My aluminum can art continues...

If you know me, you know I love insects...  and so, VOILA!:

















Also, my mom and my sister got me these beautiful flowers for my birthday!  (I combined both bouquets because I LOVE huge bouquets):

Here's a look at my latest project!

Who makes things with glass and with class?  I DO!  After a LOT of headaches and trial and error, I finally completed my very first glass house!  Excuse how dirty it is, but I need a certain chemical to clean off the flux and where it burned...  I'm too excited to wait for it to be shipped, so deal!  haha.  Anyway, this thing was a lot of work--I had to learn how to accurately cut glass (those little red glass cutters you get at home depot DO NOT cut it), I had to learn a thing or two about soldering, AND I had to learn that you can't just solder glass to glass... you need to do a lot of prep with things like copper foil and flux.

So, without further ado:

I know it's ugly and is missing things like symmetry and accuracy, but it's my first shot and I'm proud!  And, I promise to get better! :)

Finally...

 finally got my recycled aluminum can Angelfish into a frame.  I gave him a few friends and some nice scenery to look at.  :)  Enjoy!

A sneak peak...

At a new project I'm undergoing, at the request of one of my Etsy customers...

I haven't perfected my technique, but at least I've finally figured out the process....

P.S.  Use coupon code BIRTHDAY10PERCENT to get 10% off your next purchase at my Etsy shop!!

Making Coasters....

This took me quite some time because I don't have a little saw and had to use my Dremel... it was time consuming.  But first thing tomorrow I'll get buying myself a little hacksaw.

For now, here's my first mini wooden pallet coaster!  WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I love how the wood in the background makes it look like a mini lumber yard :-D

CWI!

I mastered CWI a few nights ago.

What's CWI you ask?

Crafting While Intoxicated.  It's often accompanied by SATLWP (Singing Along Too Loudly With Pandora) and KHFH (Killer Hangover From Hell) the next morning.  Which is no good when it's Sunday and Sunday is my flea market day... and you gotta wake up early for flea markets!  oh man,  it was BNB that morning.  I think we all know what that means!

Anyway, I did a few things, but notably, I put together a few coasters for my Etsy shop.  Not my best work... did I mention the intoxicated part?  But the blue and cream ones are beautiful!

Paper cutting

You may wonder: "Why hand-cut paper when you have a Silhouette SD?!"  Apparently, though, efficient cutting of textured, card stock on a Silhouette SD requires your tools/accessories to be fully functioning.  A sticky cutting pad that doesn't stick means that the cutting mechanism just moves the paper around and cuts... just not what it's supposed to.

Anywho, I couldn't put off this project an longer, certainly not long enough to wait for the shipment from silhouette.com (that I ordered today) to come in.  So, instead, I chose to just cut the paper by hand... the paper for my lamp... my beautiful lamp... the lamp you see below and that is available at my Etsy shop.

And with the light off...