My first Mosaic

Well, the picture is terrible. I took it with my phone and then forgot to get a good picture at the party. But anyway, Leigh is the (hopefully) proud owner of my 1st piece of mosaic. It was in her birthday gift bag from me. Ah, the lure of glass crafts. I'm hooked!!

:-)

Peace

Christmas is the busy season...........

I've went on a Xmas ornament bing last week. That was fun. Of course there will be more pics of other crafty stuff after the gift giving season. But there has been lots of crafty activity.

Attended the SIU Craft show.
Took a beginners mosaics class.
Got my last batch of fused glass from the SIU Craftshop kiln.
Tried to attend the Belleville Craft show (funny story).
Had the Shawnee Weavers Guild over for a Xmas potluck meeting.
Our Wednesday Nite Craft Club will be having a workshop this next coming Sunday.
Might do some more organizing in my craft shed today (its warmish)

:-) Peace

Long time no see

I have been busy as you can see on my other blog, but I have also been crafting. Just some things couldn't/can't be reported on (Xmas is coming fast!!)
I can now report on glass fusion. Robb and I took a class at SIU Craft shop Oct 18th. We had lots of fun. Some turned out and some didn't, but we learned from it. (make sure you use compatible glass, make sure your glass is clean) Anyway, here are some before and after pictures on the trivets I made and gave to Dad and Christel for belated birthday gifts.

Before

After

Robb and I took Sunny to the Craft shop last Saturday to teach her glass fusion. (she picked it up real fast, she is very artistic) They are not firing these pieces until Wednesday and they won't be done till Thursday, so I will show those later this week.

In other crafty news, Nancy and I went to the JALC Craft Show Sunday. Very nice stuff. And Saturday night I started a macrame anklet as a belated birthday gift for Sandy. (she knows and picked out her design and beads) Can't wait to go to our weekly Club meeting Wednesday night, I have missed 2 in a row and I miss everyone!!!!

:-) Peace

Doris's Birthday

We had a lovely dinner at Newell House in C'dale. YUM! A few of the Club members are sick (bad timing for them) so our crew was smaller than usual but no less fun. I can now report on her gift from me. It was a knotted necklace from my new book "Chinese Knots for Beaded Jewellry". It has a Prosperity Knot

and double button sliding closure and is made in her sorority colors.

My first Knotted Project!
:-) Peace

Not much time........

this week for crafting or posting about crafting. (see shed project on my other blog) But I did manage to start 2 projects we have to call Birthday-Carmel (my niece) while Robbie gave a lesson Monday night. And today I am starting on Birthday-Doris (fellow club member). Both should be revealed next week.

Wednesday night at Club we did another painting lesson. Results above and below. As you can see I need lots of practise, but I do kind of like my roses!
:-)Peace

p.s. link to original paint workshop post on other blog