The last few days have been full of driving, watching hockey, and making earrings. My daughter plays hockey on a team 100 miles away, so three days of hockey makes life pretty full. This upcoming week she has 4 days of hockey - lots of hockey and therefore lots of driving means very little time to create. But fortunately for me I have taken some time off of the day job, so I did manage to finish up some earrings.
Monday, October 31, 2011
Friday, October 28, 2011
Earrings in the Making
Early in the week I started making some earrings. I etched some metal pieces and then cut them, sanded them, filed them blackened them, polished them and drilled holes in them.
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Not What I Expected
It is Wednesday night in my part of the world. I had big plans for this week, and so far they haven't worked out. Since I have taken the week off of my day job, I planned to settle into making jewellery, - cutting metal and soldering. I like to have big time slots for these projects. And although I have had the time, I have felt under the weather the past two days, and have only done little bits of the jewellery work.
So this afternoon, I decided to work on an unfinished project that was sitting on the table, that didn't need too much energy of any type.
As I have mentioned before I live 100 miles from any stores (right now we don't even have a small grocery store, as it has closed down), and I live even further from an arts supply store (many hundreds of miles). So I buy a lot of my supplies on line. This box of art supplies arrived a while ago... and although the box was not in good shape
All 4 corners were split open. The contents were fine. I was excited to use what was inside, but the funny part was that the first thing I used was the brown packing paper that was all crinkled up inside the box.
Sunday, October 23, 2011
Catching Up
A few days ago I put up a table and started to put out all of the bits and pieces of projects I have begun but have not finished. I have a lot of them!
On the table was some luminaries in the beginning stages that needed finishing. So I finished them.....
On the table was some luminaries in the beginning stages that needed finishing. So I finished them.....
and as you can see there is a big
stack of them.
I even managed to start getting them packaged and ready for the 2 sales I will be at in November.
The packages have the tea bag luminary in
as well as a small battery operated tea light. The luminaries are packaged flat, and when ready to use are shaped into a square, and the light is put inside.
I haven't finished packaging them yet as I ran out of bags (and with the nearest store 100 miles away I will have to wait to get some more). But I am happy to have tackled something on the table. The next thing I am going to work on is jewellery making (or so I think at the moment!)
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Jewellery and Birthdays
The years have flown by so quickly, and today my older daughter turns 18 and my younger daughter turns 16.
I am so very proud of both of them.
I wanted to make them each a small gift, and so I made the 16 year old this necklace.
Ann Tatum wrote a article in the current Green Craft magazine that had a necklace made with old bits of rulers, which both I and my daughter liked. I was happy to be able to make her one with a '16' on it.
Ann Tatum wrote a article in the current Green Craft magazine that had a necklace made with old bits of rulers, which both I and my daughter liked. I was happy to be able to make her one with a '16' on it.
My older daughters necklace is made from a on old worn washer or token of some kind that had washed up on the beach when we were in Bali a few years ago, and a piece of copper that I etched.
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
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