The only thing I fixed was pasta and sauce. Vivi was home sick from school, maybe from all the Valentine’s sweets. Oh, and I fixed her some hot tea, too.
Day 15, #the100dayproject2024, #fixandfinish.
Viv was better the next day, so I headed home for a couple of days. I stopped at Cracker Barrel and found this, on sale!
My sister-law, Pam, loves peacocks and has a new studio at her house, with windows! I took a detour and headed straight for it. I gave her the glass panel, we had a great visit, and I finished my trip home. Day 16, #the100dayproject2024, #fixandfinish.
Day 14, #the100dayproject, #fixand finish. I had plenty to do on Valentine’s Day! I finished this necklace for my daughter.
All it needed was a chain and findings. The stone heart is rose quartz. I bought it at Cherry Tree Beads in Swannanoa, NC. See how the red paper heart hides the logo on the JTV gift box?
I fixed a hammered copper heart I made this Sept. at the JTV Workshop in Knoxville. I just swapped the silver chain they gave us for a copper one. When I torched the heart, it formed a hot pink streak, which is hard to see in this photo.
(I like the torch firing!)
I’d bought Vivi a candle from Natural Life that said, “You are So Loved,”
but I didn’t have the right size gift bag. Then I remembered a white bag a neighbor’s little girl had used to deliver us some Christmas cookies. It had red tissue in it, and I had saved it! I recycled it with red paper hearts I had punched and a heart from a box of conversation candies. Perfect fit!
I didn’t forget my grandson, who just wants money.
I sent my hubs stacked boxes of goodies from Wine Country Gift Baskets. I can reuse the colorful boxes and the ribbon that held them together!
Vivi didn’t want the carnations she had received at school from friends. She left them in my car. I put them to good use. I got this mug on clearance and was afraid to use it to drink from because it had a flaw. I put it to good use, too!
Before I lost my Facebook account because of a hacker, I had gotten to day 13 of the 100 Day Project. I started again on Valentine’s Day so it would be Day 14 on the 14th.
Today, though, I’m jumping to Day 20, and I’ll catch up on the in-between. My theme this year is #fixandfinish. Tonight, I finished cutting and gluing itty bitty envelopes from the Medici collection of printables by RachandBella Crafts on Etsy. They won’t hold much but they are precious! #the100dayproject2024
This is the third year I have participated in the 100 Day Project. The first year I did collage papers. I used the gel plate to print many of them.
Last year I concentrated on bracelets, beads and buttons. I made gemstone ladder stitch bracelets and sometimes fastened them with polymer clay buttons I made myself.
This year, I have chosen, “fix and finish.”
This is a broken necklace that has been waiting years to be fixed. I’ll be documenting what I fix or finish here moving forward.
We made valentines and valentine jewelry, tonight. We ate chicken noodle soup because Vivi wasn’t feeling well. She persevered to get her valentines ready for school tomorrow. No store-bought cards allowed.
Vivi said this was her first piece of “sophisticated“ jewelry. She usually puts some beads on a string and ties it. She learned about crimps and jump rings, and this was her design.This was mine.
Unakite with a hand sculpted mushroom buttonSodalite with a polymer clay buttonDragon’s Blood stone with a TierraCast button, This one was for Adrianne. She picked out the colors.Two for me! Sodalite and Gray Agate with an AB (aurora borealis) coatingThe buttons have been in my sewing drawer for years!Rhodonite with black leather and pink cordUnakite and 1.5mm leather, just to see. Another hand formed mushroom closureFancy jasper, natural turquoise leather, rust cord and a serene polymer clay buttonSunstone with a polymer clay button and Moroccan red leather (orange)Red jasper, brown leather, and a vintage brass French horn buttonMookaite, burgundy leather, and a vintage button from my button basketMorganite, white metallic leather and a sewing box buttonBlack agate, black leather and a TierraCast buttonRhodonite, black leather and an old sweater buttonGray agate with an AB coating, Chandi (lavender) leather and a sweater buttonAventurine, metallic ocean green leather, and a polymer clay buttonWood opal (petrified wood,) dark brown leather and a vintage button from my button basketThis one was on tv! Susan Thomas showed it on The Circle on JTV extra. The theme was Western World. She talked about it on the Jewel School broadcast, the next day, too!!! Stones are mahogany obsidian. The button is TierraCast.Mookaite, burgundy leather, and a polymer clay button I made myselfAventurine, ocean green metallic leather and a handcast polymer clay button
I am loving that ladder stitch!The button is handmade polymer clay, cast from a fondant mold.The beads are 6mm red tiger’s eye from JTV.The leather is turkey red by Leather Cord, USA, and the nylon cord is an unnamed rust color from Bead Smith. Both were ordered from artbeads.com.
Unhinged, I think it looks like a snake skeleton! Thanks, again, to Tracy Proctor from Tierra Cast for teaching me this stitch.
I bought a kit and knitted a bracelet. Then I went crazy and bought different cords and number 6 seed beads in every color I could find. The original was gold, and the second was hot pink. The third was silver-lined crystal knit on silver cord. I lost interest, or a life thing came up, and I never added a clasp.
Today, I found that silver bracelet bagged up with its leftover beads!
I found it in this pink gift bag, and inside are at least a dozen other zipper bags with beads and matching cords!
Freshly baked from polymer clayThe skewered one is a hand sculpted mushroom. The rest are from molds.I used jump rings for shanks this time. The others have holes.
