Text Me!

I would like to say thank you to everyone who takes the time to fly by my nest and check out my blog!  I love that you dropped by.  Also, for those of you who are dealing with all the snow, you are in my thoughts. 

This week over at Every Inchie Monday the theme is Texts.  This one was a bit hard for me as I have a bit of trouble writing text on my inchies.  But, then I remembered that in the past I made 2 different inchies that were emoticons.  Emoticons are used all the time online and on the phone.  They have become so popular that we now have emoticons in our jewelry, on our clothes, and on our nails!  So why not in an inchie! 

Here is this weeks inchie, it is technically called "tongue".  This is one I use often on Facebook, lol :p  For this inchie I used 2 colors a silver lined red and one of my most used colors opaque black.  Here are the past inchies that I have made using emoticons.

This one is from 2012 entitled Smile.

This one is from 2013 entitled Happiness.

Also this week I was nominated by a friend on Facebook for #artchain.  Where someone nominates you and for 5 days you show off your art of choice and each day you nominate another artist to do the same.   This week also a new friend on Facebook called me the Inchie Ninja!  I just LOVE that name.  LOL  Gives me so many ideas!  ;)

Thanks again for stopping by, and don't forget to fly on over to EIM and check out all the other cool texts that the other Inchie Ninjas think up!

In the Inchie of the Night.

Hiya everyone!  I hope that you all have had a great week. The weather here has been awesome the last few days.  I have been trying hard to get over a cold, but I have had the energy to finish a surprise gift for a supervisor and his fiance.  Which makes me really happy!  I really love this project!  It took a bit longer to make then I wanted it to, mostly cuz I had a few other things that had to take precedence. 

This ornament has 3 different stitches in it, herringbone, peyote and branch fringe.  Used 9 colors of Delicas, and 4 colors of seed beads!  I started to design this using a wine cork but the size that I needed was going to need a 1 3/4 inch length of a 1 inch dowel.  I am glad I used the dowel, I don't think condensing the design would have looked as good as it does. 

 This is a montage of the body of the ornament before i added the rest to it.  (Note to self: I must remember to take pictures before I zip them shut!) The reason that I am showing you this is because you can't see it clearly on the finished product. 

Here it is showing off the branch fringe and you can see the herringbone strap at the top.  This was my first time doing the branch fringe and I really like it.  Something else that you cant see from this picture is that the branch fringe has alternating pink seed beads on the bottom to match the 3 different colors of pink flowers on the body of the ornament.  I can't wait to give it to Paige.  They are such a sweet couple. 

This week over at Every Inchie Monday the theme is Night.  My first thought was something that my son commented on.  Military time.  He loves to talk in military time.  Instead of it being 8.25PM it is 20.25 .  So it made me think about 24 hours a day.... or night!  I also took a picture of the pattern that I use when I make my inchies.  I always print off a copy of the pattern so that I can mark off what I get done. 

And here is the Inchie close up.  I used 2 colors of Delicas, a teal (again!) and a rainbow crystal.

Don't forget to fly on over to EIM and check out the great night inchies from all of the other awesome artists.  Until next week, have a blessed and creative week!

It's Kitchen Time

This week over at Every Inchie Monday the theme is Kitchen.  I like kitchens, food comes from them!  I am not however, a big time-spender in the kitchen.  I do on occasion cook in there but not very often.  Funny how when my kids were little I cooked all the time, and now that they are older I don't cook very often. 

I do love kitchen gadgets though.  I really get excited to go somewhere and look at the kitchen section.  Mostly to look.  Sometimes I buy cool things, like spoons, spatulas and knifes.  So for this weeks design I decided to make spatulas.  Mostly cuz I could not think of anything else to design.  I did rack my brain for anything to make but nothing came to mind. 

Then I went to Burlington Coat Factory and bought some slotted spoons and I hate to say it, I love them!  They are strong and work great.  One even has a squared off edge for scraping the edges of pans! I told you, I love the gadgets, lol. 

So here is my gadgetty kitchen inchie.  I used 2 colors of Delicas.  A black and a metalic teal that I really love.  I put 2 flippers, or spatulas on my inchie on alternating ends.   Hope you like it.

Don't forget to fly on over to EIM and check out the great kitchen's that the artists will come up with and have a blessed and creative week. 

Can We Talk?!?

I really, really love this theme this week over at Every Inchie Monday.  Talking is what I do; and let me tell you I do it WELL!!!!  LOL.  If you ask my Mom, I came out talking and have not shut up since!  Most babies will start to babble around 4 or 5 months old and parents are always big smiles when this happens.  I know I was when my kids started doing it, just as I am sure you all were. 

But not me!  From what many of the family have said, I never did the "baby talk", I skipped that and went straight into non-stop adult-type conversation (much to my poor Mothers dismay).  There is a story my Mom has told many times and I felt that it fit in greatly here.

One day my Mom was sitting on the porch reading a book, I was on the floor playing.  A man walks up, introduces himself and lets my Mom know that he is new to the neighborhood.  They continue talking for a few minutes and I look up at him and ask, "How do you like the neighborhood?"  The man's eye grow big and he looks to my Mom and asks, "Did she....?  Did she just say that?"  My Mother gives off a rough sigh and says "Yes she did."  "But, how old is she?" he asks.  Again, my Mom sighs and says, "9 months old."

I grew up hearing my Mom say to me, "One day you will pay for your raising."  Well, that happened when my Son was born.  He has his Mothers gift for gab.  For example, one day Me, my Husband, and both my kids were driving to town.  My Son was about 5 years old.  Me an my Husband were trying to talk but my Son would not let us get a word in edgewise.  I finally said to him to just be quiet for 5 seconds.  He assured me that he could do it, he went on for about 15 seconds on how he could be quiet.  Again, I asked him, "Please be quiet for 30 seconds, no talking for 30 seconds please." quietly from his seat we heard, "1 one thousand, 2 one thousand, 3 one thousand..."He counted all the way to 30!  Then proudly announced, "I did it!  I told you I could be quiet for 30 seconds!".  By then we were both laughing so hard that we were in tears!  I can't wait to remind him one day that he will pay for his raising as well!  LOL  Paybacks! Well, I can say that we do not lead dull lives!  LOL. 

Now, onto my inchie.  This weeks inchie was an easy one.  I thought about what we all used to say to people when we wanted to talk.  "Call me!"  Of course, now it is "text me."  But back in the day.  We all loved to talk on the phone.

I used 2 colors of Delicas, yellow and a very dark brown, I know it looks like black but it is brown. 

Thanks for stopping by for a chat.  Don't forget to fly on over to EIM and check out all the great artwork the ladies there have come up with.  Don't forget to leave me a little comment, I would love to know what you think.  Have a blessed and creative day.

Elephants Away!

I know the title doesn't make sense, LOL sometimes that the hardest part of the blog.  Figuring out the catchy title.  Maybe I am just over thinking that part....right?....Maybe?  LOL

Anyways, this week over at Every Inchie Monday the theme is Elephant! I thought after last weeks easy theme of Giraffe that I would have a harder time designing this week.  But I was surprised how quickly I came up with the design of the elephant rearing up his trunk.  It was the only way I was gonna get something on my inchie that would look like an elephant.  But I love him, he is a cutie!

In this inchie there are 4 colors of Delicas.  2 shades of grey, one ivory color and for the background I used a matte transparent orange.

Don't forget to fly on over to EIM and check out the other 'elephants in the room'.  LOL  sorry I couldn't help myself!  I would like to say hello and thank all the new Inchers that are here this year.  Have a blessed and creative week everyone.

New Week, New Inchie.

This week I did not do alot of beadwork, (at least that I can show you, more on that at another time).  I did work on my Etsy site some, and made my inchie.

This weeks theme over at Every Inchie Monday is Giraffe, so without further ado here is my Giraffe inchie.

For this inchie I went with a giraffe pattern, I used 2 colors of Delicas, an opaque white and a galvanized matte copper color, I really love the sheen on the copper bead.  I wish it showed up better in the picture.  But you get the gist. 

Don't forget to fly on over to EIM and check out the rest of the giraffe zoo that they awesome artists have come up with; and if you feel like it, join us, we would love it if you decided to.  Have a blessed and creative week.

Happy New Year!

Hope this year is doing everyone well, so far.  I know, 5 days in isn't the time to mention this, right?  Well, at least you can say that I asked.  LOL

I do love the new year.  New beginnings, new challenges and new Inchies! So it is time to start the new year with a new list over at Every Inchie Monday !  YAY! 

Let me ask you a question, don't you hate when you do something the same way for a long time and then think to yourself, "I just now thought of a better way to do this, why couldn't I think about this in the first place?" Well, that was me this week.  I Just thought of making an inchie for each year to attach to the top of each strip of that years inchies.  So I went back and did 2012-2014, and then did one for this year so that I could start this year with an inchie header on it.  Here they all are.

I used some delicas that I recently received from a friend that were not numbered, but I liked using them for this.  Then I attached all the years onto their inchie strips so now I know which one is which years. 

Now, this week's theme is Egg, and I decided to make an Easter egg.  I used 5 colors of Delicas, I loved the pastel colors that I used.  I really like how it looks even if it isn't exactly egg-shaped. 

I do hope everyone has a blessed and creative new year and I do hope that you will decide to join us all over at EIM.  I know that we would all love to see what you come up with.  But, even if you don't feel like joining in on the crafty fun you can drop by and check out all the great artwork over there. 

Take care and have a great one!