As my crochet skills get better I’m trying more difficult projects. This week I’m making some crochet chokers.  Some of them have a very gothic feel. Some are all nature and earth tones, and some are cutesy in pink. These have been SO much fun to design and make.  I normally wouldn’t wear “big” jewelry but I think I might have to make an exception for one or two of these.

You can see the rest of them here.

I’m always putting together some sort of artwork. This week I took a couple of my Goddess paintings and put them on CafePress. So now they’re on Tshirts, mugs and all sorts of things. They look pretty cool. They’re up for sale to the public this way, of course my earnings are miniscule. I’m sure Cafepress is making a killing off of other folks artwork. But its a way to get my name out there and let people see what I can do.Here’s a link to my Squidoo Lens with my Goddess Art on it along with some Links to other nice artwork and artists.

Three coats of paint, lots of cutting and glueing, three coats of sealer, beading and wiring, and finally they’re done. I had fun making them even with all the time involved.

Bohemian style headband with Black Skull or Calavera design stitched on, also some red and black lace. I made these out of some fabric I had around the house and put a couple of them up for sale in my Etsy store. Also made a couple to wear myself.

This one has a goddess motiff and sheer ribbon and metallic seed beads stitched on.

Another sock monkey. His name is Grady and he’s for sale in my Etsy store.

These are some ACEO that I made using packing tape transfers of womens faces over paper with handwritten lines of poetry. I used colored chalks and fine point acid free pens to add touches of color to the black and white images. Some ink stamping was used as well as oil pastels. They’re all sealed with a matte sealer.

These cards are listed Here on Ebay.

I found these sock monkey directions on the internet.
And used them to make the Red Heel Sock Monkey dolls pictured below.

Sock Monkey dolls I made for my grandaughters. I found the cute banana print fabric in the material bin at a local thrift store.

My Cloth Doll photo gallery, mostly primitive folk art dolls.

These are photo’s of a wood cover memory book I just finished. I stained the wood with walnut stain then collaged the front with all sorts of ephemera, ribbons, charms, acrylic paints, oil pastels, copies of vintage photo’s, buttons, a collaged hang tag, vintage sheet music.
Inside the book are sheet protectors, the kind you buy in the office or school supply dept. of any store. I cut scrapbooking papers down to size and put two sheets in each protector. These can be taken out and decorated with photo’s, collage, journaling , etc. The whole book comes apart easily with the two pieces of hardware that screws it together to make working with it easy or to add more pages.

I bought the unfinished book from an online wholesaler of unfinished wood crafts about 8 years ago, they’ve been in a box in the back of my closet for that long. Did some housecleaning and found all sorts of craft projects to play with.
I have this book up for auction on Ebay right now. I included the four collaged tags and the Cricut cut letters shown in the photo’s. My Ebay seller name is briar_rose_prims.

See this auction here.
 

These are a few spreads from an altered book I made with a dark or gothic theme. I used a lot of images of demons and angels.  There are words taken from magazines with phrases like “hells highway” , ” the devils handmaiden”, as well as some tag art done by myself.  The pages are all covered with acrylic paints in black and red with some of the books original art and print showing thru. The first spread features a playing card, the joker from an old vintage Virginia Slims deck. The card has a door cut into it that lifts up to show a couple pages of images that you can flip thru like a tiny book inside the main book. This book is listed in my Etsy store.

 See My Etsy Store.