Fun at the Swap Meet

Rockabilly show, check. Yay for Brian Jay and The Last Call Boys!



Sweet lookin' shoes, check. My friend Reagan wore these, and they were too fantastic not to show. Look at the velvet bow!


Churros large enough to take over the world? CHECK! Megan holding our hearts delight that day. Our hearts were delighted most of the day, seeing as we found a craft supply tent and sensible socks. :)

GIVE AWAY! Woohoo!

Here is an angry donut magnet:


But what is he yelling? Leave a comment on this blog creating a fun/clever caption for the donut. After a week I will pick a winner!

Something Moldy, part two!

Taaaa Daaa!

Here it is! This is the mold and the final product! I have only pressed out red polymer, so I don't actually know if this color of DAS will crock. But what a great effect! When I string this one up I'll show you the finished necklace.

Making some angry donut magnets. They'll be up on etsy soon! They are so fun to make, when ever I finish one it cracks me up.

Something moldy

I tried an experiment, I got some DAS clay from the super craft store. Then I collected up my new fancy stamps, Sari motif style, to make molds from.


There are many mold making techniques for polymer usage. Taking old/color whoopsies clay, taking a mold, and then baking said clay. Or super fancy two part silicon mold making wonderstuff that Christi Friesen turned me on to. The list continues. I chose to work with DAS, the air dry clay. The color I meant to grab was gray, hoping that it would be less likely to get Terracotta fakey color all over my light colored polymer. But I didn't let that stop me, I just worked the clay a bit then took a negative from my stamp. Turned out pretty swell! And no creepy crocking, woohoo!

The sun went down before I could take pictures of my polymer beauties. I was too busy getting them cooked, painted, sanded and polished to stop. So no pics of the final until next week.

Saturday is Taste at the Point, do-gooding for Breast Cancer Angels! Yay!

We must help each other

I'm really excited about this coming craft fair. As a contract theatre craftsperson I don't often have one lump sum that I can give as a donation to a cause. But I can give jewelry and craft pieces for auctions, therefore doing what I love and helping out causes that are in need.

If you are in the area stop on by, support Breast Cancer Angels, eat some food, listen to some local bands and shop with some local artisans.

Time for some do-gooding.

Fixer-upper

I highly recommend this to anybody:

1: Clean out your jewelry box. Grab all the stuff you never wear anymore.

2: Call your peeps and tell them to do the same.

3: Get together and revamp.

*see below

When my friends and I got together and revamped I gave everyone a post-it and we kept a list of items we needed from the bead store. That is if I didn't have the item in my stash (<-shock and horror, not having a supply in my stock?!). Then we walked to the bead store in my borough and gathered.

This is a great way to finish projects that have been laying around forever wanting to be competed. It's really better with a gaggle of people, because you have more creative heads and more fun.

Oooh, collaborate on snacks too!

(*isn't my coffee table the raddest color!?)

What have I been doing?

Workin' on a new look.

Sooo.... I've given my jewelry a bit of umph. It's been a long time coming, I was missing something in my jewelry design. The pieces I made looked cool to me but weren't all they could be. Do you ever feel like that? Like there is a missing link in the chain of awesome? Well I sat back and thought about what exactly I wanted my pendants to look when they were actually on a person.

When I thought about stringing I panicked. Because I focus mainly on making the pendant, not finishing. As a designer (costume, jewelry, whatever) I tend to focus on the beginning of a project or a piece, get to the mid point of the project but finishing fizzles. This time finishing fizzled because I just didn't know what My Look was ultimately. Sigh.

But I started trying different chains, different arrangements and came up with this:

It's been a long time coming, but I finally feel like my look has arrived!