Continue 3.22

The posts came yesterday, from Hong Kong, for my Acute earrings. So today I listed the black ones. I'm trying to list more frequently.

I'm trying to do a lot of things. I don't really want to go into all of it...or any at all. I'll make it. Thinking, hoping, that I'll be better because of this keeps me going. I didn't have that hope before. I'm not good with drama.


Post Picture: Finished Acutes lined up across my box top. I was so happy to snap those posts on. Yeah! Flickr link there.

Just a Peek- Foray

I seriously love that pic. It's a severe crop of a larger pic, but it's just perfect to me. Again, my camera suprises me. So tempramental. Plus, I think the LCD screen is going. Everything looks slightly out of focus on it...unless you magnify it. So that slows down the arduous picture-taking process. Good thing I've found a place to take pics that is less frustrating than most things I've tried.

Foray is a replica of a necklace that I made for my aunt. Having a pattern to follow made this one easier to construct than the first. But I still had to restring it a few times, partially because I'm a little bit of a perfectionist other because I would drop the string and beads would fly everywhere.

I'm considering making a little aventurine-based collection. I have about 4 vague ideas and already have this necklace and earrings. I think I have a name for the collection, but that I'm not about to share.

I know I've said it before, but it's always so cool to me how new ideas, sparks others. Also the creative life is helping distract me from, well, other things.

Now 3.20

I have to projects going on at the same time. I could make it three, but I'd like to get a little further along in one first. They're both jewelry so it's good. One's a duplicate necklace...I think. The other is a bracelet. I want it to be a necklace, but I think if I make a bracelet first I can get a feel for what I'm trying to do. I can't sketch it because it's rather chaotic. It could look really nice, or really amateurish. I'll have to see...if I ever stop undoing it.

Post Picture: My arm. The self-portrait I like best from today. I've taken (in more than one sense) to wearing a bracelet that was once my mom's. Her college boyfriend gave it to her, like when she was in college. I just think it's cool. It looks like a bent nail. Tinted and stuff in PSE. Flickr link.

Current

I'm destashing. That's an Etsy term for selling supplies even if you're not strictly a supplies shop. It was unintentional. I was cleaning up my room where my supplies are stored. Sometimes I couldn't help but smile, remembering the projects that some of the things were intended for. Some finished, some never started. Others I just way over-bought with no desire to make any more of whatever it was...as is the case with those bells. I made stockings out of felt as part of my Christmas gifts to some family members a few years ago. The cat sat on the leftover felt, ruining it with her super-shedding self. So I have bells and faux fur left. Not sure if I'll list the fur.

It's rainy here. Cold and rainy. If I ever complain about the heat this summer, just point me back here. Goodness, I'm so over cold. *sigh*

:)

Notes

Goodness, where has my writerly inspiration gone? I can think of nothing to say, rather can only report, that I listed today, relisted and listed. Quite pleasing.

I'm really liking my Box Top Photography pics. I took some more pics of supplies. I'm liking how I can play with that surface, move it around, walk around it, more easily than I can a table or some such thing. It's more portable, I can take it to where the light is best. Unfortunately, it only works for small items. I have a lot of those, but I like to use colorful backgrounds, especially for the magnets.

As for my personal challenge to complete an item everyday, I'm faltering, though today is not over yet. Last week yielded 4 pairs of earrings. (only one is listed, the rest need posts) So far, nothing this week. But I did photograph supplies that I'd been putting off for a while.

Post Picture: It's a pretty little setup in sepia (thanks to Photoshop) of a gift box with this magnet in it. I seriously adore the picture. If/when I get my own off-Etsy website, this will be on it somewhere.