Peace Craft Love Episode 1

Welcome to our first Peace Craft Love Podcast episode. My sister, Tammy Powley, and I are so excited about our new adventure!

This will be a bi-weekly experience where we share things going on with Tappingflamingo and The Crafty Princess...

Mostly, we talk about our love of crafting, but will also share other fun stuff. 

Here are the highlights and URL's for Episode 1, October 16, 2020.

OUT OF SIGHT

Terry shows off a creepy, yet elegant necklace and earrings inspired by SJ Designs Jewelry's Honey Do List October 2020. A photo taken when they visited Kutna Hora in Czech Republic is the inspiration for these pieces.  https://sjdesignsjewelry.blogspot.com/2020/10/inspiration-for-october-2020-honey-do.html?fbclid=IwAR1QNMOyr4xYqM8hVXiWR9z1ZueXxbx_6LEA8AUp33XMTFGXwgPkcG_zNro

Here is a link to Terry's Youtube Channel showing the process on how she put together the ensemble. https://youtu.be/HZqM1vOPGHY and also a link to the blog about these pieces. https://tappingflamingo.blogspot.com/2020/10/spooky-inspiration.html

Tammy showed some Halloween dresses she made for her dolls.

Blythe Libby Pattern: https://www.etsy.com/listing/112199926/dolly-delicacies-sewing-pattern-for

Tammy also showed this gorgeous piece she made, but is thinking about taking it apart and repurposing it.

Pink Flamingo Bulky 5 and Begonia Medium 4 yard: https://www.darngoodyarn.com/collections/darn-good-yarn

HERE'S THE SKINNY

Terry is wrapping up a wedding gift and shows some of her guitar string ornaments and how they can also make pretty gift toppers.

Tammy started a butterfly cross stitch using this pattern: Dimensions 73147 Needlecrafts Counted Cross Stitch, Welcome Butterfly

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001DEGP56/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o05_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1%20Luxja%20Double-Layer%20Sewing%20Supplies%20Organizer:%20https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B082KLJBCD/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o08_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Tammy is also working on more dolly dresses with this new pattern. Frill long sleeves dress #18" dolls dress: https://www.happybankkycraftymom.com/post/frill-long-sleeves-dress-18-dolls-dress-with-free-printable-pattern

One of Tammy's favorite orders lately is this Luxja Double-Layer Sewing Organizer. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B082KLJBCD/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o08_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1&fbclid=IwAR3JMpd0WWMCzoev7ckpnve6nBA1UuGEZkNIss5hCrFvDfozmpa-L16dFeY

FAR OUT

Have you ever found something along the side of the road and brought it home to make it better? Well this is what Terry is planning with her trash to treasure find. 

Tammy is planning to make a boho style cardigan using this pattern. I can't wait to see it done! 

East Asymmetric Fall Cardigan by Annoo Crochet Designs. http://www.annoocrochetdesigns.com/2020/08/east-asymmetric-fall-cardigan-by-annoo.html

GROOVY GOODS

Terry shows off the Bargain Bead Box for October 2020, and a sneak peak at a couple of her creations. https://www.bargainbeadbox.com

Tammy just got this ergonomic handle crochet hook set from BeCraftee https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00Y7QWHUO/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

WE DIG IT

We love Erica Arndts Youtube Channel! She has all kinds of crafting videos and is a home school mom! Check out her video for crafting and home school ideas. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0wN7fS1ATmM4ZTafhB9oBg

OUR GIGS

https://www.etsy.com/shop/TappingflamingoBling

https://www.etsy.com/shop/LotusFlowerKawaii

Hope you go check out our video and some of the other places we are located.

In the mean time....

Here's wishing you

Peace, a lot of Crafting and love....

Other places to find Terry

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ1e1qvZWpkFOKmIGqQStCg?view_as=subscriber

TikTok as Tappingflamingo

*Caribbean Cruisers 411 https://www.facebook.com/groups/23716... Check out my new facebook page called Beach Bums and Cruisers! https://www.facebook.com/groups/57613... https://www.facebook.com/tappingflamingo https://www.instagram.com/tappingflamingobling/

Other places to find Tammy

https://www.etsy.com/shop/kawaiidollshop

https://www.facebook.com/kawaiidollshop/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/DollyDaily/

https://www.facebook.com/AboutJewelryMaking

https://twitter.com/tammypowley

https://www.instagram.com/tammypowley/

Spooky Inspiration

I love to design, and I love to be challenged. Sometimes, it can be very difficult, but it helps you to grow. In this post, I will show you what I came up with using this very "creepy" picture.

Each month, SJ Designs Jewelry has a challenge. Her husband, for the past five years, has been giving her a challenge to get her out of her comfort zone and also help her use some of her bead stash. They call it Honey Do List.

This month's Honey Do List is a "creepy" picture of some skulls. This photo was taken in Czech Republic, at Kutna Hora which is "bizarre bone church" they visited. This was definitely a challenge for me.

Well... I don't have any skull pieces I could use, and I don't work with bone. I did remember, I had some white howlite that might look like bones....sorta. I wrapped the howlite bead with brown copper wire and added some dangles for more interest. 

As I studied the picture, I saw reds, oranges, golden hues, dark brown, and copper. I remembered, not long ago I received dark brown Brecciated Jasper beads from a Bargain Bead Box subscription, and knew they would be perfect in this piece. In October 2020 Bargain Bead Box, I received some faceted garnet crystals I knew I wanted to use. The only thing...they were teeeeeny tiiiiiny, which meant ity bity holes.

I gathered red jasper, sesame seed jasper, golden crystals and copper and started creating. 

Funny thing is, when I'm creating, things get changed quite a bit. I went from having a long necklace to a short one. I went from one clasp to another, and some of the beads changed a bit. 

I chose this bamboo looking toggle clasp, because it reminded me of bones. 

Oh! I had to make some matching earrings...

I'm actually working on a video that will soon be posted to my Tappingflamingo YouTube Channel. It shows how I went about putting it all together. Hope you go check it out and let me know what you think. 

No, this pieces is not that creepy or spooky, and it, honestly, it was not really that challenging. I find, that once I get started with a piece, things just kind of fall in to place. 

The Tappingflamingo is The Bohemian Hippie

I love my Florida upbringing. It is part of who I am. 

I am The Tappingflamingo

and...

I am also The Bohemian Hippie.

why am I Tappingflamingo?

well, Florida has a lot to do with it. The sandy beaches; the warm, tropical breezes; the sunshine; the palm trees; and even the beautiful colors of yellows, blues, browns, greens, purples, oranges, pinks. I love colorful things.

Tappingflamingo also because of my dance background. I love dancing, and yoga...

Why The Bohemian Hippie?

I play the mountain dulcimer.

I love to dress comfortably. Dresses that flow, layers, lace, Birkenstocks, denim, beach wear, long/easy going hair, etc...

oh, and of course...jewelry

I love jewelry. I love to wear it and make it.

Crystals, feathers, sea shells, hemp, wood, recycled guitar strings, paper, sari ribbon

Oversized earrings, layers of necklaces, bracelets that stack up and down the arm, and anklets

A lot of my friends tease me about being such a hippie. I don't mind, because I know I am. After all, as soon as I graduated from high school, our family drove all over the country for six weeks pulling a pop up camper with our red VW Van. Can't get more hippier than that, lol...

anyway.....I've made nature inspired jewelry for quite some time. In my research of the style I make, I have learned the style is bohemian hippie. I love the bohemian style, and as I have researched what that is, I have learned that I am A Bohemian Hippie...tropical style, of course...