A nice surprise this morning and in love with aqua...

I went to etsy this morning to spiffy up my shops a bit, and look what I saw on the front page ~ a treasury picked by etsy admin that included one of my vintage ribbon roses!

What a nice surprise! Don't you just love everything in that collection? It's hard for me to choose a favorite, but I really like those simple crystal dangle earrings.

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I have loved aqua and its variations for a long time, but lately it seems like nearly everything I make has shades of aqua in it.

This first piece, though not aqua, does have blue. I enjoy making these folk art fraktur paintings once in a while.

This is another acrylic painting / collage I recently did. It has a very distressed, crackled background, and I couldn't resist adding little vintage words and paper birds:


...and here are several soldered charms I made last week using aged and watercolored papers:

...and this last piece was something I had wanted to make for a while after finding the wonderfully tarnished and aged vintage brooch in Karla Nathan's shop. I found an aqua suede belt, a few brass components such as the chain and jump rings...

and added a pretty little glass flower to the dangly thing on the chain...

If you'd like to see more of it, just click on one of the photos, or go here.

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My giveaway is still going on this week, just scroll on down and read the post below this one.

Have a lovely day!

Lana

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