I've been busy!!

Last Saturday Sam and Marian spent the day installing some fancy exhaust on our car, so I had the apartment to myself to make a giant mess of craftiness. I've been on a roll ever since and have more pictures to take, so expect more fun soon!
I have a healthy obsession with ribbon. Grosgrain, satin, solid, printed, thick, thin, it all makes me so happy. Ribbon + plaid = 2 of my favorite things in the world. If I could somehow add kittens and hot wings to this pin, I would just die. The small one is made from an opal pendant my mom has had forever. I think it sort of looks like a Girl Scout badge.
As usual, inspired by the Red Velvet Art girls.
When I worked for an architect in Columbus, I salvaged an upholstery sample book from his trash can with these awesome leather samples. Did you know you could get metallic copper leather upholstery?! Or teal horsehair? Or white alligator?
I look like I am 7 years old. This is why people always call me an elf, I guess. Wow, I totally am an elf.
I wish it actually got cold enough in Phoenix for me to wear this scarf, but it hasn't been, so far, and probably never will be. Guess I'll save it for PA/OH visits! I forgot to get a detail photo, but it has dark purple crochet trim around the neck and a giant button that closes it at the back.
When I was little I had these things called "pop beads" that had nubs on one end and holes on the other end so you could pop them together and apart as your little heart desired. These red beads were originally one long necklace but it reminded me too much of pop beads, so I modernized it as a triple strand on satin ribbon.

This one is my favorite. This poor locket has been missing its chain for who knows how long and I finally figured out the perfect way to use it! However, I do not own one thing I can wear it with...

This is another one of the pieces my mom gave me recently and it still has the wedding photo inside that she put there in the 70's. I'm thinking about putting one of our wedding photos in the other side. :) I
And finally, our Christmas wreath. The letters are little Christmas cookie ornaments. Is our door cool, or what? It makes such a great background.

Yay! It's been so fun making all of this stuff. I have stuck my fingers to the glue gun countless times, yet all the burns are worth the joy it gives me to be creating.

I also just taught Sam how to use Photoshop, which turned out to be much more dangerous than I could have expected. He is obsessed with pimping out our car and now he can do it virtually, over and over and over. So far he has lowered it, added a body kit and side graphics. He is already just about as advanced as I am with the software, the dork.