Mermaid with her Fish and Beaded Hair

Mermaid Magic by weirdoddities

Just for Fun!

Stripes and... by weirdoddities

Just for fun I've been playing with some of the styleboards at Kaboodle. It's a fun exercise in shapes, colors, balancing and focusing and laughing all the way. Never take yourself too seriously while making a styleboard. They are a great way to advertise some of your items and you can easily send them out by email, share them with other sites and check out other styles for inspiration. If you haven't tried it yet, you gotta go do one. If I can figure it out with my little tiny doll brain anyone can.

Fierce Friends

Fierce Fantasy... by weirdoddities

Sometimes you just have to go a little nuts, especially if like me you are a hoarder. I have learned to use my hoarder defects as a catalyst for my creativity. I see everything used as a test of my true creative talents and I vow not to fail this test. Luckily I have a spouse and partner in life who is indulgent of my little odd and unusual ways of entertaining myself. I'd love to hear about your ideas on recycling oldies into goodies.

Hand altered Club accessory

Tantalizing... by weirdoddities

I love to take the plain jane bag and alter it, reincarnate it and reinvent it into a classy club clutch of which there is no duplication of wearable Art accessories. I do dislike running into a friend of a friend and finding out that we are carrying the same bags or rags. I thought about getting a really unique tattoo once, but never got past the needle part. You may not realize that this part is the most important part of the tattoo process. With wearable Art in the form of accessories you never feel pain which is great for me. How do you show your uniqueness and where did you get the inspiration for that uniqueness.

Play time with style boards

Gothic... by weirdoddities

My very own design using Kaboodle's style boards and my Gothic Bib Necklace and a gown that I would have to grow 7 inches in able to wear with origami earrings and great shoes.

Lucid Dream Statement Piece

Lucid Dreaming techniques show that your chances of having a Lucid Dream are greatly increased by doing Reality Checks often during the day. By having a Lucid Dream Bracelet Cuff on your wrist you will naturally notice the Cuff often during the day on your wrist. When you do notice the Lucid Dream Cuff ask yourself this question "Am I dreaming now?" Look at your surroundings for "Clues" that you are NOT dreaming, such as can I read something or does it look odd, do I know how I got to the place I am at right now. Then repeat this the next time you look at your wrist and see your Lucid Dream Bracelet Cuff.

Eventually you will ask your self "Am I dreaming now" and you will find that "Yes" you are dreaming and at that time you will be "Lucid" within a dream and will be able to "edit" your dream. It takes practice to be able to edit your dreams and be able to change a scary dream into a fun fantasy dream.

Materials NOT to Love

Do you create things you do NOT love to get more sales? If I did NOT love what I created I would be using materials such as Hominy, shellfish, slugs, fish scales and maybe earwax (I hate ear wax, my ears spend way too much time making this stuff to the delight of my Doctor)

Sometimes I find that a piece I am working on is becoming difficult, not looking quite right or nothing seems to work as I try this bead or that button. I find that if I just set it aside and go on to something else that when I come back to that piece everything just seems to fit and then I really do love it. Maybe I am working against the will and personality of the materials themselves and not listening to them.

I love creating new one of a kind items and have found in the process that I really love photographing them too and in doing this I have reminders of all my little friends no matter where they go to live.

Elemental Spirits

Are you a Fire Spirit, Water Spirit, Air Spirit or Earth Spirit or maybe you have a little of each. Maybe you have a combination Fire-Air Spirit, I don't know why not. Many personalities are made up of lots of different emotions and sometimes one balances the other.
Air Spirits:
Raven Brings the Light (Inuit)
The Seven Ravens (German)
The Crane Maidens (Chinese)
Daedalus and Icarus (Greek)
The Swan Maiden (Norwegian)

Pictured is my little Vegas Show Girl, or she could be anything you wish and she makes a great paperweight to watch over your personal space with a personality of more Fire than anything else. Maybe she could sit on your dresser to remind you to be fierce and strong with jewels to spare and a whip, because she IS the boss!

Protector of the Gods and Goddesses

Gods and Goddesses associated with the Earth element from very different cultures are as different as they are alike. All need a gallant worthy warrior to protect their Earthly gardens from peril and humankind. This is one of my reincarnated Star War's creatures, I think I have given this one an interesting background and I love his sterling silver shield (once an ear ring who lost it's life partner)

Pluto/Hades (Greco-Roman) god of underworld
Pan (Greek) god of nature
Nu Kua (Chinese) goddess of creation
Cerridwen (Celtic) goddess of enchantment
Geb (Egyptian) god of the earth
Mawu (Africian ) goddess of creation
Changing Woman (Apache) goddess of the earth

There are many others, to many to mention them all but their stories are similar and have been handed down for thousands of years. There is much truth in the stories, how could there not be since they all have had endured throughout all the years.