put this quote on jewelry

Source: humortrain.com via Mamie on Pinterest

from Pinterest, of course, and the board of a witty friend...

but really, put this on a bracelet for me, okay?

Put This Quote on Jewelry - Albert Einstein

Another great quote that you haven't seen on every single piece of jewelry at the last five craft shows. Put this on a tote bag for me. In kelly green.

See my quotes board on Pinterest here.

put this quote on jewelry...

Tired of the same six quotes stamped, etched and stitched on everything at craft fairs? Me too. I'm going to start a new blog section called Put This Quote On Jewelry in the hopes that I can see these quotes, well, on some jewelry. Or tote bags. Or yoga towels.

You get my point.

I'll put quotes here that you send me, or that I find on Pinterest. Are you on Pinterest? Use that button right there on the right to follow me if you'd like to see my quote board.

This quote was found on Pinterest and then google-image-searched to find the originator. The first use of it I found was on this sweet quilty blog A La Mode.

Wanna know how to run a google image search? Check out this sweet tutorial.

Wall quotes how-to

via Lucky Kiona and I Am Momma Hear Me Roar...

this is a great quotes-for-the-wall how-to from I Am Momma... and I love the way her dad totally helps her frame the project, he's a top-notch assistant if you ask me!

The framing thing is a good idea.

I have about a thousand quotes I'd love to write on our walls but my hubby is a bit resistant to the writing on the walls (and he does LIVE in the house!) Actually, the bathroom has lots of 1920's sappy love poems and just-might-be-suggestive lyrics from songs written all over the walls. In that case I handed him a book of poems and asked him to read them to me. After a few lines I just got out the carbon pencil and started writing. What could he say?

The bathroom decor predates the children. They like the poems (references to roses and angels,etc.) and totally miss the metaphors.

I love small children.

Put a trinket on!

I have a new project up at Ornamentea.com for you! This trio of necklaces features accordion books inside our frame lockets and three different necklace styles. They can be layered or worn separately.  The lovely Alison has created three autumn-themed books and a set of blanks so you could write your own story.

I gave the frame lockets a nice salt and ammonia patina...I have directions for that in the tutorial as well.

The entire set is based on a lovely Emily Dickenson poem that Alison used in the largest book. Although Miss Dickenson was generally in a somber mood this is one of her lighter poems and it ends with a line everyone here loves.

The morns are meeker than they were,
The nuts are getting brown;
The berry's cheek is plumper,
The rose is out of town.

The maple wears a gayer scarf,
The field a scarlet gown.
Lest I should be old-fashioned,
I'll put a trinket on.

Four Word Self Help

Patti Digh has a new book coming out that I am pretty excited about. You can read her blog post here and very, very soon you can pre-order the book at Ornamentea.com. She'll be sitting on a tiny stool at our store this winter for a reading...early December. Details to follow.

(I am pretty sure that at least one of these Four Word Self Help phrases was written here in Raleigh the last time she came to do a reading!)

Ornamentea in Beadwork!

Our fabulous selection of key charms and keys is featured in Beadwork this month. The editors love the old rusty keys and the teeny tiny keys and the key toggles and the lucite keys and so do we. I have used the keys on earrings, added them to little bitty things I tie on other painted or otherwise adorned objects. I even sewed one on a tee shirt.

Just think, if you live here in Raleigh you can just wander in and have "the doors of your creativity blown wide open." That last part is a quote from Beadwork. Wow. Makes us sound pretty amazing, huh?

a quote I like a lot right now

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

AA Milne


(thanks to Jane!)