Wednesday's Work 01

This has been a fun mail week as I ordered 20lbs of junk jewelry to work on some new stitch collages and art quilts and harvest for beads.

Here is a picture of the box of jewelry when I opened it:

It may not look like much, but I actually pulled out some really nice things - a sterling silver necklace and a turquoise pendant being some of the biggest highlights.

I also deconstructed a ton of necklaces that yielded me over 108+ different types of beads and tons of pendants so that will be a lot of fun to incorporate into new Story Strands bracelets and adding beading to my stitch collages.

It’s been awhile since I‘ve done anything with fabric and thread so it has really been fun to get back into it, even if my stitching is a bit wonky.

New Stitch Collage in Progress: Riverside Theme

This is my current project I started working on a few weeks ago and I am really happy with how it is coming along! I still have so much to add to it (especially more embellishments - I haven’t even added buttons or beads yet!)

The theme of the collage is river side living - because that is our dream one day is to live along some water somewhere where we can lookfor cool pebbles and shells or go fishing or just enjoy the view!

Here are some close-ups:

It is so fun to make these so I can’t wait to keep adding to it. It is the perfect activity to do while Ray and I watch football together!

I still have a lot of jewelry and beads to go through, but I'm hoping to start creating collections for sale, I love going through everything and making kits just as much as I enjoy making things!