I mostly write about Fibromyalgia, Chronic Pain, Chronic Fatigue and Invisible Illness, but I do occasionally deviate from these subjects to talk about other things. Today I wanted to share with you some of the crafty stuff I like to work on.
One of the first things I started on quite some time ago was this:
The colour is done in chalk and the leaves are from cut out paper. The lamb is a pin that I found in a box of jewelry. It’s not finished yet, as I’m not sure what I want to do with the rest of it. Maybe something to break up the horizon, or some tiny flowers. I just feel like it’s incomplete somehow so I’ve put it aside until I figure out what to do next. If you have any ideas, leave them in the comments for me.
Other projects I’ve been working on included this mixed piece:
It’s a wall Hanging with Beads and buttons and 3D butterflies and moss grass etc. Mostly I did it to play around with texture. It hangs in the Craft Room/Sewing Room and while it’s pretty simplistic, it was a start.
I’ve also done some very basic flower arranging:
The thing that I seem to be into the most right now is beading. I have been Creating Hanging Beads for outside, including these:
They hang on the beam along the sidewalk by our parking space and serve no purpose except to look pretty. I’m also creating hanging beads that will go in front of the slats of our fence on our back patio, for the same reason:
I’ve put cardboard behind so you can actually see the beads, but they would normally just hang through the slats
I think when it’s done it will look really pretty. I’m going to put a bell on each one so it acts like a wind chime as well. The bell will go where the middle slat is. The ones I showed you are hanging in our front patio and I might make more for there as well. Depend on how many beads I have and how tired I get of stringing them! LOL!
I’m not really very crafty. I have to follow instructions pretty closely in order to do things, but this is pretty easy stuff. I’m hoping the shiny beads will attract more hummingbirds as well…I get a few to my feeder and we have tons of birds around here, so we’ll see. Maybe I’ll scare them all away!!
If you are a crafter, what type of things do you like to do? Leave me a comment to share your favourites and maybe I’ll learn something new!
There is always hope!
