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.
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