May 2013
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Handcut leather with hand-drawn “shrinky dinks”
I’ve been working at getting a collection of my earrings packaged and ready to go for this Monday. I’m meeting with someone from a new gallery near my hometown to give her some product for her store and talk about going there to install my giant crochet tree sculpture from two years ago into a new space in the next couple...
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oeil
April 2013
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arrow dynamic
I’m working on some new imagery…
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jewelry class
Hi! This is what I made in the jewelry class I was taking. The pendant is silver with a labradorite gemstone with a technique called chasing to make the designs around the stone. The chain is 21.9 m of beading wire, It is now 1.2 m… the technique I used is called viking knit, which is very similar to the corking process you would use with yarn for doing tubular knitting. I now...
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plumage
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freshly baked
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March 2013
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Embroidered plastic pop bottles with leather leaves, I’ve been cutting out the pieces at home then doing the stitching on the train to/from work. I keep showing up at work with holes in my fingertips because some of the leather is pretty tough to stitch through, but its worth it.
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Be-leaf it
Still working on earrings these days- plastic pop bottles, leather scraps, embroidery, beads and metal bottle caps.
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February 2013
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leafing
One of my favorite new discoveries from the last month or so was when I found out I could also scratch designs into the plastic pop bottles to create even more detail…
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shrinky dink fun
I’ve been playing with making shrinky dinks lately, if you’ve never heard of them you should look them up because they are really easy and fun. Basically they are plastic sheets you can buy and draw on then shrink in the oven. They shrink to 1/3 its size.
These are the real store bought ones, your image shrinks perfectly and if you use a regular size hole-punch the hole shrinks to the...
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January 2013
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New earrings! made up of metal bottle caps, handcut leather scraps, scrap fabric, grommets, seed beads, and green plastic bottles
I’ve gone to two jewelry classes so far and am now thinking about jewelry designs all the time. I want to figure out what I want to learn about the most in the class since it isn’t very long. So far we’ve been shown wire bending, soldering, making...
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My roommate put one of my stickers on her guitar :)
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refacing
My little brother, Benjamin Jay Plumley, was just visiting and left me with a bunch of stickers he made while he was here. I’m going to stick them all over the city…check out more of his drawings here: http://instagram.com/vizstim
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I’ve been taking advantage of the sunbeams in the living room :)
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
– Oscar Wilde (via paperimages)
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another day
another bracelet
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More new bracelets made of speaker box foam, velvet fabric and various recycled wire cords …soon to be for sale…
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sunshine day
we re-arranged the living room last week and I hung up some tree branches from my old “hello housekeeping” art installation on the wall.
-crocheted electrical cords with hotel amenity bottles as leaves.
“If you love a flower, don’t pick it up.
because if you pick it up it dies and...”
– Osho (via earth911)
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day off
I had the day off today and it felt good to finally do some drawing since I’d been neglecting my sketchbook during the holiday madness.
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Just a few more weeks...
Happy New Year!! Only one more month left to go see my mandala and the rest of the Hard Twist 7- Touch Me, Feel Me- textile arts show at the Gladstone Hotel. The last day will be January 27, 2013.
December 2012
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leaf me alone
Happy Holidays Everyone! I’m thrilled that Christmas is now over for another year.
I’ve been working on some new ideas for earrings using green plastic pop bottles and some craft feathers. I’m loving the transparency of the plastic. I bought a tiny exacto knife that fits in the palm of my hand- its amazing for small detail cutting.
starting mid January I’m taking a...
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new bracelets!
I’m working on a new series of bracelets… these are made up of speaker box industrial felt, various velvet fabrics, some fun fur, telephone wire and thread, all hand-stitched. I also plan to do a little beading…
One of my new year resolution’s is to open up an “etsy” account so I can make enough money to quit one of my part time jobs- less gross hotel...
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I’ve re-discovered “gelly roll” pens…
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sketchbookin
This is the cover pages of my current sketchbook, the faces on the left (back) page is a sticker my lil brother Benjamin made- I’m going to make a post about his artwork soon, he’s pretty amazing. On the right (front) page is an ongoing collage of feathers either found somewhere or created by me. I like to make a photo record of it as its always developing, who knows what it will...
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I made a sticker for my computer
November 2012
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:)
For Anyone who’s interested in knowing more about mandalas and why I like to make them:
http://www.jungcircle.com/mandalic.htm
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good ol' ballpoint
Hey, I’ve been doing some drawing in my sketchbook lately, still making mandalas…
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Flower of Life
I was able to do a lot conceptual work on this piece and planned it all out to make it symmetrical and balanced. Which made it was easy for me to calculate how much of each of the materials I used in total:
66 pop tabs, 68 wine bottle lids, 26 bread-tags, 40 toilet paper rolls, 28 Danactive bottles, 84 yogurt cups, 23 lightbulbs, 20 bottle seals, 12 plastic drink bottles,...
