Finally!!

My life has been a little chaotic lately, but things settled down enough to get pictures of jewelry for a show and make up a display. It seems I don't really have much to say tonight, so I'll just post some pics for a change. Before I do that, I'd like to give a shout out to my friend Beth...thanks for the boxes!! :)







Have a lovely whatever...

Procrastination!!

My friend and I decided that we are going to do a craft show this year. It will be the first for both of us. We have to turn in an application, take pictures of our jewelry...you know the story. So what did I do this weekend?? I redecorated not one but two bathrooms!

It was bound to happen. I bought new towels this week because I was growing weary of the old ones. With the new towels came the need for a new shower curtain, then new candles, new candle holders, new artwork... you know the drill, once you get something new, you have to keep buying until everything matches. Fortunately I was able to make the decorating happen on the cheap. With some colorful tissue paper, Mod Podge, wine glasses from wineries I have been to, and some jewelry box lids I was able to make candle holders and some wall art. I never in a million years thought I would ever decorate with decoupage...but here I am doing it!!! I did have have to purchase flowers and a vase, but they were all clearance priced. I am really quite proud of my flower arranging! I'll try to get a picture posted soon...but you know how terrible I am at getting on that...so don't look for it anytime soon!! At least I got something done in my procrastination!! I have always been a very productive procrastinator!!

Dr. Horrible!!!

This is wonderful!! A must see. You only have until Sunday the 20th to watch!!

Ahhhh numbers!

I am one of those freaks that loves creative stuff AND numbers. I love spreadsheets like excel. Normally I create my own spreadsheets, but when I googled to help me get info on a formula I was wanting to come up with I came up with an etsy store JJMFinance.etsy.com what a welcome site this was!! He already had the spreadsheet I was going to make! He saved me so much time and effort! I am so pleased with the Jewelry Raw Material Manager. Its fantastic!

I am currently in the process of numbering all of my beads and entering them into the spreadsheet. This is a long arduous task, but it will be so worth it when I am done!! I wish I had done something like this years ago...it wouldn't have taken so long. So, what you do is give your beads, chain, wire, whatever supplies you have a number, then when you make something, you just put the numbers in the formula and it gives you the price of the item! This is exactly what I wanted, without all the headache of actually have to create it myself.

Here are a few screen shots from JJMFinance.etsy.com Click on picture to enlarge.









He makes all kinds of spreadsheets for running your etsy business and not just for jewelry either. You can tailor them to whatever your craft may be.

Now Necklaces!

For some reason I have never really made that many necklaces. I don't know why really...I guess because I enjoyed making bracelets so much. Well, that is not the case now!! Over the past few weeks I have been ultra inspired...in all things. I have made lots of necklaces, bracelets, earrings and pendants. I even made a necklace with gold in it!! I have recently made a purchase of fine silver and brass wires so I may soon be making stuff with that as well. Of course I have a tendency to not use a new item for awhile after I first use it...so it may be awhile! Here are some recent new items on Etsy




The two are both out of my comfort zone...I am trying to make things that are different. These definitely fall into that category!

I have more items to post, but I am having problems with photography. Hopefully I'll get some more up soon!

Bobby

I Tivoed the movie Bobby this morning, and I am currently watching it while deciding what to create next. I had to come comment on it, because I am only a half hour into the movie, and I just want to know who isn't in this movie!!! I don't think I have ever watched a movie with this many stars in it! Ok...that is all I wanted to say! Have a lovely Sunday.

UPDATE: After watching the movie I have just one thing to say...WOW!

Pendant Craze!

I have started a new craze of late... making pendants. I go through phases, right now its the pendant phase craze...or the pendant craze phase (PPC or PCP) I shared the PMC pendant I made last week, this past week I have been making glass pendants, and today I have been making pendants out of building blocks I bought from TheLittleChickenCoop.



Aren't these blocks the coolest? Right now I am kind of limited on what I can do with them, but I'll be getting out the trusty dremel soon...I'll soon be making a lot more than pendants!

I'll get around to taking pictures to share soon!