Baby Bracelets

My darling friend Linda asked me months ago to make a bracelet for her baby girl Lola (not yet born).  It was a little stressful, since I had no idea what size to make the thing, but it turned out really well.  But little Lola has outgrown her bracelet.  So that she can keep the origional as a keepsake, I made a new one and it is SOOO cute.  I'll take a picture of it later, hopefully.  And this lovely friend asked me to make a few others, too.  It's so exciting!  I just love these little bracelets.  I hope they fit (I'm VERY nervous about that part).  And I appreciate Linda so much for drumming up business for me.  It means a lot for a friend to do that.  Happy day people.  =)

Peace.

Scarves!

I finished my first scarf of the year! I really like it. =) I'm hoping to have a really good selection of scarves this fall. Sweet! It felt good to be being productive on my night off from 'work' Dave wanted to watch a movie, so I crocheted while I watched. Awesome multitasking, right? Right.

Peace.

Confidence

It seems I've lost it again. Sometimes I look at what I've made and feel pretty good about it. Other times I look at it and wonder who on earth would ever buy this junk. I drive myself crazy. I'm pretty happy with most of what I've made lately, but I look at the older stuff and just think it's ugly. That's a pretty bad attitude to have when I'm planning on trying to sell all of this stuff this fall. Yikes. And then I hit the problem of not knowing if people are being nice when they say they like something. Basically everyone that has ever looked at what I have has been someone I know. Not that I think my friends/family are liars or whatever. Of course I don't think that. But how do I know if they're giving a totally honest opinion, or just being nice to make me feel better. *sigh* I'm feeling lame-o dudes.

Peace.

Craft Fair and a New Toy

That's right, I've decided to participate in a holiday craft fair this year. I am completely nervous about it, but hopefully it'll be a good thing. I have no idea how much I would need to have in product, which is a problem. I'll basically be winging it. Usually I don't mind winging it, but with something like this it scares the *bleep* out of me! I've been making a fair amount of new items lately, which feels good, but is it enough? *shrug* I guess all I can hope is that I don't make a total fool of myself. (and if you know me at all, you know what a feat that will be!) And of course now I'm back to second-guessing everything I make/have made. Maybe it all looks really ugly and I'm just fooling myself. Very possible. Sheesh.

On a happier note, I bought myself a new toy yesterday. It's a seed bead spinner. Man is it cool, dudes. I can't even tell you how much time it will save me. Not that I work a LOT with seed beads, but now it will be a lot less time-consuming when I decide to. Very exciting. =)

I wasn't chosen for that book, but I didn't really expect to be. It's all good. I've been buying tons of stuff lately, basically soaking up every cent I make, but it's so FUN! I like to think I've been buying smart, at least. I really need to clean up my work area, though, dudes. It's a mess! I realy don't quite have enough space for everything. But that's something I can't really change, so no point in whining about it, right? Right.

I need some advice, dudes. I've sold some jewelry to Family Fun Cutz, which is super great for me. But... nothing is really selling. I'm really disappointed in that. And the problem is that I agreed that if something doesn't sell, then I would take it back and give them something else. But NOTHING is selling. (Except for like 3 rings.) I can't afford to buy everything back, and I kind of fee like if what I gave her won't sell, then nothing else will either. So I don't know what to do. *sigh* If you have any suggestions, I'm all ears.

I'll hopefully post some new pictures next week. I really have been making quite a bit lately.

Peace.

Book

So... two days ago I was checking my email and randomly read one and only one of the emails there. It mentioned an opportunity to submit a necklace design for a book that will be published next year. The deadline was yesterday. I figured that if the kids gave me the opportunity to get something submitted, then I would do it, and if it didn't work out then... that's cool. I managed to get it done! It's a little exciting, even though my chances of being selected are VERY slim. Worth trying, in my opinion. So that's my story. =)

Peace.

Holy Cow!

I suppose it's time to spread the word... my jewelry will now be featured at Family Fun Cutz! Holy Cow!!! I've never made much kid jewelry, but she just took a look at what I had and picked a few things for me to make smaller versions of. Very exciting. But it's a little scary. And extremely stressful. But that's mostly because we leave on a 2 week vacation in like 12 days. Sooooo I want to make sure I get this order filled before we leave. I don't want them waiting for a month or more. That's just silly. So I'm trying to work work work in the evenings. It feels pretty slow going most of the time, but I think I can pull it off.

And, in the middle of all this, I have had other orders coming in. When it rains...... but I'm trying to remember that it's a really good thing. So I shouldn't be stressed, right? Right. Riiiiight. It's a good kind of stress. =D

Peace yo.

New!

Finally some new jewelry! Isn't it exciting? Well, I think so at least. And what's even better is I went bead shopping today!!! WOOHOOOOOOO! Thanks to my inlaws being in town I got to take a solid 2 hours to go shopping for beads and supplies. I'm so excited to start beading some more. And on Monday I get to meet with a salon owner and see about maybe selling there. That's totally exciting. I'm curious to see how it would work. And it would mean I would have to become an official business..... which scares the *bleep* out of me! So hopefully I will have some serious thinking to do in the next few days on where I want to go with all this jewelry. But it feels good to be making some progress. =D So that's the word on the street, yo. Thanks for checking me out dudes.

Peace.