Round Up: DIY Ruler Projects

Are you looking for fun back to school projects? Rulers are the object of today's Round Up.

 

Ruler Wreath:  Source

Ruler Purse: Source

Ruler Lampshade: Source

Ruler Pencil Holder: Source

 Ruler Tabletop: Source

Treasury Features for July 2015

Treasuries that my items have been featured on Etsy in the month of July 2015.

 My Deer in the Forest by Papercherries from Papercherries is a cute collection of tiny deer and beautiful things you might find in the forest. The baby deer are especially sweet with their widdle biddy spots and cute widdle faces.

For you 2/15 by Nataliia Malik from NataliyaMalik created a treasury list of a beautiful combinations of red and black themed items.

 

 Original gifts by Nadezda Panina from Nadjaflower is a delicious and refreshing collection of blackberry themed gifts. Blackberries remind me of childhood when my brother and I would carefully reach passed the thorns to select plump juicy berries.

Tangles

I started working on a few zentangles this year. Zentangles are pictures created from repetitive designs. Here is one that I have been working on. I am thinking of using color on this picture, but haven't decided as of yet.

Stylized Seasons Tree

Treasury Features for June 2015

Treasuries that my items have been featured on Etsy in the month of June 2015.

Favorite Ice Cream Flavor ~ Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough  by Nicole Fischer of PaperDahlsLLC is a lovely collection of my favorite flavor as well. I want to bite into each and every one of these items, but I suspect some of them would not be very tasty.

 Wear your food by Katie Baker from MarysRemedies is a sweet little collection of wearable foods.

Fish Friday June 13-19, 2015

Another Friday has come and I am still watching fish. It is very relaxing and fun. There are so many different kinds of fish to see and you never know what will swim by each day.

From Aquarius on Teens4Oceans.com

Black Margate

 

Porkfish and Schoolmaster Snapper

My Other Crafts

I thought I might share some of the other crafts that I do besides polymer clay charms. These are things I have done or are working.

• Painting wooden animals - I get the wooden toy animals from Michaels and try to paint them to look as close to the real animals as possible.

• Quilting - I don't know much about quilting. My Granny use to quilt all the time, but I didn't take the time to learn from her when she was still alive. Now I have to teach myself. I am working on making a small quilt for my cat to lay on.

One of Granny's Quilts

• Soap making - Right now I am just making melt and pour soap so that I can get the hang of color and scent concentrations. Besides it is very easy to make and almost instant gratification. I am planning to learn to make my own soap in the future.

• Tangles - I apparently have been drawing tangles for most of my life, but it didn't have a name for it. I just put different textures inside of pictures. I am interested in zen tangles and have been learning to do some of the official ones and working on some drawings using them.

Beginnings of a tangle

I plan to do future blog posts about each of these individual crafts and others that I have not listed. I hope you will come back to see what else I have been up to.

Fish Friday: June 6 - 12, 2015

Sometimes I just really get into snapping screenshots of the live webcams. The week ends with hundreds of pictures and it is hard to pick which ones to showcase.

From Aquarius on Teens4Oceans.com

Spotfin Butterflyfish

Yellowtail Snapper

Fairy Doors of Ann Arbor

Ann Arbor, Michigan seems to be plagued (or blessed) with fairy doors. These pint sized entries have been popping up all over the city for years. The very first one was spotted in the home of Jonathon and Kathleen Wright back in 1993. The doors spread quickly from there and they seem to come and go.

  My family and I went to Ann Arbor to see these doors for ourselves. We spotted a few and even saw a fairy sized store under the window of a human sized store and a movie ticket window.

Some of the doors seem to have been vandalized by jealous goblins who may have come through the goblin door that we spotted on our walk.

Once we were home, we noticed a fairy door had appeared in our house. The fairies forgot to lock it and we took a peak inside. 

  A few days later we discovered another fairy door in our bathroom. I guess the fairies must have followed us home and decided it was a good place to live.

If you would like to know more about the Fairy Doors of Ann Arbor, you can check out the the Urban Fairies website.

Fish Friday May 30-June 5, 2015

I just love watching the relaxing and sometimes exciting atmosphere of the underwater world. All pictures in this post are screen shots from various webcams.


The camera housing has been cleaned recently so the pictures are very clear. The camera operators for the Cayman Cam are excellent.

From the Cayman Reef Cam at Explore.org.

Yellowtail Parrotfish (Initial Phase)

From the Aquarius Reef Base cam at Teens4Oceans.

Barracuda

Coupons for Etsy

Right now customers from the United States can get free shipping with a purchase of $35 or more. All you have to do is use the coupon code FreeShip when you order.

Tutorial: Cherry Pie Charm

Product: Chocolate Pie with Raspberry Charms

Two types of Chocolate Pie with Raspberry Charms have been added to the shop.

 If you have a love of pies, then you can have one of these dark chocolate pies topped with a multitude of delicious raspberries to wear.

A gift for you or a gift for someone else. It comes with a lobster clasp and is ready for your enjoyment. This miniature pie was created with polymer clay inside of a small bottle cap.

You can buy this pie from The Odd Raven's Pie Section. Feel free to browse the whole shop.

Fish Friday: May 23 -29, 2015

I enjoy underwater webcams for the relaxing effect from watching fish. One of my hobbies is taking screenshots from live animal webcams. I will be posting a few screenshots from my week of fish cam watching.

Screenshots from Cayman Reef Cam

Southern Ray

Nurse Shark

Tutorial: Chocolate Silk Pie

Craft Haul

May 2015

I decided to start showing some of my craft hauls. This week I bought bottle cap charms, bottle charms and "Made with Love" charms.

• The bottle caps are for creating polymer clay pies. I am working on a couple short tutorials that will be up soon.
• The bottle charms are to create mushrooms in a bottle or other thing I think of to put in bottles. We shall see what happens with those. 
• Lastly, the "Made with Love" charms are for attaching to bigger items that create. I think they are much too big to attach to my polymer clay food charms.
• Items were purchase from Hobby Lobby and Michael's 

New Product: Sugar Cream Pie Charm

Sugar cream pie has been added to the shop.

 If you have a love of pies, then you can have one of these delicious desserts to wear. A gift for you or a gift for someone else. It comes with a lobster clasp and is ready for your enjoyment. This miniature pie was created with polymer clay inside of a small bottle cap.

You can buy this pie from The Odd Raven's Pie Section. Feel free to browse the whole shop.

FAQ

What is Polymer Clay?

Polymer clay is a modeling clay that stays soft and needs to be heated to harden. It is more like plastic than regular clay since it doesn't have earthen clay in it.

Where can I buy your charms?

You can purchase them at my Etsy shop: The Odd Raven.

How do you create your charms?

I use several different techniques and tools to manipulate polymer clay into food charms. Please refer to my tutorials page for details. 

Where do you purchase your supplies?

I buy my tools and supplies from various local stores such as Michaels, Hobby Lobby and Joann Fabrics. You can get most of the items from any hobby store.

How to I care for my polymer clay jewelry? 

To clean polymer clay jewelry, wipe it off with a soft damp fabric.
When applying perfume or hairspray, it is best not to wear the jewelry. Polymer clay may break if dropped. Jewelry cleaner will ruin you polymer clay piece and sharp objects can scratch the surface.

Treasury Feature: For May

Treasuries that my items have been featured on Etsy in the month of May 2015.

I Scream For Ice Cream by  Meryem from PromisePretzels  is a gorgeous collection of yummy ice creams without adding to waistline.

Black and white chocolate by Tamara from SpikaSkar108 is such a lovely collection of items that you can almost smell the chocolate.

Summer fun by Anna Liana from BEDANAstore is beautiful collection of frozen treats. All the wonderful ice creams to satisfy anyone's sweet tooth.

Ice cream by Sayfiydinova is a yummy tribute to all things ice cream. I love the idea of ice cream in general. Now I must have some.

No More Pencils.....no.more books by Judy is a cute treasury about getting out of school for summer. I like the progression from school to summer type objects.

 Just Dip It in Chocolate by Orit Bar-Lev is a very chocolatey treasury collection. Everything in it is a scrumptious chocolate brown and makes me want a truffle or three.

Mini Yummy T by tincadesign is a treasury all about tiny food. I love how all the teeny weeny foods are beautifully made and look like you could just eat them. But don't really :)

Product: Doughnuts

Chocolate Iced Donut Charm

 I love love chocolate frosted doughnuts. I especially love the cream filled ones, so I decided to create a couple in miniature. They come with a lobster clasp and are ready for your enjoyment. These miniature doughnuts were created with polymer clay.

Boston Cream Pie Donut Charm

If you have any suggestions or requests, please let me know in the comments or through my Etsy shop. 

 To the Donut Section!!!