i spy a charm

It's been a very unusual winter here in Michigan. With a total snow fall of what we can get in one day. The middle of March is here and we are having mid to high 70 degree weather. Then today I wake up to fog.. fog so thick its scarey. Ok enough of that...

I love charms.. I look at things thinking that would be a cool charm. I have acquired quite a large collection of Art Charms. My UFO (unfinished object) project this week is related to this collection of charms. I put together a necklace.

I participate in several swaps a year. It's fun to see what others come up with for the theme or how they use a object.

Lets play a game of I SPY... see if you can find a charm you may have created for me.

I had received a cloth necklace in a swap. I wanted to use that as my base. I wove it through a length of oxidized silver link.

I mixed my metals. Using mostly silver, copper and black. But as you can see there are a couple of golds in there too.

I attached the chain to the cloth by sewing it and then tied knots. This served two purposes. One to hide the stitching and the other to adjust the overall length.

I'm not sure each charm has found its exact placement yet. I'm sure I will fuss budget around and move one or two.

I wore it to town yesterday and received great revues. I'm sure it will become one of my go to pieces.

Life interrupted .... what a week

Where to start.. it's been a creative and very stressful week. First off those of you that know me, it's been a tense week, my son that is stationed in Afghanistan is changing bases, due to several factors. The biggest being that France and Canada are exiting the conflict. So contact with him has been hit and miss. Now onto the big trauma for the week. My dog was severely injured. His under belly cut open. After what Dr. Melissa (not my daughter) thought would be simple stitches turned into surgery. We have no clue how this occurred. We have looked at every nook and cranny of our property, to find no clue as to what has happened.

The creative part of my week. The past week has been doing a blog hop/book tour over at Remnants of Olde. What a awesome hop. If you haven't had a chance to check it out, you should. Find the link in a post further down.

I kicked off the Cloth RR on my yahoo group AlteredWithOutLimits this week. There is 5 of us playing and we will be creating a page for each of our themes. I chose Steampunk.. I will now share my pages. I can't wait to see what the others do with this theme. The images I used for my sign in page are from The Sum of All Crafts

As usual my idea turned into something a little different. This is my entry in a swap I'm doing with Art-e-zine. It's the first time I have played with these ladies, but must admit I have wanted to for a long time. The size was a little tricky for me.. 3 x 3.5 with a 1/2 inch added for binding.

I used pieces from a quilt that my husbands grandmother had made as my base. Grams was a avid quilter using fabrics from just about anything she could. Now days we would call her a recycler... but in her time it was out of necessity and a upbringing of waste not, want not... I have collected a few of her quilts from family over  the years. The rest of my assembly was done with fabric transfer paper onto chiffon with some lace. Humpty is made from half a wooden egg.

This was a fun swap. I have a zillion other ideas for other rhymes. Looks like I have a book of my own in the making.

It's been one of those months. Out to Missouri to help my daughter out. Back home working on some updating and repairing of our home before the kids come home in July.


Here is a 1 for 1 swap that I did with my AWOL group. It went in a totally different direction that I had started.