What I Learned: I Need a Place For Magnets

     friday?  Really?  This week flew by!  I feel like I just did this post for last week!  I have been feeling very crafty lately.  Which is kinda surprising considering I have been helping Rosebud with her DIY wedding.  Next week will be lots of making! I love my cassette case iPhone cover but this could be really fun too!  I also love these DIY videos.   

I love love love succulents!  I think this could be fun with epiphytes too!

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Wow.  I love the ocean.  This is a great visual of the depths of it.  

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So I am a total noob when it comes to Etsy...  I have had my shop for quite a few years, but was too much of a wuss to list.  Now that I have I still trying to figure it all out.  I went to a Etsy meetup with Melissa this week and learned that non Etsy employees can make a treasury.  Duh...  I guess I am super unaware...  So I made a treasury (and a second one when I should have been writing this blog...)!  It was so much fun to make!  I can see many more of these in my future!

FYI, if you have a Gel manicure and get your pinky finger crunch by a car door it will break the nail and pop off the polish and look like you have lost your whole nail.  This would be less concerning if you are not in the woods, in the dark and mildly intoxicated.  I couldnt even look at it!  It hurt so much!  I was very glad I have friends who are willing to help me rip the last bit off.  /shivers  (I also like that the color of the polish has changed and faded.  It looks like a creepy french tip and not just mint green.)

Ways to save monies:  Retail Me Not Craving:  Antipasti Bites Need:  To get my nails done before camping and shop and pack and flea treat the cat... Discovery:  Coffee makes me need to tinkle.  A lot. How was your week?

The Grand Opening of Sharks & Stars!

     this week I have been working very hard to open my Etsy shop!  I have been making jewelry for years.  Since 2005 in fact!  Back then I took plastic toy butterflies, painted them and attached chains.  It was a lot of fun.  I took them to a holiday bazaar.  I remember sitting at that folding table in my uncomfortable folding chair wondering if I would sell anything.  I had 16 colorful butterflies in tiny plastic bags all lined up in a small square in the middle of my large table.  Two extra butterflies out of their bags on the table next to the packaged ones, to show off the chains.  I was also wearing my favorite purple one over my black long sleeved shirt.  I bought the shirt to silk screen my logo on but hadnt had time.  I had high hopes.  I sat there all day.  I had a few friends visit.  The bazaar was held at my boyfriend at the times work.  He sat with me most of the day.  I sold all but a few butterflies, I am pretty sure it was because he was so well liked.  The next year I tripled the amount of butterflies.  I was a machine, cranking them out.  Sadly I didnt sell very many.  Over the years I have done lots of different bazaars!  Mostly I share a table with my mother, she sells pocket scarves, and sitting near my friend Melissa.  Every year adding something different.
     Last year I learned how to hand cast resin into jewelry with Melissa.  It was ahMazing!  I loved it!  I immediately ordered over 100 bezels for the interwebs and got started making!  I still make weird stuff like painted bugs and animals and I even added sharks on shrinky dinks.

     So I am now sharing my shop with you.  It is always nerve wrecking to put yourself and your creations out there.  I have put off filling my shop for years...  But I did it and I am pretty proud!  What is there to lose?  From now on that is going to be a theme in my life.  Life is short so I might as well make the most of it!


Thanks for looking!  Let me know what you think!

PS  What do you think of the new name?