in the works

One of my goals for 2012 is to finish a couple UFOs I've had for anywhere from 6 months to 3 years.  More on that later this week.  One of those UFOs is my neglected cross-stitch that I mentioned yesterday.  I've been spending a lot of time on it again the past couple weeks.  Of course I've still had to fit in some jewelry and card projects, too.

I sold a turquoise leaf bracelet back in 2009 before I could even list it on Etsy.  I got some lovely turquoise lamp work focals for Christmas last year (from Jen of blueserphim's shop) and have slowly been collecting blue leaves all year.  I'm finally putting it altogether for a new leaf bracelet.

Usually I make two versions of one design (often in two different sizes) while I have all my beads mixed up.  Unfortunately I only had enough leaf beads to make one bracelet.  Hopefully it'll sell quickly, and I'll have an excuse to keep looking for more beads.

As I've mentioned before, my card making is a little scattered.  I got inspired to start working on a Mother's Day set this month.

I went crazy with the little flowers and have enough for a whole bunch of projects now.

Back to more topical cards, as I mentioned in my Valentine's Day post earlier this month, I did finish a set of Valentine's Day mini cards.  I actually finished two very similar sets.

Here they are in the works.

Here's one of the finished sets.

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I have been starting to research sewing with paper techniques this month and am very excited for all of the possibilities there.  I don't know if I'm going to get a Valentine's Day set with a sewing technique done for this year, but I may try a St. Patrick's Day set.

What are you working on this week?  Have you blogged about it?  Leave me a link in the comments so I can check it out!

Where else I linked up today:

I included this post in Michelle's Delicately Constructed Friday 1/27/2012 and Erika's It's a Wrap Link Party - 1/30/2012.