Sweet Friend

 I'm happy to share with you today some of the wonderful gifts that my friend Jeanne has sent to me.  I have had the pleasure of making some very caring friendships through my adventures in blogging and the selling of my jewelry.

 Jeanne has been so very generous to me throughout the years and recently has decided to downsize her collection of Mary Engelbreit treasures.

 Every so often a fabulous box of goodies arrives on my door step.  It's a much appreciated treat and it always brightens my day when I see the box waiting for me at my door.

  What I find so amazing is that other than a package of Cherry tissue paper there has never been a duplication of any ME item that I already own in my collection.

I am ever so grateful for the friendships that I have in my life and I'm especially pleased to count my friend Jeanne amongst those.  She is sweet beyond words.

While not a Mary Engelbreit item...is this not the cutest little Cherry canape knife you've every seen???

Thanks for stopping by...

Happy 4th of July

 

I hope everyone has a wonderful and safe holiday.  If you happen to have a little time on the computer and feel like shopping please check out some of the latest designs that I've added to my storefront.

  Poppy Flower Heart Purse Charm/Zipper Pull

 Cherry Lampwork Beaded Watch

Very Cherry Bracelet

Pastel Cherries Flower Lampwork Beaded Earrings

 Pink Cottage Rose Bracelet Watch

 Checkered Poppy Flower Memory Wire Bracelet

 Pink Poppy Flower Lampwork Earrings

 Pink Poppy Flower Heart Pendant

Thanks for stopping by. Clicking on the photos should take you directly to the item in my Artfire.com shop 

You can, also, see the various pieces on my website at www.CherryChickJewelry.com

A Colorful Crocheted Flower Handbag

It's been years since I've crocheted anything of significance.  A few months ago I became charmed by all the brightly colored crocheted flowers that I was seeing on Pinterest.

I poked around the various linking websites for weeks until I found a handbag design that I could adapt to what I was looking for.  Then I found some great black wooden handles at Joanns Crafts.  They're even made by a company called "Everything Mary".

I prefer using 100% cotton yarns.  I've used some of Paton's Grace Yarns and Lion Brands cotton yarns for the flowers.  For the body of the handbag I used Bernat's cotton De Lux yarn in black.

I used some straight pins to figure out where the front would be as I wanted to place the various crocheted flowers and leaves only on the front of the handbag.  A few of the flowers have little polka dot buttons added that I purchased at Michaels crafts in the scrapbook section.

Here's the finished design stuffed nicely so that I could stand it up to take this photograph.

 

I won't sugar coat it....there are a whole lot of hours in creating this handbag.  But if you work on the flowers a little at a time while watching TV and just collect them up it won't seem so long.

 

The dimensions on the handbag are 11" wide by 10" tall with a 3" wide base.  The wood handles add another 5".

I've placed this One of a Kind Crocheted Flower Handbag in my Etsy.com store for sale @ $165 bucks here :-) All of the photos will enlarge if you click on them once and then click again for a close up view.

Thanks for stopping by and taking a look.  Please feel free to ask any questions you might have and I'll try to help.

 

A Very Busy Week

Well it's been so long since I've posted I forgot the html code to use in my title :-)  I attribute my long absence to being busy working and to spending as much time as possible being creative.

On Thursday last week Mary Engelbreit Studios sent out the email blast pictured above.  It was news to me and it, also, was the first time that they had put the Limited Edition Collection of Cherry Chick Jewelry that I have been designing for them the past year, on sale.  The jewelry must have sold like "hotcakes" because they went from 16 designs available on their website down to 1 now.  I mean everything just sold out!  Happy Dance!

I am happy to share that it drove some traffic to my personal websites where I wasn't having a sale.  But that didn't seem to matter.

 

Fortunately, this week I have been busy creating new designs to sell in my Artfire.com and Etsy.com shops.

 

 I'm grateful for the positive response and added attention.  I know the stuff will sell if people just know it's out there!  

 

 A big Thank You to all my wonderful customers and friends.  I truly appreciate your support.  Group Hug!

 

Spring Has Sprung

 

I was recently given this beautiful vase of yellow tulip bulbs.  I've never seen tulips growing this way but they sure are beautiful.  I love this time of year because I can open up my front door to my screened in porch so that the fresh air can dance it's way into my house.

This beautiful weather has inspired me to create a few new designs like this pair of whimsical Poppy Flower earrings.

Here's a little Poppy Flower glass lampwork bead on a checkered memory wire bracelet that I just designed.

 

One last Poppy Flower design to share with you.  The "Poppy Flower Spring Bracelet."  All of the new designs are available in my Artfire.com shop.  If you look to the right on this page you should see my most recent creations.

Thanks so much for stopping by and taking a look.