Vitamins for everyone!

Barbie doll likes to sit in the grass in the garden, enjoy the sun and she even has thought of bringing enough to eat as well. Now if only she had taken her knitting basket with her or a book!

  One thing is for sure, she won't be very hungry in the evening if she eats all this fruit - bananas, apples, a pear and an orange.

  Chris doll is waiting for her friends. It is warm outside and so she has prepared some fresh fruit for the playing breaks. She hopes she'll get to the apple first, so juicy and sweet!  

Both bowls are crocheted by me from coated copper wire and filled with handmade polymer clay fruit. They are available in my ArtFire studio. I hope this will just be the beginning as I have more ideas, even if not the time! ;-) Barbie und Chris are registered trademarks with Mattel. I am just a humble collector and not in any way affiliated with the company and do not express their opinions.

Have you taken your vitamins?

Seems I am on the fruit trip, even if not intentionally in the first place.

I buy my wire online in England, from wires.co.uk and I love their colored copper wire. I could buy the list up and down and back up again and when a parcel arrives, I sit down, hold the spools into a light and giggle like a little girl at the beautiful shine.
So it is easy to match wire and beads tone in tone and you have lots of possibilities to experiment with different color combinations as well.

This is one of my favorite colors, a beautiful metallic orange although I think the seller calls it honey.
It's a bright and happy color and was perfect for these earrings. They remind me of a puddle of orange juice that is trickling down in a spiral. What better to use as accent than a clear glass rounded cube with AB (aurora borealis) finish? I like ice cubes in my orange juice!


Recently I bought some purple and black glass beads.
I have used them with black and purple wire before on this spool knit necklace. Here I put the black beads on the purple and the purple beads on the black wire for the perfect mix.


For this pendant I wanted to go tone in tone, though. After I started I found it began to remind me of a berry, so instead of going for a plane disk I made it domed.


On the pendant I had stopped at a disk because when I decided it was a berry, it was too late to make a ball out of it, it would have been much too big. What about berries for the ears? It still is blackberry season, hmm. Thought, said out loud and done, here is the result. Yummy looking blackberries for your ears.


Let me think, what else do I need for fruit salad? One idea already came from a forum friend (thanks, Cindy!), another one is welling up in my mind just now ...

Summertime and fruit salad

This day was not very summery. In the morning we had a six hour thunderstorm with heavy rain, but mostly lightning and thunder of which one was so loud it almost threw me out of my bed!
At least this treasury that I scored today seems a tad more like summer. It's called Fruit salad and a little cream and with help from my "little" (not!) brother I even managed to solve the secret of screenshots, mwahahaa!
If you want to show it some love and comment on it, go right ahead, I would appreciate it :-)