Gift Pocket

This item is available HERE

I have been adding free gift pockets to my bracelets.  I wanted an interesting way to package my items.  The green felt is the leftovers from the pillow turtles from VBS week.

Each pocket will have a different decoration on the front, depending on what I find.

For my lady bug bracelet (those are WHITE lady bugs, not dice, I know it's hard to see that)

I found a bead from the same stash of beads I made the bracelet with.  I do not have any more red acrylic beads like that now.  There is still one more bead left but that's it, they are not being manufactured anymore.

The pockets themselves are easy to make, I didn't use a pattern.  Didn't take me long to sew them up.  The embroidery though took a little bit more time but I wanted to do it for this one to practice for another craft idea I have.

I have leftover cut up socks from VBS.  We made sealy socks, we used the toe to the heel part to make the seal, the rest was cast off.  The VBS manual said you could use the rest for another craft like making bottle covers.  I am going to make tie dyed wrist warmers.

After I dye these things they will need to be hemmed where it was cut, I am going to embroider that part.

Since it's been a long time since I embroidered I wanted to practice which is why I did that pocket the way I did.  It came out quite well.

Another item I'd like to share is this

This is my Alice in Wonderland bottle, on Etsy now HERE  It's an Olive Oil bottle and I really wanted to do something with it.  It reminded me of Alice's bottle she drank from.  On one side is Alice on her mushroom with a butterfly above her.  The butterfly is a acid free scrapbooking sticker.  The other side of the bottle has Drink Me and I used Gallery Glass paints for the label and Gallery Glass liquid leading.  Please note that the paints used are non toxic and there is no lead in the liquid leading, Gallery Glass is used to be an easy way to simulate stained glass.  I have worked in stained glass, a LOT of work!  Worth it if you have the patience for it, but you are working with lead and must take precautions when you are done, mostly that's just washing hands and keeping hands away from your mouth.
    I want to make more art on bottles.  I actually have a bunch here that I have done.  Wine bottles, I have another olive oil bottle for another Wonderland character, the Cheshire Cat.  I also have some St. Brendan's Irish Whiskey, good stuff and I LOVE the bottles.  On one I have a dragon painted on it, on another a Celtic Knotwork design.  I have lots of jars and party decorated Starbucks bottles.  I'm glad I finally got my camera working again so I can take pictures.  Now I just have to learn not to take such fuzzy pictures!