Wow! The warm weather snuck in while I was busy I guess. The Claychicks offerings of the week on Ebay certainly work for sunny days or sunny daze:
is my collection of six petal pointy tips.
There’s a whole new batch of stuff heading on to Claychicks USA for stocking on the shelves of our Etsy store.
Tooaquarius.com is one part of my creative efforts. Web stuff is the rest. Tooaquarius is going to get some updates over the next two days to test new software written for the web stuff so there may be some… bugs.
In particular, the shop and gallery sections may change frequently and not work.
Wish me luck!
There was a craft fair this weekend – small, local, spring craft fair. It wasn’t the venue for any of my pricier vessels (or anything, it turned out, but that is another story). So I pulled a few handfuls of beads from the tubs of them that live in the Land of Beads (aka. the second shelf in the craft pantry) and made things. At small shows I usually set out several baskets of beads and then a few dozen small jewelry items as samples of what you can make with them.
Here are some simple earrings, with the simplest of clay slice beads. Some are from Kathi’s lovely pacific northwest canes. The rest are from my instant bead canes.
2007 is my year for self-improvement. I picked up a few ambitious projects – such as my Year of Clay – and part of any project is marking off the milestones.
On the right hand side I made a simplistic little graphic for one of my goals: 5000 beads by the end of the year. I started with 1000 but I finished that by March! So i picked a bigger number.
I’m being generous – it doesn’t matter if it’s a meticulously sanded layered floral bead or a very simple slice bead. In this case, quantity and marking it off is what matters!
Some of my other clay related project-goals include 100 canes, another art doll, entering the PCC challenge, 5 craft shows, another 5 tutorials, 100 pieces of finished jewelry… dozens of things. It’s on a list above my desk and I take great joy in savagely crossing them off.
So, what are you claying towards?
In high school, I started making daisy chain bracelets and necklaces from seed beads to sell at the craft sales I went to with my grandmother. I made hundreds over those few years. Then, college and baby hit and I moved on to other jewelry crafts.
The other day I saw a piece made from the good ol’ daisy chain. My fingers were itching for my seed beads. Of course, these days I have clay daisies…
