Random Green Tea Poem

the green tea has turned cold,
sitting on my nightstand
i had every intention to drink
it, warming me since you can't
instead i burrow under my sheets
and close my eyes, hoping you'll meet
me in my dreams, but you never show
up leaving me to wander alone

Snowed In

Kayla and Me

Last weekend I was snowed in and it sucked! I wasn't able to go Christmas shopping, but I decided to make some goodies instead. I made some necklaces and some sugar cookie earrings out of clay.

My Snowmen

My sushi bead necklace

Swirl necklace

Lava Bead and Coral necklace

Mo' Crafts

I’ve been a little busy bee! Last night I was looking through my computer and I found pictures of my trip to Vegas with Kaleo. While looking through them I remembered one of our nights out on the town when we went to Rain and then attempted to get into Ghost Bar, we never did get in. But I decided that I should finally be able to get the ghost so I made my own pair of ghost earrings. These earrings are made out of glow in the dark polymer clay (like the glow sticks we got at Rain). The posts aren’t sterling silver, but so far they don’t irritate my ears. Each ghost has their own expression and will be blindly boxed so you never know which facial expression you’ll get.

My little ghosts drying from putting on gloss.

On the crafty side last weekend I got to show off my wonderful peacock costume. These are the hair clips I made. I just used teal felt, some feathers, hot glue and an alligator clip. First I warmed up the glue gun (I used a low heat one because I didn’t want to risk melting anything). I cut out a piece of teal felt in a small circle (large enough to cover the clip). I began to glue the feathers in layers (back to the front of the clip), I glued the stem to the felt and made sure not to get glue on the peacock eyes. Once my layers were secured I glued a sparkly button and let it sit to make sure everything was secured before I attached the feather pad to the clip. I cut out a small rectangle and glued one side of the clip to it, so when glued to the felt it would resemble a sleeve. I attached the “sleeve” to the feather pad and there you have it, a hair clip!

Me wearing my clip for the party.

Ohh here are the bacon and egg earrings I made. I almost forgot about them.

Ho Ho NOT!!!

What is on my mind? Way too many things. It’s the season for family and friends, to celebrate and I don’t really feel into the holiday this year. The Christmas music blaring in the stores drives me crazy. I’ve begun to hate it, which isn’t quite normal for a catholic. I put up the work Christmas tree and it’s nice, but I don’t feel the pride that I normally feel after such a great feat. It’s artificial limbs stabbed and poked me. I ran out of ornament hangers so I used paper clips. Everyone that comes in the office smiles and sees the tree as beautiful and I just smile and continue boxing up files. Have I turned into a complete Scrooge? Seeing the Nutcracker helped me get into the spirit, but then it got lost in the midst of my life.

I’m going to try to have a better Christmas spirit. I will try.

Happy Birthday TWINN!!!

Today is Ceci’s birthday (1 of my BFFs)! I’m so excited that I get to see her tonight and go to Kaz with her family. Yay I’m family!!! Last night I worked on some marbled beads (I don’t have any pics), but I also worked on a cute little feather clip that I’m going to wear to Cee’s party on Saturday. Being a peacock was a great decision!!! I just wish everyone could see the unveiling of Drea…The Peacock!

Right now I’m reading The Wilde Women by Paula Wall. I more than halfway through it and it’s interesting. I can’t directly relate with the characters, but it’s a nice escape during lunch. Sometimes you need a break from real life. Unfortunately I was unable to take my break from real life today since I had to run some errands during lunch. It was nice to get away from work for a little bit.

Going Postal

I recently purchased The Big A$$ Book of Crafts and I found a craft to make envelopes out of anything. I have so many magazines that I’m afraid to throw out so I decided that I should put them to good use. I found February 2008 Washingtonian and I thought PERFECT. I didn’t follow the template pictured in the book, I just looked at an envelope that was already made and I decided to make it accordingly.

I took two pages of the magazine. I used a glue stick to glue one on top of the other. One side will be the outside of the envelope and the other the inside. I choose to have the map of Maryland/Virginia on the outside and an article on the inside. I trimmed the edges to make sure it was even. I turned the paper article side up and I began to fold the paper the way the envelope would look (3 folds). Then I opened the paper up and folded .5mm crease on the right and left side of the paper. I trimmed the ceased edge from the lower section (which will be folded up and glued onto the remaining crease in the middle to hold the letter. I folded the lower half up and glued the lower half onto the creases to make a pocket. I then trimmed the crease edges off of the top fold (it’s optional). I trimmed the corners of the top fold into little curves (you can do triangles if you like). I placed address labels on the envelope and it’s ready to mail. If you like you can reinforce with tape. The only downside to this is you have to use glue or tape to seal the envelope. I prefer using my glue stick.











I have made several these so far and they have been delivered to the proper address. I was afraid the post-person would say they aren’t real envelopes. The best way to make these is to experiment. I’m sure that you have old magazine or decorative paper so just go for it. I wouldn’t suggest using newspaper since it’s thin paper, but I haven’t tried it yet so it may work.

Happy Mailing!!!

A Formal Introduction

Hello my name is Andrea and I am a crafter. I recently decided to open up a shop on etsy. I'm in the construction stage so I decided that I should use a blog to keep track of everything. I recently finished making some polymer clay beads and using them to make a necklace. I was inspired by my boyfriend Kaleo. He says that he and I are like peanut butter and jelly so I decided that I should pay homage to the classic. I took purple and brown clay, i swirled it into a marble, let it bake and then i put a gloss on it.I think my camera didn't catch the colors correctly, but hey i'm not a photographer.

Me with the necklace on.