New Pin

Monday I got my first inquiry about doing a wholesale order for my shawl pins. I am elated. I kind of hoped when I got the idea to make them and how cute they were turning out that something might come along like that. I've been working on getting a color/sample pack together to send to them which was my idea. I thought it would be nice for someone wanting to purchase them in bulk to see what all the colors of clay I have look like in person and a sample. Tonight I should be finishing that up and getting it off in the mail tomorrow.

While doing that I created another one that looks like a bumble bee. I haven't figured out exactly what type clay creation to use on the closure, I'm thinking of trying to make a hive but I just didn't have time last night to play, so I'm using a purple flower one from another pin for the picture.

Quick Post - Shawl and Pendants

Last night was busy. I finished up that shawl and am going to try and get good pictures of it in natural light when I get home from work today. The pictures I took last night are horrible. I plan on making another I just don't know if it will be in black or a medium, sort of country blue.

After finishing the shawl I decided to start working on wire wrapping some stones to make pendants. There's a rumor (and it's pretty much been decided just don't know the actual date) that we will be having a craft fair where I work. It's supposed to be sometime in May and I want to have a decent stock of pendants. So for now these are getting created but probably won't be listed. I'm not sure because May is still more than a month away and I have more than enough stones waiting to be wrapped.

This first one is one of the labradorites I received the other day. It's not the huge one I was talking about but it still is a very nice stone and has a beautiful green glow.


The next one is a really long piece of charoite. It also has these really great gold colored rutiles on one of the sides that I think gives it character.

Almost Friday

I have been busy as of late. Yesterday some more pendants came in that I'm using for my flower pendants. I worked up a couple last night and they turned out pretty nice. I found an easier way to do the base background by using clay. It works really well for the oval and circle pendants plus the dried flowers embed into it better. One of the issues I've found with using the paper type backgrounds and no way to really secure the flowers is that while the resin is drying the flowers will start to try and float, which you really don't want because then there's not a smooth finished surface.

I also received some more patterned wire in this shipment. I bought some more of the flower/spiral design and also picked up some that is about the same thickness but about have the width. It will make a very nice pair of thinner hoops I think. But, I'm not even working on those until this weekend. Also in the mail were two labradorite stones. One is huge and absolutely beautiful. It has the neast blue and gold flame. Usually with labradorite when you hold it one way it will flash one color and when you shift the position of it it will flash another color. This stone will flash both blue on one area and gold in another area at the same time. It is really quite stunning.

Tonight I'm finishing up a dark red shawl I've been working on . It is a bit more intricate than the one I posted before and instead of the usual triangular shape this one is a half circle. I was a bit worried that it would take me longer than it has when I first started it but it picked up towards the end so I'm really pleased with how it turned out. As always, pictures of everything are soon to follow.

Supplies!!!

Today I was expecting some supplies to come in that I've been blogging about. When I went to check my mail I saw that BOTH had arrived. Yay! I've spent most of the afternoon and evening playing. The thing I'm working on requires setting of 24 hours so I'll see tomorrow how they really turned out. I'm a little leery and glad that I didn't choose some of the more expensive pendants to start out with in case these end up being eh. I know at least one turned out good so far but it will be interesting to see what it looks like when they are completely set. I know the suspense must be killing you to know what it is. ha ha. Yeah right. Still, I'll be posting pictures tomorrow night of my results.

Speaking of pictures, here is one of the shawl that I did this weekend. The yarn is an alpaca acrylic blend and it is soooooo soft.
I also bought some turquoise stones today for wire wrapping. I was hesitant in buying them because I have spent quite a bit buying stones this weekend and was a bit mad at myself for missing out finding these beauties. I told myself when I found them that if I made a sale I'd buy them. Sure enough when I got home from work I saw an e-mail from etsy notifying me of a sale so I figured it must have meant I was suppose to have them.

I love clay

During my long weekend I spent a lot of time working on making shawl pins. They turned out totally awesome and there's a possibility I might be able to show them at my local knit shop which would be awesome. I'm really happy with them though. They've turned out better than I thought they would which is always an added bonus. Here's a photo of my ladybug one that I have listed on etsy...