Bottled

I promised a closer look of my bottled things. It's fun turning glass bottles into storage containers. So long as they can easily get in and out, you're ready to go.

It's also a cool way to show off the tiny little things that you've got lying around. For example:

Nails and marbles (cracked glass)

I do a lot of crafts and hand made jewelry and I've got a number of charms to keep organized. Plastic containers are nice but how would they compare to these:

 Key charms. Ready to open up new worlds.

Bracelet charms. Bottling love is fine. Keeping it for those who are worthy.

More bracelet charms. Don't just follow dreams. Once you catch one, don't let it go. Keep it near to remind yourself that happiness is not that far off.

Since it's almost Halloween, the bottles look great as decorative items. I've placed nails and metallic bead spacers in these two.

And to store the storage, give the bottles a place to call their own. I made a wooden box with a hinged lid to keep them. It's like my one-stop-shop(box) when I need my beads and charms. And it feels nice to pull out individual bottles like I'm looking for ingredients for a monster potion (my inner witch just cackles with delight). >:)

 (P.S. Consider the bottles, corks and the materials you'd place in them as choking hazards for children. Safety first!)

Snow Queen Pendant

I've been fascinated by wire-wrapped jewelry for a while, and decided to give it a try.

I bought some craft wire and started bending. (I looked up a number of tutorials online.)

And here it is.

I used a cracked marble (12mm) to wrap and it's blue and the "shinyness" of the wires made me think this could be snow queen jewelry material for costumes.


I can't promise tutorials as I am still an amateur at this, maybe when I get better at it? :)

Let the magic start.

I just got me a new bookshelf. And decided to make a little cubicle of it a home for my weirdness. 

Look, I even got a familiar. Isn't she cute? I call her Butterscotch. :))

1. Yes, that is a time turner.

2. The candle's a toy. I won't endanger my books.

3. Tiny bottles!

4. Cracked glass marbles are in them.

5. The pendant is wire-wrapped - made it myself. *wink* *wink*

6. The chest is hand-made too. Inside are more tiny bottles.

7. I didn't edit the picture. The hazy sunlight gives it a more mystical effect. Don'tcha think?

I'll go over them one by one in the next few entries.