The Wigglebutt Blog

I had a ton of things I was planning on working on over the weekend in the crafty department, but after writing my previous post, I felt compelled (more like obsessed with the need)  to experiment with making some fall leaves. This is the first batch These were done with acrylic paint. I wasn't sure if I liked them at first but they have grown on me. hahahaha!  I kill me☺ These are the second go-round. On these I used alcohol inks. The color was a lot brighter before they went in the oven. They seem to have lost some of the color during the cure but I still really like them.  They are a little more 'elegant'. Next time around I will try curing then applying the inks and see how that works. After gathering everybody together for this group shot, I realized I like them combined. I still want to try to get the inks brighter  and that will just give me even more variety. That is, after all, why some many people enjoy fall foliage, right? And something else...

Just wanted to share a couple of sites that I have the privilege of enjoying each and every day on my commute to work. Granite Creek (photo was taken from the bridge) Matanuska River Valley This pic shows the colors a little better. They are really vivid in person. My sister and brother-in-law spent a week here a couple of summers ago. When we asked them what they thought of Alaska my brother-in-law said that the mountains were gorgeous but that there were so many trees you couldn't really SEE anything. LOL!  So true ;~)

Let me start this post by saying "I GOT A NEW CAMERA!" "I'M STILL TRYING TO GET USED TO IT!" "I CAN'T SEEM TO TAKE A DECENT PHOTO YET!" Ok.    Now that I have that out of my system,  I have a couple of new things I have finished. Some new image transfer pendants. Some are still waiting for "bails". a new necklace The pendant on this is also an image transfer after some tweeking with photoshop,  the colors are pretty close to what they look like in person I really love the way this came out . It makes me happy ;-) this guy doesn't have a name yet aaand he is also much cuter in person ( and really more of a turquoise color) turquoise, turquoise, turquoise...... the more I type it, the more wrong the spelling looks but spellcheck says it's right Okey dokey... moving on. my next project I'm not usually drawn to pinks but the flower in the transfer on this pendant is just an awesome color this is the origina...

This made me laugh out loud;~)

You might remember back in June, after the baby moose and rabbit attacks, I had one remaining cauliflower plant. I didn't mention it back then, but I also had two tomato plants in those 'topsy turvy' planters on my front deck along with a single pepper plant. ( I had a fantasy of making a couple jars of my own salsa.) Wellllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll....................  both tomato plants came down with blight.  They died. The pepper plant DID produce 1 pepper (so far).  It does have 4 blossoms on it currently but I don't know if there is enough time for them to fully grow before the weather turns. As for the single cauliflower plant, it was coming along slowly, due to the 32 straight days of rain we have had here in Alaska. ( This has been a record setting summer.  We have had the coolest and wettest summer ever recorded.  Someone even figured out that if you took all the rain we have had since Memorial Day and converted it to snow we would have 14 fee...

My current addiction seems to be making pendants (see crappy picture below) Some with alcohol inks, but most with image transfer, I certainly haven't mastered it, but I'm getting WAAAY better at it. (see crappy picture above) These still need their bails. And when I go to make a necklace, even just a single one,  I always seem to end up with this. You see... I have yet to organize my beads. They are not organized by color or by size or by material. They are just perfectly random, and since I don't have the patience or time to organize right now, I have started trying to build more than one necklace at a time, sorta.... While I have my boxes of randomness spread out on the floor all around me, I kind of pick out what I want to go with each pendant.  Not necessarily the AMOUNTS  I will use, just the KIND I think I will use. I just toss a few of each kind in a little box with the pendant so when I get ready to string it I can just go straight to the sto...