One Earring at a time

Tonight I was thinking about my life(my creative life) and how much both of my life's(personal) interact.   I love the creative side and it brings me pleasure and sometimes pain.   I use my creative side to make extra money and hopefully build my business to be self-supporting.  Until now I did not know that I created just to be.  I have fixed broken jewelry, given advice, helped fellow vendors with support, information, displays.   There was a time when I thought of nothing else.   I sought to have a balance in my life(personal).  It is not good to concentrate so hard on something, that you lose sight of yourself and what is around you.   So I sit here typing away and looking at some beads on my night stand.   I need to have a balance in life(creative) as well.   I need to make some jewelry and get more organized since I am back to work.    I have all the makings to make money, make myself happy and those around me.   Tonight I am going to deal with money(my creative side).   I can spend all day on the computer and blogging, reading, answering emails and such, but I need the inventory to make a difference.   So I will start with one earring at a time.  This weekend I intend to reorganize my stockpile and start remaking some jewelry.   Along with this idea, I will be using my paper crafts to accompany my jewelry or to sell alone.  I will not sit down until I have finished reorganization, re purpose, restyle all my projects and inventory.


Here is a look of some of my earrings.  Looks like a good start to me.


Brown tubing with cowrie shells



Turquoise spring disc



African beads and Wood



Wine metal and shells



Cowrie shell and twine






Recreations

I love to reinvent jewelry, clothes, shoes and any accessories.   This is one of my favorites.  I found the beads and made the necklace, but it took me a while to find the right center piece.  Along came the red heart and a new necklace was born.   But to my dismay, nobody brought this piece.  They loved the color and thought it was cute, but no takers.   Maybe I put more of me into the necklace and not enough of what someone else would like.  So I decided to change the look.  This piece went from a necklace to a bracelet.  Here is the necklace.

Here is the bracelet.



Red, RED, red



Looks a little different.  I didn't add or take away any beads.  I just loaded the beads on to some memory wire and put the center piece toward the bottom of the bracelet.  Now maybe it will get some attention.   I know it has caught me eye, again.  You can find this piece and many other's that I put my spin on at my Etsy Store.   Stop by to see my creations and recreations.

Picture This

It was a lovely vacation.  I went to see my family and hopefully work on old contacts and line up some new shows.    Now that I am at home, I need to get back to the task at hand and make some more jewelry.   First, I need to add my completed pieces on my Etsy Store.   For some reason, every picture I tried to take came out a little fuzzy.  I made adjustments and still, fuzzy.   I asked my camera what was the problem and all I got was the silent treatment.  Camera always has an attitude.   I asked my lights was their problem.  I got some mumbo jumbo.  I always suspected they were a little dim.   So here I am at my dining room table, trying to find a way to get this pictures on my site.  I had investigated this idea before about building a light box, but some of tutorials seem so complicated.  I thought I would give it one more try.   I found the one site on You Tube.   Naturally I typed in home mad light box and this is the video I found and liked.  Simple construction.

So I went out and brought the materials, and I only spent $8.00.   I came home and went to work.   Now I am very proud of my homemade light box.  Very proud and sensitive.  I have not tried it yet, but I will tomorrow.  I will show you the result in another post. One more thing.  I had watched other videos and they suggest adding strips of white board to cover up the cardboard on the inside.  I opted not to do that step.   If I see that I need to add the additional white board, then so be it.    You be the judge of how my light box looks compared to the tutorial.


This is the inside of the complete box



This is a side shot after I inserted the poster board


 

This is bottom of the light box.  It doesn't look pretty.   I will try better next time



This is one of the opening for the light box.  Per the instructions on the video, I cut two more opening, top and the other side.