Coming Back

Aloha everyone, E Komo Mai (Welcome),

I know it has been a while since I posted anything here, and that last post- a recipe, so random.

I am going to try to come back on a regular basis. I want to talk about everything from my art, my cooking adventures, and life.

I'm so excited to have my HonuHoni Web Store up, and gradually getting things up and listed for sale. I thank Square for the time I had my store up there.

So, life... there's another tropical storm headed our way, it could become a hurricane, it could hit out island, or it could miss Maui all together and whack Kauai out of shape.

We were scheduled to have a Pop-Up shop at the Haku Baldwin Center in Makawao this Sunday. They cancelled the event in the case of bad weather or worse. We were scheduled to do Pop-up shop tomorrow in Makawao at their town party also, but it has been cancelled too. Saturday is our usual Pop-up shop location at the Maui Swap Meet, but we are waiting to see if they are cancelling too, my guess is yes. So... I am going to offer FREE SHIPPING for the weekend starting tomorrow (Friday) as soon as I wake up and set it up. That will last through Sunday at midnight Hawaii Time:)

I just added the Micro Mixed Media necklaces this week too!
Here is one of my favorites!



A Hui Hou (Until next time)
~Julie

The Bracelet Board

Let's face it, I have made a lot of bracelets, I wear them, I sell them, I even give them away as gifts. And for a while I couldn't stop making them. I've been all over Pinterest and Google looking for a way to hang them up for display and easy access. I finally decided on a cork board. I picked up a  17" x 23" one at the craft store about a week ago. I finally got Hubby to hang it up today for me. I picked up a jar of colorful push pins at the office supply store and pinned away hanging as I pinned so i could manage the space well. Then I ran out of space. and I have a LOT more left. I think I will get back to listing them for sale on line (Etsy, probably). Here is a pic of the board all filled up.

Finishing Projects

Back, 2 posts ago, I mentioned Some handmade crocheted cuff bracelets my grandma made me. Well I found the right buttons for the white one.

Even tho I didn't make the cuff, Grandma is a piece of me so I'm going to show it to you...

I think it's very cool!

And while I'm on the "Finishing Projects" topic...

Last time my Mother-in-law was in town we went to a few quilt shops and I found the coolest pattern for a Chili Pepper table runner. Well I decided to use it as a wall hanging. I started making this in early may before my 2nd knee surgery (on the right knee) then when I went for surgery I could use my right knee quite right for a while so I didn't sew for a while. This week I pulled out the pieces n pattern and finished it up! I really only had the green part left to do. It looks awesome on my Terra Cotta Orange kitchen walls...

Crafters X-mas and Inspiration

Going to my grandmas house is always a treat. I love to visit with her, hear her stories, and learn from her. Plus I almost always leave with at least a grocery sack full of goodies! Some of the goodies are hand made sometimes and other times its supplies. This time it was both! Check it out!

^Oodles of old lace!

coz i wanna make these

^ a bunch of tiny ribbon flowers and bows

 I want to incorporate into the above lace flowers

^ thread cones for my surger she gave me a few months back

Here is a pic of the vintage surger. It is a White Superlock 503:

^ a very old cookie tin - i want MORE!

coz i wanna make these, sans the snowflakes and in a color that suits my home.

^ dozens of crocheted flowers 

she makes these with her yarn/thread scraps, not usually with anything in mind to do with them.

I want to make a bouquet with them, like this:

^ tiny ribbon flowers and bows i will probably incorporate with the lace flowers

^ *swoon* vintage thread spools all wooden!

^ rick-rack... i have quite a collection of rick-rack now from a previous thrift store score, i need some rick-rack craft ideas!

^Crocheted butterflies. something else she does with her scraps. 

Maybe I will make a mobile with them?

Perhaps something like this:

And then there rest... there was some googley eyes, red pompoms, sequin pins and steel silk pins.

There are 2 bracelet-cuffs she crocheted me too I need to get pictured of them on the bracelet model.

Check it out!

Rocky Wrist Bracelets

In the bottom of my bead stash, is a floss box with some sorted drilled rocks.

I had to think how to make these into a bracelet with out the bracelet weighing too much!

I recalled some silver plated aluminum beads, and used them to alternate with the drilled rocks.

I think they turned out interesting!

Girly Skully Pendant

A long awaited order from an ETSY seller in HONG KONG finally showed up this week.
Why do I keep buying things from places that take months to get to me?
Well this is what I got...

 4 Kuromi (for those uneducated in Sanrio...She is a white rabbit or imp-like creature, wearing a black jester's hat with a pink skull on the front and a black "devil" tail in the place of a normal rabbit's tail.)

 8 strawberries, 10 Cherries, 3 Girly Skulls and 8 Black Hearts

This morning it came to me, a design for a pendant based on one of the Girly Skulls. I used a pink cherry too and some pink Dice I had already with some other charms n beads and this is what happened!  I just love it!

The Etsy seller is Love.vs.Logic. They have some totally cute, worth the wait stuff! I could spend a fortune in that shop!

Red Bow Earrings

I spied these lil red bow beads in an Etsy store not too long ago. I only got 2, I wish I had more, because now that I made a pair of adorable earrings out of them I want to keep them but I also want to share them!

Measured Wrist - A Bracelet

First let me start by saying I broke the retractor in my cloth tape measure measuring something that was clearly longer than the tape. I tossed the tape in the trash, knowing I had a couple more around here.

Then a day or so later I saw a Pin of a bracelet made of a length of measuring tape. I repinned it, of course. This morning I pulled up the pin and dug out the tape measure from my trash bin.

Then I fished thru my jewelry making supplies and discovered I had everything I needed!

I began making the bracelet accordingly and decided in the end to ad my own touch. Charms! I happen to have tiny working scissors, thimbles, and thread spool charms. I also added a crystal heart charm for fun. These are simply adorable!

Luckily I had just the right size ribbon clamp doohickies to fit the tape measure width.

Scrabble Pendants, Revisited

Here are the pendants from batch #3 after getting my order for 20 bails from an Etsy seller in the mail.

Elephant, Frog, Heart

Bee, Bunny, Peacock

Chinese Happiness Symbol, Angel, Seashell

Another Peacock, Purple Flower (with rhinestone center), Peace Symbol

Sea Turtle, Owl, Beetle

Surfboards with rhinestone, Ginko Leaf, Green Vine with Rhinestone

Human Skull, Alien Head

Blue Flowers, Pair of Cats

These are so fun, and now I am prepared to give anyone a gift when an occasion comes up!

Square Knot Bracelet...

Seems kind of like a Shamballa, but maybe not as many knots.
I had to find cord that would fit with the beads I wanted to use. I used silk cord. I dipped the stringing end with glue and let it dry so it wouldn't fray as I strung the beads on.
The beads are perfectly smooth and round.
I didn't have any hand dyed silk cord, so I used organza ribbon.
I don't think I made the best supply choices for a variation on this, but here it is...

Mine:

Theirs, for comparison:

(no, i don't mind the inserted adverts! I love etsy sellers!)

here's the instructions

Shamballa Bracelet

Its just macrame!
I wanted to make a sliding knot bracelet and I found this on Pinterest.
Here is my results. I am pretty proud of it!

Hubby wants me to give this one to the cashier that works for/with him.

Theirs, for comparison:

Scrabble Pendants, my way...

I recently (re-)embarked on making scrabble pendants.  I had saved up about 60 pieces. A few years ago I started this project, I carefully cut out the ridiculous rectangles from patterned paper I had left over from other projects. This is how everyone else was doing it: cut it out, glue it on, Modpodge over it, glue on bail.

I recently had a middle of the night, I can't sleep, epiphany... (it may sound strange!) Stickers!  I carefully selected the tiniest most perfect stickers (which I had left from scrapbook supply hoarding), and used tweezers to carefully place on the backs of the tiles.

I was left with this wonderful dimensional feeling and you could see the wonderful wood texture. but some of them needed 'something' and it came to me after I applied Crystal Effects to a few to gloss coat, which i like better than Modpodging them... I grabbed some Stickles glitter glue and framed a few, dotted the corners of a few and even dotted the centers of flowers when possible. Once that dried I coated in the Crystal Effects.

A few I chose to use Crackle Effects! Like you will see below in the 1st finished 3.
I only had 6 bails on hand and 3 ball chains on hand so when the rest get bailed and chained, I'll play more Show & Tell!

The pink flower is done traditionally but with crackle effects, it is for my youngest sister.

The red & black skully is done with a tiny sticker and crackle, it is for my friend Anna.

The purple monster is 2 tiny stickers and crackle, and it is for my niece.

Revisited...

Finished 3 more yesterday. 

The big box craft stores dont have a lot of options if anything in the line of the right kind of bails, so i only got 3, came home, ordered a bunch from an Etsy seller to finish the stash, same goes for ball chains.

Anyway here are the 3 most recent pendants

Blue Butterfly is a tiny sticker with glitter edging and Crystal Effects of it all, this one is for my childhood friend Jessica.

Gold peace dove is with a tiny outline sticker and Crackle effects over it all, this one is for my Step-Mom.

Blue heart is done traditionally, but then a blue rhinestone added on top of the Crystal Effects, this one is for my middle sister.

I love that I can find colored ball chain! Used here: Red, Black, and Purple.

Someone elses, for comparison: