Leather Love
Petal Power ~ How I Mold Leather to Make My Abeba Leather Flowers
This video is a short and speedy clip of "the making" of my ABEBA Leather Flowers. What you don't see in this video is me hand cutting the petals for the flowers with a pair of sharp leather scissors, and the assembly of each to petal to form the flower. The entire process takes much longer than what I was able to capture here.
I incorporate my ABEBA Leather Flowers in a number of designs such as, my bookmarks, hair clips, clothing pins, headbands, and even on my KAMA Rings! Ariel...
You Love the Way My Leather Art is Wrapped & Packaged!
The Length of Your Bracelet is NOT Your Wrist Measurement ~ 2 Ways to Measure Your Wrist for a Custom Leather Bracelet
With every custom and semi-custom leather bracelet order received, an accurate wrist measurement is needed. There has been an occasion or two when the measurement that has been provided is not very accurate at all, resulting an email from a disappointed customer.
The mistake usually doesn't occur in the misreading of a measurement. It's made in the what that had been measured. A customer will measure the length of their favorite and well fitting bracelet, giving to me that measurement as their wrist measurement. But here's the thing, the length of a bracelet is NOT the same as your wrist circumference. They're just not. Since I cannot give...
The Pieces and the People ~ My Leather Art & Leather Work, Bespoke Clothing & Accessories
I Am Lisa Maria Cantalupo and I Make Beautiful Things With Leather ~ Art You Wear!
After two phones had crashed, I found myself scouring through all my Facebook photographs downloading as I went, trying to recover some lost images. As I was scrolling through the years and years and years of creating with leather, I was also reliving the memories that I had captured in these photos. With each image that I had thumbed through, I became more grateful to have had the...
The Story. The Motivation. The Love. Behind the Leather Art and the Artist.
All the images in this video are ones that the extremely talented photographer, Cynthia August, took of me in "my space". By placing all them together, in a video format, tells a story so much more eloquently then viewing them one at a time or reading a collection of words that have been written about me.
The story too is deeper than the obviousness of what I do and what all artists do. The story is about "the how" and "the...