Etched metal and resin charm necklace

 Copper metal wire bracelets made from reclaimed wire

 Handmade chain necklace

 Red and grey crocheted wire necklace

 Etched metal necklace

 Mini sea shells in bottle necklace

 Chandelier necklace

 Frozen Charlotte with butterfly wings necklace

 Fold formed leaf necklace made from copper roof flashing

Three strand floating necklace

Helping out our neighbors

Helping out our neighbors

We have all scene the pictures, listened to stories or witnessed the devastation that Hurricane Sandy caused. My family was lucky enough to not have anything major happen, just a tree that fell in our yard and one that fell in my mothers yard. There are many people who were not so lucky.

You may be wondering how you can help all the victims from Hurricane Sandy. Well the Art is You retreat group I am involved in has this fabulous way of helping. Here is all you need to do:
  1. Visit this link:
 http://www.art-is-you.com/mysitecaddy/site3/artis...hurricanesandyreliefprogram.htm

2. Click on the Donate now button. Doesn't matter what or how much, you just need to make a donation.

3. Come back here and post that you have donated.  I don't need to know what or how much.  In your post be sure to put your email address so I can be in touch with you. At the end of the month I will randomly pick three names to win a special hand made prize.
 
 

Happy Valentine's Day

Is it necessary to spend a bunch of money to show someone you love them? Or go out and buy some gift that doesn't really mean anything?

I choose to make my boyfriend a gift. Granted I was making it with him sitting in the same room with me. But what am I to do since my "studio" is my couch and my section of the coffee table? I purchased some bones online for his collection. (We already have 4 different sculls in our living room.) He is a biology teacher so what else would we have a decoration?? I didn't want to give him just a bunch of bones so made a "cave" for them to sit in.

It is a canvas with hole cut into the middle of it and a box added to the middle so I could have a place to make a cave, which was made out of paperclay. I sculpted the bird out of Apoxi Clay and attached one of the rib bones to it's beak. There is a scull, leg bones, rib bones, and vertebra added thru out the canvas. I also attached some crystals we dug up a few years ago when we went mining.

He liked it and we currently have it sitting on the shelf above our TV. 

He gave me a frog lunch bag. I love frogs so it is the cutest thing ever. I already brought it to work with my lunch in it. Everyone there thought it was cute as well and that it totally fit me.