A Very Implausible Weekend.

This weekend has been a rough one around here.  A very implausible one indeed.  Sunday night bad weather hit the south in horrible ways.  We had thunderstorms, lightening and hard rain.   All of which turned quickly into tornadoes.  We had a few touch down with 16 dead and 2 cities almost completely destroyed.  Me and my family were spared from the tornadoes but I have been praying for those who lost so much. 

During the storms I did beadwork to calm my worries over the weather, and this was what I got done.  My inchie for this week, the theme aptly named "implausible". 

My thought on the theme was that what is the biggest implausible thing?  Well, a question!  With this one I used 2 colors of beads.  A shade of white and a metallic blue.

Dont forget to fly on over to Every Inchie Monday and check out the great artwork by all of the awesome ladies.

Take care and stay safe my friends.

"Hot" Off the Presses

I hope that everyone has had a great Easter.  Mine was great.  I celebrated my birthday and Easter by going out to dinner with my Mom and my kids.  Then me and my daughter searched all over town for some Cadbury's Cream Eggs.  (Those things are very elusive!), while my son went to work a half day at his new job. 

This week's theme at Every Inchie Monday is "Hot" and I had tons of great ideas.  Ideas that I am sure many of the other artists over at Every Inchie Monday thought of as well.  I thought about flames, or writing the word "HOT" with flames behind it.

The problem is that I am 'limited' by my own overactive imagination.  Which, many times will remember and rehash old ideas into new ones.  I know EVERYBODY does that as well.  But I try not repeat myself.  But I try not repeat myself.  ;)

When I thought about the theme this week, my first thought was flames, but I did that on 4.16.12. 

Then i thought about doing some wild random colors with shades of fire, but then i did that one on 3.3.14. 

Then I thought about doing flames coming off the sun kinda design, but then I did that one on 1.23.12. 

About that time it was almost dinner time!  That was it!  Food is hot right?  But then again I have already done food as well on 12.23.13.

GRRRRRRRRR!  Then it dawned on me.  Food has steam and steam is HOT!  YEA!  I got it done, something that I had not thought of yet, lol.  Until next time that is when I got to think of something else similar.

In this inchie I used 3 colors of Delicas, light blue, white, and matte transparent grey.  This is a hot bowl of mashed potatoes, (or rice) with steam coming off of them.   Hope you like them.

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

Head's Up!

Well I am so glad that last weeks issues stayed in last week!  LOL  This weekend I have been hanging out with my kids.  My daughter on Saturday, and then my Son on Sunday.  That doesn't always happen like that but this weekend it did and it was awesome to just hang with each kid individually. 

This week over at Every Inchie Monday the theme is "Head".  I had a few trials and errors with this theme.  First off I thought about a head of lettuce, but after designing it, it just looked like a green blob!  Next idea was a bust of a head; which looked like a grey blob!  Then I came up with the idea that finally stuck.  A side view of a head of a nail! 

 

I used one of my favorite colors of Delica seed beads, the metallic silver.  I also used a gunmetal AB bead as the nail head.   Real simple design but I love the look of it.  Also a cool side note to this is that when the light hits the gunmetal beads it looks like an AB blue color.  Really cool, just sad that it doesn't show well in the pictures.

Don't forget to fly over to EIM and check out all the great artwork.  Have a blessed day everybody and thanks for zooming on by.

Golden weekend and a Gold inchie

Who is ready for some Gold filled fun this week over at Every Inchie Monday?  But first lets interrupt this blog with some weekend fun first.

Who remembers playing in the dirt when they were a kid???  Wasn't it SO much fun???  Hey, add some water and you were in mud heaven RIGHT?  Right....  Sure....  Fun days for sure. 

Now as an adult I am not into playing in the dirt.  I guess I have lost that fun naivete.  Well a few weeks ago my mailbox broke.  No way of jimmy-rigging it no way of duct taping it.  Had to replace it.  So this weekend I spent a good chunk of time digging a 1 ft square by 2 ft deep hole in red rock filled soil.  YAY! 

Ok, well that was fun; then on Sunday we had a friend come over and put the post in the hole and set it in concrete.   After he left my Mom reminded me that we have to dig a hole for the water regulator.!.!  o.O  WHAT!  That is NOW???? 

Let me explain , last month the water company sent us a note saying that they will be changing the pressure in the pipes, and if we don't have a regulator on out water pipes leading from the box then they will explode!  They will be doing this on Tuesday! 

By the way, there is an 80% chance of rain on Sunday!  So much fun!  Me and my kids went outside and started digging.  Did I mention that we have rock-filled red clay in our yard?  Also did you know that when rain hits red clay it kinda turns to spackle??  SO MUCH FUN!!  Six hours later we had a huge hole around out water pipe, waiting for the regulator to be put in in the morning.   My white shoes are now a lovely shade of light browny-red.  My grey jacket is a lovely shade of medium browny-red and my patience is a deep shade of insanity.

But wait....  Now would  I be going on about this if this was all the fun that I had?  Well of course not!!!  When we were halfway done with the hole around the pipe I noticed a little bit of water near the hot water heater.   We checked it and there was a small drip.  My friend came back over and looked at it.  Need a new gasket and piece of pipe.  But since it was a small drip we should be ok until the morning.  Of course we will be ok.........

After checking again to see if it had loosened a bit we suddenly had a strong drip.  Woohooo.  More fun to be had.  We had to hurry up and finish a load of laundry and take showers before we can turn the water off at the box.  But not before we used all available towels to soak up the dripping water.   Once all that was done I had to run out into the muddy happiness (remember the fun as a kid?) and turn the water off.  What was that about insanity??  LOL

[Now back to your regularly scheduled Inchie blog] This week over at Every Inchie Monday the theme is Gold and as for spending Sunday doing my inchie?  HAHAHA.  I started working on it at about midnight.  I was tickled by the theme of gold.  Not because I have had a golden weekend of wild and wacky fun but because I had a small (very small) amount of 24kt plated glass delicas.  Not really enough to do anything with, well anything more than an inchie that is. 

This inchie is a small gold bar with a metallic purple background.  I thought about a royal color with the gold bar. So purple it was.  Hope you like it. 

Don't forget to fly over to EIM to check out all  the gold artwork.

Game On!!!

This weeks theme over at Every Inchie Monday is Game.  I had an idea for this when I saw the theme accidentally put on last year's list.  So I was tickled when it got put on this years list.  I really loved how this one came out.

This week's inchie is kind of a mix between a bunch of some of my favorites board games. 

Monopoly

 

 

 

 

 

 

Clue

Sorry

 

When my kids were little we used to play Sorry and Clue.  I added in Monopoly just cuz it is the most popular board games, (if not the longest.)  We also played card games like Phase 10, Uno, Split, Skipbo.  Good times for sure. 

Now having time for family game night is hard to come by.  Which is so sad, families should still make time to play games with their kids. 

You can follow the links to all the games and how to make a family game night.  But without further ado here is my color game inchie. 

I like how it came out.  I used Delicas as usual, all matte beads except the white which is an opaque pearl AB.  All of the colors are transparent matte.  I love the bright colors, very indicative of most board games. 

Don't forget to fly on over to EIM to see all the great art from all of the talented artists there.  Have a blessed week.

An Inchie Figure, Super Hero and Some New Jewelry

I hope everyone is enjoying this lovely weather this weekend.  After all the stinky weather we have had lately this weekend has been a blessed reprieve. 

This weekend has been a crafty one for me.  Recently I saw a blog post by one of the Inchie Artist and decided that her post tied into this weeks inchie so well that I had to mention it. This week over at Every Inchie Monday the theme is Figure.  My first thought was a woman's figure.  I felt that this would be really hard for me to translate into an inchie.  But I think I figured it out with this one.  (at least I think I did).  I tried to show off some cleavage on this lovely lady with 2 colors for the skin, but it didn't translate properly. 

But, like I said, I got part of this idea from another inchie blogger; Chrissie, who posted about making her superhero "Craft Girl" on the Marvel website.  Follow the links to her blog and the Marvel site. 

Well, of course I couldn't help but make my own superhero!  I made sure she matched my figure inchie.  Her superpowers are that she is "Faster than a runaway bead! More powerful than a bent needle! And she is able to find missing beads in a single try!"  Check her out, I designed her to match the clothing of the inchie.  LOL

Also this week I finished a triple spiral bracelet for the monthly challenge over at Seedbeadsters Facebook page.  I used size 6/0 gray seed beads, 8/0 green seed beads and silver magatamas.  I also added a big silver toggle clasp.  I know the second picture doesn't show off the green beads as well as I wanted but I still like that this is a really chunky bracelet. 

This weekend I also got an idea for a 3-strand necklace.  I had a bunch of transparent shaped yellow-gold and blue beads, some big sized blue twisted beads with gold flakes in them, and some crystal 4mm round beads.  I am not that great with just stringing beads.  I never seem to get it to look copacetic to my liking.  But, I like this necklace with one exception; I wished I had spaced the necklaces farther apart.

So what do you think?  This week was a bit much but I did have a creative burst.  Blame it on Spring being sprung on me!  LOL

Anyways, don't forget to fly on over to EIM and check out all the great designs and have a blessed week.

Forest Inchie and a new design.

This week over at Every Inchie Monday the theme is Forest and if you were here last week you'll remember that I did this weeks inchie last week LOL.  But luckily due to another inchie artist I realized my mistake before I posted it.  Whew!!!!!!

This weeks inchie was originally gonna look like this.

But I thought that my forest was a bit lacking.  Originally that was the point.  To have a forest of 1.  Kinda the, "If a tree falls in the forest does anyone hear it," thing.  Well, of course, they don't if it is the only one in the forest.  This one seemed kinda lonely.  So I decided that a better design was one that had a few more trees to it.  This is what I came up with.

I used 4 colors of Delicas and was able to put 5 trees in my inchie, I was tickled by that for sure.  It was fun trying to figure out how to add so many trees using the same design as the original tree from above.  I do like this one alot better.  Kinda busy but you get the gist of the inchie.

Also this week I finished a commission piece.  Ronnie, the guy who is building the addition onto my house asked me if I could make him something to hang in his truck with the rebel flag on it.  I think after making this I might start designing "Mirror Dangles".  There are so many possibilities with this. Check this out.

I again used my favorite bead, the Delicas.  Using red, white and blue beads.  I beaded the design flat and then zipped it up together around the wine cork.  Then added fringe with alternating colors.   Then I made 4 straps that came up into 2 sections attached by a lobster claw clasp and a split ring.  Making it so that you can open it up and attach it around your rear view mirror.  My mind has been whirling with design ideas.  There will be more to come from this for sure! 

Don't forget to fly on over to EIM and check out all the great artistic inchie artwork.  Have a blessed week, my friends.