I recently mentioned that I had come across a blog with a whole lot of great tips for helping your home crafting business. Well, one of the tips was to stage your photos and make them more interesting. It will be more work than what we’ve been doing, but I…
I’ve always been against making trendy things. Mostly because a lot of what’s in style is stuff that I don’t like. When you’re creating things, you do have to appeal to the audience, but if you’re making things that you don’t love and believe in, it comes through in the…
I was thinking the other day about how long I’ve been crafting. It’s really no surprise that I want to do it for a living, I’ve been at it for so long. It’s something that I was introduced to at a very young age, and I’ve been crafting in some…
Some time back, last year I think, I ordered some silver Om charms on Etsy. I wanted to make a japa mala and I wanted to have an Om hanging from the center. I couldn’t order just one, so as you can see in the photo, I have spares. I’ve…
It doesn’t happen to every crafter, but for a lot of us, the work that we do leaves our hands in pretty sorry shape some days. Maybe your skin is dry from washing off paint, clay or plaster. Maybe you have cuts and pokes from needles or wire. Maybe you…
I’ve made mention of my desire to find and work with the hematite and gold crucifix that I had, and here it is. I finally found where I’d put it, and I decided on a selection of beads to go with it. I was going to make an actual rosary…
It’s been a very long time since I did any plaster work, but when I was last at the craft store with some high discount coupons I decided to buy a roll of plaster. I knew that I still had my old mask molds, so it seemed like a good…
I was feeling a bit down today and had to take some time away from work to get my head straight. After some talking and thinking I decided to work on a project. It’s not for profit, this one is for charity. I have quite a bit of yarn in…
I had my mind on reclaiming materials last night, and also on Game of Thrones, so it’s not surprising (to me at least) that I came up with a way to take leftover acrylic nails from a manicure kit and turn them into dragon scale jewelry. These actually look cooler…
Well, there’s my latest project. Sorry for the photos being so yellow, the camera hates me. They’re really pretty though. I love the way that they came out. I had a bin of amber colored beads (on the back of the earring) and there wasn’t enough to do much, so…
Ah, they’re done! It’s not the greatest photo, but I think these are gorgeous! I’m actually tempted to keep them for myself! Blue is my favorite color after all. So, these are done with glass seed beads, glass bugle beads, some larger matching glass beads, black Nymo thread and gold-tone…
Well, the variegated blue tablet case is now done. That makes three cases done. I really hope people will like these. They’re not that hard to make, just time consuming. They take about three hours each. Crocheting in rounds is fairly easy, it just takes a while to make enough…
This weekend I was able to get something that I’ve been wanting for a long time: a new wire jig. Some years back I got one of those cheap plastic jigs because I wanted to learn to do wire work and I was fairly broke. It served me well for…
Today I’m going to be finishing up the variegated blue tablet case that I started last week. I would have done it sooner but my hands really needed a break. I probably should have snapped a new photo though, since I’ve decided not to go with the blue as…