ALL MINE!

Yay! Delainie has finished making my very own funky purse! Quick as a lightning I paypal her the money and hopefully next week I get to carry this sweetness around!

I CANNOT wait to get this! I am so excited! And if I get some 5 hours to myself and find the perfect fabric I will hopefully try to make the same thing using her tute. (wipes drool)

Very Punny Tags

So I've been wanting to do these tags since I accidentally bid $900 for these stamps on ebay when I meant to bid $9.00 only. Thankfully it didn't end more than $26 bucks. A lot more than I wanted to pay for but heh - what can you do. Learning lesson for me for sure.

What a pain to color in with the brush markers. Too time consuming.

For a supposedly craft loving mama, I bitch way too much about making these darn crafts. I wanna sell stuff already so I can make $500 I need to purchase the button machine! (But that's another chance to create a new post - LOL)


And.... a close up shot. Well, sort of.

Religious Charms

When I made the Rosary bracelets for my sisters (godmothers) for my sons' baptism, I loved them so much I thought I'd make more to sell on Etsy. Of course I've made none - but anyways - I bought these Mother Mary and Baby Jesus charms to add onto the bracelets. I can't quite afford sterling silver (each would cost me around $4-$5) so I opted for Pewter finished, nickel and lead free instead - should also keep the cost down of the bracelets -

So I buy it from China and of course they had to come in hundreds (with ridiculous shipping fees 10 times the price of the item! Sheesh). So what to do? Make them into quickie charms!

My mom has a friend who sells cell phones so hopefully I can supply her with these to sell along with her cell phones. I like them - very nice small gift for a church loving friend... or foe (to ward off those evilness)


In their neat packaging (cause I have to have everything matching) - my dear Cameroni helped me with these :)

Invasion of the Baby Whale Slugs

That yellow chick or whale? Sold in less than an hour - LOL - I listed it on Etsy to see if it'll sell and it did! Wohoo! So naturally I just had to make more. These guys have been mixed with metallic pearlized mica powders. The pics don't do them justice, the sheen on these guys are too pretty.

Close up of my favorite - she's a preemie - smallest of the bunch!
These guys are too cute! But those mouths are a PIA to draw!

In their packed up ready to go glory -

School's Out!

For Cameron anyway - my 2nd born son.

I have officially gone insane.

Why do kids keep asking, "Mom watch me! Did you see that? Mom Look! Mom watch this!" EVERY seconds! It's driving me crazy!

He's driving me crazy!!

Baby Chick..... or Whale.... yellow, whale

So this was supposed to be a baby chick.

But it looks like a whale. That's yellow. Well I don't really know what it is now.

Made of polymer clay, eyes, cheeks and mouth hand drawn with acrylics. Matching yellow swarovski bead and yellow lariat.

Added more crap to my etsy shop!

I love saying that - not the crap part but the 'my etsy shop' part. Tee-hee. I thought I'd de-stash (another word I learned from browsing etsy) my stock of jewelry supplies.

Oh yea! I got my first customer yesterday wohoo! She bought some sterling silver end connectors, 30 pcs I think for $1.50. Which of course after all the etsy fees and paypal fees and currency exchange etc. amounts to say, 50 cents? Heh - I can't remember anyways what I paid for it! It was screaming to get used and I wasn't gonna get to them anytime soon so I thought I'd find it a new home :)

I'm so excited! I also purchased my first etsy item! It's this retro purse I saw on crafster site.

Find her awesome tutorial here

It's sooooooooo pretty! Anywho so I go shop for the supplies in a lame attempt to replicate this goodness - thank gudness for my honey who watched the boys for a couple of hours while I go hit the fabric stores. Well, that was fun. NOT! I get to the store, have no idea what type of fabric to buy, and the chick couldn't help me either because she looked like she'd rather be out in the sun (I don't blame her) while the other older lady gave me the cut eye because I interrupted her I'm sure ever exciting convo with another lady.

I found the D-rings, no one knew what the heck a piping is - they showed me some really fancy cords. So home I go.

Well, Delainie had the purse up on her etsy shop! I can't tell you how fast my fingers went to buy it and check it out but alas! It wouldn't let me because she had no shipping to Canada. I convo'd her, replied back promptly but someone else already bought it off her! I cried. I did.

Thankfully she is making me one! And the absolute BESTEST part? It's the same pattern but in pink! Did I say pink?!! YES, PINK and it's alllllllllllll mine!!!! I'll post pics when I get it. I'm so excited! And I just can't hide it! I'm about to lose control and I think I like it oh yeah!

Well I can't call myself a loser since my hubby says so.

I'm such a geek.

(hopes no one reads this blog)

More Kawaii

Kuromi, the black kitty or bunny or whatever the heck it is - is apparently My Melody's arch rival. I think, there's a Japanese show on My Melody and Kuromi is her arch enemy. Anywho - these two are so cute! Made from shrinky dinks, embossed for lacquer protection. Adorned with swarovski crytals and all sterling silver components. They are up for sale on ebay - I'm curious to see how much, if at all, it sells.

KAWAII

So in the past few weeks, my net surfing has landed me on many a japanese cutesy pages. Kawaii (pronounced like kuh-wa-yee) it turns out is the term used by Japanese categorizing all the cutesy stuff they have. It ranges from small mini food charms to Sanrio stuff I used to love growing up in the Philippines. This stuff is so darn addicting!

Here is my first try at the lollipop earrings.

Close up of the suckers:

Still not happy with them as I am too much of a perfectionist. I will have another go at it. I'm researching on how to scent them and if successful - I'll etsy them up - looks yummy though!

More Teacher Gifts

For Miss Filipuzzi or someone like that - hehe - my sister's son's fave teacher apparently. It appears they are sucking up to her so she can overlook my nephew's behavioral issues - LOL - just kidding!
Close up of the jewelry set - I also put these up on etsy for sale at $20 for the set.