I had fun today and yesterday making pendants out of leftover glass marbles, beads and 24 gauge wire I had from a craft project. They are now re-purposed into wearable art! The process is really just wrapping the main marble with wire creating a loop at the top at the same time and then taking a blue wire and beads and twisting those around the edges of the pendant. Voila! Fast and really pretty.

This month has definitely been active with Father’s day and the new baby and trying to fit in some summertime fun for the kids. But, I did get to squeeze in some time at my table making place mats for Father’s day and here is one of the Fanciful mats.

I also got to finish more Thank you cards all with a pink girl theme.

I hope your July will be filled with beauty! Take time to capture it!

Love, love, love crayons and coloring but we had tons of pieces and decided to recycle them into new ones. I kind of did my own twist on the melting down and mold process, I used the same color family for each new crayon and poured them into soap molds. It took about 2.5 minutes in the microwave on paper plates and then about an hour for the new seashell crayon to be hard. VERY hot craft so have an adult do the melting and pouring and wear an oven mitt!

I loved the melted wax colors!

Well, June came in with a sweet surprise Baby shower from our small group leaders Adam and Rachel! They had this lovely flower arrangement waiting for us, baby petit fours and gifts! How sweet. We also celebrated my other baby’s, now 4, birthday with an impromptu Speed racer party. It was fun to mix and match all of the birthday supplies from my pantry cabinet and he loved it! We even had a racing stripe bandana from our dress up box that did double duty as a table runner. Inexpensive and really fun. I also did some more “recycling” this week with a vintage pattern from my great grandma and a white dress that was going to the dump, but I reclaimed it and spruced it up with our baby’s initial. Sweet and free project! I hope you have fun this summer in a creative way!

recycled baby dress

Barbie and Ken giftset

the birthday boy and family

The month of May has come and almost gone in a flurry of celebrations, Mother’s Day, my Husband’s Graduation from U of H Clear Lake, our 10th Anniversary and an online art swap.

Mother’s day card

close up

Getting ready for the ceremony

2009 Graduate University of Houston- Clear Lake

Art Blast ATC Swap for Art Chix Studio

Art blast ATC closeup of Mother Bird