40!

No, I'm not 40, not for a long while yet. (for real) I got to 40 sales. I'm so happy. I love even numbers, and numbers that end in zero. So I have 60 items listed and 40 items sold which equals 100 items total that have passed through the shop. (actually there were others) I'm in even number heaven!

My mind is racing with ideas for Minta. I'm scavenging for possible supplies on Etsy and eBay. eBay's good for finding odd, funky things. (and selling old books for cheap) I'm trying to come up with names I like. I think I can make the loose ideas fit one of the names, instead of just winging it and stressing for a name later. Playing around with this collection is the most fun I've had with elpy yet.

And an 'old' friend emailed me yesterday. It was sooo nice to hear from her. People always say that and it sounds shallow and cheesy to me, but I mean it in the most genuine way. I told her so.

So this month is ending better than it started. A sale. A job. A collection. A nice email. It's interesting to go with the change in life instead of fighting it or hiding from it.

Minta

So I'm gonna do it. My temp job starts this week so I'll have a little bit more money. Less time, but more money. I'm going to make an aventurine-based collection. How could I not?

Foray was listed today. It feels so good to have a necklace in the shop again.

The creative life soars on. I think this is the best I've dealt with a sales drought to date. I'm happy with that part of my life at the moment, happy that I haven't quit. I've fought for this, to get here.

Post Picture: A little something, ad I guess, that I made this afternoon in Photoshop Elements. I'm really pleased with it. Got skillz! heh

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.