It's catch time

Ok my new years idea was to craft something everyday, take a picture and blogg about it. Well I fell of the wagon before it left the station. One of the reasons was at the stoke of midnight I caught a cold and wasn't feeling well. That was followed by a kidney infection that put me in a world of pain. It's my day off and I am playing catch up. No pictures yet but today I sewed the pockets for the boning on my renaissance faire corset and started the eyelet holes. I have all the holes made and two finished. I need to find my bucket of poly boning to stiffen it to try it on and make any adjustments and I still have to make the busk. Once it's the right size I can order the spring steel boning. Then all I have to do is insert the boning, run a line of stitching and attach the edging to seal it all in. While waiting for the boning I can start the Kirtle (I'm doing 16 century Flemish if you remember) it's based on the corset pattern so it's essentially already started.

Today I had a really long list of crafts I wanted to do and I got about half way thru the list, which might seem lame but i was sidetracked by another craft avenue. My very best friend came over and she brought this extremely cute project with her. She learned this at this year's S.O.A.R.. It's little felted bunnies made from roving and felted around those ever present plastic easter eggs which of course are not available around Thanksgiving when we wanted to attempt this project. Her mother found some so we set out to do these today. As felting projects go it's a simple one and is extremely cute. Depending on the size you make is what you can do with them. The size we made were infant bunny slipper size. The second my husband saw them he wanted a pair... for a coworker who's wife delivered their baby today. How timely. I'll make a pair tomorrow.

I also designed a pair of earrings and have thought of a way to engineer them so that they are reproducible. I think they will be a good seller someday. I spent some time getting ready for a torch-a-rific craft-a-thon tomorrow. I dipped my mandrels to get ready to melt some glass and make some beads. I also plan to try my hand at making a bezel for setting a stone and maybe one with sections that I can fill with colored resin to make a pendant. I also want to finally solder my Triskel design pendant. Of course the original got encased in resin last week.
Speaking of resin, I plan to try my hand at resin again, now that the weather is perfect.

Ok time to take inventory.... I knitted, did a resin experiment, started my corset, designed a pair of earrings, learned how to make bunnies, made a custom stone pendant, spun some Polwarth. That's seven days worth. Tomorrow I'll do beads, silver soldering, silver and resin, resin, another pair or two of bunnies, and solder my triskel pendant. I also want to cut out and stamp some word pendants from copper and sterling. If I can complete these tasks that would cover me until the 15th... If I can fit one more in it would take me to my next day off. OK I figured out the last craft project- finish the eyelets on the corset or at least half of them.

I got info about a juried craft show in May. I need to take some time and get my jewelery website up so that they can check out my stuff. I'm just decent photo graphs short of a website. I have four days off next week, Thursday, Friday, Sunday, Monday. Maybe I'll take that time to get the site up and running. Lets see if I survive my craft-a-thon first.

Breaking all the Rules!

Not that anyone reads this or will notice but ....I didn't blog for two or three days. In that time I drafted my pattern for my corset for my renaissance faire outfit and I decided I'm going Flemish again. It's easy enough and you can do different outfits out of the basic configuration. I also tried my hand at resin. Don't try resin on a rainy day. But at least I tried and at least it's a craft. So that's three crafts for 4 days. I need to double craft today. Maybe I'll play with photography and get some better pictures of my jewelry and put them on my website. Not exactly creative but it helps the process. Maybe I'll craft a clear spot in my craft room. I find that I am stiff led as an artist when my craft room is cluttered... messy .... ok out of control. I have to get organized again. I have been a mess since the craft faire at work . It shouldn't be that hard to just put some stuff away. Then I'll have room to lay out my corset pattern and get started on that. I need more hours in the day. Oh... must check on rating on fly rod. I'll check back later with photos of my resin or something.

How about health permitting

Okay, the first day of the new year and I feel ill. My nose is running and my throat is sore. I think it's the late nights and no sleep. I wore myself down. But I have a whole new year to build it back up.

I didn't get the resin project too far along. The weather wasn't too bad. It looked like it was going to rain but the humidity was only 25% and it was in the 70's. I created an image and printed it out and then my husband wanted to clean up Christmas so we did that. Then it was time to cook dinner. So we did that. Then it was too late. No biggie I just have to cut out my images, measure and pour my first layer of resin and let it sit a few minutes. Then I can set my images and do the 2nd pour. Maybe I can do the first pour on my lunch break tomorrow. Sound productive.

My picture today is of one of my current knitting projects. It's that multifunctional scarf from Knitty.com named wisp. I am using Filatura di Crosa Multicolor 2105 Yarn on size 9 needles. I couldn't find my #8s. It's 60% Mohair and 40% acrylic. It's a really easy pattern to follow, but for some reason I get to the end of the 2nd pattern repeat and have to frog it and this yarn is not forgiving, if you make a mistake it's an instant felter and won't unravel. I like the color flow so I have ordered back up skeins. I will finish this project.

Time to relax and sip some NyQuil and doze off to sleep. Tomorrow is my Friday and tis the season for everyone who got a new electronic toy to call in to technical support and play dumb that they have no idea how to work it. Read the manufacturer's instructions!!! Everything comes with a quick start diagram now a days.