Thing a day - some of my things so far

I am taking part in a Thing a Day (TAD) for February challenge on the PCC forum and have really been enjoying it. So far I have managed to make something everyday and I am really enjoying it. I have posted them all in my Flikr set Thing a Day February 2012 but thought I would share a few of them here too so you can see what I have been up to. That's not all of them - go to flickr if you want to see them all. Kids are on school holidays this week, I am aiming to keep up with the TAD but might struggle to blog too. I will update you with my latest things soon. Have a good week!

Barrette

Stud earrings with resin

Here's what I did with those buttons

Heart brooch

Flower bud earrings

Love cats

Well the inevitable happened - the hearts and the cats collided on my workbench and here they are ....

The Love Cats

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Don't forget you can find the free tutorial to make your own little cats here http://www.carajane.co.uk/2012/01/my-sleeping-cat-tutorial.html

I am really happy to email you a PDF, couldn't find an easy way to share the PDF for download - must look into that (feel free to let me know if you know one!!!).

Thanks of those of you who have got in touch by email, comments here or on Facebook it's great to hear from you and I really, really  appreciate your feedback. Would love to see some more photos if you get a chance to make your own cats.

Lovingly Handmade Hearts

Along with the heart earrings I also made some brooches. These took a bit longer to finish as I discovered I didn't have any badge backs the right size, didn't think about that when I started making them! I forgot to take a picture of the back which is a shame as they are very neatly finished. I will try and show you another brooch back when I have made some more. They were lovingly hand polished to a glass like shine with wet and dry sand paper and then micromesh polishing cloths.

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They have gone off to Tenderfoot, a wonderful local gift shop that sells handmade treasures made in Bristol.

Are you thinking about Valentines day yet? Are you a fan of Valentines day? I like the sentiment of it and will always make a card for my husband and write a note to remind him how special he is to me but I am not big on the commercial side of it. We don't do flowers or gifts (unless it's a special little handmade something) or going out for over priced meals!

Love is in the air....

Well people are starting to think about Valentines Day and I am seeing many other people creating hearts so I decided I would play with hearts too. I have a fair bit of work in progress but here are some finished earrings. They will be my earrings for my week 2 of the 52 pairs of earrings a year challenge I am taking part in on Flickr.  The middle ones are studs, I finally got round to ordering some earring posts!

I often see people put little collages of their jewellery and think how great they look so I gave it a go. I ended up using  desktop publishing software - if anyone has any photo collage software/tips I'd be grateful if you let me know.

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Hearts

Here's some images of some custom hearts I made before Christmas. They are hand size, so you can hold them in your hand. I made them from hearts shaped out of scrap clay, covered with cane slices.

and a couple of close ups of what I think are my favourites, although that changes every time I looked at them.