Etsy : New Jewelry Line

This week I made more pieces in my "double buttoned embroidered" jewelry line. I love the work; drawing the embroidery plan, drilling, sanding and oiling the wood, looking for a fitting button, choosing colours for the floss, and then the embroidery itself ! I am pretty happy making and seeing my new line. I made brooches, rings and pendant necklaces so far, but more ideas are continuously popping up.


Most of the new creations are now in my Etsy shop: P8 Button Art, but there is more to come !

Challenge : Overview 5

The European street team of Etsy organizes weekly challenges in order to stimulate its members to create other things as usual.
I enjoy these challenges very much; so here again an overview of my entries in the last 11 challenges (I only missed one week because of the hospital stay):



Burst of Colour Messenger Bag
Challenge by JaneBoFelt: Burst of Colour


One Hour Post Dracula
Challenge by toosis: Tim Burton Style Gothic Fantasy


Peppermint Molecule
Challenge by dinafragola: Food


Autumn Leaves on a Hat
Challenge by Sumikoshop: Fall is coming

Enchanted Palm Frond Pouch
Challenge by BlueTerracotta: The Enchanted Forest


Old School Hat
Challenge by alatvian: Old School


Life on Mars Neck Warmer
Challenge by Serpentaires: Life on Mars


Blue Bow Fragola Hat (for dinafragola)
Challenge by LeelaBijou: This one is for you

White Xmas Hat
Challenge by swiedebie: All I Want for Christmas

Back to Nature Necklace
Challenge by Ravenhill: Back to Nature

Purple Gnome Hat
Challenge by Jealousydesign: Gnomes and Trolls

Buttons : permutation of wasps or coral snakes or corncobs

I have a lot of these small thick buttons in orange and brown, and I did not know what to do with it. Mixed, they remind me a bit of wasps or coral snakes or corncobs. I had to do something funny with it, and started to lay them down in patterns. These buttons feel great in your hands because they are pretty thick; so I kept on laying out patterns. That's how the idea came upon me to make a permutation set of all possible pair-combinations of the numbers 0, 1, 2 and 3, and to make necklaces in that way. (I am sorry for those who never liked mathematics in school, but I am a very mathematical person; can't help that)

These are the series (orange, brown): 0 0, 1 0, 0 1, 1 1, 1 2, 2 1, 2 2 , 1 3, 3 1, 2 3, 3 2, 3 3. This means 11 necklaces in total.

Crazy isn't ????