SOMETHING A LITTLE DIFFERENT AND THEN SOME

It's a nice warm spring day in Arizona. It's a really quiet and laid back kinda day. Sometimes on Sunday's its like that. Not always but today it is quiet and nice. We have been working on a couple new things this week so I thought I would share stories with you.

I have had this pink and green turtle for awhile trying to figure out what exactly would it like to be on. This was inspired by a mother of a child who was making pow wow regalia. She wanted to buy  three of them from me but ended up taking two. That's okay it gives me a chance to do something different. So I finally came up with an idea. A while back we purchased an off white soft tanned white cowhide that is just fabulous. It feels really good and you know leather, it smells great too! When I did art shows the biggest thing I noticed is how fascinated everyone is with the feel and smell of leather. Well in our shop every time we get another bunch of leather we get the full on experience of the smell and feel of the beautiful leather hides we get. Each one has got its own uniqueness. 

When we start a project we  lay the hide out on a really big leather table and see what it has to offer. That is why every piece is different in our made to order shop.

This is our leather table with a hide stretched out. 

Anyway I thought it would be fun to show you our leather table. It is awesome.

Anyway this is how it all starts.

Of course I have my beading table with all my cases of beads in my cave. (special place to bead)

Then you have my walls of beads. 

We have a bead  and leather scrap store on Etsy. So I have a lot of beads and a lot  of scrap leather.

We don't always have a lot of scraps and leather laces in the store but we would gladly sell you some if you contact us.

We have plenty of scraps......For sure!

Well about that pink turtle, I made it a home and this is what it looks like......

I almost always bead in rainbow colors or fire colors so this was real different for me but it turned out real nice. I have learned in the past 25 years of beading the phrase different strokes for different folks is so very true. So I do try to mix it up a bit.

You can find this bag in our Etsy store.

THUNDER ROSE LEATHER

This bag SOLD! Soon after my blog post. If you need something like this or even different contact me. I would be happy to help you.

Thanks for stopping by!

Blessing to you on this fine Sunday evening!

Debbie

Thunder Rose Leather It's all about handmade

Today I would like to show you a few things from our Handmade Artist's shop

 THUNDERROSE LEATHER.

 This morning I woke up and decided to create a highlight on Handmade Artists.

A highlight is the same thing as a treasury, except you get to put 20 artists in and everyone's highlight is on the front page of Handmade Artists. Each artist in the highlight gets a picture of there art on the front page of Handmade Artists. So it's very fair for all artists. 

Spring is right around the corner so I thought I'd show a couple of  signs of spring and summer that are to come.

BEADED HUMMINGBIRD BAG

This is a  crossbody handbag with a beaded hummingbird. It's made of soft, palamino elkskin leather with contrasting saddle elkskin lace. This leather bag is perfect for your smartphone and a few other items.

 

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BEADED DRAGONFLY HANDBAG

 

This fringed leather crossbody handbag  with a beaded dragonfly is made of durable tobacco elkskin leather .
This bag features an extra pocket inside and one on the back and an adjustable 4 point braided strap.
The beaded dragonfly is beaded with glass seed beads in rainbow bead colors.
A great fringed leather crossbody bag for the person who loves dragonflys and having a special bag with them always.

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This is the highlight I made this beautiful spring morning.
SPRING GIFTS

 

 This is it for today. Thanks for stopping in and taking a look.

Love and Light!

Debbie

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