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2025 Make 100 blue, white and silver ornament challenge

I am doing a fun and interesting challenge this year. My husband asked if next year we could have a blue and white tree. Green tree, just blue and white ornaments. We added silver , but no gold at his request, and a challenge for myself was born !!! I need to make at least…
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Leg Lamp Beaded Ornament tutorial

I am posting a video on this ornament on my channel and will post a link below, but wanted to show pictures of all the items I used to create this fun leg lamp ornament first I take the leg lamp cookie cutter, a ink stamp pad in a color that will show up on…
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Creating a lot of earrings to sell

I will be selling in a booth at a craft fair in October and decided to make up a bunch of earrings to bring. I thought it would be fun to do both a YouTube Video and a blog post about it since I had it all out anyway. link to the video here I…
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Halloween skull Earrings

I got out my beads for the first time in a long time and had fun playing with them and designing some Halloween Skull earrings. I will be doing other types of Halloween earrings but I wanted to do a tutorial on my YouTube channel so I did only the skull earrings for this blog…
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Steampunk Jewelry I made for a friends birthday

This is one that only means something to the recipient, something I could not resist making for her ! Her black cat keeps getting into her coffee so she started keeping a coke on her desk so when he knocks it off, she will not have a spill on her hands. Her cat is black,…
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Creativity is a Work in Progress

I have been posting here about finding my creativity again and I finally decided it is a jump in with both feel and just start creating and that is what I am going to be doing. I have always found when I create, I create, it is just how it works. The more I create,…
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Creativity still in progress…

I wrote my post on creativity in April. It is now mid July and I am no closer to figuring out what in the world I want to do with myself. I look around me at all the wonderful things in my studio. All the things I could do, and all the things I can…
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Being Creative in todays world

I have been thinking a lot about creativity and what makes me happy . I look back to around 2012 or so, and I was an active blogger and blog reader. I did not really know that YouTube existed and I was in my studio all day creating, writing,reading other blogs, as well as books,…
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Beaded Christmas Charm tutorial

I decided to do my tutorials differently . I will do a short video on YouTube but post pictures of the process on here as the actual tutorial. I can show pictures of the finished items and it will be a nice way to show people not only how to make the items but have…
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When Creativity leaves you stranded

We take creativity for granted . We fill our spaces with materials to create with, whether we are painters, crafters, jewelry makers, writers, artists or poets. We fill our spaces with the things that help us to create. Sometimes that no longer works. The things we have done for so long, leave us feeling empty…