Showing posts with label crafts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label crafts. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Mobicon 2016

So I’m back from Mobicon!  I had a whale of a time.  It was one of the more vendor friendly convention’s I’ve been to so far.  
I’ll be starting a 30 day challenge tomorrow for the Blog and for new pieces.  I’ll be posting new pieces each night along with a daily shop piece I have available.  So look forward to lots of posts and pictures.  

Until then have some fun con pictures.  
By far one of the best costumes of the weekend.  It was awesome!

This Ariel was so adorable.  

She followed every Link around the Con just yelling "Hey Listen!" Last I saw of her she was being chased by the Fairy Swat Team with Fly swatters.


That pillow XD

This Ruto was amazing.  So well done!

Obligatory Stormtrooper and Kylo Ren!


Another talented and creepy cosplay.

I was so happy to finally see a Chat Noir.  Sadly he had no Ladybug. :(

Great low key Tadashi.

So many emotions in one room.  (And that Ryley!)

This was my bit of Con Swag for my desk at work.  I'll try not to kill this one.

Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Exciting News all!!   Last week I did something I have wanted to do for a while.  I took part of my profits from the recent Pensacon and invested it in a sweet Nikon camera.  Up until recently I have been taking pictures using my phone, adjusting the lighting via photoshop (neither me, my fiancĂ© or photography friends could figue out how to turn the auto dim on my phonecamera) and regular crying in corners sobbing “I just want the pictures to look nice.”  (Really, it became a tradition almost.)  I managed to get decent quality photos but not to the one’s I liked.  So I decided to invest and do some research and managed to order a camera that would have all my basic needs.  I received it on Friday and after some power charging, playing with the controls (can you say selfie?) and just a bit more sobbing in the corner while I tried to figure out how to adjust the brightness (what can I say old habits die hard)  I now have the first series of pictures of some of my older as well as a few of my newer pieces.  
Come on new camera?  If course it's selfi time.





Most of these I’ll be posting on etsy and on my Tumblr as well but here are a few of the newer pictures.  All of which are now available for sale on here  I am more than excited with my new toy and plan to have lots of fun learning to take better and better pictures.  (Any critics and advice is more than welcome.)  I plan on posting most of them here as well so you can follow my progress.  

Friday, March 6, 2015

Past Favorites: Part 1

Hello there bloggers!  Still getting my blogging legs done so I thought that I would start out with a few getting to know me articles.  And since the main focus of my blog is about promoting my jewelry I thought I would begin by sharing a few of my favorite pieces I've made in the past.  I'm going to start out small with just three pieces to begin with a single piece every week or a top ten list of pieces either I've either made or are from my personal collection or that I desire with every fiber of my being to own or even a collection of vintage pieces.  Please let me know what you would like to see.  And with out further adieu lets get started.  

 Rose Winged Necklace

This one was a bit of a collaboration between me and another friend of mine as a gift for another friend of ours.  She came to me with the rose cameo and the gold heart and asked me to convert it into a necklace for our friend who loves all manner of pretty girly things.  It was a bit of a challenge at first because I wanted the rose to add to it without taking away from the centerpiece.  I came across these wings at a craft store a while ago and thought that it matched well with the gold of the heart pendent which I attached the rose cameo to.  The shell base came from a stack of colored shells that I was given.  (A good deal of what I use to make jewelry I either find, take apart or is given to me.)  The light pink of the shell was just enough to make the pink of the flowers stand pop out and added as a nice base I could attach the wings too.  I'm happy to say our friend loved this piece and still owns it today.  This was a fun pendant to do because of the challenge it presented and because of the opportunity to make not only one but two friends happy.  Making it one of my favorite pieces out of the many I have made.

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