Very Cool!

Well it has happened... I have made my blog universe debut! I am happy and flattered to be involved in a Eclipse based blog event over at truthbetoldblog.com.

Val, who authors the site, is an awesome person and she takes that awesomeness to a new level because, YES, she's a Twilight fan. ;) The blog regularly features reviews about different products that are eco-friendly/green and she constantly is doing give-aways for her readers. From her profile info, she is also a single Mom and a full-time college student so my hats off to her... Put those life items with running a popular blog and it is safe to say, she works HARD and she does it with grace and professionalism.

From June 14th to June 28th truthbetoldblog.com is running an 'Eclipse Blog Bash' where folks who create Twilight inspired items will be featured daily... I personally can't wait to see what other crazy Twilight fans out there have been makin'! Should be a great couple of weeks and again I thank Val for including me in this fun event. Check there (and here) frequently to see when I make my appearance. June is going to be a FAB month for soooooo many different reasons!

Great Day!!

I love it when things go my way in the world of craft... Today alone I finished designing the give away pins I'm making for Twihards in Utah (I'll explain later!), worked on a graphic style image of His Holy Hotness (it now graces the wallpaper on my phone) and I did some successful tests with little ceramic houses I'm working on. Psh... Who needs glaze! This is my first phone upload to blogger so I promise to back track and explain soon. I'll leave you with the artsy eye candy that now greets me everytime I check my phone.



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Renegade Craft Fair

So I stumbled across this while surfing... I know all about Renegade Craft Fairs but have never been... Maybe this is the year!

Catchin' Up

OK... So what happened with the last Etsy Showcases? Nuttin' really. That's Ok though. It's still worth the $15.00 a pop to see the Google Analytics buzz. I feel like that's kind of old news since I haven't posted in a while.

Things were very busy for me on a professional level during the last month as I'm trying to get my National Boards for teaching. Luckily the work that I had to gather for that is over (for the moment) and hopefully it will be what they were looking for to be able to wave me on to the stages. We shall see...

Most recently I have been working on just a couple of things... I'm going to try to show them through a slide show, so let's give it a whirl...

Cool! I think it may have worked... The pictures are of recent work that I have made. The Hoop Embroidered piece was for Amanda for her BIG 30th birthday. She seemed to like it and hopefully it will bring happiness to their home. :) The Felt Sketchbook is an 'original' idea of mine. I kinda quote the word original because I know that there have been books made like this before. But this one is of my own design. It's a prototype so there are some minor flaws. Overall I'm very happy with it. It uses cast off paper from a project that I do at school so it's nice to see that paper that would normally get trashed, go to good use. The sketchbook could be made with fabric but the felt cut out a couple of steps and that's always a great thing! I'm hoping to try this one again and get closer to the perfection the I invision. Also my first time using the little eyelets and the pearl snap.

More stuff coming on the horizon and I have some news about '30 Days of Edward Cullen' that has given me not only the Craft Nod of Approval but also the Twilight Fan Nod of Approval! This one is developing so you'll have to stay tuned. ;)

I'm Ready!! Promotion!!

Sponge Bob said it best so we reinvent what's happening for me tomorrow... I'm ready for my promotion spot on Etsy's Main Showcase page! And this time in more way than one. Last time I didn't have Web Analytics set up so I'm prepared to see the board light up.

I've made some additions to the shop which hopefully will be fun...

Above is a wire wrapped ring... My new fun and easy thing to do. I made the bead out of clay, glazed it and then added the wire. I have more ideas that could work around this theme too.

This is another version of the blue ring except I used a different color and shaped bead.

Twilight mania continues and as promised, the favors I made for The Twilight Game Night Party are now in my Etsy shop. We'll see how it goes. Above is a one inch button. Just fun and iconic. I love them. Hopefully others will too.

Ahhhh! The bookmark! I'm particularly proud of this one because I came up with the tag line. The silhouette is recognizable as Edward's life sized cut out from the Twilight movie but the rest of it is mine. It makes me chuckle and it is soooo true! I keep praying for Midnight Sun to be published. I got my wish that Bella's Bedspread came back into production from Target sooooooo maybe...... One can hope anyways!

Here's the other part of the poop scoop... I want to add more info to the blog today but sometimes I can't stand using Blogger! And today is one of those days!! I'm not stupid... I'm pretty good with technology but for whatever reason Blogger consistently adds more spacing between images and text and when you add more photos they always go to the top which throws all the spacing off again.. It's very frustrating!

I think I may end up doing Flickr slideshows and then do a long text explanation or something because it's just too much work to blog here and I want a better experience.

I promise to rise from the ashes here and report about tomorrow's and Sat.'s (?) showcases but for now I am tired and off to put pics on Flickr. Thanks for listening!!!

Woot! Woot! Edward has left the building! (Little Edward anyways..)

Hooray! Just when I least expect it, a SALE through my Etsy shop!! Love ya, love ya!! And LOVE your choice of what to pick up!

I started calling this wristlet 'Little Edward'. This little guy's Papa is of course '30 Days of Edward Cullen' which I have yet to find a home for but it will happen! Little Edward is going to live in Kentucky with a lovely woman who I am sure will take great care of him. Enjoy it as much as I enjoyed making it! I've already got another sibling to this wristlet in the works so you can look for him soon. I kinda want to strike while the iron is hot with 'Twilight Saga: Eclipse' coming out this summer... Oh yeah... And did I mention I have a raging Twilight addiction so it's never a problem to keep these in good supply. :)

A good day and a nice surprise indeed!

On the horizon, I've been thinking about a Spring handbag (saw great Amy Butler fabric at a local shop) and of course I need to make my 'Pay It Forward Handmade' items that I signed up to create via Facebook. Lots of people around me are buzzing about that one so it should be a lot of fun... Hmmmm. Maybe after this one cools off I could persuade some of the players to do a themed art swap? Waaaayyyyy of on the horizon though.

Good Productive Day

It was a pretty good day in the crafting/other world universe... I mananged to book two spots on Etsy's showcase area. One will be for the Main Showcase and the other will be for the Spring Showcase. The second one I bought on an impulse as I couldn't stand to know that in about two minutes time there would be no spots left... I'll admit it... I was on a little bit of a high because of the competitive nature of getting the spots!
These are good things bc it will force me keep making items, coming up with new ideas and trying to improve my etsy shop. I really do enjoy it all.
I also had time to do some clay work this afternoon which was great. No pics right now but I'm sure some will find their way here soon.
Finally, to make my Curriculum layout/review/planning/pain in the butt, (whatever you want to call it) more bearable I went ahead and created some planning sheets so maybe when I work on this stuff (which at times can get kinda heavy) at least I'll get to look at pretty paper. How can that not be inspiring!

I have 36 days that I need to plan for and then I also created an 'Ideas' page that is the same layout. Again, anything to make this process more exciting. :)