How long its been.

I seemed to have forgotten you, lonely blog. I remembered you when I happened upon an old acquaintance's blogger site, left a comment and blogger recognized. Of course, once I snapped out of my dreamlike state of blog fugue, I ran straight back to you blog.
In my last blog, in the last installment of my blog-- I was about to go to WBL- that show was a bit of a bust. I don't think I will do that one again. Handmaidens was brilliant as always.
I am in another craft sale this December.
I am moving and in a wedding this weekend and I feel.....bad. I feel stressed. I have too many things. Since I make things in my habitat, it is like moving a studio and an apartment. It involves logistics as to where my cat, finches, guinea pig, plants, perishable food items, etc go for the 2 days that I am homeless. It involves a wedding, and drinking and dressing in a ridiculous getup and then getting down.
And there is social upheaval and some insecurity. Dear blog, I didn't tell you but I buzzed my hair. it is the at-home 10 year old boy cut. years, years until... YEARS until I have long hair again.
I have found many hats to wear.
I have missed you blog. more in a week or so. I might even mention crafts....

Crafted Together & Handmaidens

This weekend is the beginning (and first 2/3rds) of my craftsale summer season! Saturday I will be at the White Bear Armory for Truly..'s first sale-- Crafted Together. Looks to be a big event, and it coincides with the White Bears Ladies Bouquet Day-- I have no idea what that is, but it sounds amazing! I will be there from 9-5 on Saturday.
On Sunday there is another Handmaiden's sale at the Uptown VFW (Lyndale and Lake)- from 10-6, I believe. This one was so great last time-- lots of fun stuff, and this time the sellers are wearing formals- finally, a use for one of the many vintage bridesmaid/cocktail dresses I own.

I am in pretty good shape as far as stock goes for two back to back shows, unless the Bouquet Ladies go COMPLETELY out of control and buy me out. I still haven't received Doris Dotz's shipment of tiny plastic animals (I sent a polite if slightly snarky email yesterday asking if she can track the package and let me know how much longer it is going to take. She is apparently in California, and there is no reason for a package to take a week and half to get to Minnesota. I ship stuff, I know how it works). But I am still going to do one last batch of resin before Saturday, I think.
Also, I checked an email that I haven't checked since I got back into town- and the Walker had invited me to their Market Sale this Saturday (I couldn't have, as I was already paid and confirmed for the Crafted Together Show) -- but that would have been amazingly great-- sitting in the cafe level of the Walker selling my fruit and vegetable papyrus paper earrings to classy museum goers-- they were mainly interested in those earrings. I should make a whole bunch more of those in my last batch of resin, sell them all and make a million dollars so I can buy more papyrus.
I had to go through all of my stock of earrings in prepping them for the shows I am in, and there are some that I forgot about that are really great. However, I think I am going to "sacrifice" the older pairs to try and clear out a bit. I am hoping to find some great fall and winter shows to participate in, and with a heck of a lot of stock sitting around, I am often not all that motivated to make new stuff. I do have some great ideas and great new molds I am still perfecting, but I am not cranking stuff out at the same rate I used to.
And I think I am going back to the Rice Street Art Scoop-- the first craft show I was in! I think I sold 5 pairs of earrings in 5 hours, but it was great and my friend Kristen was my booth buddy and froze to death with me. This time it is in July. I will post for you again, blog, when I confirm all this.
I am very excited for this weekend. In White Bear I get an 8' table and 2 chairs. I know that I have enough stuff to fill an 8' table, but it still sounds huge. Perhaps I will lay on half of it.
I have some sweet new earring table displays that I invented. Pete lost my drill, so they are slow going, as I have to screw screws by hand, but they are going to work great. And I have my own mirror now! I am almost grown up! Planning a table is harder than you think. I will do a mock up tonight, and it will annoy Handsome Pete with how much space it takes up, but he will be nice and supportive about it. Which adds to my secret glee.
Sorry, no pictures again-- my computer died and I have to wait until my tech geek friend Amos comes back from travelling for his swanky tech geek job to help me. Like anyone keeps track of their Windows XP disc? sheesh, come on.

whoa, over eager

I reread my last post and I think I was a little hyperactive. the last bit about the rings does not make any sense either, but that is because formatting changes from the post I create to the post you see. Lines weren't lining up where they should have been. In any case, sorry bout that.

This new post doesn't have all that much to say. I have a lot of more bails and rings blanks coming, and I am going to use this as a forum to lambast a really unprofessional etsy and ebay seller-- Doris Dotz. I bought a ton of little plastic animals from her, and her ebay auctions require that you pay immediately, so I couldn't get the combined shipping she described in her listings. I politely messaged her after I had bought and paid for about 7 items, asking if there were be a way to combine shipping and refund the extra after the fact. She sent an email saying she would look into it, and I didn't hear from her for a week or so. I messaged her again saying I would prefer that she just send everything immediately (I need my toys quickly, people) and that she could just keep all the money, which I think was about $3 per item, and would have equalled then $21 to ship a box of 7 tiny lots of animals. She did not reply-- About a month from the day I bought them, I sent her another email asking where my things were, and she replied that she had sent something out to another buyer and it had taken around two weeks, and she would try to resend my order. A week later I got a tiny box in the mail from her-- with ONE ITEM. One of the many things I bought and paid for. I messaged her again (and she always takes about 1-2 days to reply, which is annoying). She apologized and said she would send out the rest. That was Thursday, here is hoping. I need to make things with them tiny things. I wish the experience hadn't been so horrible, because she really does have amazing tiny plastic figurines that I cannot find anywhere else. Sigh. We shall see how this goes.

And I bought I new Amy Burhoe ring-- it is beautiful! I love it, and everyone should go and buy one from her right now. She does lovely things with glass!

Here is a picture of me with a new rainbow shirt on with a crocodile pin, my new favorite jade forest pattern earrings I mentioned in the travesty that was my previous post, and the Amy Burhoe ring. enjoy.....

Resin Pendants

I have some new pendants, and a new ring concept I would like to share with you, blog.

This is the philosopher. He has a good look about him.





Then there is this guy, T Rex exit stage right. I actually have quite a collection of tiny plastic things to imbed, and now I have a huge collection of pendants on chains and neckwires, for craft sales. One of my stands fell over, it was TOO HEAVY.









Like this tiny vintage plastic raccoon. I gave him a mushroom and then encased him in a prison of epoxy forever. Yay!!!










This image is one of my favorites to use-- I have some casts done with it in one of my huge earring shapes that I am going to rock all summer.


And a cheetah head. Why not?




Ribbon bow necklaces. I have a few that are really elaborate with dripping pearls and whatnot, but I try and pour one of these in a different color every time I am a-resin-ing. Cutesy.

And a new favorite-- I call it the "My Heart Will Find Its Own Way" pendant-- it has a real operation tiny compass imbedded inside. Awesome, orienteer yourself to your heart's desire. Also, this version has some white dropped into the back, which makes kind of cloudy formations in the glitter resin. Luminous and pretty.






















And last but not least-- these new rings. I have a secret supplier of the ring blanks that make these guys possible, that I couldn't reveal upon pain of death. The base is a wide, shiny disc, and the beads are transparent- which leads to a really flashy effect. Not only is the image doubled from its reflection on the ring base, any light coming in is reflected off that base and FLASHES YOUR EYEBALLS. BUT IT FEELS GOOD and looks even better. These are super shiny and look almost holographic.



















This one is an image of a dandelion in dark red. This one is a dusky rose, green leaf against a But I think it looks like a firework. sky blue background.

lovelies! more to come, as I take more pictures....

oh so many things!

Sorry I have been away so long, blog. I got a gig working on a video crew in St. Louis, shooting sketch comedy skits for professional comedians. It was really too, too grand for words. I loved every minute of it. And I got lots of hugs when we left.
Some of the comedians involved:
Greg Warren, Mark Gross, Craig Peters, Isaac Witty, Chad Daniels, Saleem, Auggie Smith, Tommy Drake, etc and so on. They were all extremely funny and very nice to me.
And in other news-- craft sale season is fast approaching. I have been doing what I can to produce in between sweet gigs and trips to Chicago-- and I have some new shapes. Of course, I don't have pictures for you at the moment because I am seldom home during daylight hours... but I will soon. I am also debuting a line of pendants on silver plated bails and chains-- on etsy, this sort of thing is what sells the most BY FAR in resin-- a pendant on base metal that costs less than $20. As much as I prefer sterling, I shouldn't be a snob, and it has been fun making these guys. I will post some pictures when I get them. My favorite one is entitled "T-Rex, Exit stage Right". I also found some great table display sort of things at savers-- a noodle drying rack, super vintage in its original box, that will serve as a necklace rack-- and some sort of marble based washcloth stand? or something presumably for the bathroom that will also work in a necklace stand capacity. Now I just need some multilevel set ups, and to finish the picture frame hanging device. I also got a mirror, and I think I should set up a table in my living room and see how all this stuff shakes down when it is all arranged.
very exciting.

Fun Pins

I have some new pins in my etsy shop. The first pair were going to be a Valentine's series, with every possible sexual orientation represented, but I didn't get them done in time,
so I posted the two I had finished today. My descriptions are kind of funny, if you ask me.....














The next one is called POV Appendectomy--
I love the image and it is the perfect
institutional green.
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And last but not least, is the one that I wear all the time. I love owls, but especially, I love barn owls.

New Shapes

So I have made some custom molds from vintage earrings. I have only had the new earrings at shows thus far, but I think tomorrow I will add a couple to my etsy site. These are nice and big, not for the faint of heart!