Lavender Inchie Love

 This week's theme over at Every Inchie Monday is Lavender.  You ever have one of those times when you and creativity don't get along?  Kinda like a married couple who have a fight and don't speak to one another?  Well, that was me this week.  Creativity and me seemed to have a disagreement and creativity left for work and didn't even say goodbye!  LOL

That all being said, this last week has been another long one.  I put in another 1500 miles of driving!  Which is why this post is late.  I got home on Sunday night and was way too tired to do my inchie.

I tried to think of what to design.  I thought about lavender flowers but each design I did just didn't look right.  It was not until I saw other artists designs that I thought about a sachet.  I never even thought about that!  Since I am sensitive to strong smells (because of my allergy related asthma)I don't use sachets or candles of any kind.  So that would have never came to my mind.

This is what I came up with, a color block pattern.  Now, if I had been smart I might have said it was a bar of soap but even that didn't come to me until I started to type the blog, LOL.  Blame it on me being tired!  Lets hope that next week me and creativity will make up and be friends again. 

Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to fly on over to EIM and check out all the awesome artwork from all these talented ladies.

Legal Ease

Guess what I got to do this weekend?  I got to drive over 1300 miles in 3 days!  Yes, I know what you are thinking,  "Why is it that I get all the fun?"  My answer.  Cuz I am wild and crazy gal!  LOL  Really what I had to do was to drive to Hot springs twice and to Memphis once.  YAY!

Now back to the fun stuff, over at Every Inchie Monday the theme is Legal.  Well, last week I accidentally did this weeks inchie.  So last weeks and this weeks are switched on my beaded strip of inchie.  (Really isn't the first time & prolly wont be the last time!)

When I saw this theme I was tickled.  I have always loved legal dramas.  Perry Mason, Matlock, Law and Order and now one of my newest legal faves; Suits!



For my inchie I designed the scales of justice and I  used two colors of Delicas.   A pale white for the background and one of my fav colors, (I am not just saying that because I have boukous of this one bead) for the scales of justice. 

It is a simple design but I like how it looks.   It is not fully on the inchie.  It gives you the assumption of the scales.  Hope you like it.

Don't forget to fly on over to EIM to check out all the rest of the "legalized legalities of Legal inchies" from the awesome artists there!

It's A Khaki Attacki!!!!!

Yea, Yea, Yea, I can tell your eyes all rolled with that!  LOL  it is late and I am tired and sore, so I will use that as my excuse. 

I am running late with this weeks post because I have hurt my shoulder at work last week.  I am not supposed to use my right arm and shoulder at all.  Which makes beading very hard to do one handed!  So forgive me for being late.  :(

First off, I had to show this. I just got some beads recently, they are called 2-hole lentils    I am using these to make earrings for my first craft fair!  But this one I just had to keep, you see the line on it is not supposed to be there!  So this one looks like a lil face, LOL. 

I know, I know, not all of you are beady like me but I just love it when beads come out bad!  HAHA.  When I get time I will start taking pics of the jewelry for the craft fair.  But now I have just been building my stock without adding the earring hooks and clasps on the bracelets; so I can do all of that in the end.  Even at the fair if needed. 

This weeks theme over at Every Inchie Monday is Khaki.  I kinda struggled with this one, I thought about doing just a color block, but I have done that more than a few times in the past.  LOL  Sometime creativity is just not my friend LOL.  But I really wanted something different.  Then I was thinking that since the supervisors at work have to wear khaki colored clothes I decided to do khaki pants.  (No matter what I do, work always seems to follow me!  LOL)

This one is nothing to special, just a pair of pants but i like it.   I used 3 colors of Matte beads.  Black, light khaki and a darker khaki color.  Getting the outline to the pockets was not smooth but I still like it alot. 

Don't forget to fly on over to EIM and check out all the great inchies that the ladies have made, and don't be shy; come and join in the fun. 

Killer week!

I just want to say happy Memorial Day everyone.  May God bless those who bless us by protecting us, and bless the families who have lost a soldier.  We appreciate all their sacrifices. 

This week over at Every Inchie Monday  the theme is "Killer".  I really had to rack my brain over this.  I just could not think of what to do.  I mean, a bloody knife?  A killer bee?  Or some other "killer" kinda item?

I decided to just leave it until later on so I could take time to think about it.   Then I watched one of my favorite movies from the 80's.  Clue.

Dontcha just love this movie.  So many plays on words, Tim Curry, and of course murder!!!  When I was designing the inchie all I could think about was this movie.  So how to incorporate this into my inchie.  Here is what I came up with.  One of the most recognizable murder weapons in Clue is the candlestick, and when you think of the game you think of the game pieces, Plum, White, Green, Peacock, Scarlet and of course Mustard.

In the end I was able to put all of those into an inchie.  I hope that you like it.

As you can see, there is a candlestick above the game pieces.  I also situated the game pieces staggered behind the first one.   I used 8 colors of Delicas, All frosted transparent, except the pink and silver. 

Dont forget to fly on over to EIM and check out all the other "killer" inchies!  (Been waiting for that one for a while LOL)

Jolly! Jolly! Jolly!

This weeks theme over at Every Inchie Monday is Jolly-Boat.  I had to research what a Jolly-Boat was.  Wikipedia (gotta love Wikipedia!) says that a jolly boat is, "The jolly boat was a type of ship's boat in use during the 18th and 19th centuries. The origins of the name is the subject of debate, but it was by the 18th century one of a number of ship's boats, and was used mainly to ferry personnel to and from the ship, or for other small scale activities. The design continued to evolve throughout its period in service."

Now this being said, I decided that since the time frame of the term "jolly-boat" was from the 18th and 19th centuries; I would go with something from that time period.  A Jolly Roger.  Wikipedia says that Jolly Roger is, "any of various flags flown to identify a ship's crew as pirates that were about to attack. The flag most commonly identified as the Jolly Roger today is the skull and crossbones."

I mostly decided to use a jolly roger because I used a boat back on 10.1.12 when the theme was "Boat".  I didn't want to have one again so I came up with the Jolly Roger.

Boat Inchie

For this weeks inchie I used Black and white delicas.  I really love how cute he looks as well.  I may have to make this again as earrings or charms.  Not sure yet.  Hope you like it.

Jolly Roger

Don't forget to fly over and check out all the other great art work over at EIM.  I am sure they are all rocking it out.  Have a blessed and creative week!

Jet On Over To My Place!

It is Monday all over again!  Every Inchie Monday is just the best part of Monday.  Also, I just wanted to give a late Mother's day shout out to everybody. 



This week over at EIM the theme is "Jet".  I did a search for Jet and saw the airport symbol for "plane" and thought that would be the best thing for me to design.  It is simple in design but I love the angles on it.  If you dont know by now I love geometric shapes and designs.  So something like this with angles and clean lines are right up my alley.  Hope you like it.

Dont forget to fly on over to EIM and see all the cool jet inchies they have there.  Thanks again for coming by for a visit, and I hope that you have a blessed and creative week.

Indigo and a New Piece

This week over at Every Inchie Monday the theme is Indigo.  This one was a hard one for me.  I thought about it forever.  Weeks!  i just couldn't think of anything for this theme.  Then I did a internet search and found out there is a flower named indigo.  Here is a picture I used for inspiration.

I originally was going to have what looked like blurry flowers in the background but it just didn't look right with the colors I had picked out for the flower, so I just did the background color in an off-white.  I do like how it came out.   I used 3 colors of Delicas having the white background, green and purple for the flower.

This week I also finished another commission piece for a friend at work.  He wanted a  mirror dangle of the flag of Laos, where his father is from.  I like how it turned out & I know he will love it.  I used 3 colors of Delicas; red, white and blue.  I also used a wine cork and 2 lobster claw clasps. Sorry for the blurry picture, I am not skilled with the camera on my phone.

Hope you have a blessed week and dont forget to fly on over to EIM to check out all the other great artwork from all of the awesome artist.