Showing posts with label Crafting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Crafting. Show all posts

Thursday, October 3, 2019

Gorgeous Crystal Gem Trees - Perfect for Holiday Gifts! TheraTrees, they're great Therapy! lol! On Sale, Today!

Gorgeous Crystal Gem Trees - Perfect for Holiday Gifts! TheraTrees, they're great Therapy! lol! On Sale, Today!































I love to make Gem Trees, Crystal Trees - they are soo gorgeous! 

I love them, and everyone I've given them to, loves them, too!

I've figured out a way for you to give them out as Holiday Gifts, and keep one for yourself, too! 

You'll definitely want to keep at least one for yourself, they're so pretty, and you'll be amazed at your wonderful work, if you choose to make them, yourself! 😍

And if you want to buy them already made, I can do that for you, too! 

DIY Make It Yourself TheraTrees 
(Great for a Workshop at work, too! The TheraTrees are great for getting people talking, they're very relaxing and fun to make!)

1 for $25
3 for $50
10 for $100

You could get all your shopping done in one place! Yippee!!

$125 for a completed Gem Tree

For real gems, I can custom make your VERY fancy Gem Tree!

And if you want ME to run a Workshop for you at your Work Conference, I would be happy to do that, too! (I have all sorts of skills up my sleeve! lol!)

Just Choose Your Color, or Mix and Match the Colors


Yay! You could get all your Christmas Presents and Holiday Shopping done in one place! 

AND, I put the Gem Trees right IN my Christmas Tree - is absolutely gorgeous - they catch the light when the Christmas Lights are on, and even during the day, when the Christmas Lights aren't on, just yet - lol! 

I put Gem Sprigs in Wedding Bouquets, too - they are lovely in your own Wedding Bouquet, and you can choose to make different colors to match your Bridesmaids Colors! You just make them, stick them right in the Bouquets, is stunning! 

Everyone loves a little extra Sparkle, baby! 

I put the Gem Trees in my Plants, too - so pretty! I love the way they catch the light - so they're all over my house, in the plants on the balcony - haha! I Love Them So Much, and you will, too, baby-cakes!






I make Earrings, too! 

Earring Enhancers, they pop in behind your Earrings - they transform your earrings into something brand new!

Mermaid Mix, 6 Colors 
Pink, Blue, Green, Purple, Orange, White Pearl        $15

Flower Garden, 4 Colors                                          $10
Blue, Crystal White, Red, Pink

Crystal Garden, 3 Colors
Crystal White, Crystal Blue, Crystal Red                  $15

*Plus Applicable Taxes : )

Order, today! It'll be so much fun! 


Love from your Sparkly Li'l Pal, Ailsa! xoxo!





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Friday, April 12, 2013

Make Crafts for Fun, Gifts and Profit - Art Projects You Can Really Enjoy! #Crafts #DIY


Really, I just love crafts : )  I've always been very 'crafty' - hahaha!  From these gorgeous wee 'bear beds quilts' I used to make when I was in University. They were little baby quilts, and I was all about Primary Colors for children, at the time, so I usually made them with red, blue and yellow bears, on a green background - I was always in a kindergarten class, back then, and it took having my own wee girl to finally cross over to pastel colors! hahaha!  I was all about teaching until I had my own beautiful little baby, then I was all about, What does Cara want?? And I'm still that way! hahaha!  And now Cara will be 25, this year! lol!  Time flies when you're children are growing up : )

Crystal Wire Sculpture - by far my favorite new thing to make!
I'll see if I can find a picture of them, but they were a  full yard square in green with a little trim lace around the outside for the girl babies, then a square in the center on one side made of 9 squares, no two colors together, so first row, blue, red, yellow, next row underneath, yellow, blue, red... you get the idea... each of the red, yellow and blue squares was a little bed for the bears, so I made 9 small envelops, and would sew those together, then sew them onto the green base.... and then I would make 9 little bears, red, yellow and blue, sew them and stuff them, and draw on a very cute little face on each bear.  What a gorgeous project that was - so much fun for me to make, and I loved giving them out as gifts.  The children loved to carry the bears around, they could put them in their mouths, put them to bed, match the colors, or mix the colors... was a very sweet wee toy, and fun to cuddle up with.  For a while, there, there were a lot of tiny children with their own pockets full of wee colorful bears! hahaha!

So, really, that's where I started with making crafts, although I always loved teaching Art with my students, over the years.  Just remembered - I've got some really good Lesson Plans for fantastic art projects for yourself or your students, if you happen to have some! lol!  But making crafts, or crafting, if you will, is a great way for you to relax, enjoy yourself, and create something gorgeous, or lovely, or shiny!  Whatever it is that you like, and it's a fantastic creative outlet - and then you can sell your crafts, too, on ETSY, and all sorts of venues, now.  Who knows, maybe you'll be doing something you really love and start a new career!!

I love cake decorating (really, I've gotta go and see what pictures I can find for you - but I used to be an avid cake decorator....was so much fun, and now I want to learn how to make roses in icing - I used to do it, but this is a new style of roses with a softer icing that I want to learn how to do, so I can make a Rose Cake like a bouquet for my lovely daughter, Cara!  It's all about Cara! hahaha! (And Aidan, mah' boy!!)

Hey, it's my biggest 'Art Project'! haha!  I designed and built this gorgeous house, and I've already redesigned it so I can build another version of this lovely home with the same living room you see here, but with the bedrooms up over the garage... a really good use of space : )




Crystal Trees - I love making these gorgeous wee trees, and have given these as gifts, too - and I have two of them on my dining room table - I just looking at them... fun to make, and easy to make, and very inexpensive, too : )

Oh, man, I love learning new techniques, and now you can do that online - so easy!  Or, 'sew easy'! lol!  Sorry, couldn't resist that!  Oooh, I want to know more about Cake Decorating!  And everything else! 

Go have some 'crafty' fun!! : ) 


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Friday, March 2, 2012

Beautiful Crystal Mobile You Can Make at Home : >

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Beautiful Crystal Mobile You Can Make at Home
You know how I love to make my little Gem Tree Sculptures, right?  Well, I had picked up some new 'crystals' the other day, and had some 22 gage galvanized wire left over from Christmas, and I just thought, well, I'll see if this will work, so I just pulled the wire, which comes in a small roll, straight up, then used my needlenose pliers (they have a little cutting edge at the base of the pliers) to cut it at varying lengths, but this time, I didn't measure anything, just cut the pieces of wire at random lengths.  After I cut each piece of wire, I put one of the little crystals (they had a little hole at the top for threading the wire through) on each piece of wire, then pulled the wire in a loop to hold the crystal in place, leaving a fairly loose loop, so the crystal will hang loosely, not be held in place....

Anyway, so I make a ton of these -- okay, not a ton, but about 18 of them, letting the wire maintain the curves it comes out with... stretching some a little more than others, so each one is unique.  So normally I bring all the end together to form the base, right? But when I went to lift the first wire that already had the crystal on it, it flopped forward, so I thought, hmmm, what to do, what to do... so I hung it upside down, and added another spiral wire with the crystal at the end on it, holding them both upside down, then I thought, wow, that's gorgeous, and so unique, so then I just kept adding the wire pieces at the top, arranging them artistically, until I thought, oooh, that's juuust right, then I cut a smaller piece of wire, but still maintaining the natural curve of the wire, and wound that wire around the very top of the wire, where I was holding it together... and the last bit of the wire is used to hang the Crystal Mobile... easy, right?  And really fun to make! : )  These Crystal Mobiles can hang in a window, or outside on your balcony or porch -- they'll be lovely in the sun, where they can sparkle and cast beautiful rainbows all around! Pretty, right??

The whole thing took about half an hour -- who knows, I was watching Jimmy Kimmel (who is my Celebrity Crush, by the way! lol!  You know on Millionaire Matchmaker, Patty always asks her clients, 'Who's your Celebrity Crush?', Well, for me, my Celebrity Crush is Jimmy Kimmel -- he's just sooo funny! And cute! It's late... after 2 AM... I guess this is when I feel like crafting?? It definitely seems like a time when I think about Celebrity Crushes! hahahahahaha!).

Okay, let me get the photos for you... now, remember, it's the middle of the night, so I'll take photos in the daylight, too, so we can all see how shiny these Crystal Mobiles are! And I ended up making two Crystal Mobiles from the 18 wire pieces with one crystal piece on each... and I would say the cost on these would be about $3 each! hahahaha!  Cheap AND easy, much like meself!! lol! (Noooo, if you actually know me, you'll know neither one of those is true!! You gotsta have a beautiful house to get wit' me!! hahahaha!)(Or, truth be told, something else that I really like! hahaha!)(Okay, this is getting silly... I'll have to head to bed soon!) Night night!!

And for all the teachers out there, this would make a lovely and inexpensive Mother's Day Gift... I used to always make amazing things with my wonderful students (oh, I miss them so much!) in California.  Craft Items like this are great if you are teaching your students how to run a business, since they can learn how to decide on an item that will sell easily, go and purchase the items, make and sell them, do all the math and develop their money skills, and tons of experience in developing their social skills, too (being super-friendly when you're selling their products. : )

Crystal Beads for the Crystal Mobile... you can buy them at Michaels, but I happened to find these crystal beads at the local Dollar Store (teachers love Dollar Stores... great place to buy stickers! lol!) for $2. Sweet deal, right?? lol!


22 Gage Galvanized Wire, you can buy it at Home Depot for about  $3.
Carefully lift the wire straight up, then cut at random lengths, stretching the wire  as you like it.

Another view of the Crystal Mobile, with my favourite Cross behind it... it has my favourite Blessing, too... "May the Lord Bless You, And Be Gracious Unto You, And Make His Face Shine Upon You, May The Lord Give You His Peace."  Beautiful, right?  Makes you feel nice just reading that! :  )



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