Living in The Lyte: LIGHT

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Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Crafting your Lyte

So I am a ETSY.COM addict!!

Seriously!
I am really starting to wonder if I need to talk to someone about it. There is a benefit to my window shopping....The urge to CRAFT!!! As you all know I love, I DO MEAN LOVE, to upcycle and reuse everything. AHEM...I have found the best use for those wonderful TWEENY *THANKS A BUNCH QUEENE`* magazine pages. You know the ones that look so beautiful just not enough to compete with the ORIGINAL pieces of art on my walls. So why not make them in to envelopes.

“The greatness of a craft consists firstly in how it brings comradeship to men.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Okay here is the story.... I bought something from ETSY.com, wonderful something. Paypal.com must have been having an off day because I kept getting the "Try Again in 30 Mins" screen. I decided to just send a money order for the amount. I made my task *WITH ALARM* in my phone, got the money order the very nested day and had every intention to sending it out. Fast forward to THREE WEEKS later, yes 3, and I am still walking around with an USPS money order for my ETSY.COM purchase. Why didn't I mail the money order.....HMMMM... I was being cheap. Okay so the stamp is now 41 cents or is it 44 cents, I didn't have an ENVELOPE, and I refused to buy a stamped envelope. Mainly because I HAD A STAMP ALREADY. Thus I walked around being dishonest to myself and a very AMAZING ETSY.COM crafter for three weeks. I finally did mail it out this past Saturday after Queene the Great made me a envelope. Her actions always lead me to research whats going on and so I looked up envelope templates. I found some for free here along with some other awesome free cards and labels. You can print the template right on to the paper you want to use or use some pretty hard card stock for a permanent template. I also used the scraps to make gift tags with. I'm really working towards getting my foot print down. Anywho I thought those out in BLOGSVILLE would like to Craft Their Lyte as well.

Craft your Lyte:
Again the FREE templates can be found here. Take a look around you might find some other free crafty ideas. Youtube.com has several videos on making your own envelopes. I rather enjoyed this one. I will be making my own envelopes FOR free. Ummm or atleast from materials that already exist although I may have or may not have paid for the magazine. Happy crafting your lyte and enjoy every moment of it!

PS.... AS SOON AS I FIND OUT HOW TO POST PICS FROM MY G1 I'LL POST MY 1st ENVELOPE! and take this ps msg down! HA!
Be Well Be Safe BE PEACE

Love is.....TL

Saturday, January 9, 2010

ART!! Shinin My Lyte

I am embracing all art as gifts of passion! Art Art Art is...How wonderful is a world engulfed in ART!!!! GT N TY to all that is DIVINE!!

So YES..... I am an Artist!
That statement has taken me years to fully embrace and speak with confidence.
I can run down the MANY reason I often ran away from the idea of being an Artist yet TRUTH IS...I am Artist. So today I'm standing in it!

I write, make jewelry, make all my body and hair products and create all kinds of items daily.

Being an Artist doesn't mean you have to sell your wears. I've given away thousands of my products as gifts of the years. I've made items per request, out of need or just from love. I, however, prefer to make and keep my products for myself. OK OK thats a whole other blog!!!! Over the last two weeks I've come to understand that letting go is not just for your emotional baggage. I've got to let go of my ART. I resolve to release some of my art this year. I'm currently finishing up two different books which I plan to self publish. I'm also open to making custom jewelry for people by request.

Art is the voice of the soul. Sometimes you speak it and other times it speaks for you.

Shining my Lyte: I grow up doing Drama, modeling and dancing. I was first published at 16, I wrote a Sci-fi much like the Matrix. I've made all my body and hair products for the past six years but have been mixing up body butters since high school. I make Gemstone Jewelry based on attainment using the properies of the gemstone to aid in the endeavor. I also can sew, craft most people under their own house and do ok with mixed media visual art.

I say if your soul is screaming let Art vibrate its voice!

Love is.....TL