[Gabriel]

Originally Posted by Oceana908

Gorgeous photos again Gabriel

OK...I will pick green and purple as my favorite colors this week.

OK...I will pick green and purple as my favorite colors this week

i thought so....

anxiously awaiting your next pictures.

[Gabriel]

Here is a working in photoshop of a pic of a dreamcathcher that I crafted...the altered pics are used for accompanying card tags that are on the wallhangings.....and sometimes for the pics flyer inserts they are fun to make.
The last one is one of my favorites...called spiders pearl, and has inspired a jewelry piece idea made from clay (the light underbase), the spiderweaving center (overlaid onto the clay), an opulent opal (placed in the center of course), and feathers (along sides to emphasis and frame).......wish me luck at getting it from paper to a piece

[Blackmirror]

Originally Posted by Gabriel

Here is a working in photoshop of a pic of a dreamcathcher that I crafted...the altered pics are used for accompanying card tags that are on the wallhangings.....and sometimes for the pics flyer inserts they are fun to make.
The last one is one of my favorites...called spiders pearl, and has inspired a jewelry piece idea made from clay (the light underbase), the spiderweaving center (overlaid onto the clay), an opulent opal (placed in the center of course), and feathers (along sides to emphasis and frame).......wish me luck at getting it from paper to a piece

They are really beautiful. i have a few dreamcatchers .. i like dangly things as well.. cyrstals etc

[Gabriel]

Originally Posted by Blackmirror

They are really beautiful. i have a few dreamcatchers .. i like dangly things as well.. cyrstals etc

I love the willow hoop ones....we used to harvest the willow shoots, and form the hoops in the spring and early summer....some hoops were 5' and I would have to stand in the center to weave the webs. Those were done to be put over the huge fireplaces in peoples cabins mostly. Also, that was about 10 plus years ago that I did them that big.
I do only the small ones now 6" to about 24".......and usually only around the holidays....
My crafting interests are getting much smaller now adays

[Blackmirror]

Originally Posted by Gabriel

I love the willow hoop ones....we used to harvest the willow shoots, and form the hoops in the spring and early summer....some hoops were 5' and I would have to stand in the center to weave the webs. Those were done to be put over the huge fireplaces in peoples cabins mostly. Also, that was about 10 plus years ago that I did them that big.
I do only the small ones now 6" to about 24".......and usually only around the holidays....
My crafting interests are getting much smaller now adays

Do you sell them ???

[Gabriel]

Yes...I do sell them when I have all the willow hoops done and feathers. Usually they are wholesaled in the late spring, and again in the early fall......the hoops have to cure for a bout a month after harvesting the willow shoots.....

[Stoner]

All very nice Gabriel.
Liked the old tree and the dream catcher

[poochee]

Originally Posted by Gabriel

Here is a working in photoshop of a pic of a dreamcathcher that I crafted...the altered pics are used for accompanying card tags that are on the wallhangings.....and sometimes for the pics flyer inserts they are fun to make.
The last one is one of my favorites...called spiders pearl, and has inspired a jewelry piece idea made from clay (the light underbase), the spiderweaving center (overlaid onto the clay), an opulent opal (placed in the center of course), and feathers (along sides to emphasis and frame).......wish me luck at getting it from paper to a piece

Very nice!

[Gabriel]

Thanks again Poochee and Jack

[ymfoster]

More great pics Gabriel,
I love that tree with purple/blue flowers & also the Dreamcatchers, I used to make them too, but not as authentic as yours, also Suncatchers with crystals etc.

[Gabriel]

Thanks YM...I love making stuff. Never done the suncatchers. I have seen them though.

I'm going to Quartzsite Saturday. Thay have tons of rocks, gems, minerals from everywhere. There is one seller that I hope is there this year. She is the only person I've found with a certain type of agate cabochon that I love to use.

There are literally millions of crystals there...and hundreds of thousands of fossils.....
I have saved $250 to spend on the cabs and crystal and little fossils...I can't wait

[ymfoster]

Sounds like a great day to look forward to Gabriel,

hope you find lots of goodies

[poochee]

Originally Posted by Gabriel

Thanks YM...I love making stuff. Never done the suncatchers. I have seen them though.

I'm going to Quartzsite Saturday. Thay have tons of rocks, gems, minerals from everywhere. There is one seller that I hope is there this year. She is the only person I've found with a certain type of agate cabochon that I love to use.

There are literally millions of crystals there...and hundreds of thousands of fossils.....
I have saved $250 to spend on the cabs and crystal and little fossils...I can't wait

A couple I know used to travel in their RV and stay in that area for the winter. They loved visiting Quartzsite.

[Gabriel]

It's great there in the winter Pooches...We are about 25 miles from there.
We used to go there every winter and do the show, and stay for two - four months. it was great.
It has really changed, and gotten too commercialized in a lot of the stuff, so we just buy there now.