GARDENING , LEATHER BAGS AND BEAD WORK

At Thunder Rose Leather John and I have been busy making beautiful custom orders and  doing some gardening in the evening. It doesn't start to get dark now until 7:00 pm so we have the luxury of a long day. It's raining today yea!  The garden is looking good. We planted some really beautiful evergreen shrubs that are good desert plants and promising good shade in the afternoon hot sun. The leaves are red and green.

They are called Red Tip Photinia. They are so pretty! I am planting some purple sunflowers in between this year just for the beauty of all the colors and of course the birds love sunflowers.

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We have a couple new items to show you. I love the way these leather phone bags turned out. The colorful bead work is totally my style. All bead work and leather work is my style. Ha ha!

I have always loved beads and leather and how they come together so beautifully.

So here you go, take a look.

Brown leather phone bag

A chocolate brown leather phone bag made in a soft, strong elkskin leather and has long tied fringe and a beaded sunburst. This is a great phone bag. It measures 6 inches tall, 5.5 inches wide and has a 48 inch braided strap that is perfect for wearing crossbody. We can make the strap any length you like . We will always work with your needs. 

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Fringed leather hip bag beaded

This fringed leather hip bag is made in soft, durable elkskin leather and and has rainbow colored linear bead work down the sides of the bag. This leather belt bag measures 7 inches tall and  4 inches wide ( not including the fringe. The belt loop fits up to a 2 inch belt.

The color of leather is saddle tan with chocolate brown leather lace.

If you go to the links provides at the top of the pictures they will take you to the place where you can see more details for these items.

Thanks so much for stopping in.

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BLUE LEATHER BEADED HANDBAG

Good Morning !  We have really been enjoying the springtime weather. The grass is growing tall , the garden is up (the cool weather plants) and the hummingbirds are doing their dance. This has been a good week of inspiration in my new  program of taking some time to do a new ready to ship bag. This week I used some beautiful navy blue soft cowhide leather and was inspired to make a rosette / mandala using emerald green,  silver lined blue , silk green, dark amethyst purple and silk purple beads. I decided to make the braided strap long (55 inches). When I tried it on I loved the length. I have been seeing many women wearing bags long. I must say it felt real comfortable and looked great. If you need the strap to be shorter just ask it is easy for us to adjust. This leather crossbody bag would go great with a long skirt, short skirt or a pair of jeans . It is all purpose adding high fashion and beauty to your day. We all want to look good when we are out on the town. I added long fringe to the leather bag , who doesn't love long fringe. I sure do.Of course I am an older hippie woman with a fancy for native style, and mountain woman style. I mean I have been loving that for a while now. The fun thing about our bags is they can be used for a phone bag, hiking on a trail, horse back riding, shopping whatever is your thing. They are strong durable and quality made. Our leather purses are all handmade and hand stitched with attention to detail. So this is the beautiful .......

navy blue leather bag

This navy blue leather handbag is for sale in my Etsy shop. This crossbody bag measures approximately 9 inches tall , and 7.5 inches wide.
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Blue leather handbag closeup

Thanks for stopping by!
Have a beautiful day!
Debbie

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.

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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

From the garden

Good Morning! It's a beautiful day in Arizona. I just sat in the garden and watched the sunrise. We have a few clouds because some weather is coming in so that makes the sunrise even more beautiful. This blog is my own little corner of the world where I can share my aspirations, inspirations and artwork with my family and friends. I have been playing in my garden in the afternoon. Here is Arizona spring is here. The trees are out mostly, not the mesquite trees they usually come out in April. I really love mesquite trees . They are a desert  tree. They don't require a lot of water and do very well on their own. The one you see in this picture lives in our garden. It is really big and beautiful.  This is a picture from last year when the leaves were out.   I enjoy sitting and working in my garden. It is a great earth connection place for me. Sometimes I get into a flow planting and playing that I can't help but feel guided by the wonders of nature. It means so much to me. It is a balance for me. Another one of my favorite trees is our chaste tree. We look forward every year for the beautiful purple flowers. The hummingbirds love to work the flowers.  

Another one of my favorites is our rose bush. It almost always blooms by Mother's Day.  So here is a little bit of the beauty from my garden. 

I am looking forward to showing you the new bushes we planted this year.

"Look, it cannot be seen - it is beyond form.

Listen, it cannot be heard - it is beyond sound.

Grasp - it cannot be held - it is untangible.

These three are indefinable;

Therefore they are joined in one.

Lao Tsu

Thanks for stopping by! 

Debbie 

Thunder Rose Leather

Baby doll moccasins

Good morning friends. I thought I would show you these adorable little baby doll moccasins that are new in my Etsy shop. They are 3 inches heel to toe. They are perfect leather moccasins for doll makers or if you are looking for doll clothing for a little girls doll.

This is as small as we make our baby moccasins. Another fun thing you can do with these decorative doll moccasins is hang them on your rear view mirror. 

Baby doll moccasins

We also have many other baby moccasins and children's moccasins. Some are beaded moccasins and some are plain leather moccasins. If you go to the link below you can see more of what we have to offer. We also take custom orders. So feel free to contact us.

Thunder Rose Leather Baby moccasins

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Have a very awesome day!

Debbie 

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