Crafting ideas galore

Here are some pictures that I have taken surreptitiously on my call phone of things that have inspired some craft ideas.

This geode necklace would be exceptionally easy to make yourself. Geodes can be bought in many natural history or science museum gift shops.

I'm not sure how inspiring this is to the rest of you, but to me, it seemed like a unique idea for a pair of earrings. This would probably be easily made at a bead shop in a matter of an hour or so.

I know that this picture didn't turn out all that well (I was trying to take the picture quickly so as not to call attention to what I was doing), but I the point is that the ring is simply a cheap thing that you can buy in a bead store. The top of the ring is flat and you can buy rings with different sizes of surfaces for attaching. Then, you can glue on a button (which I am thinking of doing with some of my Grandma's buttons) or a coin, or whatever you'd like.

I love this idea. It is so simple and yet so useful! It is just a frame with wire hung between two sides, which you can use to hang earrings from. I think that it would be really cool to do this using reclaimed wood or to use "new" wood and antique it (http://www.ehow.com/how_17669_give-furniture-antique.html).

I think I saw this at Old Navy. It just looks like a shirt with a handle! How easy!

Alright, I'm off for now. But before I go, I was thinking that I would like to try using some sort of photo transfer for the tile coasters that I had made. If anyone knows anything about the process or tools, let me know!

Toodleloo!

-E

Must craft more!

Okay, that's it. I need to start crafting more. It's the summer, I have a job but no classes...no reason why I can't spend my time crafting (and reading novel after novel). I just got back from a crafting fair in DC and a part of me kind of wishes that I could sell crafts on the side. I know that it is probably a lot more work than one realizes, though, and it would probably have to be a full-time thing. If it were to be full-time, I'm pretty sure I'd be a starving artist, so I should probably stick with the Public Health path. Well, my solution to all this is to just craft and blog more. In the absence of Kristina, I think that I am going to take this blog more in the showcase and crafting idea/journal direction. That way I don't have to wait until I actually make something to blog about it, I can keep track of my numerous craft ideas and share them with you all, and I won't necessarily need to hamper down the crafting process by painstakingly taking a picture each step of the way.

Oh, also, while I was at the craft fair, I signed up to receive emails about art classes in Silver Spring, MD. While that is a bit of a hike for me, I am very excited because I have been dearly missing the arts and crafts scene of RI and the classes available at AS220.

I would also like to mention that Kristina got in to a Clinical Psych PhD program! Whoohooo! I'm very excited for her. I should also say that I hear she has been making some fabulous things in lil' Rhody but that she has misplaced her camera. Boo!

Yours,
E