One World One Heart Giveaway

Whew!!! I made it. I didn't think I was going to get it done but I did. Yeah!!

I am so happy to invite all of you wonderful people to enter my

One World One Heart Giveaway

This years prize is this sweet little heart shaped wall hanging.

I made it with vintage floral wallpaper, vintage lace trim, a vintage velvet flower and velvet ribbon. It says Mon Amie (my friend) in the spirit of this wonderful giveaway.

Here's a side view

This giveaway is about meeting new people and making new friends all around the world.

So, all you have to do to win is leave a comment on this post between now and Feb. 14th at midnight with a valid email address or blog address (so that I can contact you), and if you get a chance check out all of the other amazing bloggers from around the world by clicking on the button on my side bar. There are so many amazing things you could win. But, most importantly lots of new people to meet.

xoxo

cari

The Big Reveal!!

O.K, I talked about it enough, now let me show you what I made...

I am of course referring to my soldering class with the famous Sally Jean Alexander (who is absolutely adorable and sweet as pie, by the way)

The class was a Christmas House Necklace class. We made 6 pieces, 4 of them were 2 sided.

Sally gave us about 40 minutes to do our artwork. Ugh!! I don't usually work that fast. It turned out to be a good thing though. I found out I work, maybe, better under pressure.

Some of the ladies that came were super organized and ready to go, I only brought 2 old magazines and a couple of sheets of images.

So, these were my first two charms, I used vintage rhinestone chain and velvet ribbon for the larger one, and a vintage pale pink sequin on ancient text for the second one.

My soldering was, well... lets just say ugh!!

These are the next two I worked on. They are super cute little glass bubbles with Holiday words I cut from magazines, the backs are dimes. Yes, 10 c pieces, dimes!!

These were really NOT easy to solder.

Here are my last two pieces, I love the decorative edge Sally showed us how to do on the smaller one. I used vintage sheet music and just cut the title off and then put it on top of seam binding ribbon and accented it with a Dresden star. My soldering is finally starting to get better.

My house, I am in love with. I am usually my biggest critic but, I love the way this turned out.

Finally, my soldering skills start really kicking in and I'm finished. Ugh. So, I quickly made another charm out of a small dominoes tile just to keep practicing. It turned out even better than the house. Yeah!! I even managed to get the jump rings on. Whew!!

I had such a fantastic time.

I met wonderful ladies who were really funny and talented.

If you ever get a chance to take one of her classes, I highly recommend it.

xoxo

Cari

My Second Etsy Shop

Today is the Grand Opening of my second etsy shop!!

It's called luckygirlgoods.

I started my shop to clean out some of my supplies and share some of my fabulous finds.I've come to realize that I'm a Hoarder and that I'm running out of room. Ugh!!

In the past I've always worried that if I used or got rid of something wonderful that I'd never be able to find anything like it again. Well, that is true sometimes. But, by clearing out some of my beautiful stuff I feel that I'm making room for the universe to send me more beautiful stuff.

So, here are a few of the little lovelies that I've listed so far today. I've got lots more to list but, I've got to do it in baby steps.

Have a super duper week.

Thanks for coming by.

P.S. I hope everyone had a fabulous Mothers Day!! I spent the day at the beach with my hubby, four fabulous kids, amazing friends, and their beautiful boys. I might be able to get some pictures from my friend. Of course, I forgot my camera. Oh well, I still had a blast.