Beading rainbows

I love to bead rainbows. This simple style leather handbag has rainbow bead work down the sides of the bag.

This small leather handbag is a perfect size for carrying a small amount of things with you.

Its a place to keep your smartphone by your side for easy access.

This bag features a four point braided strap that is perfect for wearing crossbody or for tying around your waist.

 THUNDER ROSE LEATHER ON ETSY

Today's blog post is short and sweet.

May you have a beautiful day filled with peace and happiness!

Blessings!

Debbie

Handmade leather tote by Thunder Rose Leather

 We have a  new bag to show you here at

Thunder Rose Leather 

 Lets start with this beaded sunburst large tote.

This elk skin leather tote with a beaded sunburst is a great handbag for your everyday needs. It has an extra pocket inside and a comfortable strap if you like to wear your handbags crossbody.

This bohemian gypsy style is for the free spirited person who likes to be different and unique. It goes well with your skirts or a pair of jeans. This bag is designed by us, beaded by us, one stitch at a time and one bead at a time.

There is a lot that goes into making a bag. All the way from laying out those large elkskin hides and finding just the right pieces for a bag, cutting and punching the whole bag out, cutting the sewing laces and cutting the fringe.Then sitting down to sew.

Once the bag is complete there are finishing touches. Cutting the antler toggle and buttons and attaching them. 

Each fringe is tied on one at a time.

 You can see the antler buttons on the side giving this leather tote even more support and a beautiful decoration.

 

The bead work, a sunburst rosette is beaded in an assortment of rainbow colored beads. It is made and then sewn onto the bag.

I love to lace around my bead work designs to enhance the look.

It gives the bag and the bead work a different dimension.

You can find this bag here

Thunder Rose Leather on Etsy 

 

Thanks for stopping in and taking a look.

May you be filled with peace, love, light and happiness.

Debbie

Be Free to Just Be > A poem by me

Be Free to Just Be

Be free to just be in the moment.

Let the restless winds blow without doing anything.

They don't last long. They come, they go. 

Be still. Be free.

The Great Mother , Mother of all Mothers, nourishes 

you spirit as you rest in her, with her.

Letting it be.

Just be still in the moment.

By Debbie Rodgers

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May you have a beautiful day filled with peace and happiness.

Black leather tote

How many of you like a good handbag? One that you know is going to last a long time, that is durable, beautiful, can be worn with any outfit you have from jeans to a beautiful skirt. 

This crossbody tote  is perfect for all that plus it can be used for a 14 inch drum if you are into going to drumming ceremonies or want to carry your drum to the sweat lodge. It is so all purpose. This black leather tote would make a great carry on on the airplane. You could have all your essentials right there with you.

This tote measures 14 inches x 14 inches x 4 1/2 inches and has an extra pocket inside and a comfortable flat strap that can be made any length you like.

Here are a few more pictures to show you this beautiful leather tote for all sides.

A beautiful multi purpose handbag / tote from all sides.

To see more go here

Thunder Rose Leather

Thanks for taking a look. I really enjoy hearing from you. Leave me a comment below.

Have a beautiful day filled with joy and happiness!

Debbie

Our Organic Garden 2013 so far

It's the beginning of a new year of gardening and I must say I am very happy so far. In other words it's looking like a good year. I am an organic gardener, I make my own dirt from compost. Thanks to my neighbor I use horse manure, a small amount of goat manure and a little chicken poop. It's mostly horse manure though. It's very plentiful where I live.

Here is my compost bend. John and I just built this one this year. Before I was just putting a fence around it.

 We made this compost bend out of palates. It really works very well.

Here are a few pictures of what is growing.

 

 This is our feverfew plant. It's a very beautiful plant and does very well here in Arizona. It is a herb used for pain.

As you can see I have different plants growing in my raised beds. I do companion planting. I learn something new about that every year.

This year I learned that beets and swiss chard will cross pollinate. So from now on when saving my seeds I need to collect swiss chard one year and beets another.

This is our beautiful sage plant. It makes food taste so good. We like to put some it in our roasted vegetables.

These are our tomatoes and leeks and a couple pepper plants. They are just getting started but they are really looking very healthy.

This is our summer squash. Rosie is checking it all out. 

My leeks and lettuce are going to seed here and a sunflower volunteered  to come up this year.

Some purple cone flowers and chives and a few swiss chard plants are in this raised bed.

 Our thyme, parsley and more swiss chard. We love swiss chard.

This is our rainbow chard going to seed.

Yummy lettuce!

 This is a portion of my garden. I love to sit here in the mornings before I start working on my leather and beadwork. It's a great place to just be.

Thanks for taking a look.

Do you garden? 

Blessings to you !

Debbie

My latest projects art and gardening

 My latest bead work project was a beaded hummingbird bag.

 I love making beaded hummingbirds. As I sit in my garden they will come right up to me and stop in mid-air to say hello. It makes me feel so good.

The hummingbirds are doing some amazing dancing right now. 

Another project I have been doing is painting a table and some free benches someone gave me for our garden.

My garden is doing real well. I had a lot of  trouble  with gofers last year. I had to redo several of my raised beds. The chicken wire that I have under my raised beds wore out and I had to replace it. So that was a big project. A lot of shoveling.
Here is a picture of  one of my beds.

It is very happy! I love gardening . It is so grounding .


Thanks for stopping by! I would love to hear from you. So leave a comment and let me know what you are up to  in your day.

Hummingbird bag

Thunder Rose Leather totes/ Crossbody bags

Good morning! It's a beautiful sunday morning with spring in the air. I am so enjoying spring. 

I have a few leather totes to show you. These totes are different sizes and can serve as an everyday handbag or a place to carry your hand drum for those of you who enjoy drumming circles. They are multi purpose bags. I carry a 10" tote that I have had for over 10 years now. It's looking real good. I don't do anything to the leather and it just gets better with age. I have a beaded turtle on my bag.

I have recently been thinking of getting a larger tote. I love totes because they are so easy to get in and out of and they are secured with an antler toggle or tip when not in use. Our leather totes can be made to wear crossbody

(my favorite) or the strap can be short. Because our totes and handbags are custom made to your needs just email us and we will help you. 

 This chocolate brown elkskin leather  tote with with a comfortable crossbody flat strap measures 12 inches x 12 inches x 3 inches.

This smoke (soft buttery yellow) elkskin leather  tote measures 14 inches x 14 inches x 3 3/4 inches.

 This 10 inch x 10 inch x 2 3/4 " leather tote in saddle elkskin is a popular crossbody bag. It features an extra pocket inside and a comfortable flat strap.

This is a few of our designer totes / handbags.

Designed by Thunder Rose Leather

Etsy

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Thanks for stopping by and taking a look. 

Have a beautiful day!

Debbie and John 

Spring has begun Thunder Rose NewsLetter

Good Morning!

To start off I am so happy to say spring has arrived in Arizona. The seeds I planted in the garden have started to come up with these 70 degree days. This morning I woke up early, meditated , baked a few of my gluten free biscuits. I took my sweet dog Rosie out. Went into the garden and enjoyed listening to all the beautiful sounds of the birds. Tomorrow is our  anniversary, we are celebrating 33 years together this year.

I celebrated my birthday this month. John gave me these beautiful new beaded purple earrings that I have been looking at and wanting for sometime now. They are made by Debbie Lazaris

at

Debs Visions 

Here is a picture of me wearing my new purple earrings.

 I love them, they are totally my style and anything purple or rainbow colors is okay by me.

My other new change is John and I started an Etsy team. A long time ago we started a FaceBook group called 

Working Artists 

with the intention for Artists of all kinds and of course handmade to come together and share stories, their art and make friends.

We decided to take that a step further and begin an Etsy Team. 

Working Artists Team on Etsy   

 If you have an Etsy store we would love to have you join us.

Besides that  we are busy everyday making products. I do have a couple of new things to show you.

Leather baby moccasins

 

  

 Newborn Baby Moccasins

 Moccasins 

You can find us here
Etsy 
Handmade Artists 
 Facebook 

  Thanks for taking time to stop by and take a look.

Have a beauitul day!

Debbie 

 

 

Thunder Rose Leather Newsletter

Today is Saturday Jan 12, 2013. I decided to do something different with my blog. Everyday I work hard making beautiful handmade items for people all over the world. Living outside of Sedona Arizona and having done many art shows and being in different galleries in the past,  John and I have sold our buckskin leather bags all over the world. 

Our business Thunder Rose started with a prayer one day. I started beading a few years before creating with leather. I was always looking for my nitch in crafts. Then one day while at a friends house I was introduced to beading. Well, I became addicted to beads . I started making earrings and I just went on to wanting to learn more.

Being a back to the land hippie with a love for Mother Earth and all things spiritual, I grew in my Art. The beads lead us to buckskins. John became interested in developing designs for our handbags, and all the other items you see us make. He is so good at creating new designs for our leather bags.

We are so grateful to all of our wonderful customers over the past 25 years for helping us slowly build a business that works. We are on a slow and steady path on all levels. It just works best. 

When we finally decided to go online, it was so exciting. We had no idea about the internet. We bought ourselves a small used laptop and walla here we are today. We built our first website

thunderroseleather.com 

It took us awhile but we slowly figured it out.

Then we found Etsy!

thunderrose.etsy.com 

What a great find that was for our business.  

We are always looking for new places to sell our handmade wearable items. We were looking around  and found

Handemade Artist's 

Another really great selling site.

Then about one month ago we found 

Goodsmiths

Goodsmiths.com thunderroseleather 

Since being on line, on all these different venues I have made some great internet friends. I have gotten involved in different blog rings and teams. People helping people! 

I'm still learning about all of this and opening up to be able to write my thoughts and share whats on my mind. To me it all takes time. 

I really enjoy being able to feature other artists. I am pretty simple about it all because that is how my mind works. My heart feels happy when I can make a difference. It's all in the doing.

This is the starting point for my first Thunder Rose Leather Newsletter. 

I hope you enjoyed reading my post. I would love to read your comments.  

Love, light and peace!

Debbie