Dorkies (Yorkshire Terrriers)

A quick note, to let you know that there are a couple extra spots opened up in my Paper Cowgirls class.  Please email me for a special link to sign up.  If you had approached me about it in the past, and there wasn't space, there is now.  And I am sorry, that I didn't save the names of the people waiting to get in, because I thought it was already full!!

This is a photo my table mate took during Shea's class.  We were making necklaces, and I was trying  mine on while keeping it together with clothes pins.  We used jewelry glue to layer pieces of filigree with a rhinestone piece, and mine just kept sliding off. 

I made too many design changes in the necklace, using a vintage piece instead of the rhinestones provided, and it was too heavy. So, it didn't hang right, and I had to redo it.  I adored Shea's design, and love the necklace, but I wanted mine just a little different than the rest, and that was a mistake.  I got carried away and added way too much.

So, it got stripped back down again and I still used my own vintage pieces on it, but I followed our teacher's design so that it hung correctly.  The silk ribbon that she gave us to use in the kit was meant for a certain weight limit and I'd gone way too far over that.

Mine ended up without the filigree pieces, even after all the work of gluing and clamping them together.  I used that bauble on just a ribbon, so I actually got two necklaces out of the deal!

This choker is still Shea's concept, I just changed out the beads in the kit for some from my Great Aunt Caroline, and used vintage rhinestone flowers instead of the charms  provided.

I've worn it a lot, and know that I'll get a lot of future wearings from it too. 

Here is something else I've been wearing, a necklace from Lonnie. I bought it at vendor night, it has my favorite things in it, millinery, ephemera, pearls, and a dorkie. 

Don't try to rain on my parade and tell me that is a Scotty, not a Yorkie.  I'll put my fingers in my ears and sing, so that I don't hear you.  

Yorkshire Terriers are hard to find, so when I find a cute Scotty, I say close enough and just lie to myself about what kind of dog it is.

Two of my other projects from Moulin Rouge have already found a permanent home in my cottage.

This is Kerry Lynn's dry erase board, but tweaked a bit with my own colors.  She had such a brilliant idea for making this, that I just knew I had to change it to match my kitchen and use it as a grocery list.

The edges were meant to be finished in a blanket stitch, but I was too lazy, and simply glued ribbon on the edges.  I also dodged the stamping, because I am not good at that either.  But I did stick with the French theme and used text and pictures from a magazine given to me by Zita.

More of the French magazine was used to back this crystal, and the rhinestone Eiffel tower was from our goody bags. 

Mine was getting done really fast, and I realized that everyone else was embroidering, stamping, sewing, and making frills. I was just plopping stuff in place and gluing it down.  I didn't actually MAKE anything for mine!  No wonder it went so fast.

And Kerry Lynn had some cool tips and tricks that I wanted to try.  So, I used her wired seam binding idea to make a holder for my dry erase marker.  Its now wired to the handle of the piece and dangles down.

My pal, Pam, was a handy neighbor. She is fluent in French and could decipher some of the French from my magazine.  She also provided  a pretty word for me to write on the board (with permanent marker), "Toujours" which means "always".  That was the title of my mom's favorite song.

This was Colleen's can can girl class.  She painted gold boxes for us to use as a stage, and sculpted all the dolls for us to paint and embellish!   She also provided all the materials we needed, but I brought light colors to use for my stage and girl, and then, somehow my can can girl morphed into a ballerina fairy. 

I gave her a flower petal skirt, butterfly wings, and a magic wand.  If you hang around me too long, these things just happen to you.

The piece I made in Jenny and Aron's class got a little make over too.  I used their painted pink cake, but for the background, I glued down a map of Paris. And I was soooo smitten with the graphics that Kim used for the event, that I just had to use her can can girls on the picture.

I finished it off with the red curtain material and gold foil trim that Colleen had provided for her class, and added a vintage pink, cake topper, dancing girl to the top of Jenny's cake.

Each class was such a fun idea and our teachers really came up with some great concepts and kits for us.  I learned some good tricks and ended up with some things that I loved!

Thanks again, Kim, for putting it all together for us! 

I have not unpacked yet, so don't know what my giveaway will be yet…. How about if I extend it?  All comments still count toward the drawing. Whatever it is!