More Bamboo Tile Necklaces

So I picked some of my favorite papers and decided to make more bamboo tile necklaces. Here are some of my favorites.
I love this one too.

And another one.

Group shot - oh and they're all gone except for two I think. Time to make some more!

Weekly Blogging

So it appears I only have time to update my blog on a weekly basis - at least for now during the summer - having the boys home isn't exactly as relaxing as I had hoped it would be. Too many things to do and so little time!

Let's see - I have hit my 50 items sold mark! Wohoo! And in just over a month. Now I know I'm not selling $50 worth of super gorgeous artwork or master jewelry pieces but hey, my goal of earning $500 to buy the button machine? I am halfway there. So yes, I am more than pleased!

I made some cup cake cards! I bought this downloadable file of cupcake images and they are too cute!

I bought a souffle sakura pen set off ebay. These markers are sooo cool! They dry puffy so it's almost like embossing pen minus the heating part. I have to try coloring these cupcakes with watercolour pencils.

Time stamp

The other day Mike asked me if I was posting on my blog at 4 am.

So I figured it out! My time setting was set to GMT Pacific. All changed now.

Hair Clips!

Covered in fabric! WOOT!

The fabric I won in ebay has arrived! My dear hubby is probably having a heart attack seeing I have posted 3 consecutive posts saying something I have ordered has arrived. Hahaha! They arrived over the last few weeks, just never had time to do anything with them.

I have been researching on how I can make these hair clips covered in fabric because I soooo love these! The buttons were from Fabricland - verrry pricey for me though. So in order for me to make some more for sale at my etsy shop, I'd have to buy them in LARGE amounts. And I mean LARGE. Which means I'd have to spend all that hard earned money in my paypal account :(

I will have to eat the cost, buy some at fabricland, deco them up and see how or if they sell at all on my etsy shop. I'll also pitch it at my friend's hair salon, maybe I'll have better luck there.

Ain't it so pretty! The buttons are 3/4" in diameter. I also made a ponytail with a larger button, 1 1/8" but that one didn't make it for the camera shots. I loved it too much I wore it already!

Lucite Earrings!

The lucite flowery beads came in! Sometime awhile ago ;) but of course, since I lack free time, I don't get to do as much crafting as I'd like. I'm sure my family will beg to differ.

Here they are! Paired with Swarovski crystals - all matchy matchy since I like to match - but why stop at the Swarovskis? I had some really cool looking pastel 4mm Czech beads which added more purtiness.

I think my favorite is pink.

Oh, and they're in Etsy

Close up shot of the pink ones:

Bamboo Tile Necklace

The bamboo tiles arrived sometime last week but didn't get a chance to do anything until a couple of days ago.
This paper really caught my eye, in dark blue/black background and white raised textures, patterns of flowers and others, I knew it was perfect for the necklace!

After applying the mod podge to adhere it, I used the triple thick layer gloss to give it a nice shine and finish.

Tada! Listed on my Etsy shop. Naturally I had to have my own too :P

So I really have no clue what type of paper it is. I have seen some etsy sellers say 'washi' and some 'chiyogami'. No idea what the difference was between the two. At the time of listing (which is everytime!), I had to rush things. Everything these days is a rush. While I love making stuff, I do wish I had more time to spend on the nitty gritty details - especially - since I am a perfectionist! As you can see, I have failed to cut this paper straight plus did I mention I love it too much? So this particular one is mine. I will have to make another one, actually a few more and list them on the shop. Anywho, I digress. My point IS - since the paper came with nothing english on it except for the price tag, and since I was in a real hurry to list this and post it (I'm sure it was Daniel waking up or could've been Cammy whining for me), no time to look up the definition, I just naturally assumed it is the chiyogami kind of japanese paper.

I guess I should verify at some point and make sure my definition is correct.

Cropping at Woodstock

This past weekend I lug my whole family to Woodstock for the Cricut weekend Swarm. What a great day! Mildly stressful having baby Daniel with me but I was really happy to have finally met all the wonderful ladies on the Cricut message board. Thank goodness Sisi came along, she helped out a lot with Daniel and she also had lots of fun! (Way too much if you ask me).
I kept reminding myself that I would take a picture of the kit I put together for the girls but naturally I didn't. The kit included the following:
8 pack 8x8 paper and embellies in 4 different themes (A Lady's world, Sugar High, Spring Time and Pretty Princess - gotta love the Dollarama)
Band Aid tin for embellishing
Mini clipboard
Mini notebook and RSVP pen (aw man I forgot to do this with them!)
Bat necklace - this was fun
Donut earrings - this was even more fun!
Slug charms - this was the funnest! 3 other ladies joined us for slug-making and Candace was high-larious!
Hair pins - aw I didn't get to do this either :(
I'm pretty sure the girls liked their kits - I know the mommies did - they were all very thankful and grateful and I really had tons of fun with the girls! We even sat down for dinner together (thankfully Daniel slept the whole dinner time).
Once photobucket is loaded with the pics, I'll post some here.

Bread Tags

I've been looking at some of the tags sold on Etsy - and thought - hey that's one way to use up my paper stash! And a reason to power up my bugs. Plus I've been wanting to use the bread tag feature on the Walk in my Garden cartridge. So here it is! A million tags run through the cuttlebug for the dry embossing sentiments along the bottom. These are perfect as gift tags - with or without the ribbon!
Wish I had more embossing folders though. Hah! Time to go shopping :)

More slugs!

It appears my slugs are too cute to pass! I've had a special order of brown and white earrings from a lady in Australia (she's so funny too) and another pair of white earrings from a gal somewhere in the US of A.

Sadly, my very first slug - the yellow chick/whale which sold in an hour after listing on Etsy - is lost in the mail :( I hope one day someday, she finds a loving home.

So what to do? Cook up some more! Sorry pic is blurry. Daniel was reaching for the camera.


These are the baby kinds, real nice and small. Next up is a charm bracelet with 5 slugs. Up for sale on Etsy. I don't wanna do this again for the price I sell it for. Wayyyy too much work.

Bat Necklace

Been wanting to do this in forever! My favorite is the pink one. I tried putting mica powders on them but that didn't work! So I left them as is.

Summer Bloom Dots

I bought a bunch of those hair snap clips in the hopes of making some clay cutesy stuff and attaching to the hair clips for sale at etsy. Problem is, the hair snap clips are too small! Just under 1.5" - I think it'll only work on wee little girls. So I have yet to figure out what to do with those.

In the meantime, I made these using the 2.5" hair pins. These are made with thicker felt flowers and snap buttons in the middle. Adhered using stinky E6000. I've been avoiding buying this adhesive forever but alas, the time has come that I really DO need it. And yet again, my silhoutte in the background.


Another shot
With bloom dots cuttlebugged card
I tried getting Cammy to model these but his hair is not long enough. AJ's is too stiff. And Daniel, well, like father like son, he doesn't have enough hair.

Not to mention they're all boys.

So needless to say, had to use me. Ignore the oil in my hair. And all the greys. My hubby says that at one time I was a hottie. At one time, a WHILE ago.

New at Etsy

I've been busy.

Wohoo! I am up to 31 sold items at my etsy shop! Boy it feels grreeaaattt! Well kind of. LOL. My most popular item is the cell phone lariat lot of 25. I think I have it cheapest at etsy. Only problem is, when I bought them, they didn't come with the split rings. So I have to put them on and they are a wee bit of a pain to put on! So needless to say, I think I will stop selling them until I get a chance to attach the split rings so it doesn't drive me nuts everytime someone orders.

I made these funky mod circle style bracelets and earrings. Made of anodized aluminum and comes in 4 vibrant colors! I love them! They are sooo funky!


Matching earrings

I'm such a dork. If you look really closely on the above image, you can see my silhoutte taking the pic. Hehe.

Matching tin case. I find extreme joy in packaging up these goodies. Possibly more than putting the jewelry together.

I've given one for a swap and sold 5 bracelets and a pair of these earrings! Woot!

Grrrr

So today was quite busy - took AJ to swimming lessons with Cammy Whammy and Daniel baby in tow. I was pleasantly surprised at how AJ is at swimming! Didn't quite expect him to be THAT good at it - considering he's been out of swimming school for several months. And not that I feel that the lessons from the YMCA were helping him progress much anyways.
Then off to Michael's to return some goodies and as usual, my kids somehow trick me into getting them what's supposed to be a toy but hidden underneath all that fancy fan toy is a candy! I always fall for it although it was a great way to get them to keep quiet for the ride home.
Oh yea, on the way home I stop by the Post Office to mail out some stuff I sold yesterday at Etsy! Yay! 3 items sold! The choco strawberry donut earrings sold! Now the ugh part, grumpy old hag behind the cash thinks it's too thick! Wants to charge me around 5 bucks when I've always paid only $1.86 (plus good old taxes). And the donut earrings? $12 shipping to BC! Um hello?!? I only charged $2 for shipping. So now I don't know what to do...

Donuts and Poo

So finally got a chance to trying out the donuts with my Cammy whammy - my oldest AJ didn't seem too interested. Especially after hubby started playing the Wii. Anywho - polymer clay again. Adding the sprinkles got messy especially since Cammy liked swirling them around the table! At least he didn't try to eat them.

We tried making the cake - but alas! It was finally time to feed my sons dinner (at 10 pm) so off we run to DQ, but the cake is still in the oven! So quickly I pull it out, slice it, put it back in, told my hubby to take it out and turn it off in 15 minutes so when I returned, the cake was all crumbly... so into the garbage it went.

What else we did? The golden poo! I tried to convince AJ to have it listed on his etsy shop but just couldn't coax him into it. Mike couldn't blame him either.

BOGO SALE on Etsy

For a limited time only in celebration of Canada Day and Independence Day, all items are on sale at my etsy shop! Buy one get one 50% off! So hurry and take advantage of this great deal!

(This is kinda funny because I know only you Mike, my ever supportive and loving hubby reads my blog but I'm pretending I have a gazillion readers I'm advertising my sale to. Bwahahahaha)