Cluck.... cluck.... HAPPY EASTER
Cluck.... CLUCK... bwawk... bwawk... BWOK...
LITTLE MISS CLUCKY is wishing you a HAPPY EASTER!
Clucky is an original Michigan artist made needle felted pin cushion made by artist Jeanne Harlan. Check out little Miss Clucky's matching umbrella, so chic! (get it, pun, pun)
Jeanne's beautiful work is in her Etsy shop here:
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5185661
When you go to her shop, you'll see a link to her website, and from there to her Ebay store where she sells her Prittens, a unique needle felted hand-made kitty. Her Prittens are highly collected on Ebay and always generate a smokin' bidding war. She also selling beginner felting kits on Etsy if you'd like to give it a try.
MADE IN MICHIGAN by a MICHIGAN resident artist
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Ahoy there, maties! Pirate's treasure!
Here's my latest project - a gaudy beaded cuff bracelet using some of grannie's vintage buttons. It's gaudy with a capital G, right up my gaudy beady baubley shiney glittery trinkety alley. I love stuff that looks like pirate's booty, straight from a treasure chest. I'll post progress shots in the future.
The short form:
First we made a free-form armature out of wire and then beat it with a hammer to harden it. When this is all finished, we will bend it into a cuff.
A closer look at the armature.
Then we began stringing beads on a thinner wire in a free-form way. Also adding grannie's buttons and some new buttons too. The deco unique gold button with the slits near the top is one I played with when I was a kid. I'm adding more of those as they are a favorite. It's nice to finally have a use for grannie's buttons and get them out of their storage box in the closet and onto my wrist where I can enjoy them.
Here are the many different types and sizes of beads that I used. Don't let the bags of beads at the top throw you. Those are way overkill to be used for future projects. This actually takes less beads than you think because the vintage buttons and charms take up a lot of space. But it is a loaded bracelet so there are many layers to this. If you are used to simple bead jewelry with just a few main beads, this ain't it. It's obsessive, but I like obsessive :) Most artists and creative types are pack-rats and I'm no exception. Anything shiney or interesting attracts us so we all have massive amounts of "trinkets" stored away.
There's the short version. I'll post more as things progress.
Annie