Sunshine, Etsy Finds No.1

I highly doubt that I am the only one in the northern hemisphere who longs for spring, sunshine and warmer weather. This is my first Etsy-finds post and what could be better to start off with than sunshine as a theme?

This week features listings from these Etsy shops: Creairtive, Designer's Deli, ememem, Sula Blu, Incense N Peppermints, Betafly, Rose Red, Sanny's Secret, LOVEat1STsight



1. Super cute Rose Bud Earrings by Creairtive. Check Creairtive's store for more colors!
2. Feeling crafty? These yellow Honey Beads from Designer's Deli are perfect for your bold spring jewelry projects.
3. The yellow Bear Brooch from ememem's shop could very well be the most awesome brooch I have ever seen.
4. Beautiful White And Gold Flower Ring from Sanny's Secret
5. Big bling! Earrings from Sula Blu
6. Too cool! The very unique Perfect Polyanna Purse from Incense N Peppermints is sure to make it's owner stand out from the crowd this spring. (And it's on sale too!!!)
7. Prettiest buttons ever! Just imagine how wonderful these buttons would look on a yellow cardigan... Check out Betafly's shop for more supplies.
8. This vintage 80's Sweater in a perfect shade of yellow can be found in Rose Red's shop
9. Decorative Birds in lovely colors from LOVEat1STsight.

All photos in the collage belong to their respective shop owners and are used with permission. Thank you for letting me use your pictures. If you want me to remove your picture from the collage, please contact me :)

Check back next week for more finds :)

Art

Some of my art... Only pretty ladies because that's all I can do..sort of...

Dita von Teese. I love her...



And, since I'm a total Batman fangirl...

Poison Ivy



Harley Quinn

I have too much stuff

So I'm trying to sort my supplies and other small things I've been collecting through the years. I just realized that I have a lot. A LOT!

What am I going to do with this? Make weird collage wall art?

Lion Rings

So I have these old 60's buttons that are kinda cool. I will probably never be able to make something that is fantastic enough to have buttons like them, so I'm trying to make them into rings. Problem is. I can't get the shanks off their backs. They're obviously glued on. Let's just say that whatever glue they used I'd like to have it too.

Fancy lion button:

Scrap jewelry

Some jewelry I am working. These will probably not be up for sale at my shop...

Want to turn this into a hairclip. Old toy jewelry.



Copper plate bow and pearls. Made two of these but I am not sure if they look better as earrings or as a necklace.



Earrings in the works. Not sure how to fasten earrhooks. Or maybe I should try and use studs for these. Decisions, decisions...



Rings made from brass wire, pearls and vintage button.



My god, I am getting tired of the dark. I want to be able to take photos without using a flash :C

And Strawberries!

And here's something new I'm working on:

Pineapple Express

Here's some better photos of the pineapple ring. Looks pretty awesome with red nails...





Loving the background. Vintage magazine from 1958. Kinda love reading those. The issue on the photo has a very entertaining article about a father that was left alone with his little baby daughter FOR SEVERAL HOURS and had to change her diaper!!!! TEH HORRORS. Uhm yeah. I'm glad I don't live in the 50's.

Not much else happening here today. Been working on my freakin degree essay for Uni the whole day. Feels like I'm not getting anywhere with it. And I used to be able to go on and on AND ON about architecture. Now It's just blaah... Oh well, I've set the deadline to March. If it's not done ny then I am made of FAIL.

New

New earrings in my shop... Very pleased with how they turned out. My favorites are these:

Featured :)

... In this blog:

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Other than that I have some new rings. I Love them. They are made from vintage white buttons and plastic pineapples that used to sit on a, now broken, vintage necklace. They look very... 50's to me. More exciting photos will probably come tomorrow.

Augh :/

The craft store in my town is running out of everything, and they never seem to re-stock. I can't find that special glaze I usually use for my fimo clay creations, and I was thinking about buying small rounded wodden plates to use for the face of my Red riding hood brooches, and they were out too... :/ It's really hard to find the supplies I want. And when they do have the things I want it's damn expensive. I payed 42 SEK today for 4 adjustable rings. That's like... Almost 6 USD. When I got home I found similar on Etsy (and they were silver plated!!!) 20 rings for 9.90! Uhm... :O

I guess that's what you get from living in a crappy expensive town like this... :P

How to make yourself a throne

So I've had this IKEA computer chair for... I'd say 15 years. This is where I should have had before pictures but unfortunately I don't. Anyway, try to imagine a white plastic simple computer chair with orange fabric and wheels. Pretty yucky huh?

Well some gold spray paint and new fabric later it looks like this:



Fancy pillow to sit on. This one is all flat now though... Think I need to put some more filling in it.



Here's another thing that I re-made. No before pic for this one either, but imagine an old shabby faded grey color on it before this:



Love the pillow. I mean, I made TASSELS and SUCCEEDED!



I'm very into re-making and recycling of my old clohtes and furniture. This is ugly long shirt that I think is from 2000 that I remade into a cute blouse with a neck bow. I love neck bows!!!!

Before:



After:



Details:

New Yumminess

Sexy Librarian

Fun plastic glasses necklace.



I'm thinking about adding something else to these. Not sure...

Weird shit

When I was little I had an imaginary friend. Or maybe "it" was not that imaginary, it was this:



Yes. I had a clown doll as my best friend. We talked for hours and he always had such nice things to say.

I found him today in the basement, and it all came back to me... I take this as a direct cause for my love for weird shit in my adult (YOUNG ADULT!!!) life.

This necklace I found last year in Cologne, Germany. I LOVE IT. I wear it to my casual outfits. It's bigger than it looks. And it's quite strange. It's BEAR BLING.





It really is an awesome piece.

Flying rodent

Yeah, this makes me a total geek, but this is probably one of my favorite things I've ever created.

It's a copper cut out and hangs from a metall chain. Only problem with this is that it's very sharp. I'm quite sure you could actually kill someone with it if you wanted to.

Little red

I am planning some new brooches in the style of my Geishas in my Etsy store.

This time my inspiration come from this little girl.



Little red riding hood!

Here's a sketch of what I'm thinking about. Haha - worst photo so far this year!



I have some really nice velvet-like fabrtic that I used for my little red riding hood halloween costume in 2008 that would be nice to use in this project.

First post!

New project:




Don't you just love worm apples? It's going to be the next big thing, I swear!

Other than that here's some chocolate chip cookies that I've made. Pleased with the texture!



Maybe future earrings?