A little more then Crafts

I post stuff about craft projects in this blog and I don't really do anything else. But while reading my favorit Blog Futuregirl I was thinking maybe I should post a little bit more now and again.
I am working on a lot of things all at once again. in fact I am booked solid for the next two weeks then after that I am booked for the rest of the month to help pack a friend and help her with her new house.
But here in my world Band camp has started for my DD. with school starting in two weeks.
My mom is coming to visit next week. YAY! and I want to take her around. But DD will only get to hang with us in the morning time because Marching band is from 1-9 all week.
I will be taking my mom to the Arch and a Lewis and Clark Winter camp site. She also would like to go to the Botanical gardens and I think she would like historic St Charles. And we will spend at least a whole day kicking around Edwardsville because it rocks. during all this I also have to teach a class on split stitch on Tue and Wed the DH wants to go to dance practice.
I am also hoping that my Dear Friend K will be able to join my Mom and me as we visit some of the sites. She was not raised around here either and so she gets to be a tourist with us.
The DH will be with us on and off because he is helping with Band on two of the days. and he really is not the shopping type.
One morning at least Mom will go shopping with the center of attention being the DD. There is a place called Plato's closet here it is a consignment shop that is really filled with young peoples brands. after the week of visiting the sites I might post photos from our excursions. 

These are stitch markers I made for a swap I got the bottle caps for free from the old fashion soda store at the Mall I put holes in the caps with an Awl and glued buttons to the inside. The buttons I got a year and a half ago 24 for 99 cents. plus shipping. I broke the shanks off the buttons first. I wanted to fill the caps with resin but they seem so heavy when they are. And heavy stitch counters didn't seem like a good plan, so I Just left them as is. I may make more of them as charms but with the resin for Christmas.

This is a wet bag. Not that it is wet mind you.
It is for wet dish towels and dish rags It is lined with more of that Air mattress that you have seen me use here before.  I make dish clothes and so when they need washing I don't have them sitting some wear getting moldy. then when I go down stairs to wash I just grab them all at once. We pull the wash clothes from the bath room and put them in here too.

Here is the flag I made to be flown on the mast of the ship at Pennsic 39. It may only get to be flown on a pole though because the hauler of the ship is faced with physical impairment that will make going to war next to impossible. But I am still happy with the way it turned out

Wristlet

This is a wristlet I made. I used the design of the fabric as the pattern for the beading. It is a day of the dead fabric. I made it for a 44 cent swap. I had the Fabric left over from another project and I always have beads and ribbon on had. I used Velcro for the closer.

Sculpey clay

Sculpey clay pendants for a swap. She likes robots gnomes and robots.

Steam Punk pewter casting

I was inspired by Genus Girl web comic to do this steam punk metal casting. The coin looking piece was made when I was warming the mold but I liked it so much I am keeping it and drilling out the hole for a bale.