When I posted about my photo jewelry before I didn't have sample bracelets featuring portraits so here are some updated samples.
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Bracelets are $50 All jewelry comes packaged in a gift tin.
For more fun gift ideas check out my Etsy shop here. Or cut and paste www.recreateit.etsy.com in your browser.
I have swtiched names on my Etsy store. It is now http://www.recreateit.etsy.com/. Update your bookmarks and visit me often because I will be adding lots more items in the upcoming days and weeks.
This site will be a combination of both my mother and I and all our crafty goodness. We have recycled art, fine are prints, jewelry, purses wallets etc and much much more to come.
Here are just a couple of my newly added prints. 
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Thanks for visiting!
Happy Earth Day! I spent part of my day making re-cycled items: mostly from felted sweaters. I cut the sleeves off of sweaters and made them into coozies and wine bottle covers. The wine covers are great for gifting bottles of wine. I have since sewn on some buttons and other decorative goodness but these photos were from half way through the project.
I thought I would beautify our yard by picking up some new flowers. I'll post some more photos of that once I get them planted. I wanted to plant a dogwood tree in our front yard but we kind of have a weird soft ground/sink hole situation going on. I think we should be more concerned about that than we are.
And to top off the day I made a fabulous dinner. I've been attempting to cut meat out of my diet so I'm trying out new vegetarian meals. Tonights was a Grilled Veggi Sandwich and it was delicious!!
Red peppers, red onion, squash and zucchini brushed with olive oil on the grill.
Once those were done I tossed on some asiago cheese bread from the bakery with the spread I mixed up (mayo, minced garlic and lemon juice) and mozarella cheese.
And voila!! A super easy veggi dinner. Of course, I was way too wrapped up in the grilling and totally forgot to make the side dishes that I had. Good thing the sandwich was filling. I definetely recommend making one yourself.
My friend Danielle introduced me to this fantastic website http://www.etsy.com/ where you can buy and sell all things homemade. Since I've been craftin it up so much lately I decided I wanted to make my own etsy store. I want my store to feature mainly repurposed items, mainly stuff made out of other stuff. I just set it up today and started getting items uploaded to my store and although it still needs lots of work it is officially open for business. In fact I was in the process of uploading my first few items when I had my first sale. How cool is that?!
While I'm waiting out the last few weeks of my winter hibernation I have decided to try out a few new art projects.
First up is my favorite, soldered glass pendants. They are 1"x1" photos sandwiched in between 2 pieces of glass and soldered together. Then they are wrapped in wire to create the pendant. I will also have custom pendants available with your photos in them.
This is the front and back of the pendant. 
Next up I took a bamboo tile placemat apart and painted them and collaged them and made them into a few necklaces.
Keeping in my current theme of recycled art I made some wallets out of newspaper and old magazines. I have been using mine as a business card holder.
Another recycled art medium I like is old sweaters. If you wash a sweater in hot water and put it in the dryer it shrinks up and then you can cut it apart and create with it without it unraveling. You can make so many things out of old sweaters but to start out with I took a bunch of sweaters and cut them up into squares and then made a funky scarf.
Recently i've been trying to spend a little bit more time creating art just for fun. It's almost therapeutic for me to turn on some music and dive into stacks of paper and ribbon and just let my mind free to wander and create. I'm especially into "recycled art" which is where I can take a discarded item and turn it into a piece of art.
My first experiment with recycled art is these cute glass bracelets that I made with my friend Brekke. They started out as an old bottle which we cut into rectangle pieces to showcase our mini collages. The bottles work perfectly because they are already curved for your wrist. We soldered the edges and added metal rings to tie the ribbon and viola ~ our pretty recycled bracelets. 
I'll be posting more crafty things soon.
