New varieties of stock!

A while ago, I used to make earrings like these:

I liked them, but my interests have moved on from simply buying charms and attaching them to earring findings, however I still have a load of charms left because I bought hundreds and then got bored selling them.

I realised yesterday, however, that I can marble the charms so here arises a new range of earrings which I think are pretty damn sweet. Made with the same technique I showed you yesterday, here are my multicoloured and silver earrings:

Uploading the pictures to this from my iPad is a bit tedious so to look at them all you will have to visit my rather lovely shop: www.colourfulcrafter.com

Check them out, only £4 a pair and cheap shipping!

I'm pretty pleased with myself, I've stolen quite a few of them for myself!

Other than making earrings I've had a pretty productive day, finally sent off some earrings I needed to, collected some things from the post office, ordered some things I needed and went to my henna course. While there, I did one design on me, two designs on fellow classmates and one on the college receptionist who came in to see the teacher and wanted some henna. I literally had a queue. I was pretty impressed with myself.

Anyway, speak to you lot soon, I'm going to eat a creme caramel and go to bed 

Over and out,

Janet

P. S. I got a haircut today too. What do you guys think?

Wednesday already?

Time really flies when you have two naps a day. Also I've been busy with some other work so that's been keeping me on my toes, however I did manage to find time yesterday to both play with some new marbling inks (more on that later) and buy a wonderful bit of crafting kit that I'm very excited to receive on Friday (Hopefully!).

The new crafting kit is a Silhouette Portrait, a machine that looks a little like a printer, but instead of ink nozzles, it has a blade so can cut out things for you. This is particularly awesome because it can cut shrink plastic, which is my main material right now. At the moment, I'm making a lot of triangles and that's because they're easy to cut out and they tessellate perfectly so I don't have any wastage. I've cut out more complex shapes in the past but always stop because my wrists can't cope so hopefully this bit of kit will allow me to do loads more designs and shapes.

I've also been doing some maths today. I tried yesterday and came up with a set of numbers but couldn't work out what they were meant to be telling me. It reminded me why I gave up doing maths when I was on lots of painkillers - numbers don't make sense when you're on opioids! However, I managed to do it today and have been working out the best value pack of shrink plastic and it turns out to be joint between the craft pack of shrinkles and artists grade polyshrink so I'm going to get some polyshrink because I already know how the shrinkles stuff behaves.

This was my maths:

So, on to the exciting thing I did yesterday which was play with some marbling inks.

They're fun little things that you drop onto the surface of some water, swirl it around, then dip the thing into. It's pretty awesome. 

Here are some pictures of what I got up to:

Pretty snazzy, but I think I actually prefer them before the marbling was shrunk so what I'm going to do today is make some fun shapes, bake them, then marble them and see how that turns out. Obviously that process will be a lot easier when I've got my Silhouette!

Anyway, I'm going to go do something useful now.

Speak to you all soon!

Janet