Fabric dyeing......Show 'n Tell 1

I spent Monday dyeing fabric...

3 days later I made it back to the Quilt Palace

to process the dyed fabrics:

The dyed fabrics have been 

rinsed, washed and dried...

Here comes the Show 'n Tell:

Golf, Wiffle and Soft Balls......tied.

Dry fabric, balls tied, then soda soaked...

Ice Dyed with powdered dye...

This is what it looks like....3 days later

Fabric Dyed Balls....ready for rinse out

Pretty gorgeous.....wouldn't you say!

More Fabric Dyeing Show 'n Tell tomorrow...

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn Kessi

Art Beads.....Skeleton Key Houses

House Beads......FUN!

These are simpler than the grunge houses,

with a skeleton key pressed into them:

Skeleton Key House Necklaces

The coin beads are very FUN to create

and stack nicely under the birdies...

This is a great way to incorporate all the 

different bead shapes I have been creating...

they all work with these necklaces.

Instead of pressing a skeleton key into the house,

I made windows and doors.

These are a bit smaller 

than the skeleton key houses.

The beads and jewelry are piling up around here.

I am thinking of opening an etsy store.

Do you have any advice for me?

Many Thanks for your comments!

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LuAnn Kessi

Art Beads.......Grunge Houses

This is what the bead table looks like today:

I pulled out a few beads and charms that might

work with the grunge house beads 

I made last week.

Can't resist using a few of the birdie beads...

Grunge House Beads

All of this has me inspired 

to make some jewelry...

Grunge House Necklaces

The bird beads and skeleton keys 

work nicely with the houses.

Instead of skeleton keys.....feather charms

Grunge House Necklaces...

I need to make more!

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LuAnn Kessi

Art Beads.......Hearts, Houses, Owls

Making more Art Beads...

I am playing around with crackle texture 

on polymer clay...

I dug around in the cupboard and found

 3 different brands of crackle medium:

The Delta brand in the center of the image 

made the largest crackles.

All 3 brands worked equally well.

I hand shaped the hearts from polymer clay

then baked them

then painted them with acrylic paint...

Then the crackle medium was applied 

over the dry paint.

The crackle happens as the medium dries.

They have been glazed and are ready 

to be put into a piece of jewelry.

I had so much fun creating these 

grunge house beads:

I am creating jewelry with them today

so I will post images soon!

Owl beads.....hard to resist:

Owl beads.....fresh from the oven

Hand-shaped Owl Beads

I use acrylic paint to highlight their feathers...

The paint reminds me of shaving cream 

when a man is shaving his face!

I immediately wipe off the paint...

it remains in the recesses of the feathers.

 The next step is to glaze these:

I am thinking these will make 

awful sweet bracelets.

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LuAnn Kessi

Art Beads......making stone clay

I am itching to create beads 

that appear to be stone:

I mixed up my own recipe for......stone clay

I found a few seasonings in the cupboard that

 were well beyond their shelf life,  so I mixed 

them into polymer clay.

I also added in some dryer lint.

The seasonings and lint gave the clay 

the look of......stone!

lots of yummy stone-like texture...

Stone Clay...

ready to be made into art beads......FUN!

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LuAnn Kessi