Birthday!

Thirty-three years ago I emerged from my mothers loins! Gross right? 

Well in celebration of my birthday I ditched 3 of my 4 classes. Maybe not the brightest idea but hey, it's my birthday.

  

My Awesome Hubby Got me this cupcake!

I make better cake, but the mocha frosting was outstanding!

Anyhoo, March has been a good month. 

I've been invited to take honors classes at the community college and that will enable me to take honors classes at UNM in the fall. 

My Boys report cards were awesome! 

Grandma is still alive. 

My husband is hilarious as ever.

The weather is warm enough to go for lovely walks.

I've been super productive with my jewelry making! I made some super cute post earrings this weekend. 

I made molds of vintage buttons to make these. I like the way they came out. What do you think?

It Took All Day

No joke. I had over 20 pieces of jewelry that I had not photographed and uploaded on to my etsy shop. All day. Photographing. Editing. Entering. Uploading. It's finally done. Feedback on my new items please! I would really appreciate it! follow this link! 

Focus

I would say that right now I am lacking focus. I think that if you look at my blog you can see it for yourself. I'm all over the place and only post sporadically. I haven't been working on my jewelry, I procrastinate on my homework, and my house hasn't been really clean for months and months.

Of course if you ask those who know me they'll wonder if my house has ever truly been clean, and rightly so. My friends and family know that I only really scrub my house down when I'm hosting a gathering, and even then, my bedroom will be off limits because that is where i hide my piles of unfolded laundry, the children's rooms will be toy ridden minefields of disaster, and there will stacks and file piles in every corner of the house. But to answer their question, yes. Once upon a time my house was really clean. Top to bottom clean. Five years ago. For about two months. Right after we moved in. Then I gave up.

Now jewelry. I've got ideas! I know I can bring those ideas to fruition. BUT, I have no money to make it happen. The adorable boutique that was carrying my items closed. (now let us all bow our head for a moment of silence and shed a tear for Jilli Kae Everything Chic). I have plenty of jewelry that is not posted on my etsy. I have that jewelry photographed and edited. I have been to lazy to upload it. So here are some pics. I would like feedback-a-plenty on what you all think!









Also I've been making these button rings. I make them with vintage buttons as well as those I just really like. I started making them with sterling wire, but soon realized it was much more cost effective to make them with colored copper wire.





So please, FEEDBACK! Let me know what you think. Maybe hearing from you will help me get the lead out and upload all my goodies I have stashed away. Now off to look at my messy kitchen and decide to read my English assignments instead of clean.

New Stuff on my Etsy Site

Let me know what you think! Citique anyone?

SALE SALE SALE SALE SALE!!!

I only have 14 things in my shop, but they are all 50% off with free shipping! I've been low on supplies for a while and really want new things so I can fill my shop up with goodies! When you have no job and are on unemployment, buying new supplies becomes very tough. My goal is to sell everything in my shop so that I can get creating again!



This was $48.00 and is now $24.00



These were $28.00 and are now $14.00

Please follow the link above to find more great deals!

New Stuff on my Etsy Site

I've uploaded about 12 new items on my etsy. I worked my butt off and made some hoops and dangles. I used all the supplies I had on hand and when I get more I'll make more. My personal favorite creation is my "Cemetery Gates" necklace. Inspired by my clever husband, I designed a necklace to look like wrought iron gates. I named it after one of my favorite Smiths songs. Here's a pic and I would love to know what you think!

Consignment

So, I thought I would be uploading all the new stuff that didn't sell at my jewelry show onto my Etsy shop, buuuuuuut Jill has decided that she wants to keep it ALL on consignment. Which is SWEET! But now I have to get to work making more stuff. I'll be getting some new supplies Monday so that I can get to work and fill my etsy shop back up. I'm excited.

Gift for Maria

This is a necklace I made for my good friend Maria. It was a thank you gift. The "M" is for Maria (DUH) and the "E" is for Eli, her boyfriend. So uh.. the necklace doesn't spell me. It just looks like it does.

Give Away from Chocolate and Steel

Check out her amazing work! Seriously. It's really cool. Click the title to link to her blog!

Better pics

I think these images of my new stuff are a bit better. I had so much fun making them. Let me know what you think!

Results

Here are some of the results from this weekends jewelry making. I made several necklaces and three pairs of earrings. I'll take better pics of them later. Let me know what you think! Thanks!

Mess Magic

I'm in the creative throws of jewelry making. I got new metal clay, new wire, new chain, new ideas. It's so exciting! I don't know if anything will make it on my etsy or not. I have a few leads here in town. My friend and Boss told me that she talked to the owner of a gift shop in town and she's interested in carrying my stuff. Sahweet! She's so encouraging! It's good to know people who know people. Especially when you don't know very many people. Did that make sense?

sale

Well, ask and you shall receive! I made a sale. Go figure all my pleading and shameless begging and I start February off with a sale. I'm taking it as a good sign. Now do I buy supplies or pay my phone bill. Hmmmmm. Supplies.

I NEED MONEY

So, not only did my husbands hours get cut this week, I made not one sale from my etsy for January. I will Make deals!!!!!! Please if you are interested in any of my work or my husbands let me know. I WILL MAKE DEALS!!!! Please visit our shops. if you want anything convo and I'll see what I can work out.

http://ifihadahammer.etsy.com

http://bixbybrainstorm.etsy.com

I don't even know what's good anymore.

Before

After

I've been trying to work on my photographs for etsy. The truth of the matter is I photograph things all the time at work. By the time I get to photographing my things I'm exhausted and don't give a shit. Bad I know. I recently re-shot everything and I'm working on editing the pics, and getting them up. I don't know if they're better or not. I'm trying to stream line the shop and use a consistent background in the new photos. I thought it might give my shop a cleaner look. Opinions? Please be free with them!