In Your Eyes - Circles

This month's theme for In Your Eyes was circles.  I love the creative things that people sent in!  Everyone had such a unique set of circle pictures.

Jazmine from In Other words sent these amazing pictures of clouds and snow flakes.

I love sky pictures!

Kate from Scientific Culture sent in these awesome pictures of e-coli!

Isn't that cool??

I'm very sad that I didn't have time to take any new pictures for this month's theme.  I had big plans to go on a circle hunt but completely ran out of time.  Busy, busy!  I do have some pictures of one of my favorite kind of circles...buttons!

This is a gift that Katja from Maechenmitherz sent me. 

And these are some of my rings.

Be sure to check back for the new September theme tomorrow.  :-)

CraZeeCrafteeZ

I have mentioned before that I am a member of the Austin Craft Riot team.  I love it so much.  I have learned a lot in the short time that I have been a member.  With all of the amazing talent and experience on that team I have some great people to learn from.  

One of the team members, Manue from CraZeeCrafteeZ, makes some really amazing jewelry.  She recently came out with a series of birthstone necklaces made from her paper beads.  This is one of the most creative things I have seen in a very long time!  I love it!

Each birthstone has a specially designed bead to represent it.

 

You can even have a birthstone necklace made with your birthstone and a smaller bead for your child!

These would make a perfect gift for the holidays.  I have a feeling I will be purchasing a couple for family members when I start my Christmas shopping.

Be sure to check out the listing on Etsy and the rest of her beautiful shop.  If you live in Austin you can find her work around town at some really great shops.  A list of the stores she sells at is on her Facebook page.

Music Monday - Feist

As I mentioned before, the new album from Feist coming out on October 3rd.  She is posting sneak peeks of the album on her website up until the release date.  The last album was so good...not a bad song on it...so I am very excited to hear the new one.  

I was a little sad to see that she will only play one Texas show in Dallas but that seems to be the trend for artists these days.  Oh well.  At least I can enjoy the album when it comes out...over and over and over again.  :-)

Feist has released this single for radio.  Enjoy!

Have a great Monday!

Sanctuary Sneak Peek - Plushies

Today is the last day I will be posting Sanctuary sneak peeks.  I'll have a whole new set of things to show you starting next week.  :-)  

I saved my favorite item for last.  Yep, it's the plushies!   :-)

I took a couple of plushie designs.   Notice that they have new colors, too!  :-)

Seymour Monster

Pierre Owl (minus the mustache)

Penny Penguin

And...last but not least...I took one mini plushie to try out.

Archie

That's it!  Now that you have seen everything you can  buy at Sanctuary it's time to go shopping!  ;-)

I'm working on finishing up some plushies for Atown this weekend.  I'm taking the last batch this Wednesday.  I'm also making a small Dreaming in Craft display.  So much to do, so little time to do it.  I guess I better get to work.

What are you up to this weekend?

Will It Go Round In Circles?

This is just a friendly reminder that the deadline to email me pictures for In Your Eyes is Monday, August 29th.  I have received awesome pictures from two people so far.  I love how different they are.

All you need to do to participate is take pictures of circles and email them to me at dreamingincraft@gmail.com by Monday, August 29th with a link to whatever site of  yours you want me to link back to.  You deserve to get credit for your pretty pictures!  :-)

I'm on a mission to take some new circle pictures this weekend.  I haven't been able to go out just to take pictures in forever!  I'm so excited!

Have a great day!  

Music Monday - Dahebegebees

I have been planning to post this for Music Monday for weeks and I keep forgetting.  Today I would like to play you some great music from Dahebegebees. 

2 Tears by DaHeBeGeBeeS from Laughing Eagle Productions on Vimeo.

This is a great Austin band that I just learned about last month when I went to see Jack Burton Trio play.  They put on such a great show!  Go see them if you can.

Okay, I'm off to catch up on my sewing.  I'm still way behind on my Atown order.  I planned to get some work done on my lunch break but genius me brought everything I needed for my sewing project...except the needles!  Oh well.  I got to listen to some great music instead.  I heard a new song from Feist!  I can't wait for her new album!  :-)

BYE!!!

Fabric Button Hair Pins

I applied for a holiday craft show and I needed to have a new idea for a gift to put in the goodie bags if I was accepted.  My friend Bridget from Love Peace Family suggested making some fabric button hair pins to go along with the fabric button jewelry I already made.  Great idea!  

I made one sample for the application.

I took the sample with me to meet with Sanctuary and she liked them so I made a few more to take to the store.

I'm ordering supplies to make more for Atown and I'm considering adding a couple pairs to my shop, too.  :-)

Have you been working on any new projects lately?