Simple Drop Earrings

I'm not a jewelry person. I've made a couple of pair of earrings simply by hanging a charm from a hook with a jump ring. That is as crafty as I've gotten with jewelry making, until today.

This morning I took a pair of eye pins, some seed beads, and matching dangly beads (see how technical I am) and I made the most complicated pair of earrings I've ever tackled on my own.

Now, when I say complicated you have to take that term lightly cause they were not complicated at all, but I think they are pretty anyway. Fall colors and everything.

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Journal Calendar Grids

Here are some more calendar grids in my journal. It seems to be all I'm doing lately.

First is August's "finished" calendar. I stopped filling it in about halfway though the month.
You can also see August's Before calendar HERE.



I didn't even make September's calendar until the end of the second week, but have gone back and filled in the days I missed.

I couldn't think of anything I wanted to paint, or colors I wanted to use for backgrounds.

The background is from a local newspaper called Skirt. It fit my pages almost perfectly to use as a background. I just cut out and glued down white squares for my dates.



If you click the pictures or visit their large flickr image page you can read what is written in the squares, if you so wish to do.

Baby Stamp Set Giveaway

Hello my artsy, craftsy people! I wanted to take a moment today to tell you about a clear stamp set being given away by favecrafts.com! Its a set of baby themed stamps.

Here it is:



You have to enter to win this stamp set, not with me (of course) but with Favecrafts. Just visit THIS LINK RIGHT HERE and it will tell you how to enter to win this fantastic set!

Contest ends August 28, 2009. You can enter once daily, so return often to improve your chances of winning!

Calendar Grids and Entrecard Top Droppers

July's calendar all filled up. Well, finished anyway, I guess its not all filled up yet.



I painted August's grid last night. Its brand new and empty.

Also, my Top Droppers for the past month are as follows:

Dropper	# of drops
Autumnal Confessions & SexyAdvice	12
Mr. Sound N' Mrs. Sound	10
Sexy Old Broad	8
Pat's Encaustics - Art in the Wax	8
Audrey's Country Crafts	6
Lap Band Progress	4
Ungkutan	4
WillOaks Studio	3
Patsy's Words of Wisdom	3
Doi Speaks	3

Gluebook Pages C, D, E

C is for the country life. I miss living in the country.



D is for Dorks and Dangerous Boys



E is for Envy

Letter prompts "a" and "b"

I was at a loss for "Letter A". I ended up flipping through an old "Pet Products News" I had lying around, and snipping critters out of the ads and gluing them randomly on the page.



The "Letter B" I got a little more creative with. B is for Body Image, and tried to do SOMETHING with the collage other than randomly slap stuff on paper. -grin-

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