Bottle Labels For My
Herb Infused Vinegar 

Today's project has been all about making labels for the Herb Infused Wine Vinegar I am making From The Profusion Of Herbs In My Garden This Year

My Project Started By Cleaning and Sterilizing Wine Bottles I Had Been Saving To Repurpose To Hold My Homemade Infused Wine Vinegars

I Have Not Finished The Clear Bottle Labels Yet,

But I Plan On Making A Galvanized Silver Sheet Metal Tag For These

 For The Labels  I Went Over To The Graphics Fairy and Picked Up Some Free Graphics To Make My Labels.  Karen Has Soooo Many Cool Graphics To Pick From! 

 I Loaded The Graphics Into PhotoShop and Customized The Labels With What I Wanted Them To Say

 But Of Couse I Couldn't Stop There...

 I Just HAD To Add One Of My Handmade Copper Hang Tags

 I Decided To Make The Copper Tag With The Year On It

 Like A Nice Vintage Style Bottle Of Wine

 I Thought The Copper Tag Looked Especially Good With The

Amber Brown Colored Bottles

 What A Great Way To Repurpose An Old Wine Bottle !

I Think These Would Make A Great Gift, Don't You?

 

  A Great Way To Use Some Of Those Extra Herbs From Your Abundant Summer Harvest

 I Am Planning To Offer These On Etsy With The Words On The Labels To The Customers Specifications. 

I Think These Would Look Great On A Wedding Wine Bottle Too.  The Label Could Be Customized For Congratulatory Wishes For The Couple or A Table Number With The Wedding Date Stamped On The Metal Hang Tag.

 Each Label Set Will Include Two Printed Labels To Adhere To Your Bottles and Two Handstamped Copper or Galvanized Silver Metal Hang Tags

Custom Stamped To The Customers Requested Message

Guess I Have A Few More Bottle To Go, So Back To Work!  Thanks For Stopping In To See What I've Been Up To.  

I'm linking this post to Brag Monday at The Graphics Fairy and to Between Naps On The Porch ~ Metamorphsis Monday (The Butterfly Box in my sidebar is the link).

 

Until Next Time.......I Wish You Peace.....

I Woke Up To Rain On The Roof This Morning...

It Had Been So Hot And Muggy All Weekend..

It Was A Refreshing Change!

This Was The View Outside My Studio Window This Morning

Last Week Was All About Creating New Packaging For My  Etsy Items and Filling Custom Orders

  I Created These Cards For My Copper Garden Tags Using A Graphic From The Graphics Fairy

I Think It Has Really Added A Custom Touch To My Packaging

Thank You Karen For Such Great Free Graphics!!

Here Are A Few Pictures From Some Of The

Custom Orders I Filled Last Week

I Also Created A New Style Of Packaging For The

Storage Tags I Sell On Etsy.....

What do you think?

I Love How The New Packaging Came Out!

This Order Went To Washington D.C.

Other News This Weekend, We Went To The Local Farmer's Market and Got Some Fresh Veggies and These Wonderful Sunflowers.....They Just Make Me Smile!!

We Then Took Our Weekly Drive To The Farm To Pick Up Some Fresh Goat's Milk.

Tomorrow I will be posting pictures of my weekend yogurt making session.  I will also be posting the receipe and yogurt making tips.  See you here tomorrow!

By The Way.... Happy FLAG DAY !

Until next time....I wish you Peace...

This week....Tags....TAgs....TAGS!

I Made These Tags For

My Coffee Bar Area

These Are Copper Garden Tags For An Etsy Order

Another Etsy Order ~ Galvanized Tags 1" X 3"

Tags For My Homemade Yogurt

I have a couple more tag orders to fill yet and when I'm done I'll post some more pics.....Have a great weekend!  Until next time.....I wish you Peace.....

We Had A Wonderful Weekend !

Nothing But Blue Skies As Far As The Eye Could See!!

I Am So Thankful For Those Who Have 

Made It Possible For America To Stay The

Land Of The Free

We put our flag out for the holiday and I finally got a couple of hanging plants up too.  The windows you see across the top ridge of the house are the skyline windows at the top of my studio's vaulted ceiling. 

Last week in a previous post I showed you the little wren nest full of speckled eggs in this red basket of Geraniums and guess what.....

The little babies are hatching!!  I'll post more pics when they get a little bigger.

Summer is finally getting here, it's about 90 degrees here today and my tomato plants have more than doubled in size already!  Just makes my mouth water thinking about the coming harvest!

As Ralph Waldo Emerson once said..

Earth Laughs In Flowers!

Hope you are having a great week!!  Until next time.....I wish you Peace....

Post Card Sachets With Charm

I had so much fun making these!  I started off with some free graphics I got at the Graphics Fairy.

 (You can get to her site by clicking on the link in the right sidebar.)

I used my printer (a Canon i860) to print the graphics on muslin fabric, (see instructions on how to do this with your printer on my TGIF page) then sewed a back on and stuffed them with lavender buds. 

Loved the way the first one turned out so just had to make another one with a little different design.   

The charms are made from real stamps that have been sandwiched

between two pieces of 1 X 1 inch glass that I then soldered together.

This is the back side of the charm.

Simply Charming....don't you think??

I thought these would make a great gift for Mother's Day!  Two gifts in one, a charm for a necklace or bracelet and a sachet to set out or tuck into a drawer or closet. 
Don't forget to check out the TGIF page (at the top of this page) for how-to instructions for printing on fabric using your computer printer.  Until next time......I wish  you peace.....

Another Work Space Added To The Studio !!

I recently completed a class in stained glass and realized that now that I had learned how to solder I could try my hand at soldered jewelry  (if you would like to see my soldered jewelry check out the jewelry postings listed in the right sidebar.)  After working on a few soldering projects I decided that I really needed to have my soldering workspace closer to a window for better ventilation, thus my new workstation was born.  I had recently purchased some additional shelving that is actually made to fit in a closet but we modified it by adding a shelf across the middle section where the clothes hanging bar goes.  It turned out really well and has been a great workspace.

If you have a studio workspace I would love to see some of your pics and hear about how you set yours up...all you need to do is make a comment on this post and add your blog link within the post.   Here are a few more pics of  my studio (as you can see it is not very organized right now, but I had several projects in process when I took these pics.)

Until next time.....I wish you Peace..........