How smart do I feel?
I printed off the gemstones on a small postcard-sized piece of photo paper(and might get actual postcards done up); the beach glass is printed on letter-sized photo paper. I’m feeling pretty pleased with myself, because these are all photos of my actual stock, and the beach glass is all stuff I found myself (or my family found on a trip with me).
The beach glass one is all finished, but I think I’ll continue with my original plan and create a template to print out for the gemstones, and glue the actual stones to cardstock - I also really want to write a sentence or so for each, although that may be too ambitious right now.
Off to the dollar store for some cheap frames!
Here are those sets un-jumbled and laid out (click for larger):
And a couple of my favourites:
I made more money from my jewellery in galleries in August than I took home from my day job. And I get paid pretty damn good at my job. I was told that September is about 3/4 of the volume of August - and then comes Celtic Colours, which is an internationally renowned, island-wide fiddle/folk music concert in October.
Since somewhere around Wednesday, I’ve made 71 pairs of earrings, 17 earring/pendant sets, one necklace/earring set and 18 single pendants, while still managing to feel idiotically lazy in front of the TV, watching House and Friends and MASH while making the earrings. I just spent two hours or so with my TV table out on the front verandah drinking in the beautiful fall air (I know, it’s technically summer, but this is Cape Breton) and building some of those sets and pendants.
I was going to say I don’t have pictures of all of this, but screw it, they’re here, the camera’s here, so I snapped a couple.
What I just did outside:
What a jumble of 70 pairs of earrings looks like (don’t worry, they’re all on cards, tangling should be minimal):
A messy, messy photo of some of the sets (there’s pendants underneath the gray cloth, I got lazy though):
