Hot Heart, Cold Heart

I had friends over at home the night after New Year's and we watched The Holiday, again. I love this film, to me it shows that if you want good things to start happening to you, you have to start loving yourself first. So I dug up some salvaged hearts that I had in my stash, and some unwanted broken chain, and made those two pieces that you see here.

Red and Blue Eco Friendly Heart Necklace

Red and Turquoise Heart Earrings in Silver

Glamour Earrings for the Holiday Season

I found a few vintage chandelier octagon prisms and grabbed them! This is the first pair of earrings I made, and I was listening to Loreena McKennitt's winter garden while I was making them, so it seemed only natural to include the cd cover in my photos...

They have an incredible sparkle, which was very hard to capture with my camera, but hopefully those pomegranates on the cover will make them more visible to you. Here they are:

Glamour and Sparkle, Eco Friendly Earrings for the Holiday Season

And here is the song. Enjoy!

Oh, and I'm also glad that the weather today is different, we had 9 degrees Centigrade in the morning when I woke up. Cool!

Scary Weather and Some Good News

'Tis the 3rd of December already, and it's 24 degrees Centigrade in Greece. I am really scared, beginning to think it's too late for our planet...

A few days ago I decided to apply for membership to Team Eco Etsy, and I am very happy to announce that my application was accepted. So today I am presenting some wonderful items from Team Eco Etsy sellers, a few of whom I already know, but most of whom I hope to get to know in the future.

Upcycled Journal, by ecokaren

Firefly, by SeaFindDesigns

Bird Folk Art, by NestleAndSoar

Pillow cover, by simpledream2

Upcycled evening bag, by Ecouturiere

Two White Swans, by lapomme

Wrist Cuff Wallet, by MaryZoom

Detox Bath Salts, by SpaGoddess

Vinyl structural collar, by oblue

Organic Waldorf doll, by SewnNatural

Organic spearmint leaf, by twigandleafbotanical

Sparrow pin, by annarubyking

Truly amazing creations, you'll agree. At least browsing those shops helps me think more positively about the weather...

A week full of recycling projects...

... and there's more.

A friend has this obsession with expensive, designer clothes. Her wardrobe is currently worth a fortune -literally. The other day, however, she came to me with a t-shirt that she has always found not to be flattering on her. Why she bought it on the first place is another story... That piece of clothing was indeed strange: the fabric did not justify its price, as it was definitely not good quality, but there were some stunning crystals and rhinestones sewn onto it here and there, in patterns. These looked expensive, to say the least.

So we decided to cut off the embroidered, beaded parts with the fabric, and then I made a ring and a brooch -to start with. I am saving the rest of the stones for different projects. Here they are:

Ring

Brooch

As you can see, I added some black fabric at the back of the beaded - embroidered pieces of the t-shirt, and then sewed everything onto a ring base, for the ring, and a pin for the brooch. Well, you can't actually see the pin in these photos, but it's there, hahaa!! I hope you like them.

I have already begun work on my next recycling project, but it will be the subject of another post... I promise!

The Bad, The Good And The Beautiful Or, Amoronia's Adventures In Beach Party-Land

You know those moments when everything seems to be going wrong, right? A catastrophe often comes when you least expect it. When you're at a party, for example, enjoying yourself. And when you're at a beach party, chances are people will smoke. A crowded beach party means you never know when someone will accidentally burn your beautiful new white top with their cigarette and then rip the criss cross design off with their ring, in a desparate effort to make sure you're OK...

Oh, yes. That's what happened to my new top... But as all crafters know well, a catastrophe can be the ideal starting point for something new. So I decided to wash and dry my ruined top, and then took my scissors, thread and needle and got to work.

These are a couple of flowers that I made, white cotton flowers that look like roses or carnations.



And you know what? I decided to make them into statement cocktail rings, big and small, because these rings will never rip someone else's top... They are wonderfully soft to the touch, and wearing them is like a caress to your finger.



Those Cool White Recycled Fabric Flowers, Adjustable Cocktail Rings are available in my Etsy shop as of yesterday.

Shoes Revisited

Here's what I did to give new personality to a beige pair of shoes, that can now be worn at a party, instead of just the office...













I used little pieces of leftover fabric, and I'm totally loving these right now! I also made another pair exactly like this, which you will find in my shop. AND I'm ready to experiment with shoe clips more...

Pink Is Green

Earth Day is almost here! Celebrate: Think Pink and Go Green in one!



I hope you will love these eco friendly items from the following Etsy sellers:

1. Rosa. sweet necklace with rose. From birribe.
2. Notebook bike inner tube. Recycled rubber. From palepink.
3. Pleasure is All Mine.................................vintage skirt. From GinaMicheleVintage.
4. pink lady- ecofriendly clutch purse in dark pink and with vintage buttons. From karuski.

Enjoy!

First Fabric Flower Brooches In My Shop!

They are certainly not the first I have made, but they are the first I am listing in my Etsy shop. I recently made 5 or 6 of them for myself and my friends, but I still have lots of fabric left from curtain projects etc.

My Recycled Fabric Corsage Flower Brooch, Oyster Pink and Brown is a youthful design and appears to be madly loved! Thanks everyone!



The Recycled Fabric Corsage Flower Brooch, Cinnamon Multi and Brown is another style, with shaped 'petals' and seed beads, and is Oh! so elegant!



Stay tuned!!! More will follow SOON!!!