A clean slate a new year 2012 Has it really been 12 years since the turn of the century! Seems the older I get the faster time goes. Is that the same for the rest of you ? My husband and I have been busy with Santa's workshop and got the things in the mail. All but one arrived on time. So not too bad. Whew! nice to be done with that. Well one of our New Years resolutions is to have things done sooner so we can relax all through the holidays; be done and ready to ship off the first week in December or sooner. Good plan so let's see if we can do it. One step in that direction is I have some ideas for our cards for next year and I discovered two items to use in the card making one of them is envelopes I found in the after Christmas sales. Nice. The other item is remaing unanimous to add to the suspense.
I just did some playing around this time some things I like and others not so much.
First I will tell you about a rather primatave necklace. that came about because of a little clay face I made several years ago. An idea came to me, and I used the face as the focal point. the necklace part is studded with bamboo section beads. assorted yellow glass and wooden beads. I added some yellow sear like beads as a fringe. All this is tied together with nylon variegated yellow and brown cord. I made what I thought was a wall hanging with yoyo's, and both my husband and his niece thought it needed to be a purse. I transformed it into that. It is a re-purpose job. Made with polished cotton yoyo's I made years ago. Also a piece of machine quilted piece that I think was some sort of travel case. The strap is from a tie jeans jumper, Old shirt buttons and a large vintage blue button. with a cream colored square of woven material. I will make someone a nice little bag.
I started a pair of mittens with some odds and ends of yarn I had in my stash. I have never made mittens before so we will see how that goes. I have misplaced my little loom that I made the cuff with. I don't understand how that sort of thing happens, but such is life sometimes. Some nice stripes appeared in the brown thread, I didn't know they where there because this yarn came in a grab bag from the local thrift store. I guess it was sock yarn. I love the warm, soft, earthy colors.
I also worked on a scarf pattern I found online that was supposed to be a weekend project. So I started it Saturday and was able to finish before the New Year rang in. I have never made a project with this fancy yarn before. I had three skeins of it and ended up with a little ball left.
The scarf ended up Six foot five inches not including the fringe which is nine inches long on both ends, so that adds another 18 inches. So it is longer than Brad. Wow! I wore it New Years, it is kind of fun. The yarn is a sort of mish-mash of different yarns and fibers. 40% nylon 32% wool 15% Laine and 13% Acrylic. Some of those things I don't even know what they are made of. It's soft though and kept me warm in the chill.
The necklace is made of assorted vintage chrystal, faceted glass beads green and light lavender with some purple-blue large holed glass beads as spacers. On the end is a vintage green glass foiled bead as a pendant. 
Blue moon, blue chip, Tree of Life necklace, made with some blue stone chips and a shell moon. The trunk is made with blue art wire. and the ring and necklace is made with variegated blue ribbon.
Paper Play is what I call this one. Made up of large paper beads, heavy nylon cord. Accents are with a ceramic heart and a wooded bead and two stone circle disks.
Last of all is something I call Fire and Ice. Red nylon cord holds this one together. Vintage chrystal and red glass beads. On the pendant part is a large vintage glass bead. I also used silver spacer beads and large hole glass beads.
So this wraps up the last of the odds and ends of the year. Now I can start fresh and see what comes up. Enjoy the possibilities.
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