Craft Tutorial ~ Guardian Angel Charm

This weeks tutorial feature is from another fellow Etsy artist and owner of three Etsy shops, RJBeads, DesignedbyRJ, and RJCharms. Nicole is a talented jeweler with a great eye for color. Her handcrafted jewelry shop Designed by RJ, features jewelry designed for everyday wear with a wonderful variety of textures and colors. She also offers a great supply of unique beads and findings in her supply shop RJBeads, and her own charm designs in RJCharms. This weeks recommended craft feature is creating your own Guardian Angel Charm:
http://designedbyrj.blogspot.com/2008/10/diy-make-your-own-guardian-angels.html

This is a simple, sweet and perfect gift for the holidays! This tutorial was originally posted on her blog on Tuesday 10/28/08. All components for this ready-to-assemble craft can be found in RJ's supply shop under Guardian Angel Kits. I hope you enjoy her creativity as much as I have.

Holiday Cooking and Crafting Inspiration

Since I started blogging I have come across many tutorials which contain great ideas for creating some Holiday gifts. I have a few personal favorites and will try to feature a craft or recipe each week before the Holidays, with a link to the blogs or craft sites that I find helpful and contain ideas to get your creative juices flowing.

My first tutorial feature is from a very creative artist and owner of Etsy shop, Supply Riot. Lea is a fabulous painter and has an endless supply of ideas, hence the name of her supply shop. Supply Riot on Etsy specializes in Japanese Washi Chiyogami paper among other quality items. This tutorial was originally posted on Squidoo and on her blog for the week of Monday 10/06/08. Lea usually features a "Project of the week" so save her to your Blog favorites and check her out: http://homeartwork.blogspot.com/
This week I recommend creating Art Magnets (magnets in photo created by SupplyRiot):
http://www.squidoo.com/artmagnets

I read this post and immediately decided to create some for gifts this year. Not telling what I'll be creating ~ don't want to share Santa's secrets. After all, he's the Man in charge and I work for him alongside all the other elves.

Fall's Beauty and Splendor

~ Don't miss the bESST Supply Sale on Etsy ~

It only happens twice a year and this year it is just in time for all your holiday crafting! The Etsy Supply Street Team is having a "Supply Your Holidays Sale" starting Oct. 8 - Oct. 12. To check out which suppliers are involved in ESST, just click here http://etsysupplystreetteam.etsy.com/ and have fun browsing their shops. Each participating shop will design their own sale, so you'll want to check out their shop's announcement describing how they will be participating. Shop away and Create some Handmade items for your Holidays!

My Life List

Visit Paris with my family and find my ancestors HoMe in Perche France tell my husband I love him eVeRyDaY with a ((((hug)))) learn metalsmith jewelry Visit/Live/Travel in Europe for a few years get a tattoo meditate more exercise visit MOMA read more for pleasure create new collage Drive an RV across the USA write in my blog learn oil painting LAUGH lose weight take voice lessons again go on a road trip with no predetermined destination have better posture save money win the lottery remember to play the lottery learn French plant a vegetable garden keep in touch with old friends meet the Dalai Lama become a better photographer watch a Little PRINCESS again play with my DoG more write poetry make sure my boys know how much I love them, always....finish MY LIST !

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