Revamp Your Jewelry-A Seminar with Katie of Scarlett Garnet

This past Thursday we did our first official learn-something-new seminar and it was a smashing success.  We hooked up with our good friend Katie, co-owner and designer for Scarlett Garnet, to turn our old and forgotten jewelry into new treasures we will actually wear.  There are actually two revamped necklaces in the first pic, but one is hard to discern because it is black.  The gold treasure was actually a combination of materials from KT and Faith's extensive montage of costume jewelry.  Very rock star!

Up here we have a little insight to the bits and bobbles OP brought along.  Thank goodness she was able to do something with this mess.

...The jeweler extraordinaire Miss KT Scarlett.  She is a fantastic teacher.

OP's coral beads in mid-restring.  She created some matching earrings with the extra beads too.

This is the invisible necklack in the first pic, slightly less invisible.  We will get some nice pics of the pieces we created to really show off what we learned.  Thanks for everything KT!  Can't wait to do this again in a few months.

30 Years and 1 Week

Mmmm......yummy cheesecake pops...made graciously by Melissa.......wait, who is Melissa?.....only the newest member of the Catty Kitchen!.....what, what-raise the roof! Oh, and her dessert was off the chain. I am talking white, milk and dark chocolate coating.......some were orange cheesecake, some were just regulah-ass cheesecake........a few were sprinkled with toffee and others with, well...sprinkles

This is our beautiful new friend. Melissa Ann.....her name means bumblebee and she is as sweet as the honey she collects. I have actually known her for many years, but we are all very glad to welcome her to the Kitchen.

And the event's main attraction is the birthday girl......Faith Michelle! She is officially 30 and loving it. Nor does she look it.

We surprised her with sushi birthday cake from I Love Mr. Sushi-it was magnifique! Our wine supply was depleted by 7:30 and we had to make a run to the grocer to the tune of 'Single Ladies'. That's a hot track-I ain't mad at that.

We were a little nervous about her gift because we made most of it, but I think she really liked it. Inside her banana leaf basket was a fish bank, four homemade washcloths, a cross-eyed bird, food tents, a penis-y mushroom, post-its, gorgeous garden hat and crocheted cupcake.

I almost forgot...Jenn made her recycled coasters and coin purse from plastic grocery bags. Apparently we use about 1,000,000 bags a minute (that's one million folks) which is no good for our 'Mom'.

Happy Birthday Faith, the old fart! We love you!

Do you 'Upcycle'?

Upcycling is the new trendy term for repurposing items you already own into another useful item. This is an obvious benefit to the planet as well as a good way for us to engage our pitifully trodden on imaginations.
For example, I have a wrought iron plant stand that serves me no purpose currently because it is far to small to hold any plants I have. However, I am having trouble blogstorming ideas for what to do with it. Let me know if you have any suggestions. Also let us know what items you have repurposed in your own home.