You know because it’s boring and looks like something an old lady would have.

I fixed that today though!

Isn’t it ADORABLE!
I glazed it with multiple layers of the spray on gloss to keep it from coming off. My mom says it doesn’t look like the little girl bunnie is far back and the little boy bunnie is close up to the front. I thought it did but I could be biased.

There are lots of mistakes, but I still like it. And I will be happy whipping it out to let the moths fly forth.

Other than that, we got more things packed. Starting pricing a bunch of stuff for our yard sale/open house. Lots of junk has collected over the years. Some plates were worth a little but really I just want to get rid of all the crap.
So yeah, early night for good ol’ Brianne. I’m going to be done now, because I got a random cut on the tip of my finger and now it hurts.

Happy Crafting Everyone!
xo-Brianne

Edited: March 24th, 2010

TaD Alice in Wonderland glass stuff

Thing a day for yesterday was more Alice in Wonderland hand painted glass stuff. Why? Because I’m having a costume party soon for my birthday and want to decorate I also made a cat mask for Wesley to wear and bunny ears for Jordan. It’ll be interesting.

Edited: March 24th, 2010

TaD – decoupaged tiles

One of the thing a day projects for this past week was my decoupaged tiles. Like a lot of my projects, I’ve had the parts in the house for a while now and just not done anything with them. I fixed that last night (or the night before, I’m not really sure anymore).

I found my camera finally which means I could take photos to post. I’ll take photos of the yard tomorrow because Jordan and Udom worked hard on it today. I didn’t help though because I spent the majority of my day passed on thanks to cold medication. I’m feeling quite a bit better now!

I’m going to St. Louis tomorrow with Cody. He has a work thing there and we have friends we trust to look after the boys so he asked me to go with him. I’m meeting up with @u2acro and a bunch of other people at the st. Louis tweet up. I’m hoping it’s fun. It’s with @u2acro though so how could it not be fun? I’m also going to go thrift store shopping Thursday while Cody is at his thing. Friday is my birthday (YAY!) and we’ll be coming home to spend it with the boys. It’s a busy week, but a good busy. Tons of photos to take tomorrow though, bags to pack, and then we’re off. YAY!

Edited: March 23rd, 2010

Oh Mai Gosh

Tutorials are freaking long!
I have to admit it was alot of fun! I took like 60 pictures and just picked the best ones. It was so big I had to do it in two parts.
Surprisingly I started it at like noon. But It took me so long I had to leave before I could finish putting the big tutorial all together. I just finished it now.

Here are the links to my DeviantArt. It was way to big to put on here.
Part I Part II
If it has spelling errors, I’m sorry. It was so big I didn’t even go back to read over everything. I probably will tomorrow…

That’s it for tonight though.
If you use it I would love to see what you made!! And if you post about your charm, all I ask is for you to link your viewers to this blog.
I hope it is informative!
Happy Crafting Everyone!

xo-Brianne

Edited: March 23rd, 2010

Garage sale!

Hai!

New thing of the day, new things to procrastinate for. I really should get better at this whole do something at the beginning of the day thing.

Anyways!
Helped mom pack up more stuff. Her kitchen is almost empty of things. Still have drawers and tupperware to go through. Yay!
I was talking to one of my soon to be roommates and he is all excited! So two excited roommates! I’m so happy they feel comfortable moving in with us.
We’re going to have a big huge garage sale and open house to sell everything that is useless. We have to clean out all the junk that doesn’t work but Dustin and I get half the profits!

So today I was experimenting with the shrinky dinks again. Still working on getting the lineart perfect.
Instead of coloring it before it went into the oven I colored it after. I love the way the colors came out. They just seem more solid.
So yeah, boring day but I was doing pricing research on shipping stuff to other places. But I am going to post this before it’s tomorrow!

So until later, Happy Crafting Everyone!

Xo-Brianne

Opps, I almost forgot to show you the Alice in Wonderland charms I got today!
Aren't They Cute!!!

Edited: March 22nd, 2010

Etsy is Nifty!

Hi everybody!

Didn’t do anything real crafty today. I helped my mom pack up some of her stuff and I got my new Etsy account up. I have nothing for sale yet, but I did spend a lot of time poking around the Account options and such.
Tomorrow I have to make my banner and fix the picture of my mascot girl. She needs a name and I can’t think of a good one. I’ll just have to let her tell me when she is ready.

If I had to pick one thing about art that I love, it’s how the things I draw really come to life for me. The two I drew the other day for Amanda and myself just really created themselves. I know a lot of artists feel this way as well. My characters really just tell me what to do and I do it.
Anyways, yeah.

On a side note, I destroyed like 5 of my charms. That was fun. Blue and Pink bunny look like acid ate the side of their faces and some of their scarf. So my tutorial will be on how to make them! Because I have to make more…because I love them and they were cute…and now I am sad.
Thank you Beth for the suggestion of a charm tutorial! <3

Not a big day but progress is being made! And that is all that matters!! So, expect a tutorial of some sort in the next couple of days.
As for now, I am going to go try to fix my sleeping schedule.
Happy Crafting Everyone!

xo-Brianne

Edited: March 22nd, 2010