I’ve been on a necklace streak lately. I made a few long stranded necklaces on silver chain. One is mixed silver beads, one is glass pearls, and the third is crazy beads made of seed beads on wire tangled into a ball.
chain necklaces
When my stepfather’s mom died, I inherited a lot of patterns and other craft items. In amongst it all was a half-done afghan with all the wool and instructions to finish it. I finally got around to completing it and am going to give it back to my stepdad as a keepsake.
Here it is (Loki really liked it):
Crocheted Afghan
I’ve also been working on lots of necklaces which I will have pics of soon.
I’ve already sold my first pair of earrings on Etsy. I’m super psyched. Now I’ve got to wait for another sunny day so that I can take more pictures and list more stuff.
After years of people telling my I should sell my jewelry online, I’m finally doing it!
I’ve thrown a couple listings up on Etsy, a site that specializes in hand made goods.
Why not eBay you may ask? Well, I love eBay to death, but haven’t had luck selling my jewelry there. Ebay doesn’t feature handmade goods seperate from manufactured things, so it’s hard to compete. The listings on Etsy are less expensive, though you get a lot less exposure than you would on eBay. If business goes well on Etsy maybe I’ll expand to eBay as well. On the other hand, I find that supplies on Etsy are expensive and I still do most of my buying on eBay.
Wish me luck!
Joe ordered us some shirts with the above slogan from the XKCD store: http://store.xkcd.com/
There are many more I’d love to have, but I don’t want to be one of those people that wears nothing but clever t-shirts. It’s a fine line to walk…
Any-who, while I’m on the topic of Science!, Joe and I attended a very interesting presentation on supervolcanos last night at a pub. Yes, that’s right, science at the pub! Joe recently found a local skeptics group on facebook, and they were advertising Cafe Scientifique. It’s a monthly science night where they have local scientists/experts give presentations at the pub while enjoying some beers. We didn’t have much interest in the topic before hand, but we ended up being fascinated with the subject. The presenter, Dr. Ben Kennedy, performed the diet coke + mentos trick to illustrate some of the properties of volcanoes. This was the first time I’ve seen that trick done in person, and it was really fun to watch. We brought the camera, but I completely forgot to take pictures.
I look forward to the next event. How can you go wrong combining science and beer?
I’ve been on a necklace roll lately. Here’s a few I made recently.
The first one is cotton cord and magazine beads, the second is sead beads, magazine beads, and some buttons, the third is just metallic glass beads.
I’m too lazy to write my own blog post about it. I’ll follow up once we’ve had a chance to play with it.
I’ve been working on a few necklaces using the recycled magazine beads I made a while ago. Here’s the first one:
I worked on Canada Day in lieu of taking Friday off so I could have a nice long weekend.
Tonya and Saoirse stopped by for a visit. We watched Iron Giant, and Saoirse tired out Loki.
Saturday was a nice mix of housework and lounging around relaxing. I also finished up a few craft projects that had been hanging around half-done. I might follow up with some pics.
Sunday was our regular poker night, and also Jen’s birthday. We had a great time at Jennifer’s place, and she ended up taking all of our chips. Happy birthday Niffer! We polished off a couple bottles of wine and a bottle of champagne. I got very pleasantly drunk, which was a nice change. Recently I’ve been finding that alcohol just makes me tired and grumpy and I skip straight past the fun part. Happily this was not the case last night, and I got laughy and stupid.
But now it’s Monday. Work is nuts, I’m slightly hungover, and achy all over from working out yesterday (it was the first time in a long while). Why do long weekends always seem to end too soon?
After a day of spending time in meetings with people who feel it’s very important to point out how very right they are when that is not what is important, or caring more about how things make them look than how to do a job right, or people taking things personally that are not personal, or people who obviously feel like they’ve had their toes stepped on by other people just trying to do their jobs, I always know I can come home, lie down on the couch, and my doggie will immediately provide me with snuggles.
