CHRISTMAS IS JULY!

I have been so blessed this month that I have decided to thank all of my loyal customers with a CHRISTMAS IN JULY Sale in my Etsy Shop.  EVERYTHING is 20% off!  Just use the coupon code XMASINJULY when you check out.
Thank you for all of your patronage and encouragement!

Heads Up!

I've added Vintage Porcelain Hummel Heads, broken from their figurine bodies, to my ETSY Shop.  Perfect for doll reconstructs and assemblages.......I have many more heads to list in the future, too!  Heads were unearthed from Thuringia, Germany (same town as the frozen charlottes and bisque doll parts)

...also, these bizarre vintage (1970's)  bendable rubber dolls......kinda grotesque, but great as armatures for your own original doll....

practicing Yoga in the Nude

MY BIG PRIZE!

Last week I was told by Ray of  LARK BOOKS that i was their big facebook winner

The Biggest and Bestest Gallery Book

 Giveaway in the History of Our

 Universe.....

  (a random drawing from everyone who commented on their post)  JUST LOOK at this amazing prize!

...it came in 5 boxes.....
24, yes  TWENTY FOUR of their thick gorgeous art inspiration books- - chockful of marvelous artists in every medium and incredible awesome art........a whole library of eye candy!   just look at those titles!

Thank you Lark Books! 
 (...and especially Ray!)
Lark Books ROCK!
Lucky, lucky me!

New Toys!

My DH (Lance) was so smitten with my Singer 66 Red Eye that he has started to collect antique sewing machines. The red eye was made in America in 1910 and has gold and red decals with a "red eye" pattern. The picture below is the newest one that just arrived from England - a 1939  99K....it came in a beautiful wood case with a key lock and accessories, in perfect working order and gorgeous condition. The "k" means it was made at Singer in Scotland, the largest factory in the world at the time with over 7,000 workers and 1 million square feet. The 99K  is the little brother to the 66, being 2/3 the size. He also bought another beauty off of ebay, a 1918 "lotus" 66K....which will arrive any day now.  It is called a lotus because the decals are gold and green with Egyptian lotus motif.

...please ignore my totally messy shop table.....

.....and a few new things in my Etsy Shop!

pewter gargoyle necklace

...a seated pewter cherub stone angel, about 2 1/2 inches high....

the stone angel has cute butt cheeks peaking out from the drape.....

Remembering Mama

5 years...oh my, hard to believe!  Today is the 5th Anniversary of my amazing mother's departure from this earth.  I am sure she is enjoying many a new adventure in her new dimension.  I love that she stills comes to me with her infectious laugh and big expressive eyes in my dreams.  So calming!

...miss you mama......sigh.

New Pewter for My ETSY Shop

...a few new items I have made for my shop that will be listed soon.....

these are already made, so what you see is what you get....

A delicate silver plated pewter bird with a swarovski wild heart AB crystal on a sterling silver chain.  The neckchain is also sterling..

 ...two vintage silver plated forks formed into a bracelet with a sterling clasp, pewter bird, and stainless steel split rings.....

a pewter crow with 2 wild heart swarovsky crystals hanging from sterling chain....on a stainless steel ball chain....

...another crow, this one without the crystals, and a dark patina...

 a pewter skull on a stainless steel 4.2 mm thick ball chain....

 a pewter troll (with quite a GRIMACE!) on a much thinner ball chain....

i like his little butt....

Finished projects, at last....

 MORE PEWTER......

gargoyle miniature- about 1 1/2 inches (he's on a stand ...and he's pewter (silver colored) not gold...must be the light i used.

...This is a set of 12 chinese zodiac marbles that I just finished.......

monkey

rat

tiger

chinese dragon

rabbit

snake - it has 2 heads, one on the top and one on the bottom..

and then i just finished.....

these 3 all have similar features- but are different - rat, goat and ox
hmm
i seem to be missing the rooster........

tiny skull beads

                          crow bead - made this without feet too, and patinaed the recesses black.....
 

hand beads...i also made even TINIER hand beads, about 1/2 this size....

foot beads

bottom of foot beads

front of troll

back of troll

tiny charms (i din't make these...but i have a bunch of 'em)

large skull bead

heart back...

Add caption

heart bezel? (another one i didn't make)

wedding charm back (another i didn't make)

front

tiny bird bead

angel miniature

fat cat

haven't added anything to the shop yet, but if anything interests you, let me know .....
tomorrow is mow day... after i go to the dump and the post office, that is.  If i have time i will post pics of DOVE EARRINGS  (suggested and made for the fabulous JANE) as well as the progress I have made on my LEATHER PURSE. So far, so good.  I did have a problem with $99 sewing machine.  haha!  so Lance bought me an antique singer red-eye (1909!) which is supposed to sew thru the leather like butter.  It has been given an electric motor, but Lance is converting it to a hand-crank.... Stay Tuned!