My new jewels!

My new necklace has arrived! I want to share this great necklace which was custom made for me by Gretchen of Mimi-Toria's Jewelry.

When we started our Junk Fest blog fun about one year ago, we Junk girls "found" Gretchen through her blog and starting corresponding. One thing lead to another, and we met her and her best friend, Carolyn on our 2009 April trip to Minneapolis. When we saw her jewelry in person, we were more than impressed! Sweet Melissa bought a necklace right on site (in the parking lot of Applebees!) and soon after Cassie and Lynette followed suit. Here's Gretchen's FUN creation for me...Are you jealous?! She had asked me what I like in life to help her personalize it. Well, I love numbers, keys, wine, coins, a little "bling", I'm catholic, and I love silver and black. (I'm really not a gold jewelry person). Anyway, she hit the nail on the head with her vintage pieces, differing chains and charms! Oh, and the watch piece says "Junk Girl" inside it...my blogging name...how cool is that?

Here's a picture of Gretchen and Carolyn in the lovely outside garden area at The French Flea where we met in April. Gretchen sells her jewelry at The French Flea in Anoka, MN and you can contact her through her blog here. I am quite sure these two girls will be our life-long friends!I am so wearing this to work tomorrow! Thanks, Gretchen!

Calling all JunkGirls!

I was hanging out this evening with my JunkGirlfriends (Cassie, Andrea and Lynette) in a place called The Barn. We were having a grand old time reliving the wonderful time we had a JunkFest 2009. It was a great day to catch up with old friends and meet some new. I tell you what though, my JunkGirlfriends are some curvaceous BABES! Take a look at them here...

Oh, you're on to me aren't you!?

I'll fess up...I wasn't with the real JunkGirls tonight, and I was in MY barn, you know, the kind with straw on the floor. I was cutting out these shapely shapes for some fun, funky wire dress forms I picked up this summer. The wood will be sanded and painted with chalkboard paint. What fun!! Two of these funky creations went out the door at JunkFest this year. Now, on to the reason I'm making more....one's for ME! YIPPEE!! Us JunkGirls sometimes forget to treat ourselves to the fun stuff. Another is for the extremely talented Tamra of Just For You Jewelry and Beads. Tamra was a vendor again this year at JunkFest but even better yet...she has once again created a wonderful JunkGirl masterpiece. We made a little barter, funky dressform chalkboard for awesome JunkGirl necklace! WOOHOO!! And I super LOVE my necklace!! Check out Tamra's link on the sidebar of this page. If you're a real true JunkGirl...you'll find some awesome "junky" accessories at her site.
Check out the DIY projects and links here! And watch for our next post GIVE AWAY!!