Manitoba Agrilcultural Museum
Seniors Day
Austin, Manitoba
June 4th, 2013
SecretJewelry
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Monday, June 3, 2013
Monday, April 29, 2013
Where will WESTies Be - May 1
Manitoba Nurses Union AGM
May 1
Keystone Center
#1 — 1175 18th Street
Brandon Manitoba
SecretJewelry
Sunday, April 28, 2013
Who will be at the WEST Sale III? pt.3
Who will be at the WEST Sale III? Look forward to meeting the following WESTies with their fantastic handmade & vintage items, come May 4th!
From top left, you may find..
VintageBettyClothing - Skirt
Smash Knits - Headband
Monkeybusinesscardco - Mega Monkey
PeriwinkleDzyns - Necklace
EmmsGems - Recycled Glass Bracelet
Oneplusonedesign - Art Print
Secret Jewelry - Ear Cuff Earrings
SogaSoap - Laundry Stain Stick
HeidiandseekBoutique - Lace Infinity Scarf
ladylikeness - Vintage Boots
weareboundtogether - Duct Tape Journal
marathon1981 - Mini Sloth
Real Swanky - Polka Dot Skirt
Stay tuned for Part 4 of our vendor features in upcoming posts!
RSVP to the WEST Handmade & Vintage Sale III here!
From top left, you may find..
VintageBettyClothing - Skirt
Smash Knits - Headband
Monkeybusinesscardco - Mega Monkey
PeriwinkleDzyns - Necklace
EmmsGems - Recycled Glass Bracelet
Oneplusonedesign - Art Print
Secret Jewelry - Ear Cuff Earrings
SogaSoap - Laundry Stain Stick
HeidiandseekBoutique - Lace Infinity Scarf
ladylikeness - Vintage Boots
weareboundtogether - Duct Tape Journal
marathon1981 - Mini Sloth
Real Swanky - Polka Dot Skirt
Stay tuned for Part 4 of our vendor features in upcoming posts!
RSVP to the WEST Handmade & Vintage Sale III here!
Monday, April 22, 2013
Where will WESTies Be - April 24
Riverheights School Trade Show Fundraiser / Bake Sale
Brandon Manitoba
April 24th
SecretJewelry
Brandon Manitoba
April 24th
SecretJewelry
Friday, March 8, 2013
WEST February/March Design Challenge Results
The WEST Design Challenge for February/March was based on the Pantone colour of the year, Emerald Green. And did WEST members rise up to this challenge?
Yes they did! I think this was a new record, with 10 entries!
Here are all of this month's entries, in order of submission:
Caitlin of realswanky notes: In the spirit of Pantone's Colour of the Year, St Patrick's Day, AND a massive sale at the fabric store.. I put together this nightie with sheer spiderweb tulle yoking! I lucked out and came across this lovely green material perfect for this project. Black English cone studs finish the edges of the shoulders with a spooky bang.
Mike and Shaunna of DragonNerd absolutely love how this Emerald green pairs with copper wire, so I just knew it had to incorporate copper in some way. I have a couple of options for combining wires, and decided to do a trio of colours: Emerald, Copper and my new Apple Green to join together in a Sierpinski Triangle necklace. The colours feel fresh and warm to me.
PrairiePeasant was inspired by a small piece of paste paper made several years ago, and thought it would make good endpapers in a journal. (Paste paper is kind of like finger painting for adults!) From there, I looked through all my books for any green books that might go with the paper, and found this vintage dictionary.
PrairieThreads looked through all her green fabric and found some pieces of a men's cotton shirt. I like the way plaid fabrics look when they are made into coiled baskets, so that's what I decided to make. I wanted to try something different, so I made a ripply lace type edge at the top.
Christa from SecretJewelry notes: After looking at a few color combo's for the Pantone 17-5641 color of the year, I knew exactly what I was going to do...Emerald/Teal tones and white.. What a perfect combo!
For Alisia of AdorablesbyAlisia, this was a different direction in both design and crochet technique. It was fun to try something new!
We'd love to hear from you. Aren't these fabulous emerald items? Which is your favourite?
Thanks to each participant this month! Well done team!
Yes they did! I think this was a new record, with 10 entries!
Here are all of this month's entries, in order of submission:
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Lego Inspired Building Block Slippers for Children by Magination |
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Wall or Table Planters With Gold Metal Lyre Harp Holders Emerald Green Ceramic Pair Set of Two by BitchinKitschKitchen |
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Green Striped Malachite Earrings with Silver Wire by KristasJewellery |
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Pantone Emerald Green Nightie / Cami .studded . sheer spider web tulle yoke by realswanky |
Caitlin of realswanky notes: In the spirit of Pantone's Colour of the Year, St Patrick's Day, AND a massive sale at the fabric store.. I put together this nightie with sheer spiderweb tulle yoking! I lucked out and came across this lovely green material perfect for this project. Black English cone studs finish the edges of the shoulders with a spooky bang.
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Fractal Necklace - Sierpinski Triangle in Apple, Copper and Emerald Greenby DragonNerd |
Mike and Shaunna of DragonNerd absolutely love how this Emerald green pairs with copper wire, so I just knew it had to incorporate copper in some way. I have a couple of options for combining wires, and decided to do a trio of colours: Emerald, Copper and my new Apple Green to join together in a Sierpinski Triangle necklace. The colours feel fresh and warm to me.
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Highroads Dictionary Rebound Journal Recycled Book by PrairiePeasant |
PrairiePeasant was inspired by a small piece of paste paper made several years ago, and thought it would make good endpapers in a journal. (Paste paper is kind of like finger painting for adults!) From there, I looked through all my books for any green books that might go with the paper, and found this vintage dictionary.
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Emerald Pot of Gold Large Round Coiled Basket / Bowl / Potby PrairieThreads |
PrairieThreads looked through all her green fabric and found some pieces of a men's cotton shirt. I like the way plaid fabrics look when they are made into coiled baskets, so that's what I decided to make. I wanted to try something different, so I made a ripply lace type edge at the top.
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Ear Cuff Chain and Earrings - Emerald -Colour of the Year by SecretJewelry |
Christa from SecretJewelry notes: After looking at a few color combo's for the Pantone 17-5641 color of the year, I knew exactly what I was going to do...Emerald/Teal tones and white.. What a perfect combo!
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Black Leather Card Holder with Emerald Green Lining by WeAreBoundTogether |
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Emerald Green Textured Mug Cozy by AdorablesbyAlisia |
We'd love to hear from you. Aren't these fabulous emerald items? Which is your favourite?
Thanks to each participant this month! Well done team!
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Thursday, August 2, 2012
Canada Day Weekend - WEST Handmade Village - Osborne Street Festival
10 WESTies banded together to create our own hand made village on Osborne Street in Winnipeg over the Canada Day week end. We set up 4 tents of awesome handmade Etsy artisan items!
Amidst a sea of mass produced items we stood out loud and proud!
Marie from YamasMaries table - sorry, I some how didn't get a picture of the lovely Marie! In the back ground is Louise of SoGaSoap, who was my next over neighbour and I somehow seemed to have also missed in my photo taking! Bad bad captain!
Here's some of her subject appropriate soap in lieu of apology!
Jennifer of ToxieDesigns,one or our fabulous leaders!
Sarah of FlatLandersSoapCo
Angie of ByBlackBirdDesigns and Steam Punk Trunk.
Deb of HoshiiDesigns
Christa of SecretJewelry and Kat of AeliosDesign
Angie's sign - it sure drew a lot of attention!
Jackie of BranchesandFeathers
And finally,my table Periwinkle Designs.
Many thanks to the group for all the great organization, support and just plain laughs we had all weekend--couldn't have survived it with out you! ~Ruth
Sunday, April 15, 2012
March/April Design Challenge Results
The W.E.S.T. March/April Design Challenge
was "Spring!" Members were invited to create something
inspired by thoughts of Spring, and use the Pantone Fashion Colour Report for Spring 2012 for inspiration if needed. We set a
new record with this challenge, as we have NINE entries!
Katie, from Hearthfelt Yarn Wreaths managed to have the first entry in this month's challenge as well! Thanks for your leadership Katie!
Katie notes: When I think of Spring, it has to be colourful and there must be green. This chartreuse coloured yarn reminded me of new grass in Spring, and I loved the texture. Soft pastel colours, inspired by Patone's Spring 2012 palate, form a plush bed of felt flowers along the base of the wreath. I wanted to create something that would be perfect for Spring, Easter, and beautiful for a special mom, too!
Next was this entry from Marlene of Magination:
Marlene found these new yarn colours at Michaels last week and had to nab them. Love this new spring colour!
Tawny, of TawnyBee, brought a little whimsy to the challenge with Sir Galahappy, the Chivalrous Squid:
He thought that he was destined to go on a quest to find the Sea Grail, but alas, it made him very frustrated and sad. So he changed his life goals and decided that when the snow melted, he would try out an existence on land. He looks forward to many adventures and especially loves spring because there are tons of puddles to splash in - his very favourite thing!
The next entry was from waterleliejewellery:
Andrea of weareboundtogether added a splash of colour with her entry:
Andrea says: when I think of spring, I think of flowers: flowers everywhere and the beautiful colours they are. I started expanding into colours just in time! The difficult thing was how to incorporate the flower theme into books, especially with a duct tape cover. The stitched spine made sense and seemed like a great idea. But could I do it? I didn't know. But I made some attempts and remembered to write down what I did so I could do it again, and here you go! Now I have a few different coloured flowered books in my shop.
Deborah, of hoshiidesigns, created this bright jersey infinity scarf:
Deborah was inspired by the Asian flare the pattern in the fabric took, matched with the solid black, and of course, her own Japanese background.
Here's Mike and Shaunna's entry, from DragonNerd:
They were inspired by the Pantone colours, and their "bold" colour choices!
From Alison and Leslie, of BirdieAndDot:
Spring makes them think of fun and bright colours! This little cosmetic pouch features funky flowers, the teal lining has a bit of shimmer, and who doesn't love pink polka dots?
And the final entry was from Christa, of SecretJewelry:
Katie, from Hearthfelt Yarn Wreaths managed to have the first entry in this month's challenge as well! Thanks for your leadership Katie!
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| Spring Yarn Wreath by HeartfeltYarnWreaths |
Katie notes: When I think of Spring, it has to be colourful and there must be green. This chartreuse coloured yarn reminded me of new grass in Spring, and I loved the texture. Soft pastel colours, inspired by Patone's Spring 2012 palate, form a plush bed of felt flowers along the base of the wreath. I wanted to create something that would be perfect for Spring, Easter, and beautiful for a special mom, too!
Next was this entry from Marlene of Magination:
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| Tangerine Dreams - Java Jacket Coffee Sleeve by Magination |
Marlene found these new yarn colours at Michaels last week and had to nab them. Love this new spring colour!
Tawny, of TawnyBee, brought a little whimsy to the challenge with Sir Galahappy, the Chivalrous Squid:
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| Sir Galahappy, the Chivalrous Squid by TawnyBee |
He thought that he was destined to go on a quest to find the Sea Grail, but alas, it made him very frustrated and sad. So he changed his life goals and decided that when the snow melted, he would try out an existence on land. He looks forward to many adventures and especially loves spring because there are tons of puddles to splash in - his very favourite thing!
The next entry was from waterleliejewellery:
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| Gold and freshwater pearl earrings by waterleliejewellery |
Andrea of weareboundtogether added a splash of colour with her entry:
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| Purple Flower Small Duct Tape Journal by weareboundtogether |
Andrea says: when I think of spring, I think of flowers: flowers everywhere and the beautiful colours they are. I started expanding into colours just in time! The difficult thing was how to incorporate the flower theme into books, especially with a duct tape cover. The stitched spine made sense and seemed like a great idea. But could I do it? I didn't know. But I made some attempts and remembered to write down what I did so I could do it again, and here you go! Now I have a few different coloured flowered books in my shop.
Deborah, of hoshiidesigns, created this bright jersey infinity scarf:
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| Jersey Infinity Scarf Necklace by hoshiidesigns |
Deborah was inspired by the Asian flare the pattern in the fabric took, matched with the solid black, and of course, her own Japanese background.
Here's Mike and Shaunna's entry, from DragonNerd:
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| Fractal Necklace by DragonNerd |
They were inspired by the Pantone colours, and their "bold" colour choices!
From Alison and Leslie, of BirdieAndDot:
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| Zipper Cosmetic Pouch by BirdieAndDot |
Spring makes them think of fun and bright colours! This little cosmetic pouch features funky flowers, the teal lining has a bit of shimmer, and who doesn't love pink polka dots?
And the final entry was from Christa, of SecretJewelry:
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| Blue Front Amazon Parrot Feather Ear Cuff by SecretJewelry |
Isn't it wonderful how talented our team is? The variety here is amazing! Thanks to all the participants in this month's challenge!
We'd love to hear from you--what comes to mind when you think of Spring?
Stay tuned for the next challenge to be announced soon!
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
What's New Wednesday
New to the WEST blog - What's New Wednesdays. A place to highlight what we made this week.
Looking forward to what will be new next week!
Say "hello" to spring with this Yellow Chick Plushie by BirdieAndDot .
Purple for Easter with Fractal Earrings by DragonNerd.
Pretty in blue with a Silver Plated Ear Cuff by SecretJewelry.
Welcome the season with Spring Yarn Wreath by HeartFeltYarnWreaths.
Get ready for picnics with this Charm Bracelet by Jynxx.
But don't get burned with this Crouching Dragon by CloverleafFibreArt.
Clean up after a full day with these Soap Samplers by FlatlandersSoapCo.
Sit down with a book by WeAreBoundTogether.
Looking forward to what will be new next week!
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