Showing posts with label soldered bottles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label soldered bottles. Show all posts

Monday, November 4, 2013

let's play catch up (again)...

Hello! I missed all of October here in blogland... I can't even believe it myself. It has been a wild ride of doing shows almost every weekend and spending the week preparing for them.   To get you a little up to date on what I've been up to I went through the pics on my phone going backwards from most the recent ones and stopped when I figured you were saying "enough already!"



I made shadow box pendants for last weeks show, and a customer had me marry two necklaces together as we chatted a bit.  I love how it turned out!  I may have to take a second look at some of my stock!



Here are some repurposed glass bottles with vintage ornament toppers for Christmas.   The show was the Recycled Art Market.  It's one of my favorites because everything you make has to be at least 50% recycled.  Right up my alley! 



Soldered bottles, some with pearls, some with feathers, some with little trees... They come with a chain to be worn but they look great on the tree too.



 pumpkins, bottles, vintage button rings, and soldered ornaments hanging from repurposed feather trees made by my brother Wil.  Plus the lavender laundry and cleaning goods in the background.



the worktable...

Max the zombie making his rounds on Halloween with his buddies.  Yes, you have to RUN between houses when the city only gives you 2 hours to gather as much candy as your pillowcase can hold!



And YES, at our house you still trick or treat when you're in high school as long as a costume is involved... especially if you made yourself a sweet fairy forest deer costume 



...most especially if you stand long enough for a zillion pics for your mom.



Vintage button rings from my stash of beautiful metal buttons, most were given to me by a dear friend so I could repurpose them... Thanks Judy! xoxo

 Our newest addition to the lavender goodness - Lavender Carpet Freshener!  Lavender buds, and lavender oil along with natural freshening agents to freshen your carpets and vacuum as you clean.  It's really lovely and makes your home smell fabulous!


I put our heron decoy in this apple picking bag a while ago, and he got a fall makeover with corn tassels.


Every birthday should end with you falling asleep in the car hugging your new best friend that your sister bought for you at the cider mill!

...because this is how much fun you had at said cider mill!  Happy #11  Max!  xoxoxo 




Speaking of new best friends, have you met Captain yet?  When we got him in August the humane society called him a 'lab mix'. We are pretty sure now that the 'mix' is Great Dane.  He's much bigger than this already!  

But he's ALL puppy!


Sometimes I play with apps on my phone for Instagram.  This one is my fave by Rhonnadesigns.  

I think i heard someone In the back yell "enough already!" so I'll stop now.  Thanks for playing catch up with me!  This is the first time I've blogged from my phone, we'll see how it goes, maybe I could blog more often and not have to recap an entire month!

I hope that you are having a wonderful autumn!  Thanks for stopping by!
Love, t.xoxo
















Tuesday, May 24, 2011

today seems to have gotten away from me...

You know the kind of day I'm talking about.
The kind where you just keep washing clothes but the pile doesn't seem to get smaller?

In between doing laundry
I did manage to get some new soldered pendants done.



after I made a pendant with the top portion of this photo, I spied the bottom half with the couples feet in my scrap pile and said... 'wait a minute...'

me+you=bliss

is the back.



These photos are from an old photo album that I bought at a garage sale two years ago.
I decided to break ot the big guns for the new pendants and these are the original
photos.  So these are of course OOAK never to be remade.
In some ways that makes me a bit sad but at the same time I do love using an original to make an original.




oh to wander the open sea...

I gotta say goodnight~
to tired for chit chat~

thanks for stopping by!

love,
Theresa xoxo



p.s. these will be listed in The Old White House by tomorrow so they can be added to your prize choices!

If you haven't entered the giveaway
check it out here. xoxooxox


linking up to some of my favorite parties!
White Wednesday
Wow Us Wednesday

Monday, April 11, 2011

can't. stop. soldering....




really. truly.

I have more ideas in my head than I can keep up with.

really. truly.
I think this time I will just fill you up with pictures and save you from the rattle that is going on inside my noggin...


old blue bottle, hello dolly china doll head, rhinestones... uh yeah.


 you know this girls deserves that and more!  Look at how sweet she is with her demure little smile. I think she looks remarkably like the doll head. 



The french postmark tag is where she always wanted to go.
I hope she got there.

oh yeah, it's my story... she got there and filled herself on croissants, wine and cheese!

and wore rhinestones ofcourse!


 

 on to my gypsy girl...
 swimming in pearls...

 bringing her bling...
cuz you know she's got some bling!


The back of the photo says '28
love that! 
I know you do too, we are made of the same cloth.

it's one of my favorite things about you.

 Her photo is actually inside of the bottle so the pearls can shake around her like a gypsy snow globe!



 you know I love my birds...



 unless they're pooping on my windshield.


 this one would never do that, certainly not after I gave him some rhinestones and a soldered charm.
a charm with his daily duties... his ta~da list so to speak!


 He is a plastic light from a vintage strand I think, I have a red one too, but they didn't come with a set or anything, so they. must. be. soldered.
 : O


 here you can see the jewels inside his bottle.
this is why the soldered bird sings!


 I love them all but I have saved my favorite for last...
I love this lady, I don't know who she is but I just love her gentle nature that shows up in this photo.


 Oh my gosh, I want to be her when I am old.
I might even wear that fabulous dress with the ruffle going down to the bottom.
did you hear me?

a ruffle all the way to the floor!!!
She has our style girls!


She had to have the crown. and this fabulous finial.


 She is standing in front of what I am assuming is her prize plant in her garden.
So I put dried rose petals in her bottle and hung a monopoly wheelbarrow game piece from a jump ring that I soldered to it, and a religious medal and her soldered charm that says garden queen.

 I left plenty of room so that you could see the writing on the back of the photo.



WHEW!!!!

o.k. so much for saving you from the rattle...


I JUST CAN'T HELP MYSELF!!!!!!!

So with all of this soldering you can probably imagine that I have a bit of house~tending to do!
I better get to folding some laundry because this morning Max went to school with mismatched socks.

just keeping it real people.

Thanks for the visit!


love, 

Theresa xoxo



I'm linking up to a few parties right now because I'm not sure how long this house~tending is going to take! Because these are all listed in my etsy... The Old White House
I'm linking up first to the Bloggers Bodega

WHEW!!!

that's a whole lotta partying going on at 612!