RIBBON

Alright everyone...let's say it all together now..."What's in your drawers?"

The first picture is what's in my ribbon drawer. These are the short pieces, leftovers and those from swaps. I love ribbon swaps! I love a little of everything if you haven't noticed by now.

This next drawer belongs to Pat Winters , the most gifted crazy quilter I have ever seen. Please take the time to go to her blog and look at her work. It is fabulous! http://www.patwintergatherings.com/

My friend Rita from makingmagic.etsy.com sent this photo to me of her ribbon drawer and a beautiful vintage purse. Rita makes soap, photo albums, greeting cards and so much more. Stop by her Etsy store and see what she's up to. Her soaps make your hands so soft! http://www.makingmagic.etsy.com/

Alright now, send me some pictures of your drawers! Send them to marysmadness2004@yahoo.com and watch in the future to see "What's in your drawers."

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This first picture of clothing labels is from Juana. She's got a nice stash of labels. Stop by her blog, part spanish, part english.... http://lita-gattochepesca.blogspot.com.

I have a small stash and of course am working on more....I would like to have more of the vintage labels.

So....."What's in your drawers?"

Glitters, a little more sparkle!

Valerie B., of www.thesumofallcrafts.blogspot.com, says "Being a total magpie at heart I love everything that glitters. I am automatically drawn to all that is shiny so it's no surprise that I love glitter. Technically there is more then just glitter in this drawer but it all is in the same family so it all lives together for now. There is also mica flakes, cracked ice, and real glass chips as well as very small confetti."

Does anybody have any Stickles? Margaret makes greeting cards and loves to use a little Stickles here and there.

I've started collecting some of the glass glitters. I love the look of glass glitter in and out of the jars! If you have glass glitters what do you store yours in? Something fancy or functional?

So, What's in your drawers? We're all anxious to see what you have!

Sparkle and Shine

My plastic shoebox full of vintage cluster earrings. I'm making some rings with these.

Margaret V. has a drawer of sparklies.

Cory of Artworks, in Glendale, AZ. has these sites to visit: http://art-with-moxie.blogspot.com/, http://createwithmoxie.blogspot.com/ and http://moxiegallery.etsy.com/ has lots of neat trinkets in her jewelry drawer. Cory is a mixed media artist and art jewelry designer. She calls this drawer her "junk for jewelry" drawer and uses these pieces for art jewelry.

This is my favorite drawer of vintage rhinestones.

Dolls

Well it appears that we all still like to play with dolls. The dolls in the photo at the top belong to the drawers of Margaret V. Estate sales are a great find for litlle bits of treasures.

The drawer below belongs to me. I once found a jar full of Barbie heads. Bonus...

Choice containers

So...Do you have a container of choice? My favorite containers are the embroidery floss containers. You know the flat one with divided sections. OH, OH. Great poll question.

How many do you have.... I love it. See new poll. Okay, I'm in the over 100 category. My room is crazy organized. Key word....crazy.

Cultural Curiosities

These of course were staged. They are from one of my own drawers. Some in the "too special to use" category. A lot of these are made from real bones!

The first pic is fibers, shells, beads, bells, metal thingies. They are probably made in Mexico. The others are made from bones and some wood and leather. The longest piece is about 5".

I actually picked these up from an estate sale. The woman did some amazing textile work and traveled all over the world. If I would have had an extra $1,000. to blow that day, I would have been in heaven.

Dead things...bones, bones, chicken and bones...

Lisa Vollrath of Ten Two Studios has been kind enough to share some photos of her drawers with us! Now she isn't one of the little people by far, but I'm not complaining!

I'll have to share my favorite drawer first! Dead things, skulls and bones! Here is what Lisa has to say about this drawer...

"I call this my Dead Things Drawer. Inside, you'll find plastic skull beads in all different sizes, a couple of small plastic skeletons, bones that have been cleaned and dried, some snake skins, and assorted plastic bugs and snakes. Any time I'm working on a piece that's dark and creepy, this drawer is open."

Thanks for sharing Lisa!

So, What's in your drawers?

BUTTERFLIES

I have a box of dead butterflies. My grandma had a huge collection of framed butterflies. I salvaged all of the ones that were falling apart and ones that had been collected from outdoors. I also have a nice little stack of butterflies in cellophane packages. COOL. I'm going to make some resin pendants with some and put some others in a collage.

So, What's in your drawers?

Welcome one and all! Time for show and tell!

Everyone is publishing books about our studios, well, maybe not ours. Theirs. The elite artists. I want to see what is in the studios of the little people. You and me. Me and you. What I find missing in most of these articles is content. I want to know "What's in your drawers?" Looking at the studios is just a teaser. Show me what you have in your drawers.

So, show me what's in your drawers! Email me your pics and blurb to What's in your Drawers?

So take my polls, please leave some comments send me some pics... I'll post pics of some of my collections and hope you will send some of yours also.