faery home decor

[ A three inch wide, six inch long flat golden-copper ring in an almost rectangular shape reminiscent of a teddy bear, with small specks and eight holes equally spaced around the edge. It hangs suspended from two copper wire hooks through holes on the short ends. Hanging below it from some of the other holes […]

[ The usual cupcake tray full of beads & such sits on the wooden shelf, along with a bendy piece of driftwood & an arch-shaped bit of copper wire with blue & gold-coloured beads fastened to it. ] I started this one at home & as usual didn’t manage to take pictures at my workbench,

[ An aluminum cupcake tray. The hollows hold beads in a couple shades of blue & silver, and some white seaglass pieces wrapped in tarnished copper wire. Atop the tray are spools of copper wire, a piece of driftwood, & a tube from a wind chime. ] What I started with!

[ A good stick, a bunch of copper wire, & some beads. ] Above, the ingredients!

[ My usual Woods Day workbench is holding TWO hunks of driftwood, a LOT of copper wire, a tangle of three different pieces of jewelry, & several ziploc bags holding MORE jewelry.  Optimism! ] I got REALLY ambitious last Saturday. Surely I could finish TWO faery home decor pieces! Right? Right?

[ A narrow but bendy length of driftwood, copper wire in various sizes, & a couple ziploc bags of beads. ] I had NO idea what I was doing with this one until I found the cool dangly rounds in with a bunch of beads I’d forgotten I had, & then the name happened &

[ one long stick, shaped somewhat like a lacrosse stick & about a foot long; three shorter sticks, each about four inches long; & two tangles of copper wire sit in a pile, waiting for me to get a clue ] As is traditional I picked up the big stick & it told me what

This thing where they’re telling me their names as soon as I pick up the right pieces, I’m kinda liking it.

I found this rusty weird-ass chunk of wire in the backyard of a house in Albuquerque, & I knew right away it was gonna turn into something like this. When I tucked it into the basket to go out to the woods yesterday, it told me its name: Suspend.

Apparently Woods Day is also Make A Big Piece For Trickster’s Trash Day these days. I’m good with that.