My Etsy Site.

Just a peek at what's available on my Etsy site.

Please be patient.

For all of those who came here through www.aliciag.com.  Please be patient while I redo my site.  In the meantime you can view my gallery.

Enjoying the summer.

For those of you who don’t know, my “craft room” is an ongoing struggle.  I put the quotes around craft room because right now it’s a sea of disorganized boxes.  Today I managed to do a bit of sorting and sweep the floors.  It had quite the collection of dead bugs.  EW!  I’m hoping to spend the next week, a few hours a day, working on the room and I do feel determined to get it to a usable state before school starts.

We’ll go to Myrtle Beach in a few weeks and I’ll get some beach combing in.  I wish I could find more sea glass or beach pebbles there.  I do find a lot of worn down shells which I think would make great jewelry if I actually sat down and did it.  Here is one of the necklaces I have made this summer. It is made on antiqued copper chain with stone beads.  Approximately 17” long. 

Fiber Necklace Idea

I'm really getting into the whole fiber/fabric and wire thing. I am drawn to experiment with fancy yarns, fabric scraps, wire and re-purposed beads. I think I'm on a recycle kick. I may be submitting this one to my kids' school auction. I'll have to set it aside and look at it later to really decide.

I've been busy.

I've been working on some jewelry to send to The Sampler's Oscar gift lounge table. Some of the highlights of my pieces were that they used a lot of re purposed beads. (Beads I took from old unwanted jewelry) They also used my ClinkIts, which are made from stained glass scraps from a glass company, and recycled fibers. The fibers I used were from sari scraps and some scraps from my kids' art class in school. Here are some photos of what I sent.

Back in the swing of things.

I'm back. I know it's been a while, blah blah blah. I am happy to say that I made progress in my studio this past month, thanks to my friend Julie. If you don't remember the before pic, you can see it here. I know it still looks like a wreck, but overall I'm pretty pleased with the progress!


I was telling a coworker about my struggle with organizing my studio and I mentioned how I thought that having to organize it was my punishment for being so messy in the first place. She called it my 'Craft Karma," and she is right! At least I can see the floor now!

Takin’ a break.

I’ll be taking a break for the next week an a half. Wow, that was a summer long break! Yay Spring!

Here is a Butterfly Origami Video I found on You Tube by Mademagonline.