Fox bracelet and necklace

I have taken time in middle of getting my garden ready to create a few new designs . I really like the way this fox necklace and bracelet turned out .......

Snow peas !

Here are part of my snow peas coming up and pots of yummy leaf lettuce. 
All the hard work is worth it so know I will have plenty of organic garden produce . It would be a shame to let such a nice backyard go to waste with just grass also. 

YES......my vacation was all about dirt and more dirt..no sandy beaches :(

So here is today's dirt report :) I was able to fill in alot of the new raised beds.  I will have to wait now till next week to get more dirt when i get paid  . But i have plenty of weeds to chop out with my hoe to keep me busy till I do.I have squash planted in all of these with a sunflower planted in one corner of each box. Will draw the bees hopefully

Here is the bigger garden area . This is not on this weeks list to work on. The tires will have potatoes and other stuff planted in them. I still have to mulch around them and fill them with dirt. Then rest of area has to be all turned in under once more before planting corn and my winter squashes . Will start on all this in week or so......

This raised bed has to be filled with dirt still also ......Now ya see why i had to have a week off to get all this done .:)
I have to do this much dirt every couple of years .If i hadnt decided to do all the new areas it wouldnt have been so much

My vacation is speeding by

My week of vacation is speeding by way too quick. I have today and friday left of it . I have enjoyed every moment of it . Getting my hands and feet in the garden dirt has been so relaxing......even though i had to carry 2 truckloads of mulchy dirt  at first. I am adding some bags of topsoil to the new garden beds rest of this week . I will finish it all up come next payday and then get those planted. Right now i have lima beans..........snow peas......alaska peas ......corn...sunflowers and part of my tomato plants in the ground . I have so many more yummy plants to get started yet.Some I will have to wait on the corn to come up a bit as i plant to grow them up the cornstalks for support .I still have plenty to keep me busy these 2 days.
I did get a plum tree planted in the front yard this week and mulch around the lilies. Then i got all the old blackberry canes cut done on the fence by the driveway. Every 4 years or so I have to do this cause they all die out. Now the new ones will come up this summer . I found a rose bush under them all . No idea where it came from :)

I did get a chance to make up 2 batches of soap ( 6 pounds in all) Using lemon juice gave me a pleasant pale yellow color in the one batch  . I added lemon peel and yellow rose petals on top. The lemon scent didnt stay with it though .

I finished watching my dvd series "ANGEL" also at night . I was able to start my new Locker Hooked rug while doing so . I decided to do blocks in this one . I am using fleece and sweat pant material .

First 2 days of my vacation :)

Way in the back you can see the big garden area ...I have work to do there all this coming week .

I am vacationing in my yard this week :)  I have awesome friends who went and picked up 2 truckloads of free mulch dirt  for me Sat . It was free from the city mulch giveaway........ I have it just about all carried..will finish it up here after lunch . I will still need alot more for the back garden area but i cant buy  that quite yet . I did get 20 bags of topsoil from Home Depot ...was on sale 98 cents a bag yesterday .....

New Pieces ........

 Here are more of the images I have used with the bamboo tiles ....they will all make a striking design for necklaces .The feathers will be turned into Southwestern designs as the summer goes along...

The butterfly design is actually a barrette but i am going to turn it into a bracelet

Ladies Riding Sidesaddle Designs

I have always loved pictures of ladies riding sidesaddle ..They look so elegant ...... I decide to turn a few of the ones i have collected into altered art designs ..... Here they have been modpoged on bamboo tiles to be later wirewrapped........I also like to collect images of cowgirls from the old west.. This is a larger piece i am making as a house warming gift for a friend :)

Yay Spring !!!!!!!!!

I am so excited that warmer weather is here finally !! I spent this weekend in the yard picking up limbs off the neighbors tree and cutting down the old blackberry canes ...they sure have the thorns !! 
I think i deserve a brownie for all the work i have done :)  
If it dont rain here in bit I am gonna put the potting soil in the containers and put my peas in them . When they get big nuff I will transfer them pot and all to their garden spot.

Here is my  first locker hooked rug after i finished it . PLaning to start another one in few days :)

Soon To Be a Grape Arbor ........

This is the beginning of a small grape arbor for my backyard. I put  4 ft landscape timbers in the ground and they are about 8 ft apart . I still have to buy timbers to be put across top the other ones next month.  I bought 2 of the red seedless.suffolk grapes at Home Depot last week . The plants are trying to grow like crazy in the house ............I can put them out quite yet as we still have alot of cold weather that could happen. Hoping they can do ok in the house for couple more weeks .

Pheasant Feather Hair Clips

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Here is another of the pheasant feather hair clips that i have been creating. I used blue peacock feathers as an under color. I added freshwater pearls and jade along with a larger piece of a lapis and malachite  bead . I am wearing it today..makes me feel "girlish" at my age :)

My first rug.....

My first locker hooked rug is coming along nicely ...very time intensive but i enjoy it and the finished rug will be so thick and warm.

Stamps in altered art jewelry

I will try to get a better pic of these later today. I used a vintage foreign stamp for these 2 pieces . Both are very bright and colorful designs . They will look good with a solid color dark shirt.
I am finally getting down to the stash of odds n ends of things i have saved over the last year or two that i thought would be interesting turned into jewelry.

soap !!!!!!

I made 6 pounds of soap today :)  Now has to sit a few weeks and harden up .The deep purple dried roses were a nice finishing touch to it

More new designs ......

I have had so much fun relaxing this last week and designing wearable art ..aka jewelry :) Here are few more of my designs I made Sunday .........

Projects the last 24 hrs :)

Rug Hooking Video on youtube

Great video on YOUTUBE on locker hooking .see how fun it is ..... .here

Sold Designs

These designs are sold...they went to a friend who works at UKY  to wear blue and white day ......I think they turned out really fun with a bit of funky thrown in with the earrings ...........