Monthly Archives: January 2009

Motivate Me!

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I’m just like a lot other people. Sometimes the motivation to reach big goals goes right out the window. Last year, as I was putting my online craft selling self together, I stumbled across Thing-A-Day. The premise is to make something every day for the month of February. I did it last year, more or less, and signed back up this year! You can see what I did in Feburary of 2008 by looking at my entries on TAD from then.

Triskellian

The picture has nothing to do with the post, really, except that it’s one of the things I made this week. A customer asked for a cane of her graphic which was a simple triskellian. I quite like it.

Anyways, if you need a kickstart to meet your productivity goals come join us on Thing-A-Day 2009! It’s a good way to start a new and positive habit.

Bowl Goal: Beads in the Morning

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Back to the bead making the last week or so. There are actually several bowls this size in works but this was the only dry, baked, one at hand!

Beads in the Morning

The window I do my photos by has a west exposure. I get good, clear sun at about 11 am in the winter but as you can see from the shadows, it’s very high contrast. Usually I shoot my photos in a light box but the bowls don’t fit! I may end up having to invest in a ‘real’ one soon.

Winter 2009 Giveaway

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Bloggy Giveaways is doing it again – it’s regular, it’s quarterly, it’s fabulous – so I am too. Pretty much the same terms as last time, too! I’ll just format it better this time.

The Giveaway:

To Enter:

  • Take a look at my shops: my Etsy bead shop, my Etsy clay cane shop, my ArtFire shop or my web shop
  • Then come back here and leave me a piece of constructive advice (or even just a comment). Last time I got such good advice, it was incredibly helpful!
  • Some ideas are: colour or subject suggestions for my beads or canes, finished jewelry ideas, photography hints, spelling errors, basically anything to let me know  you had a look! If you have questions about my work feel free to email me, I am always happy to spread the polymer clay love.
  • You do not need to leave your email in the comment. When you fill the form part in, your email is required but will remain private.

To Win:

  • After 6pm my time on Friday (that’s 8pm EST) January 30, I’ll pick a random number. The person with the corresponding comment will get an email from me.
  • If I don’t get a reply by Monday, I’ll redraw.

How to Have Even More Fun:

  • Check out the insane amount of free, cool stuff being offered during the carnival by visiting the carnival often.

Good luck and thanks ahead of time for your help in making this work!

Boxes

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I recently changed my web shop’s categories to allow shopping by colour which is pretty cool to me. I then had a small brain wave. Why not organize my pieces like that OFFLINE? I mean, they all lived in boxes before hand but it was somewhat haphazard and I waffled continually about what would go where.

Now, the boxes are arranged by my colour codes: top left is the yellow & orange and red & pink, below it are the blue & green and purple, to the right are the black & white and brown & neutral (plus cane components that usually live elsewhere).

My Boxes

The box with the bags in it is where my unlisted beads go and the bags are labeled the same as the canes: blue & green, purple, yellow & orange, pink & red, black & white and brown & neutral. So much simpler.

The Shop: Cane Edition

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The week has been beautiful here. Warm weather, west winds and melty snow everywhere. We are due for the Return of Winter quick enough so maybe that’ll get me to buckle back down and make beads. This week is all about canes instead, with lots of bright springy colours:

The juicy fruit pieces make adorable slice beads and this is my last set of these for now. I’ll make more for the spring I’m sure, as they are some of my favourites.