And on that same page, I seen these convenient bad boys. Although I would have to practice my balance. Mine would be full of loose beads I drop while I sit at the computer.

 Ok, well, it's 6 am now. I'm still needing to kill time before the post office opens. Then I can get some sleep. I had a hard time getting to sleep yesterday, prolly was about 9am. I use Melatonin, but I forget sometimes.
Ok, Good night. Err, good morning!
-Razz

  I have a favorite artist. Her name is Jane Wynn. Years ago on one my my Borders Book Store visits, I ran into her book. Now, let e tell you that I would frequent these book stores and spend several hours going through craft books, trying to get inspired. Beading and Cook books used to be my fave. Anyway, I ran into her book called Altered Curiosities. It was lightning of info going through my brain! I skimmed through the pages and knew it was the book I had to leave with. Here is here LINK to visit her shop. Your welcome.

My Octopus necklace is inspired from her creation process shown in her book.  Still different, but you can see how she's helped me put this together.
 These are not thorough instructions. It is just a simple way of saying what I did. Buy Jane's book for a better understanding of how to create your own look.

I like to share on Instagram, but I thought I would share here just for others who don't use the app on the smart phone.
I wanted to share how I created a skull flat back bead cabochon from a skull head. I purchased a skeleton at the Dollar Store. I took his head and sliced it down the middle with a razor blade. Usually I slice my finger, but luckily not this time! :0)
I then stuffed the hollowed skull head with clay, so that when I create a mold, I won't have air inside and make an odd shape. Instead of using silicone to create a mold, I used my vacuum former. I created a plastic see-through mold, perfect to make a smooth skull head!
The next day I popped out my skull head and added crystals over the eyes. I hate making bows, and dealing with ribbon. Nut Had to use some for her head onto these earrings! I really do love how they came out. I'm making a bunch now - and some are even for me to keep! :0)

I have been so busy lately! I did make it to Chicago last month to see Jack White at Lollapalooza! Yay me! I was so anxious to get there, I never been to Chicago. I had my eye on the weather and it was going to be a light 80 degrees! Boy was I wrong. Well, it was 82 degrees, but humid as Hell! When I came back home to Fresno, it was over 100 and felt the same! I was warned that it would be humid over there, but you never really know til you see for yourself.
Anyway, I ate Chicago pizza pie, the Chicago style hot dog, and stuffed my face with so much delicious food. I have proof on my Instagram! :0)

Halloween is next month, my favorite time of year! I have been contemplating on my Halloween costume. What should I be? Last year I created The Maitlands scary face outfit from Beetlejuice. I was so confident I would have won a first prize! But I lost to a few hoochies at a night club, and Bobafet at the bar around the corner. Haha, It was still so much fun! My friends were good sports, I even had Beetlejuice along with us! Well, this year I was thinking Edward Scissorhands. We'll see what happens.

I was browsing on Facebook and seen Alexa Westerfields post on a giveaway! I never try out for giveaways, but I like her blog, and thought I'd sign up. I also found really good links to other crafty gals friends of hers on Pinterest, Twitter, and Facebook. I love crafty sites to look at. I would rather look at crafty pages than to read posts from folks on my private page. Shhh! It's our secret! Would you like to take a look at The Give-away? Please, copy and paste the link into your web browser to sign up for a Nexus Tablet! http://swelldesigner.blogspot.com/2012/09/nexus-7-tablet-giveaway.html  OR click the GiveAway banner.
Good luck!
<3 Razz