Christmas is Coming

If you'd like something unique for any of the special ladies in your life, consider my jewelry. I have a large stock of already made jewelry begging to make someone happy this holiday season. If you see a pair of earrings you'd like a necklace made to match, I can do that. We can look at my selection of beads and design something special together, or you can leave it up to me. Same thing goes for finding a necklace you'd like special earrings made for. We can make it work!

Be safe and have a wonderful holiday season!

October 10, 2009 Craft Fair

The craft fair went fine. I sold 8 items. The women next to me who does craft fairs regularly told me not to feel discouraged. She said that it just happened to be a fair where people were lookers, not buyers. It was a good learning experience though. I want to work on finding something to make my jewelry truly unique from other jewelry sellers. I plan on doing more fairs, I just don't think I'll do one until I get the unique thing figured out. I'm playing around with some stuff right now and it's actually quite exciting.

My Aunt Susan's first book has been published and is available for sale. I'm so proud of her! It's the coolest thing. Her first book is called "In Search of Emily" and is a great read. I did the cover artwork and she's asked me to do covers for her other books as well, which is such an honor. You can read the first 3 chapters of "In Search of Emily" and purchase her book for $15 on her website: www.rocketdogbooks.com. You can also get a look at 2 of her books that are soon to be released.

More Pictures of Work

A couple Christmas-y ones.

Just Rememberd....

I have family visiting from California this weekend and am very excited to see them at my parents house for lunch tomorrow. I thought I'd make sure I updated everything I had on my camera and made tonight so that my aunt could take a look at them. She's been supportive of my craft work. Thanks Margaret!

I LOVE THESE! This pair is actually mine. Both beads are shell-like. The top disc bead is pink and the bottom bead is yellow-toned. Very pretty!

This pair is really pretty b/c of the two bottom beads. The blue and white bead have a shine to them that vary the shades of their color. A small teal colored bead sits on top.

Here are the metal crosses I like so much sitting over a purple bead. Cute.

These purple stones were so pretty I had to buy a strand of them. I left this stone all by itself b/c it's so beautiful.

Here is the first "fancier looking" wristlet purse that I made. It's a crinkle gold fabric that I added a shimmery pink/gold ribbon to. I wanted to start making some of the wristlets nice enough for gals to wear when they dress up. This is very simple, but pretty.

More Goodies

These are HUGE beads, but really cool. They have painted silver around carved flowers.

This is the first necklace I've made like this. The beaded wire is attached to hemp cord, which allows you to wear the necklace at different lengths by tying it where you'd like. It's pretty sweet!

This is another dragonfly necklace with blue glass beads and wooden beads....really pretty.

I really like both of these. The chandelier earrings are really pretty with the different shades of green/teal. I'm going to make a pair of these for myself. I also love these metal cross looking beads and thought that the pink teardrop pearl looked nice with it.

This earring is BIG. I saw the idea in a beading magazine and it looked really cool. The concept was to make the earring look like a Chinese lantern. The only bead I had large enough to play around with this was a big pearl. It's still fun.

There's always more to come to check back often! Take care!

Creations I Forgot About...

This is a windchime looking thing that I made. I love it. It matched the colors in our bedroom. I just don't really have anywhere to hang it yet.

Two sets of dangles I made the other night.

Here are some more of the cute little wristlet purses that I make. They're perfect for your phone, credit card, and for me, my chapstick. You just hang it on your wrist and forget about it. It's nice not having to keep track of a big 'ol purse when you're out with friends.

Some drawings I did last week. The first is my usual cherry blossom tree that I love to do. And the second is from a picture I took of my brother when we were kids. It's from one of our Door County vacations and Dan is staring out at Lake Michigan. I love this one.

More drawings and fun with stamps....hah.



More earrings. I need earrings that I can just wear day to day with my tee shirts and jeans.



The first necklace is for my sister-in-law, Natalie. The second I made last week and it's the first I've done with chain and beads.

More Creations

I made this years ago in college as an assignment in my printmaking class. It's about my grandmother's death from cancer and a car accident. It was one of the coolest things I've ever done. The first picture is paint and so is the second. The third picture is all magazine cutouts. I scanned myself and various objects....and added a filter to the photos so I could split up the various areas of color. The first picture represents the anger I had....."The Virus" is a band that I used to listen to all the time and represents the cancer well. The second photo represents the sad acceptance to it all....and the third picture is about mourning her death.
This is a collage I made years ago too. I love to cut out pictures and words out of magazines. This was in my sketchbook and I took a picture of it.
These are the same words from the collage above, just stamped. I love how the stamped letters look.
This is a bracelet that I made yesterday. I love the red wire....it's different and fun.
I've been wanting to make jewelry with ribbon for quite some time and this was my first attempt. I made it yesterday. I think it's pretty.

A while back Nate and I got a free "Sons of Anarchy" bandana from Harley Davidson for something or another. I've been holding onto it for a long time until I could figure out what I wanted to do with it. I finally used it as a giant patch on a bag that I made for myself. I love this thing! And it's an excellent show.

Let me know what you think of this stuff so far. I still have a bunch of earrings I need to get pictures of and put on here. I hope you're all well. Take care!