Feb 27 2010
My Website is, of course, my primary focus, and my primary sales venue. But I’ve slowly building an Etsy store and customer base, and I couldn’t resist posting a screenie of, and a brief “hurrah” for tonight’s total sale count – exactly 999.
And so, HURRAH! And seriously – THANK YOU Etsy customers.
Feb 26 2010
Last week was feline best buds, Hobbie and Izzy. This week – we have the canine best buddies, Sunny and Mouse, or as we like to call them – “Round Dog” and “Hound Dog”.
Feb 21 2010
My husband is a talented man – Drupal Ninja, CSS Master, PHP Dude and general all around maker and builder, and that is just where computers are concerned! And take a look at what he made for me!
Eric has spent a good bit of the past month building an online Kumihimo pattern designer and planner – an interactive application that lets you design kumihimo patterns, and then shows you exactly how to put together your braid to make that pattern. At present – the KumiPlanner only shows the 8-warp round braid, but now that the application is built, you can plan on seeing other braid styles in the near future.
To try this application – click on the image below.
Feb 21 2010
For a couple of years, I’ve had up a small example pair of earrings that could be made using our Swarovski Crystal Pearl Drops, and every so often I get a message asking how to make them. I don’t know why it never dawned on me before to put up a project for them, rather than writing instructions out every time I get an e-mail, but I finally figured that one out, and the instructions (and a kit) are now available.
My other new project is a pair of bracelets made with new link components from TierraCast’s new Viva Mexicana collection. With lots of metal, accented with sparkling Swarovski crystal, these flashy bracelets are an eye catching delight. These bracelets could also be easily converted into a fabulous watch design, too.
Feb 19 2010
I love snow. But I’m actually getting tired of it (twenty some inches in one month will do that to you). And I love it being cold enough to run the wood stove round the clock. But I’m running low on seasoned fire wood, and no one has any more (seasoned) for sale here. And I’m tired of apples, bananas and grapes – I want fresh strawberries and peaches! So I guess what this all probably means is that I’m ready for spring. Only four or five more weeks to go.
I’ve had flowers (and florals) on the mind. I’ve been checking every time I go out to see if our daffodils have poked their stems up (they have! they have!!) Early spring flowers have been a source of inspiration for several new kumihimo cord mixes, and two new Swarovski bicone blends.
I also have a bunch of new colors of Swarovski’s versatile and lovely crystal pearl teardrop beads:
By the way, I’ve seen Swarovski’s upcoming spring release – they’ll have a new Lavender pearl out soon that is gorgeous! Can’t wait.
Feb 19 2010
These two are the best of friends – Izzy in the back, and “Big Brudder” Hobie in the front.
Feb 05 2010
Technically – these photos are from last Sunday, after we got 8″ of snow on Saturday. But we’re sitting here with snow falling, expecting anywhere from 4-15″ to fall by tomorrow night, and its like the whole of last week never even happened.
