When I wrote my first blog last month I immediately wanted to write another one the following day. 'This is fantastic!' I thought. But hold on a moment, you'll run out of things to say... best to just hold off for a few days and let your ideas marinate and make sure you dont run out of steam. Oops. I completely forgot about blogging except for the occasional stray thought and I would think, oh yeah, I started a blog. So here I am, still not sure what my blog will be about. Maybe I should've waited til I moved to Germany to start a blog.... you know? Meine adventures in Deustchland! The trials and tribulations of navigating a land where you don't know how to speak the language, cultural differences, food and beer! Sounds exciting, I could write about that. But in the meantime, I'll have to write about whatever is going on in my head.
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| Peacock colors. Jewel toned blue and green. |
In my last post I asked if anyone had ideas for mobile army wife careers but since I don't have a single person reading this blog, there came no answers. I think I may have found something to do and I'm pretty excited about it. Swarovski crystaled cell phone cases. Ta-dah! Right now I'm brainstorming ideas for different designs for the different ones I want to make. I've also made a few and I'm getting better with each one. Of course, being the perfectionist that I am I stare at the finished cases and pick out every little thing I think is wrong until all I see are the flaws. They are very beautiful and in the sunlight will blind you with all the sparkling. I'm serious. BLINDINGLY sparkly. I still haven't gotten around to taking really good pics of them yet so I'll post the ones I took with my iphone.
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| Lotus with pink accents. |
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| Jeweled mirror compact and phone cases. |
I've also tried my hand at Japanese Decoden decorating. It's all about cute miniatures piled high. When I first saw the style I didn't love it. I thought they were a bit too much.... but then I realized, that's the beauty of it! It's what it is loved for. You love it BECAUSE it is too much. And yes, I kinda love it now! I made one phone case and one hand held mirror. I also want to note that I tried making my very own tiny sweets and I like how they turned out! On the handheld mirror I made my own French macarons and all the little cookies on it (including the big star waffle cookie).
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| Mirrored compact with French macarons, strawberries, whipped cream, pink icing and crystals. |
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| The back of the compact shows off the cookies I made. |
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| Close up of the gooey pink icing. |
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| Decoden cell phone case. |
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