What motivates you?

   Brain drain. Maybe that’s what I have. Or maybe I just needed a few days without crafting. Either way, once again I don’t have any handmade items to share today.

Creative gift-giving is easy with handmade creations

   Gift-giving has changed for me as I have gotten older.

Hooked on wire rings

   I have some more handmade rings to show you. I finally studied a tutorial and as you will see, I became hooked on making them. 

I'm in a black hole of unfinished jewelry

   I thought it might be fun to make some holiday jewelry. Turns out, I’m not in the holiday spirit.

Handmade jewelry for holiday flare

   In addition to accessorizing your everyday wardrobe, jewelry can be used to show holiday spirit.

Grab a bead and wrap it in wire

   Back to the wire work – this time pendants and earrings. I have quite a few large glass beads and wire, so why not give it a try?

The necklace saga continues...

   Necklace ideas aren’t coming to me as quickly as those for earrings and bracelets. I still haven’t completed the beaded mess I have, but I have made a couple of necklaces that give me hope that I may be on to something.

From a necklace to a...crown?!?!

   Earrings, check! Bracelets, check! Hmmmm, perhaps I should move on to necklaces. What kind of necklaces should I make? I keep thinking I need to make something different and eye catching, but without any classes or training I am somewhat limited.

A newbie to handmade jewelry and blogging

   I have turned into a garage girl. Not because I have any particular skill or talent with lawn mowers or leaf blowers or any other piece of equipment, but because I have cats.

   I cannot, and have not dared not try, bead work inside the house with the triplet hurricanes known as Beau, Wolfie and Zuzu. They are four years old and anyone who has indoor cats knows that they own everything.