My First Post! Button Inspirations!

A tea container and some cards for today!

I was so excited to stumble across my own Philly peeps through this site and felt I quickly had to jump on board! So here is my first post! I have been completely inspired by buttons recently so here ya go! Thanks for looking!

~Becky Oehlers

the moment you love you are unlimited.

finally, I am posting! I was supposed to post on Sunday - but time just got away from me. This series was shot as I was making my wedding invitations -- these strips of vellum were glued to the front. I will post the invites when they are finished.

Spontaneous Sewing Notions 1" Pins

(Hello! First post!)

It's pretty typical for me to get distracted while making things, resulting in interrupted projects and random experimentation and often times, there are some exciting results! While well into the throes of Scrapple 1" pin production, I spotted my jar of sewing notions on the other side of my desk... What would ric rac and thread look like on a pinback button?

A little something like this:


And it's always exciting to add a new item to my etsy shop!

After that spontaneity, it was back to the Scrapple wares in preparation for this Saturday's ScrappleFest at Reading Terminal Market! Read more about that, over at my blog.

My first post

Here is my first post for thing a week (I know I already missed a week, but I am going to try to be more on top of it from now on)



To check out more of my work visit my etsy site at Cbeauty.etsy.com

Week Two- Veggie Burgers

I have been doing a lot of cooking this past week, so much that I really haven’t gotten much craft time. But I am very excited to share this recipe for homemade veggie burgers. They get my 5 smear rating. Ok, that didn’t sound so good-- let me ‘splain: Basically, the better the recipe, the more messed up my recipe card gets with ingredients while I‘m preparing it (I‘m a messy cook), hence, the smear rating. Anyway, if you’re a fan of the store bought variety of veggie burgers, I think these are MUCH better, not very complicated to put together, healthy, and delicious (my 2 year old even eats them!). Plus, when you add it all up, they end up costing something like $.25 per burger, which makes them healthy for your wallet as well.

INGREDIENTS:

1 (16 oz.) can black beans, drained and rinsed
½ green or red bell pepper, cut into wedges
½ onion, cut into wedges
3 cloves garlic, peeled
1 egg
1 tbsp. chili powder
1 tbsp. cumin
1 tsp. Thai chili sauce or hot sauce
½ cup bread crumbs *

DIRECTIONS:

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees and lightly oil a baking sheet.



2. 
   In a medium bowl, mash black beans with a fork, until thick and pasty.



3. 
   In a food processor, finely chop bell pepper, onion, and garlic, then stir into bean mash.



4. 
   In a small bowl, stir together egg, chili powder, cumin, and chili sauce.



5. 
   Stir the egg mixture into the mashed beans. Mix in bread crumbs until the mixture is sticky and holds together. Divide into four patties.



6. 
   Place patties on baking sheet, and bake about 10 minutes each side. **
   

* I used quick oats instead.
** In my oven, 13 minutes each side worked better. They might seem to stick a little at first, but once you flip them, they should firm up & be fine.


Mine seemed to need to stay in the oven longer to “set up”, but did seem a little dry- they were fine, though if served with some kind of sauce: salad dressing, ketchup, etc. Also, I felt like they could’ve used a little salt, but other than that- delicious! Bon Appetit!

New digital collages

I spent a LOT of time sitting at the computer this past weekend, making some new digital collages. They'll be on display/for sale at Curiosity Shoppe starting March 27.

(Click image to see a larger version!)

dejavu

I've been very busy making jewelry lately. I'm working on creating bracelets, earrings, and necklaces out of re-purposed materials--denim, felted merino, and cotton from jeans, felted sweaters, and t-shirts I'll never wear. Hence the name for my new collection of work: dejavu by koco.

J9, my younger sister, came to visit for the weekend and we took some fun photos of the work and some pictures for her 365 project. She takes a photo every day, and she's halfway through a year of photos! Here she is with a finished spiral piece made from jeans with a small silver trinket I picked up in Thailand.