Craft Enabled, Domestically Disabled

Lock and Key

I read the book Lock and Key by Sarah Dessen and then was inspired to make key jewelry a la the book. This one has a plastic purple key that came with a key chain doodah (I bought it for the key, not the keychain), then wrapped wire and beads around the key.

My birthday beads this year.

Annoyingly, they fell off my damn ankle and are already lost :(

I also made this mask, which I wore a week later and it looked cute. Butterflies were added on for mini-decoration, plus you can wear it over glasses.

Misc. jewelry for Whole Earth

Weekend crafting

I did get more beaded necklaces and a few earrings/bracelets done this weekend. Quite a few, though I suppose I should have done more than I did (I was utterly zonked on Sunday after spending Saturday doing party planning, then partying.) Mostly made pieces that I've had in mind to do for months or years or years (there are some things I think I've had in the stash for like five). Problem being, now I want to keep most of them :P Sadly, it's gonna take me years to Photoshop stuff, so it all must wait until next week at the earliest.

I did sign up for selling at WEF this year, but I plan on only doing it for a day, and mostly/95% of the pieces will be from previous years, and I'm not going to sit there all damn day long trying to boost sales even when I am cranky sitting there. I will try to restrain myself from nitpicking the prices over and over and over. I am taking it easy. If I sell nothing, I sell nothing, fine. I'm not pushing myself so hard about it and stressing and ruining the weekend. And if I feel like keeping a lot of my new shiny pieces, I can do that, dammit.

My list of what to knit is longer than I'd like. First up has to be Mom's present #1, which odds are...dicey that it will be done by Sunday. I have one out of two sides made, but not a lot of time to make the other side. I *might* manage it. Present #2 definitely won't be done then and I'll still have to make that. Then eventually I can get back to the top I really want to do, and do something with all my homespun yarn.

Persephone jewelry set

I was trying to do some Persephone-themed jewelry- half spring, half down below and pomegranates. Here's the bracelet:

Here's the necklace:

And the two together:

Rose quartz and amethyst bracelet.

Made some jewelry lately

 Back to doing hemp again- this was a birthday present.

Here's some shiny jewelry, made to match.

And some lightning earrings.

I found these two neat long beads in a store, that went well with this pendant I've had floating around for years. Makes an interesting choker.

I found some really cute bead and knitting-themed beads, so I had to make some bracelets with them.

More hemp.

Miscelleaneous necklaces made.

Word bracelets.

A while ago, I found these beads with random words on them. Turns out, they have words on the front and the back. Ergo, I now made some reversible hemp necklaces with...interesting...sayings on both sides.

I've got the necklaces paired front-n-back here . I hope that's helpful in viewing!

Meanw hile, my mom was all, "You couldn't find enough words to make real sentences?" Um, not so much.

At this point, I'm having a hard time coming up with more to say here so I can space these words out.

Blah blah almost done...