i'm on schmap

flowers or clouds?

i made these wonderful fingerless gloves with fleece thread and pixie dust lol.

but i can't make up my mind do they look like flowers or clouds?

autumn fairy

Autumn fairy is the fourth and final edtion for the halloween extravaganza!
This outfit is my outfit for halloween and i have been working on it all month.



My brother was kind enough to agree to take these wonderful pictures of me in my costume at the lovely balboa park.


here's a little description of how i made my mischievous little autumn fairy costume.
I started by hand sewing glittered leaves to a handmade corset made the skirt and then thought it would be prettier as a dress so i made it into a dress instead. I sculpted the wings and put organza fabric over the wire frame. then I glittered the outer edges in gold glitter and i then hand painted the wings in a vein and flower design.and then the crown i made out of autumn berry garland.

I have also entered my costume in the instructables handmade halloween costume contest!
http://www.instructables.com/

There will also be a video coming in the next couple of days i will post it on youtube and then put a link to it here.

i'm in a treasury!

If you want to see the treaury i'm in you'll have to hurry because they only last 3-4 days
so click the title of this post and it will take you there.

Cardnial Queen

This is the third edition in my halloween handmade extravaganza!



This is the mask of the snow Queen (ssshhh don't tell her i stole it, don't worry i'll give it back when i'm done showing everyone) hahahaha
This lovely mask is made with velvety dahlia petals and matching dahlia leaves, to make a beautiful red cardinal bird mask for any queen to feel royal about.


(ok i'm done i better hurry and return it to her before she turns me into and ice cube.)

glowing firefly second edition for halloween

I made this set of wings and hand painted them with fabric paint to look like a set of firefly wings. they look like there on fire. kool! huh



I added orange flowers and matching green leaves to make it more autumn inspired and girly and i think it work . for the boy fairies just don't add the flowers. and you'll be on fire. hahaha

To the sea i go

Today was my first day to swim in the ocean with my fins. yay!
I drug my hubby along to take pictures and video if you would like to see my videos click the title and it will take you there. He got some lovely ones if i say so myself.

(this picture one was taken at the snorkeling cove) Since it is octorber and all, i made sure i went on one of the warmer days hahah the water was still freezing. It was 77 outside that day and the water in la jolla stays about 76 all year round lol so you can even go in decamber that wouls be and interesting christmas picture.

We went to the la jolla coves in la jolla california and when we got there and walked to one of the many beaches (pictures above and below are at the tide pools) we discovered the most beautiful colors of green and red kelp and sealife were everywere to be seen! (we have never been out to the coves so late in the year before usely we go in the spring and summer when you can see the baby seals) it was beautiful!

This picture was fun to take i had to crawl out to this rock in the middle of the tide pools and hope that i didn't get hit by a wave lol

halloween on etsy

come celebrate Halloween with etsy and enjoy all the halloween items.

halloween handmade extravaganza!

The first edtion of the halloween extravaganza is of course a fairy.

This is a cute dragonfairy that lives in the trees behind my house.

Isn't she cute and dark and i think she was just ignoring me. trying to pretend i wasn't there. lol

oops she saw me!

The bright colors for these black and blue wings were inspired by the morpho blue butterfly.
but the shape of them was inspired by the dragonflies in my garden.

sea kelp mermaid fins

This is my next set of mermaid fins This set is called sea kelp mermaid fins.

If you want to watch video's of me swimming in my fins click the title of this post annd it will take you there.

This set are made of 2 layers of lycra/swimsuit fabric and four ruffles to make the fluke and side fins.The ruffles were something i had never tried to make before and it was really hard. O.O

I looked up on the internet how to make ruffled pillows and just made the ruffles long enough to fit the fins. Trying to scrunch them was a task though lol the first thing i tried was sewing floss in to the ruffle so that i could pull it and it would scrunch up. ya it didn't work that way lol. the floss kept ripping off and it was looking to much like a scrunchy pillow not a ruffle one. so istead i just did it the hard way lol and folded it they way i wanted it. it just took me longer to do but it was worth all the time and work because it looks awesome.

My inspiration was the kelp forests of la jolla coves ca.

baby giraffe fabric

My cousin called me the other day sheena sheena! I want you to make me two hats for a friend of mines baby shower. she was so cute and excited. She said i was standing in walmart in the baby department and i was looking at the cute baby hats with the little balls on top and thought it would be cute to have hats with ears on them and i had a epiphany! sheena makes hats with ears on top. She can make them for me!

so she disided that she wanted a bear hat and a giraffe hat. for her friends to little boys.

Well the bear hat was easy Fuzzy brown fleece with cute round ears. like the polar bear one on my kitsune fashion etsy site.

The giraffe one was a different story lol. Trying to find giraffe print fleece was hard O.O I looked everywhere! i looked at 4 different fabric stores and there was no giraffe fleece. i finaly found this adorable baby giraffe fabric with the help of the lovely ladies that work there at a local fabric store it's not fleece but it's fuzzy and cute so i think it's perfect!

vacation,vacation,vacation

hi everyone i'm sorry it took me so long to get back i was on vacation with my hubby and my inlaws and we went everywhere i tell you everywhere! i'm posting a few pictures that i took while i was away.



ok lets start our little tour we started in old town where we got on a cute little trolley that takes us to different stops all through san diego.
this is a picture of and beautiful shop i found in old town san diego.
all these lovely stars are hand made of tin!


Next we have these gorgeus cheetahs and there keeper from the wild animal park.

Just look at there coats aren't they just beautiful! they are sisters who have been together there whole life's in there wonderful habitat at the park.(hey three sisters reminds me of the three fates of greek mythology)

Next we visited the cabrillo national monument. here i was snaping away lots of pictures of beautiful waves and cute little sea birds.

this cute little seagull posed for me.


This is a picture of one of the many beautiful local art statues on habor drive.

This is also the entrance to the maritime museum. where there is a pirate ship,submaire,and the star of india to explore!

Next we walked the cute and cozy streets of seaport village where they have lots of cute little shops and resterants and of course the view.

Then we took a boat across the bay to coronado island where we walked on the fishing pier and took a rest at a yummy italain resterant to have lunch.

and then it was back to old town to walk around and look at were san diego got it's start.
This is a church on one of the many shopping corners of old town it's a perfect place for families to have some fun. there are people who dress up in costumes from the old west and you can take your picture with them.

That wasn't even half of what we did lol.we had lots of fun and pretty much saw all of sunny san diego.

season of headbands

These lovely handbands are a series i did flowers for spring,butterflies for summer,and autumn leaves for fall. perfect Accessories for the fairy wanting to update her style but still be a whimsical lighthearted fairy.

spring

summer

autumn

second day of mersdays in july

Three days to kiss the prince necklace





When Imade this necklace it reminded me of three suns, which of course reminded me of the disney movie the little mermaid. It was my favorite disney movie when i was a kid and still is.
In the movie Ariel visits the sea witch, Ursula, to trade her voice for legs, but the witch only gives her three days in order to get a chance to win Eric's heart.

first day of mersday

This gorgues teal fin is my new project and i'm in love with it. I've already worn it in the pool (as you can see) about a hundred time's I love my new tail! swimming in it feels like your flying and I feel pretty hot in it to. lol

This is the first tail I have ever made and I wanted it to be pretty under the water as well as out of it. So when I cut the fluke (end) of the tail I cut it jagged so it would look like a fish, and the only fish I ever had growing up was a beta. hence the flowy beta style tail. It looks very much like a beta fish tail in the water to so i have achieved what I wanted. a beautiful teal beta fish tail. funny story about the fabrics. I went to pic out fabric that would look good as a mermaids tail (even thought I had no idea what color would) and I had origanaly wanted to make a yellow tail like a gold fish. so I could have a lilly pad bra. (in the making) but instead I found this gorgues teal and I LOVE teal so I had to get it. and come to find out it matched perfect to my swimsuit.
I thought it was funny I didn't plan to get matching fabric it just happened that way. It was fate!

Is there a mermaid in your pool?

hhhhhmmmm maybe you should check just in case.

happy fouth of july tomorrow

new cards

I recently ran out of my original buisness cards so i decided to make new ones. yes! (does a little dance) I have always loved playing around with my microsoft digital image suite 2006, trying new things, make cards, fixing my pictures, oh and I just discovered I can make awesome picture slideshows. so kool! but thats another story.
It is very hard trying to pick out the perfect design for your buisness card it took me a couple of days but i came out with something I think is very pretty. let me know what you think of it and if you think I could do something else.


I used a picture my husband recently took of me in my new mermaid wreath, one of the new plumeria hair pin, and one of the butterfly hairclips I have made.put some lovely swirling letters and tada! a buiness card to send with my purchases.

the little fish that got away earrings


When I made these CUTE! little earrings they reminded me of that adorable kids book my mom used to read to me the little fish that got away, so I had to name them after the book. It was one of my favorite books from when I was little and is still one of my favorites today.

second day of mersdays

Mersday, july 10, 2008

Three days to kiss the prince necklace

When i made this necklace it reminded me of three suns, which of course reminded me of the disney movie the little mermaid. that was my favorite disney movie when i was a kid and still is.

In the movie Ariel visits the sea witch, Ursula, to trade her voice for legs, but the witch only gives her three days in order to get a chance to win Eric's heart.

Mersdays in july

Mermaid summer series in july!My mermaid summer series is coming soon! starting in july!

Every thursday in july I will post a new mermaid item that i have made.

and every thing will be on sale in my etsy shop fairiescloset.etsy.com

Tell all your mermaid friends to come check it out maybe they will find a new necklace or a new hair clip to match there fins.

When Fairies step into the room They wash away the doom and gloomA place to fly and spread your wings To learn a craft or share some things We'll build our kingdom in the sky And teach our Fairies all to fly!