Some Little Oddities

• oddity - eccentricity that is not easily explained
• oddity - a strange attitude or habit
• oddity - curio: something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting

Little Miss Death Necklace, SerendipityLicious


Ring Recycled Tin, fluxplay


Eanna Perched in Blankness, CreepingElm


The Watchful Eye Locket Vintage, verabel

Jessica Joslin Sculptures

The movie challenge answer for 04.15.09 was: To Sir With Love. Now on to today. I came by these wonderful sculptures by Jessica Joslin and wanted to share their beauty with you. These unique creations are made from antique hardware, brass, beads, bone, velvet, leather, steel, glass eyes and various other bits of delight. There are more of these delightful creatures to see if you'd like to stop by her website and take a look at more of this eye candy.

Marco



Ludwig



Gustav

Movie Challenge - 04.15.09

Another week has passed us by and it's guess that movie time again. Here are some awesome handmade items for your clues. Remember, the clues may be in the photos or the titles themselves. This movie was made in 1967 , that's the only clue, you're on your own now except there may be other clues hiding in the right sidebar under My Favorites. I will not enable comments until the next post where I will reveal the correct answer. Have fun!!

Two Hearts, f2images


Sir Walk-a-Lot, houndtracks


Cell phone cozy with keychain wristlet, FancyFerris


He Loves Me, She Loves Me Bureau Trinket Trunk, Lenae

Buy or Supply - Paper Art

Are you into buying ACEO's, scrapbook pages, assemblage, mixed media art? Well, whether you're into buying this type of art (there is a great example below of a mixed media ACEO) -- or maybe giving paper art a try is more your style. If so, there are some supplies and a couple of great reference links on how to get started in scrapbooking and a how-to make gift tags. Either way you decide to go, buy or supply, enjoy your handcraftedness.

C is for Curiosity ACEO, sujati


Vintage Flowers, Leafs Assortment, lynnetteaprilarts


60 Sheets, Bright Paper Scrap Pack, kibblets


Pastel Satin String Cord, polkadotstrawberry


3D Butterflies, clearcutcrafts2007

Mixed Media, Assemblage, Dollhouse

Child Dolls - Boys and Girls Vintage German Imported
Doris Dotz is a shop loaded with little pieces of dolls, animals, trees and various other items made in plastic, glass and wood a lot of which are vintage. There are so many little things in here if you are into assemblage, mixed media and dollhouses. These are just a couple of items I pulled from a shop full of fun things to get your creativity rolling!
Vintage wooden duck family

Just a little this and that ...

Nature Pack
Renewed Resources is full of various bits of this and that for all your creative and crafty needs. I especially love these two packs found in the shop. The vintage findings and nature pack would be helpful in so many projects including assemblage, mixed media, folk art, scrapbooking just to name a few. These are definitely the kind of pieces to get those creative juices on the move.
Vintage Findings

Scrapbook -- Mixed Media -- Card Making

Vintage Lilac, Lavender & Lace Embellishment,
Millinery and Trim Set

I found ShaneLilyRain yesterday and had so much fun browsing through this shop. There are loads of stuff for all crafts in this shop from scrapbook to mixed media to card making to sewing. What I liked most in this shop were her bundles of goodies. I love the idea of packaging products like this because I know for me as a crafter I always love to get packages of goodies. I always ask my family members if they have little things they aren't using to give them to me and they'll give me a box of 'junk' as they call it. And when I open that box of junk, my eyes get wide like a little kid and it turns that box of junk into a box of little treasures. My creativity comes alive and it opens my mind to many new ideas. I'm not sure why that is, but I get much more creative when I get a box of various bits than I do when I get a package of the same item -- make sense to any other crafters out there or am I alone on this?


Tub of Vintage Whimsy and Embellishments

Digital Collage Sheets

Flora Flowers No. 4
For loads of high resolution collage sheets check out Paperstreet. Each collage sheet contains several royalty free images suitable for collages, ACEO art trading cards, or other mixed media artwork. And the best part is there's no delivery charge, these collage sheets are delivered via email as a downloadable JPEG file.