Cathy's Arts & Crafts, Gifts, Paintings

Cathy's Arts & Crafts, Gifts, Paintings Cathy is an art teacher and artist that paints original oil and acrylic paintings, glass and clothin I have taken some classes but mainly self taught.

All of my life I have been interested in collecting things and making something with them. I love to help people learn to create, paint, speak another language, learn some guitar chords, crochet something, recycle or upcycle, macramé, flower arrangements, decorate, do handmade Christmas gifts....etc...etc...The main thing is to work on something you enjoy doing. I have given classes on acrylic and

oil painting, oils being my favorite, had work set up in galleries, done a lot of shows won a lot of ribbons, judged shows, but what I enjoy most is seeing the smile on someone's face after they completed something. I have taken 4 college years of Spanish, taught Spanish at isothermal community college, given classes to children, substitute teacher at an elementary school, translated for a lot of textile companies, translated detailed product paperwork, fax sheets to send overseas, and pricing sheets for businesses, set up bank accounts here in the US for Spanish people around the world so they could buy products here, but the most interesting for me was translating for judges in the court system when they were prosecuting Hispanics, for attys, in the jail system so they would have representation. It was very interesting work to say the least.I post a lot of do it yourself things to my page "Catherine's arts, crafts, gifts and paintings in hopes that someone will learn something they like and do it. If I can help anyone at all and they can take something from my page and use it...that makes me happy! Enjoy your life and be creative! The mind is a wonderful thing, even if you can only draw stick figures...if you try something new...you just might like it!!!

09/11/2025

Ok, guys I have been crafting my fingers to the bone! What do I get, boney fingers!😆🤪 I’m doing a craft fair at Polkville Baptist Church this September 27! I’ll post some pictures of some of the things I am making. If you guys have any questions or want to try your self! Let me know!

12/25/2023

Merry Christmas everyone and God bless us all!

Now choose a bail you like. I used a simple figure 8!
12/06/2023

Now choose a bail you like. I used a simple figure 8!

This is the design I picked. There’s many more! I wrapped around the fossil, bringing it together as tightly as possible...
12/06/2023

This is the design I picked. There’s many more! I wrapped around the fossil, bringing it together as tightly as possible to capture the fossil and wrap the wire around it to close your frame together

12/06/2023

My fossils didn’t shine up in the tumbler, it will get the junk off of them and round some edges, but these fossils are softer than rocks. You can’t tumble hard rocks with softer fossils. So I put epoxy resin on mine to get the shine I wanted. When the fossils are wet you can see them better, now they look wet all the time!😁

I decided to make jewelry with the fossils. I bought supplies.., wire, rings, closures, chains, and a few tools.
11/01/2023

I decided to make jewelry with the fossils. I bought supplies.., wire, rings, closures, chains, and a few tools.

10/31/2023

I went and bought a tumbler which was around 70$ at Harbor. They ALL look great! The fossils don’t polish up like a rock so some are oiled and some have epoxy covering. They look the best wet. The grinding material was 15$ for only 2 runs, I think that’s a little high , I need to check online.

This past summer I went to the UP, upper peninsula to Picture Rocks and have been tumbling ever since! The rocks were be...
10/31/2023

This past summer I went to the UP, upper peninsula to Picture Rocks and have been tumbling ever since! The rocks were beautiful! Then I went to Petosky and Charlevoix where I found fossils with the same names! They are unreal! Sooo cool !

02/24/2018

This is a video of me brushing vinegar and steel wool on my Watermill where I had to replace the batten strips on the siding. If you want to see the Koi Pond...

08/22/2017

Step Back and See Your Victories–and Your Mistakes Amidst all the sights, sounds, and smells that swirl around you when...

I have been learning wire wrapped jewelry, pretty cool.., try to see if you like it!
10/25/2016

I have been learning wire wrapped jewelry, pretty cool.., try to see if you like it!

Wire Wrapping Crash Course: a FREE 3 - part video series. Learn the basics of wire wrapping from a professional jewelry designer in this step-by-step workshop!

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