June is fast approaching and is the top month for weddings.   I actually have a September wedding to help with.  My very closest girlfriend Jessica is getting married to my husband’s best friend.  How cool is that?!  Of course Etsy is the place to go for one of a kind favors, decorations, and more….   [...]

People do ‘Christmas in July’ , today I’m in a ‘Halloween in March’ mode.   Check out the great monsters on Etsy.

   The lady behind TheEclecticElement is Kayla, a crafty mid-western girl with a tightly  knit family.  She is from a small town in northern Illinois with dreams of a change of scenery.     Kayla has always bee a crafty girl thanks to her mother’s ealy influence.  She started making jewelry about 5 or 6 years [...]

As you can tell, I am just getting the hang of all of this.  I didn’t realize it had been almost 2 months! I guess I will show you my new tees…. This one is my first.  I had this idea in my head for quite a while.  The image is of my ,  Jacky.  She [...]

I have never lived in the house my mom lives in now, but I feel at home when I am there.  I didn’t know my husband long before marrying but I was at home beside him.  I have felt more ‘at home in my own skin’ in the past 5years than ever before.  Maybe it [...]

Hey Guys.  Of course I am always playing with more animal paintings like my newest one above, but I want to learn some new things now. I will make anything I can out of paper & glue, so I have rolled up some paper beads for craft supplies.  What is nice about them is, I have my [...]

Here is the new paper mosaic I promised you.     The title also has to do with my lost feeling right now.  I know I need to paint some more animals, I am working on that. For now though, I have played with making supplies because, although they can be time consuming, they do not [...]