The crafting and hand making zone

[Nat_Lee]

I decided to create this thread for all the AVALON crafters and artists .....
You like making stuff ?
Show us your creations here:

You like art, colors, life, spiritual crafting, music, fun, jewels, dreams, feathers and gifts ?

You like working with your hands, journaling, scrap-booking, building stuff, painting, decorating, sculpting, making jewels, writing ?

This is not a selling platform but if interested by something you can PM the member and make arrangements with him.

We can exchange ideas, techniques, marketing ideas.

As for me I recycle and make jewels and I also make portable meditation boxes. I organize events in schools to sell my jewels at a low price. I collect all the broken or outdated jewels, I repair them or make new ones with the pieces I have collected. I sell them in garage sales or schools at a very low price. Recycling and give the opportunity to the less fortunate to buy themselves a beautiful jewel at a lower price.

Portable meditation boxes

I also make those personalize portable meditation boxes so you can meditate every were you go. Home, in an hotel room, at a friends house, on the beach, in the train, in the wild ect... Each boxes comes with an handwriting poem or thought I had thinking about you and the purpose of your meditation box.

Some of my jewels:

[Philaletheian]

Wow amazing stuff!

[BlueHeron]

Really love this idea. Thank you for sharing

[Gardener]

Thank you Nat Lee for sharing this with us, I hope some others feel inspired too. Beautiful workmanship and super ethos.

[Tesla_WTC_Solution]

Those are superb

I will bookmark!

[Gaia]

J'aime beaucoup ta créativité!

[ulli]

Lovely work. Nat_Lee.
I used to knit, then got into jewelry making after moved to the hot zone.
(Barbados and later Costa Rica)
My Barbados work is more glamorous with lots of pearls and crystals, than my Costa Rica work,
which is rather rustic.
Here is are a few examples of my Costa Rica pieces



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[sandy]

Beautiful artistry ladies, I especially love the choker necklaces Nat_Lee and the turtle bracelets Ulli.

[Nat_Lee]

Posted by Gardener (here)
Thank you Nat Lee for sharing this with us, I hope some others feel inspired too. Beautiful workmanship and super ethos.

Yes I hope like you that all the crafters in AVALON will come here and show us there beautiful creations !
Ulli already did

[Nat_Lee]

Posted by ulli (here)
Lovely work. Nat_Lee.
I used to knit, then got into jewelry making after moved to the hot zone.
(Barbados and later Costa Rica)
My Barbados work is more glamorous with lots of pearls and crystals, than my Costa Rica work,
which is rather rustic.
Here is are a few examples of my Costa Rica pieces

I love it Ulli !
Thank you for sharing !
I love those fruit seeds beeds and natural wood ones ..... They are very expensive here !!!!
I would really like to find a big lot for cheap one day !!

[Nat_Lee]

Posted by Gaia (here)
J'aime beaucoup ta créativité!

Merci Gaia !
J'aime beaucoup créer avec les tissus et les billes ...
Donc bijoux et boîtes décoratives c'est le must !
J'ai mon gun à colle puis mes pinces et vlan ! :D

hahaha... aussi je suis contente d'avoir trouvé l'idée sur Pinterest pour les boîtes de méditation portatives ...
Je peux maintenant marier ma créativité avec la spiritualité !
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Thank you Gaia!
I love creating with fabrics and beads ...
So jewelry and decorative boxes are the must !
I have my glue gun and my pliers and wham! :D

hahaha ... so I'm glad I found the idea on Pinterest for the portable meditation boxes ...
I can now marry my creativity with spirituality!
Yééééééééééé

[Nat_Lee]

Posted by sandy (here)
Beautiful artistry ladies, I especially love the choker necklaces Nat_Lee and the turtle bracelets Ulli.

Thank you Sandy !

I did it a long time ago and it was gone very fast to ! I should make more like them !
Do you craft sometimes ?

[GMB1961]

Dear Nat-lee, I write books, burn images into wood, make glass pendants and create T-shirt logos, I find being creative helps shut out the sounds in my head that tell me I am no worthy. Its great to be creative and to make your dreams and thoughts become real in front of you. I was attacked by two teachers when I was 11 and 13 years old and they took away my trust and self worth. Being creative goes a long way to bringing back some of those things at 54. Let everything you love, be everything you do. Yours faithfully Glenn in Australia.

[enfoldedblue]

Hi,

It's lovely to see peoples' creativity displayed. Nice idea . I always have something creative on the go. I recently finished writing Jump Into the Blue and am currently working on book two. I also do digital images and work with wool (felting, doll making etc) Some of my work can be viewed at my website Here are two of my images. I look forward to seeing more of peoples creativity .... Thanks!!

[Pam]

Posted by enfoldedblue (here)
Hi,

It's lovely to see peoples' creativity displayed. Nice idea . I always have something creative on the go. I recently finished writing Jump Into the Blue and am currently working on book two. I also do digital images and work with wool (felting, doll making etc) Some of my work can be viewed at my website Here are two of my images. I look forward to seeing more of peoples creativity .... Thanks!!

I ordered your book, enfoldedblue, and am looking forward to reading it!!!!!!

[craig mitchell]

I don't have a photo to show of what I created for my wife, (girlfriend at the time) because it doesn't exist now, but can I tell a small story about it? I can? Oh goody, thanks.

When Martha came up from San Diego to visit me in Northern Calif I was living in a cottage where you had to go out the back door, down a few steps, and then back up steps to the small shower room. There was a large window looking out onto the fenced garden but no window coverings.....rather exposed, but for just me it was fine, you know, like who cares? But that just wouldn't do with her visiting to be exposed like that so what to do? I was really broke at the time but scrounged around a local thrift shop and came up with a pretty turquoise and white fabric. But with no sewing machine chez-moi I had only a hot glue gun so I started in measuring, cutting, and folding the seems over and glueing, then the hem at the top and bottom. Soon I had it finished and threaded it through the bar thingy it hangs from at the top of the window. I took care to keep it all neat and even 'cause, well, I like it that way.

She came to stay with me for a while and just loved the curtains. Now that we've been married for 15 years she often (far too often for my comfort) tells her girlfriends this story and they seem to really like it. I thought, at the time, it was just a practical solution to a small problem but now I know it was more than that.

My creative thing's no longer around but then it is. Some stuff we create has more effect than we realize. Hope this post is not too abstract for the thread.

[pugwash84]

I make boutique bows for my girls from ribbon and I can make them to match their school uniforms or rainbow colours allsorts and the girls love them x

[Violet]

Posted by craig mitchell (here)
I don't have a photo to show of what I created for my wife, (girlfriend at the time) because it doesn't exist now, but can I tell a small story about it? I can? Oh goody, thanks.

When Martha came up from San Diego to visit me in Northern Calif I was living in a cottage where you had to go out the back door, down a few steps, and then back up steps to the small shower room. There was a large window looking out onto the fenced garden but no window coverings.....rather exposed, but for just me it was fine, you know, like who cares? But that just wouldn't do with her visiting to be exposed like that so what to do? I was really broke at the time but scrounged around a local thrift shop and came up with a pretty turquoise and white fabric. But with no sewing machine chez-moi I had only a hot glue gun so I started in measuring, cutting, and folding the seems over and glueing, then the hem at the top and bottom. Soon I had it finished and threaded it through the bar thingy it hangs from at the top of the window. I took care to keep it all neat and even 'cause, well, I like it that way.

She came to stay with me for a while and just loved the curtains. Now that we've been married for 15 years she often (far too often for my comfort) tells her girlfriends this story and they seem to really like it. I thought, at the time, it was just a practical solution to a small problem but now I know it was more than that.

My creative thing's no longer around but then it is. Some stuff we create has more effect than we realize. Hope this post is not too abstract for the thread.

That is creative! Where's the curtain now? (sorry if that's too curious)

[craig mitchell]

@ Violet,

Thanks! Alas, the curtain has gone to the great recycler in the sky these many years ago. However, memories are made of these things and as I'm sure the contributors to this thread can attest, just the thought of a crafted item (whether or not it's still in the physical) can bring a wave of warmth splashing over the heart.

[Selkie]

I designed and wove this shawl a number of years ago. It is woven of 100% Peruvian alpaca, in natural colors. I wove it on an 8-shaft, 10-treadle, 46 inch Schacht high-castle floor loom.

Attachment 30852

I don't have my loom anymore, though.