Janetics Ink

My bellbottoms lookin pretty fly with my new snow boots. The bells flare out and I don’t step on ‘em. I feel like the days I wore jnco pants. Love my boots. #christmas #bellbottoms #bathroomPhotoBooth #jnco #craft #boots

The women of the house are all wearing footie pjs. Best Christmas gift next to my crocheted throw. #family #christmas #angrybirds #motherinlawRULES #warmth

SarahPoe earrings and a blown glass orb by @torchess . An incomplete bracelet. Slice of firewood. Ring. I Assembled for BFF for #christmas #handmade

BFF got me a #crochet quilt I’ve been stalking for 6 months. It’s finally mine. She’s so pretty. #christmas

The night before #christmas, we played video games -I watched and played the Sentence game. It’s like a Mad Libs. My girls said thy made it up: take turns saying a single word going as fast as you can. It ends in giggles. I want to play that with my friends #game #family #familybedroom #word #fun

It finally happened. I got an iPad. My hubs gives the best Christmas gifts: cold hard cash.
Several years ago i got my kiln, Scotty. Last year was my LED hoop. This year, a glorious iPad who has been named The Mothership.
She is more awesome than I thought it would be. A perfect studio time tool (music/ notes/ tv/sketchbook/ google) and lightening fast. Best app ive gotten is the sketchbook app and finally found a place FB app works.
I have no grievances…..however, I find the weight to b a problem for my overworked wrists. It’s less than 2 lbs, but my poor wrists get fatigued if I don’t use a table or my lap.
Oh Mothership, what adventures we will have.

Mother in law gave BFF and I another French oven for Christmas. It’s a mismatched set of teal and turquoise. 7 1/4 quart capacity cast iron pot.
She got it from a family friend who dug them out the trash of an outlet store almost years ago. These pots retail for $300. Even used they are over $200.
She gave us one a couple months ago and we use the $hit out of it.
Chili
Soup
Homemade stocks and sauces.
If the machines actually take over and we r left w/o electricity, we will eat like kings. These pots will last generations and the apocalypse.

Got these handmade chopsticks and spreader from www.newberry.etsy.com for BFF. Last year I got her handmade wooden spoons w her name burned into handle.
The chopsticks are made from the same wood that clarinets are made. BFF played clarinet in high school.
The spreader is made from a rare black tree indigenous to central America.
She loved them so much, no one is allowed to use them. Rightfully so, dude. Rightfully so

Christmas has come and gone. I haven’t blogged in a while w great reason.
We got our Christmas tree for $25 at the lot beside our neighborhood. All grown in Boone, NC.
She sat in a bucket of water draped in a warm stripy comforter. Lit w colorful lights that make our house rosy and warm. Of course my felt garland made a cameo. Like a fabulous boa for our awesome tree.
It’s our first official Christmas tree.
Ever.
She sure is swell.

Tie dye coffee filter wrapping paper:
It’s 730am. Teacher gifts for 2 children need to be wrapped. No wrapping paper. No tape. What do u do?
Whilst making coffee at 731a, I had an idea as I threw out yesterday’s filter. Immediately I ran to the DenOfDopeness for my watercolors and yarn. 3 minutes later two gifts (www.JaneticsInk.com jewelry) were craftily wrapped in painted coffee filters.

1.I highly suggest u wrap like a Hershey kiss FIRST using ribbon/ yarn/whatever. Then blouse out to crate a paper flower like blossom.
2. Dampen the tips of your Filter w paintbrush. This will create channels for the watercolor to travel. Leave spaces of dry spots. This is a basic watercolor technique. The paint will not flow here if done correctly.
3. Get to brushing. LIGHTLY. watch the colors sail.
Take your time w adding additional colors. You don’t want muddy colors.
Optional: add glitter when paper dry. Add any embellishment.
Perfect for stocking stuffer gifts…..
Or for that beautifully wrapped piece of coal for those humbugs out there.

BFF and I had a craftastic afternoon and got into the Christmas spirit!
Felt Stockings.
Magazine christmas trees.
Copper stars.
Yarn pompoms.
Homemade bread.
Leftover chicken stew.
Glitter.
Giggles.
Excuse me. I just had an orgasm.
I. Effing. Love. Crafting!

Cutest boi ever and he calls me mommy
Folly beach, sc
Bert’s Market float

dundermifflinscrantonbranch:

Great Things About The Office - #224 - Stanley’s Rant

 “I’ve been here 18 years and suffered through some weird thematic Christmases. A Honolulu Christmas, A Pulp Fiction Christmas, A Muslim Christmas, A Moroccan Christmas, a Mo Rocca Christmas! I don’t want it.” -Stanley

it’s almost Christmas time; however, here in charleston, we are still being littlered with 80 degree days.   A friend of mine calls this Christmas summers.  How perfect a defintion!

After living most my years with below zero degre weather; these Christmas summers are exactly why i stay here in good ol’ Charleston.  My house is always set at tropical. I can’t help it, it’s in my blood.  My people are Trinidadian.  Palm trees and sunshine, baby. 

watercolor/ illustration: Janelle Wilfong