This piece took about 3 days to complete and features vintage metal fringe, a detachable fox tail fur charm, earrings from fortune cookie fortunes and vintage lace, with a huge vintage doily behind a hand-woven “web” with vintage button “spider”. There’s also a plastic water bottle feather garland, which was featured on the Free People blog!  You can see tons of photos here on my Flickr.

the beast! it's over 6 feet tall!

detail of the large piece at Free People

this piece features a detachable fox tail charm!

on either side of the piece hang earrings featuring fortune cookie fortunes and vintage lace!

The second one I made is MUCH smaller, but no less charming! It features vintage trims and gold painted feathers.

here are the two raffle prizes!

raffle prize #2!

pic of me and the beast!

sweeeet.  got a guest artist spot over on the always-inspiring free people blog.

i love sharing how to make stuff.

here’s a basic way to make a little dream catcher. riffing on the round object with danglies (found in every culture) i’ve been (finally) finding uses for my slightly embarrassing doily collection.

also featured here are diy doily crystal necklaces. my friend heather treasure cautions mindfulness about sourcing quartz and other crystals, and recommends arkansas crystal works.

from the building 25 free people blog

dream eyes & god catchers

object with vintage trims and detail view

start here

start here. i used a bangle. tie string, loop around.

keep looping around, and when you get to the beginning...

catch the loops and weave the string through each one. back to front or front to back, it doesn't matter as long as you are consistent

keep spiraling in until it gets too small to work with. add a bead and tie off. add feathers, etc. and you're done!

object with doilies and painted feathers

pastels or crayons, watercolors, collage elements

draw with pastel or crayon, add collage elements, and paint over.

cut out, draw designs with markers. i like sharpie paint pens.

finished product, and "dark star"

doily, lace & quartz necklaces

wrapped in wire, held by a piece of vintage lace

quartz necklaces & lace

the piece i sent to julia at fp

dream catcher necklace with leather & feathers

and here’s just another weird necklace i made with tassels, random beading, and other jewelry parts that needed a good home:

raj necklace

i’ve been kind of obsessed with doilies. i recently was gifted a ginormous bag of them from the antique store in montpelier:

doily haul

i’ve also been a long-time buddha altar collage maker.  i’m finding creative ways to use the doilies too…here’s one I made this week:

to help dial down my adrenaline fatigue

iphone pic of me wearing earrings by marion max

i was really inspired by them and thought i’d take a crack at making some feather earrings myself.  mine are made from recycled leather, random beads, a broken necklace chain, and various craft feathers.  ok i admit i plucked a few from the feather duster.

leather & feather earrings by me

here's me wearing them. babushka!