New Toys to Make Stuff With!

Got some new supplies in today to play with on my fabric beads and stitch meditations! I had ordered a sampler of neutral colors a couple of months ago, just to try perle cotton thread, thinking the neutral colors would go with anything, but they didn't, at least not like I wanted them to, so I ordered another sampler of brighter colors. I have used some of the neutral colors and fell in love with the perle cotton thread. Can't wait to stitch with these new brighter colors!

Also, I had ordered a spool of silver jewelry wire to try wire wrapping some of my fabric beads, and finding it enjoyable to work with, although I need much practice with the wrapping, plus I love copper, I ordered a four-pack of 22 gauge wire in silver, gold, copper, and antique copper. The separate roll of wire is 18 gauge antique copper, which I plan to use to make another art journal, bound with wire, although it's a little thinner than expected, so I may have to double it, but that's ok. It'll be much more pliable than the old stiffer wire that I used on the journal I shared in a previous post.

I have also received three of the four little bags of charms (the fourth bag contains little copper elephants and hasn't come yet). One bag contains a lot of little silver assorted charms, one silver word charms, and the other has blue enamel charms with gold accents.

My mp3 player quit on me over the weekend, and I need my music, especially when I'm painting, so I ordered a replacement yesterday. So now I need to add some oldies but goodies to the current favorite albums to transfer onto the new one. Trying to keep all this tech stuff up and going sure keeps us on our toes!

Stay cool and creative!