Museum of the Bazaar

Today I am sharing a bit about why I love living in Bisbee.  One of my dear friends Renee Harper runs the Old Bisbee Ghost  Tours and Yes our town  is haunted. Renne  also has a cute little shop called
Sweet Midnight in which she sells her hand made "dark side of cute"   goodies  . In the back of her cute shop she has created a fun old time  dime museum she calls the Museum of the Bazzar . Last month the History Channel did a feature on the musuem and her . Enjoy....

my first DVD class!!!

I did it ,my first full length class on DVD ! I have said I will be doing this for over 4 years . I finally did it!!!   I created  DVD class of one of my creations .
The little pewter heart on wheels featured  in my last post is now a class on DVD . It comes with all the materials in a kit from  and the 2 part Full feature DVD . I have it on my etsy shop ! Hope you will take a look. Thanks Julie

2 Part DVD

Project image ( what you will make)

                                                             supplies you get  in your  kit

                                                      more  supplies you get  in your  kit

                              tools you will need to provide plus a dremel or drill adn 1/16 drill bit

                                Kit with all materials  and 2 part  DVD $70.00
                                       on my etsy  Bisbeebliss

Defending my Love

New on my esty shop a ready to decorate hand carved heart on wheels. One of the  unique items  I make for others to decorate. The finished  version is what I  did with  the piece. It was lots  of fun and the sky is the  limit as to how many ways you could   design this fun little piece.

link to esty lisiting 

$10.50 on etsy 

Defending my Love  -front

                                                             Defending my Love  -back

ART and SOUL classes april

 ART and  SOUL in KC . April   3-7  this  spring !
 Here are the classes I will be teaching .

Heart Of the Ocean=Distress Shadow Box  and collage peice.
Queen for a Day = Working with  Paper Clay 
Textured Whimsy = Painting with texture using whimscal imagery.   

Click heart for more details Art and Soul KC

copper water color heart book

I have wanted to teach a water color class where we do wee on the spot watercolors in a handmade  created   journal to go with the water colors . Bisbee  is the perfect place to do a walking water color class. The town  is so filled with inspirational  vignettes everywhere you go.
   Today I made the prototype for the journal.  Bisbee was a copper mining  town so  I made the book cover by covering 2 wooden hand carved hearts with  hammered copper. I then made  wee  heart shaped  page signatures  for the inside. It was fun . Now to do the water colors for  the inside and it will be ready to put on the Blisbee class schedule.

re visiting shrink plastic

When you just want to have fun and feel like a kid doing a science  experment
 ( without  hurting  any living creatures of course)  get out the shrink plastic  !!!. This bracelet  is so fun
1-Piant one side of the plastic with white gesso scrapping some off .let dry  then add yellow ochre pencil shadings .
2-Cut large heart shapes.
3-Stamp images with stazon ,some on both sides ,some just one side.
4-Add Black stabilo pencil  to the edges and smear!!!
5-Seal with spray fix.
6-Shrink with a heat gun and watch  the hearts squrim  and wiggle.
7-Drill holes, add  jump rings, attach  to bracelet chain.
8- Then add wire wrapped  drops for bling !!!
Or.... Just come in and take the class at blissbee

"wearing my hearts on my sleeve"

Samples

I am working on  making  inspirational  samples for the shop using products I carry.  It really helps shoppers when they can see what can be done with the products. This wall pocket was created by using  a Canvas Corp. banner and a Melissa Frances hanger . Canvas Crop makes all sorts of fun shapes to alter .They are really fun to spray with Adirondack   inks by Ranger  and also stamp with the Adirondack fabric inks also by Ranger . I also printed an image on organza printing fabric and used it as the central image.

    

I used  several vintage lace pieces but most of this was done with  new matreials The key to making something look old is to avoid  most  shiny  polyester laces  and ribbon . I  try to use cotton or rayon .  Thye  also dye best in coffee or tea.

Vintage MOP buttons over  new plastic  ones really makes  a difference  too.  

Canvas Corp banner and Melissa Frances hanger .

The cone shape  wall pocket was created by clipping the banner so that it bowed out . Once that bow shape  was created I glued a  piece of heavy card board on to  the back  creating the back piece  for the wall pocket .