Now on to some more successful crafting

Thanks for the love on my resin projects. I’ve been working on stuff for the shop, so those little bits will turn into earrings, and the wooden artwork will go up too. They’re actually a papercutting I did that I mounted on a wooden board and then covered the whole thing in resin. I’ll show those in more detail later this week.

In bloggy news, I actually found myself with a couple hours in front of the computer last night and since I have managed to successfully dig myself out of most of my emails, I could make a change to the blog that’s been in my head for ages. It’s amazing how much I can get done when my studio is taken up with chemicals and my sewing machine is in the shop. I even weeded my backyard on Monday.

Now, if you click on that little tutorial tab up there just below Atti’s nose, you’ll get a very cool little streamlined page with all the tutorials I’ve written up. Each picture links to the instructions, and now you won’t have to scroll down through everything I’ve ever written. I can’t stop looking at it, I love it so much.

The challenging thing is that I had a hard time deciding what counted as an official tutorial and what didn’t. Does it have to have step by step pictures and instructions? Or is just a detailed description of what I did enough? I don’t know. I left out some projects I had previously included in the tutorial category because I didn’t think they were explained enough, and I included others I’d left out before. Honestly, I think what ends up on that page will probably depend entirely on how much I like that project.

I managed to finally finish up another work in progress that’s been over in that sidebar for forever and a day, and these will also appear in the shop in a couple of weeks.

I just adore seed beads, but I don’t often know what to do with them. I have a few books on different stitches, but I haven’t really found a way to convert that into wearable jewelry that I really like. I’ve had these beads sitting in the unfinished project pile for years now because every time I had an idea I liked I couldn’t quite make it look like what was in my head. Here we go with the lacking skills part again.

These necklaces had about four different incarnations, but I’m happy with the way they’ve finally turned out. Each ring is woven together with peyote stitch, and then bound to each other with embroidery thread.

I had intended for the whole necklace to be a series of circles woven together, but once I started I realized that I liked the look of it better as pendants.

I’m keeping the small one for myself, so the other two of these will be in the shop at the end of the month. I’m still debating on the date, but I’m thinking the 30th or 31st since I’ll be out of town the weekend before and I’d hate to not be available for questions.

I’m still working on stuff, so if anyone wants anything in particular that they’ve seen around the blog, please drop me a line and I’ll see what I can do.