The Wigglebutt Blog

During the summer months I usually suck at posting..... anything. Not apologizing, just FYI. It's a time thing. Full time job, gardening duties, yard work~ just a time thing☺ Oh yea... And trying to make at least one piece of jewelry per week☺   Which is usually accomplished while curled up in my chair  in the evening in front of the TV. I don't know why the cord in the lower right picture looks green? It's not;-( The necklace was made to match the bracelet and earrings I gave to my sister. She mentioned several months ago that she needed  a necklace to go with them. (Of course, I didn't want to rush into anything,  so 5 months later I started working on it☺)   That gorgeous bead in the bracelet is a one of a kind lampwork focal by Juli Cannon of Studio Juls so I needed to get a little creative with the necklace☺ I made a focal with a similar color pattern using polymer clay, then to balance out the neckl...

Just a quicky to show you my piece for Week 22. I actually followed the theme for this week which was "My Favorite Flower" Polymer clay flowers with swarovski crystal 'stamens' My favorite flower is a fuchsia called  "Swingtime" This pic is from 2010. I try to have at least one of these every year. Love♥

I actually didn't quite know what to do with myself this weekend;~) Every weekend lately has been about "The Garden" I was able to finish planting last weekend, and since it was a three day weekend, I also had the time to catch up on  some of the more pressing house cleaning duties☺ This Saturday it rained all day so I didn't even have to water the garden, so besides the usual weekend stuff like laundry and such I was pretty much a lady of leisure☺ I thought this would be a good time to show what all we've  accomplished on the garden area. I'll start with a quick recap of how it all started Two years ago, we did this. Tilled under the entire yard and started over. We separated it into different sections ~ The "Patio Area" with a fire pit, and an area for raised garden beds where the trees make it nearly impossible to grow decent grass. We left the garden area unfinished because, honestly, we were pretty much exhausted☺ The ...

I have been so seriously busy getting the garden done and planted that I haven't had a lot of time for blogging so I am playing "catch up" again☺ This was one of the pieces I made for the Bead Soup Blog Party and since I finished it in Week 19, it was my submission for the Year of Jewelry Project also☺ I stayed with simple for Week 20 because of .....yeah.... gardening. (I LOVE these beads !) Simple again, cuz, you know...... As of yesterday, ALL of the planting is finally done!  YAY! I have put Honey in charge of mowing the new lawn so all I have to do now is keep up with watering and weeding so I am hoping to get to try some more involved projects in the coming weeks. And I promise to finally show some pics of "The Garden Project" really soon, I think you might be a little bit impressed even☺ I think it has turned out kinda purty☺

Edit: This was scheduled to post at midnight~ Blogger hates me:( But still not technically late;~) TODAY IS THE DAY! And I am TOTALLY ready. (Thanks to a 1 week postponement☺) HUGE Thanks to Lori Anderson for hosting such a fun party! This is my third party and I have seriously enjoyed every one. You can check out my first go round here and the second one here ☺ Ok, let's get right to it, I know you have a lot of other stops to make☺ My partner this time around is Rachel Baron of R. Baron Designs . Just to refresh your memory, here is the beautiful bead soup my wonderful partner, Rachel sent to me. And here is what I did with my soup..... The first thing I made☺ I used some of the cultured sea glass,  added some amethyst agate beads from my stash and used  sterling silver wire to make some "rosette" wraps and clasp.   When I was a little girl my favorite colors were pink and purple. My favorite color...