Tuesday's Creation
Today/Wednesday's Creation: flowers in planters on my front porch! While this project was very different from my normal jewelry-related Thing-a-day activities, I think it counts :) What do you think?
Thursday
Just dropping in to post pics of my TAD (thing-a-day) creations for Thursday and Friday of this week. As you can see from the earrings I made on Thursday and from this week's "Smu's Friday Finds" post I've been stuck on the color yellow lately. I must be craving sunshine :)
Yellow is the color of the day! I've sold several yellow items this week and wanted to devote this week's "Friday Finds" to some "Sunny" Etsy items :) I found so many beautiful yellows I had to alter this week's format a bit to fit them all in. Match the pics in the grid above to the links below:
Here are my Thing-a-Day creations for Monday (above) and Tuesday (below). One great thing that has come out of the Thing-a-Day challenge is the variety it has inspired in my crafting lately :) While I am still focused primarily on jewelry I have also reconnected with my love of yarn! I'm now considering selling my crocheted phone/gadget pouches in my brand-new "destash" etsy shop, CraftUtopia!
On Saturday I broke out my crochet hook and finished another phone/gadget pouch adorned with two pink and white glass beads :)
Happy Friday blog readers! I've gone in a different direction with today's TAD (Thing-a-day) creation, crocheting this beautiful blue iPhone/gadget pouch. Once the crocheting was done I added a bead to each end of the drawstring and Voila! Finished :)
Today's thing a day creation is a bracelet to match the "There's a Parrot on My Shoulder" necklace I made earlier this month. The full set (including earrings) will be on display at the Art of Fashion event in downtown Raleigh, NC on Monday night!
It's a Giveaway! Enter by 3/31/2010 per the instructions below to win this cute little zipper pull charm from SmuTopia Jewelry!
Today's thing-a-day creation is a brass chain bracelet with a polymer clay "goddess bead" in a lentil shap with rich texture on both sides. The bead was created by JKDJewelry.
Today's Thing a Day creation is this sea-inspired necklace featurikng a slice of creamy pink seashell paired with antiqued brass chain and findings. The focal shell was purchased on my vacation to the Outer Banks of NC last summer :)
It's been a crazy Friday getting ready for tomorrow's show (my first of the year) but now that the car is packed I'm playing around with some new creations. The brass and mother of pearl necklace pictured here is today's TAD (thing a day) creation and will be on sale tomorrow at the Designers Downtown Market in Raleigh.
Today's TAD (Thing a Day) creation was designed around the one large faceted citrine rondelle left over from the cutom order necklace I made earlier this week and will be one of the last items I'll make before my first craft show of the season, this Saturday's Designers' Downtown Market in Raleigh, NC. I will, of course, make at least one more item for tomorrow's TAD :)
Today's creation happened in on those "Ah-Ha!" moments where I glanced down at my materials and suddenly and the images in my head re-combined into an image of the finished product (this is the best way I can descibe those rare moments when I am struck by a bolt of inspiration). I was so happy with how it turned out (and the pics I snapped when the sun came out) that I've already completed listing it on Etsy, in what is assuredly a record turn-around for me from creation to listing :)
Today as part of the TAD (Thing a Day) challenge I've crafted a pair of brass and stone earrings that coordinate with Saturday's "There's a Parrot on my Shoulder" necklace. They remind me a little of jellyfish.....one of my software-developer-type co-workers suggested a similar pair of earrings also looks like the imperial interstellar probe from the original Star Wars movies :) What do you think?
Today's TAD (Thing a Day) creation is a project that has been sitting half-finished on my ottoman for weeks (there are lots more half-finished creations hiding in my craft room) that I finally picked up to finish while watching spring training baseball today :) First--I don't have the crocheting stamina I used to (had to take a break part way through to rest my hand!). Second--WOOHOO, baseball is back!
Special thanks to my friend Holly for modeling :)
I've had the idea for this for quite some time (as well as the materials) and finally sat down to finalize the design late last night. Since I made the necklace after midnight I'm counting it as today's TAD (thing a day) creation :)
So today's TAD (Thing-a-Day) project was FAR more ambitious than yesterday's :) I've completed a custom order designed around a specific outfit for an online customer--we had previously agreed on the materials (mainly citrine stones, honey-colored czech glass, and obsidian with a gold shimmer/flash in combination with antiqued brass chain and findings) an d I have just sent pictures of the finished necklace to the customer for feedback. Hope she likes it!
Inpsired by my EtsyTwitter Teammate Amanda of GeekDetails, I've decided to take up the "Thing a Day" challenge and commit to creating something on a daily basis (and posting the results!) Today I've started small--I ran home on my lunchbreak and made this cute little zipper pull charm. Let me know what you think!
Evergreen - AA peridot on oxidized sterling silver
iPhone or cell phone sleeve
