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Lindsy Carranza

Bio:

Hello Everyone! My name is Lindsy Carranza. I am 24 years old and from Omaha, Nebraska. Art and crafts have been apart of my life since I can remember. It all started with my mother, who used to crochet and make pillow dolls. When I was younger she made a lot of my Barbie's clothes, which were way better than the store bought ones! Then it developed once I got into school. Mom said when the other kids were drawing stick figures I was creating art with families around the dinner table completely in perspective. In high school I really started messing around with reconstructing clothing. One of the first recycled clothing projects I ever did was a floor length skirt completely make out of the back pockets from jeans.
That project took quite awhile and was all hand sewn. As I got into college I started finding creative ways to decorate my apartment. Things like revamping old bookshelves, picture frames, and making my own pillows. My creativeness has only broadened as I've gotten older and there are still so many things I want to learn how to do. Creating new and wonderful pieces out of found items is my passion. My crafts range from necklace pendants to organizers for your office. Constantly I am finding things that would be considered trash or would be used for something else and think to myself, "Wow that would make a cute.... or what could I do with that?"

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Pendants

Cady

Card Box

Drip Vase

These are necklace pendants made out of Scrabble tiles. A few are reversible (both front and back are decorated).

Some I paint and some are decorated with scrapbook papers.

I hang them different ways depending on what I think looks best and

you can hang them from just about any necklace chain. A few of the pendants are made from scrap wood, or small wooden pieces.

This is a organizer for a desk that was made out of baby food jars, a pickle jar, and a lazy suzan.

The next one I make I want to paint with bright colors but this one I wanted to be simple.

Why spend your hard earned money on expensive photo boxes when you can save your shoe boxes, decorate them and Viola!

I used a combination of scrapbook papers and grosgrain ribbon.

I love to save glass bottles and jars and make vases out of them. I decorate them different ways so they look more like

vases and less like glass bottles. This one I used acrylic paint to create drips, sealed it with varnish, and use ribbon to conceal the threads for the lid.

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Pendants

These are necklace pendants made out of Scrabble tiles. A few are reversible (both front and back are decorated).

Some I paint and some are decorated with scrapbook papers.

I hang them different ways depending on what I think looks best and

you can hang them from just about any necklace chain. A few of the pendants are made from scrap wood, or small wooden pieces.