February 13, 2013: second sale!
Sunday, 17 February 2013 05:44It looks a little sad when the posts are two months apart, but hey, I made my second sale the other day! It was a great birthday present, too. Speaking of which (if anyone happens to see this), everything in my shop is currently 23% off with the coupon code BDAY2013 for at least a couple more days.
The box is a little chocolate box from the $1 bins at Target that I painted matte black with as much texture as possible. I used a little piece of black scrap fabric to wrap the jewelry. Forgot to tie the box with a charm, though. :/
December 1, 2012: first sale!
Wednesday, 12 December 2012 22:15
I made the box really quickly out of scrap cardboard (currently being stored behind my couch), newspaper (mostly maps) and Mod Podge. The leaf charm is plastic and came in a fairly enormous order of charms I got off etsy, not realizing the majority of them were cheap and plastic. But now I think I have a use for (some of) them!
Made my first sale the other day! Okay, almost 2 weeks ago by this point, but it's pretty much the most exciting thing that's happened since then, so here it is. :) Not gonna lie, I was pretty thrilled.
November 12, 2012: tons of triangles
Thursday, 15 November 2012 03:47
Technically this one took me MONTHS to finish, but most of those months were spent with it sitting in a tray and me staring at it frustratedly... I finally decided to call it finished the other day, though. I'm pretty happy with it! Each little wire-wrapped triangle was sort of a pain in the ass to do, but it was worth it... I think.
The major problem was probably that I'd originally imagined it much more massive and jumbled, but this is a decent compromise. I would've spent entirely too much time on it otherwise, I just can't quite afford to spend so much time on one necklace yet. Hopefully in the near future I'll have the time and resources to make some enormously massive necklaces! ;)
November 8, 2012: turquoise chandelier necklace
Friday, 09 November 2012 18:32
Pretty pleased with this one... it took a while to finish, but it was worth it I think. The only major downside is that the chain with the little curved links kind of sucks, and catches and twists on itself if the necklace is bumped around too much (especially if it's dropped or something). Normal wear shouldn't be too hard on it, though. At least I used up almost all of that chain on this necklace, haha.
November 4, 2012: antiqued silver rose hand piece
Thursday, 08 November 2012 22:04Finally, something that's not a necklace!!
I'm really pretty happy with this one, and kind of attached to it since it's the first hand piece-thing I've ever made. Did you know another name for them is "slave bracelet?" How shitty is that? I mean, I understand where it came from, but still... kinda not cool? I don't know, I even can't help but sort of cringe at the fact that "master" and "slave" hard drives are named that way...
Anyway, I like this one quite a bit. It's an old broken broach that I got at the awesome local Bead-It here in Austin. The little broken broach mechanism bits sort of dug into the back of my hand so my roommate Lander sliced them off with his ultra-sharp wire cutters (which are about 9,000x better and sharper than mine, haha), then I filed it down some more. So thanks Lander! :)
I also realize it's intended to be covered in little rhinestones, but rhinestones aren't generally my favorite thing and I really like how it looks without them.