Mademoiselle Chaos: How to make yarn from fabric scraps

I googled a querie on how I can make my own fabric yarn (cost me much more than fancy yarns!) I found this amazing site! She's amazing and full of free advice and how-to's! Here it is: Mademoiselle Chaos: How to make yarn from fabric scraps

Good photography advice?

Well, I hope I can get enough folks to read my blog and give me some good advice on photographing my work without having to commission it out to a professional!  I am a starving artist here!  All my money went/goes into inventory/stock and there's not much for the marketing.  I have a great little Kodak easy share camera that takes pretty good shots and has a lot of settings on it, but like I said, I'm not proficient at taking good photos of my work yet.
Please post me or send me an email at pateos.place@gmail.com 

My Web sites where I have items for sale!

There are currently two places where I am featuring my items for sale.  My website and my Artfire Account.  I will most likely post on Etsy too as that is a household name for many folks looking for handmade arts and crafts.  You can also email me at either my personal account or my gmail account.  Thanks for looking!

This is the finished piece of a needle-felted mandala that I have been constructing. Didn't really know what direction to take with it, so I let it take me instead...this is what I ended up with! Artsy-Fartsy! This piece is actually a birthday gift I want to give to a great friend of mine. But I want to bring it out and see what the reaction to it is first, see if she really likes it and then I will sigh a big sigh and let her know I am super glad, because it's your birthday gift!  LOL

More felted mandala's (or medallions)

Here are pic's of some more mandala's that I have felted. Some will be further embellished with beads/stones and some will be left alone, however all of them will be incorporated into some form of wearable art!

I am also uploading pic's of some square mandalas that I put together with small wooden craft pieces that I found at hobby lobby and used resin to permanently adhere the pictures to the wood.  I have also used inks to 'color' in the sides of some and some I have left plain.  Those that will be made into a bracelet on their own, will be painted on the back side of the wooden piece, otherwise I'll leave them plain (maybe, depends on finished piece...:-)
Any questions, don't hesitate to ask!

This is one of many felted 'medallions' or 'mandalas' that I have made and am incorporating into wearable art! I work hardened and hammered a piece of 14 gauge copper and then took 22 gauge copper and wire wrapped complimentary colored beads to frame it all in. This will be a pendant portion of a necklace that I've envisioned. Hope it all comes together!

Twitter Account

If anyone wants to follow me on twitter, my twitter I.D. is @patehosplace

Here is a video showing a work in progress. I had beads on it and then took them off and changed it completely to add a felt flower instead.  I wanted to give it a 3D effect. I hope you enjoy it!

My best pal Cindy modeling my "Pink Cosmos" felted armband.

This is my pink cosmos close up.  Embellished with mother-of-pearl, fresh water pearls, jade lentil beads and various farafel iridescent beads Retail: $45 - Sold

This one I call "Rose Garden" embellished with organza's, wool rovings, silk tops and I added carved rose quartz leaves. Retail: $30

This is called "Secret garden", lots of embellished flowers made with various organza's, wool rovings and silk tops.  This to is embellished with Farafel beads. Retail: $30

This is called "Goldies Garden" and was a commissioned piece for a friends mother.  Suits her to a tee!  Carnelian, rubies, smokey quartz, coral, pearls and vintage glass blown beads. Retail: $75.00

This was made with Aquamarine hearts, nuggets and chips, vintage iridescent beads, fire swarovski, malachite, opal, carnelian. Scorpio girl. Retail: $35

Spunky -bracelet for a July birthday child. Made with faceted Carnelian and carnelian nuggets, cubed jade, faceted moonstone briolettes and lapis lazuli nuggets. Retail: $50

Bracelet made for a spunky Taurus gal. Features Blue sapphires faceted and round, faceted carnelian, Czech fire beads, Faceted crystal quartz and beautiful purple faceted Agate set in gold tone rings. I call it "Bali Dance!" Retail $35

Another variation of a Scorpio gal - deep and mysterious! This piece was made with pink tourmaline, aquamarine hearts, faceted aquamarine, opal, carnelian and vintage beads.  Finished off with a cute kitty charm for a fellow cat lover! Retail $50

Sumptuous sexy and sultry Libra!

 Made with Jade, smokey quartz, black and green moss agate, carnelian. Retail $50.00

Another September birthday bracelet (this gal in the latter part of the month which puts her under the Libra sign). Lovely Carnelian, Rubies, Chiastolite, Black Agate and small agate beads are used as well as Sterling Silver charms. this bracelet would retail $40.00

This convertible necklace was made for a gal that wears a lot of grays to work and she wanted something to compliment but to also have the metaphysical benefits of these stones too. Here is a necklace that is downright funky!  Made with black leather chording and 925 sterling findings a plethora of fine faceted and carved crystal and smokey quartz dominate this piece. There is rare white turquoise, shell, vintage stone beads, pearls and a single purple sugalite (very good for Virgos)The large portable pendant is a Drusy black Agate, just beautiful all by itself or with the rest of the gang! This necklace can be worn all together (the Agate hook onto the bottom ring) or it can be worn as a choker with the pendant alone. (shown below) This necklace would retail for $125.00

Detail of pendant as a choker. 

Blustery March Madness!

Brrr! the blustering, unpredictable moodiness of March, yikes! We've been up and below the freezing mark several times this last week, making roads treacherous to drive on. But fear not! All that means is that Spring is just around the corner! Yay! with the increased cost of utilities, it was getting expensive to heat up the ole place. My little cottage by the lake is not as pristine as these newer tighter homes!  Okay, I uploaded some pictures of jewelry, but was unsuccessful in posting to blog or to twitter!  I don't know why and I'm not sure what to do next, but I will continue on.  I'll just starting adding them here as I did with all the others. I hope that I can reduce them enough to fit onto this format.  I hope you enjoy them.  Please comment, I'd love to hear from anyone!

Uploading Jewelry for sale!

I've made some headways with uploading my photos to my google account. It's quite slick the way google has incorporated all this into one user id. Blog, mail and photo albums and with their software (or their partner's software) I can post to blog or twitter, great stuff!  I am hoping to upload more of my unisex necklaces, not sure what computer they were copied to (my laptop is much faster at processing these days than my "older" pc)
Anyway, I hope that I can configure my website that I have had for a year and have done very little to because it's very labor intensive, they don't make it easy to upload or even find my "administrators" page where I can do the editing. It's not a cut and paste either.  I used a generic template thinking that was easier, but it's not!
Oh well, perhaps I'll bite the bullet this weekend and "get er done!" Please leave me a comment if you have stopped by!

Art Cards doing well

Loving the feedback I'm receiving from those who purchased my VFF Art Cards!  I'm glad that I followed up on an idea.  I played with it until the final product, but that's usually the way it goes. I made 25 and have signed and numbered each one. I may do this every year, but not sure.  I had some ideas for Easter Art Cards, but my 'heart' is saying focus on Mother's Day. So that's where my creative juices will be focussed.  I do already have in the works my "Bracelets for Mum" series for our Mother's Day Art show and sale. I will have on hand a bracelet for every month of the year.  So, if your mum was born in January, that bracelet will encompass at least 5 of the stones identified for that month. I am also working on mixed media wearable art necklaces and bracelets.  I 'll be incorporating wool roving, ribbon, beads and semi-precious stones on arm and neck items, actually I have already done at least 6 of them and will upload the pics here as I have them on my PC, today I'm using my laptop at my BF house! Two of these are my personal ones. The first one I've called pink cosmos (my favorite drink too!) and the one I'm wearing one now I call "Orbs Are". My sweety and I are big into science, free energy, anomalies, the unexplainable etc. and right now we're fixated on these 'orbs' that this gal from Philadelphia  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYWhPolTrfk ) has been filming with her infra-red and night vision cameras.  These are NOT  'orbs' that have been captured by digital cameras...these are flashing flying orbs!  Too cool.  Any way, I made my bracelet in honor of them! :-)

Be My VFF! - Pictures

Here are the pictures I promised! I am showing the outside and the inside of each card.  I'm only uploading three as they are all similar but unique because each one is handmade, signed and numbered. There were only 25 art cards made, so be sure to get yours! They are 14.99 each plus shipping ($1.00 each plus .50 for each additional card)

Be My VFF!

Well, I've been busy!  I have been meditating and asking for some inspiration, something that I can do that's different to help supplement me prior to my upcoming show in April.  I don't have a lot of venues right now because I'm scattered all over the place.  Need to focus on one part at a time.  Get the photos done and upload to websites.  Get videos done and upload to website.  Get website monetized. Get inventory for shows done.  Study for metaphysical course too! Whew!

I took a day and pulled out numerous books to flip through to get some ideas.  Well, it worked because the next morning when I awoke, I thought, I'm going to do something for Valentines day.  Something that friends can exchange without having to feel left out!  Let's face it, as much as we say it means nothing, every year we secretly hope we get a Valentine!  So, I've designed a card with a twist.  A card that WILL be saved by the recipient as a keepsake.  Perfect.  Women love this stuff.  Valentines is NOT just for lovers.  I get all mushy when my son gives me a Valentines card or sentiment!  We don't have to have a lover for the day to be important.  So this one for me is all about VFF's!!  Valentine Friend Forever!  Clever, huh? I thought that up as well as some very short and to the point comments to put on these 'cards'.  It's a type of fiber art card.  You'll see it when I'm done!

All things felt!

Well, well, it's been a very long time since I posted on this blog. Forgot that I even had it. I logged in on a site where I left a comment and it logged me in with the name of a blog that I started with my family back in 2006. The only reason we did that was so that we could post Christmas wish list. Being as everyone was all over the place we could post news and pics etc. and have our own on-line blog! So much has happened in my life since then!

I will have to remember this and come and post pictures and all good things...

Pateho's Place

Like a Rock!
I'm going to be uploading some pictures that relate to my interests. The latest hobby has taken over my kitchen and living room. My boyfriend and I now have a bad case of "Rock Pocks". This is a condition that takes over from a simple love of rocks and minerals, with minimal collecting over the years, to a whole summer spent "Rockhounding!". I probably have 1/2 ton of rocks in my house and garden! I love it.
We have spent the summer scrutinizing, mapping and mining the Bancroft Ontario district, Ottawa Valley and our own local beaches right off of Lake Huron. (Lake Huron has some amazing 'pebbles' already smoothed out, it's claim to rock fame is the "pudding stone" a conglomerate of various minerals all squeezed together, some really beautiful colored ones!)

We are planning to expand out to other districts and places, one of them being to head down to Arizona! Yippee.
I'm on the lookout for that one 'gem' to complete me (hee, hee) More specifically to set me $Financially$ Freeeeee!

I have fallen in love with the mineral Corundum. At first I thought it to be a 'man' rock. Corundum however, when cut, faceted, polished etc. is either a ruby or a sapphire, depending on the color of the crystal of course. What is so respectable is the crystal itself. It has a good weight, plus it's the second hardest mineral in the world (diamond is No.1) I really enjoyed 'hunting' for Corundum crystals at an old mine in Bancroft District called Burgess Mines. The area is really beautiful too. The rock dump has a 'live' beaver home and a spring fed pond. So it's a pleasure to hang out there.

So, at this point I've been cleaning all my specimens and will be categorizing them. Then we'll take photos and upload a bunch to www.mindat.org see if he (the moderator) likes them. There are thousands of specimens at this place. Very well done and you get to know your geology at this place.

Did I mention that out of all the specimens, Rose Quartz has to be my best mineral to date. Especially when you get a good specimen. It's translucent, waxy look makes me all gibbly inside! I resonate with this mineral for sure.

Okay until the next post, have a sparkling day!

My "Rosy" Place

Hey Everybody! cool!, I have my own space in Never-Never-Land!
I chose the "Rose" template because I love pink! Rose quartz is my favorite "mineral" too. Not just for it's meta-physical properties, but because of it's color.

I am an avid "Rock-hound". Been an amateur for most of my life, however, since I went to Bancroft Ontario 6years ago and attended their annual Rock festival called "Gemboree", I have been goo-goo for minerals and gems and have not looked at a rock the same way since.

I'm going to post stuff like this and information about my other interests along with links to help further.
What I mean by that is I'm a champion of Natural Healing Therapies, and home therapies and Homeopathic remedies, what ever you call it. I do not advocate Synthetic Drugs to aid in curing disease! ALL THEY DO IS BAND-AID the issue, not cure it. And if you are lucky to be cured by one then you a lucky one for sure. Most people on medications end up suffering various other 'breakdowns' because of the side effects of taking the drug to begin with.

Okay, I'll talk about Cancer and the "authentic" and various cures that are out there and being used by more people than the Cancer Society will admit too. Cancer is a big business, that' s for sure.

Wow, for such an "advanced society and technology" more people die today of disease than they did 50 years ago. Not to mention that people do not "decay" like they once did either. There is a major concern over "plots" because people's bodies are so full of chemicals, their bodies are literally taking longer to decompose! Oh well. a natural mummy-method! I just told everybody that it certainly would make for a colorful light show for those who get creamated! Haha.

Anyway, I'll post some documents for Cesium Therapy, Budwig Diet, Greens, Rifte Technology, Ozone Therapy, Electrical and vibration therapy etc.

Also any Health sites that I subscribe too. I get referrals from these, I won't lie, however, I do not take a product that I haven't done research on and their references/background too!
We can't even trust our naturoceuticals ie. vitamins, to give us the RDA or better equivalent!
What we get is a little filled with ...fillers! ie. rice powder, geletin, artificial sweeteners etc.


Got to get to bed now! Good Night and I love you all!