Archive: March, 2014

Fly Me to the Moon (or Saturn)

Found a new bike chain manufacturer.  This one is in Taiwan.  I am digging the “planet” stamped on the link. I made some sputnik inspired earrings.

Saturn bike chain link

Bike link-cleaned and in the rough

Cosmic earrings

Saturn links with spacy dangle

30 Mar 2014
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Hello Hatch

Here’s my output since last weekend. I cranked out 3 necklaces, 3 bracelets and 5 pair of Lego earrings. Now to load up for the Hatch event in Savoy, IL.

New jewelry pieces

New jewelry pieces

13 Mar 2014
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What Are You Up To?

I have not been keeping my posts up to date with my commitments. I just finished up a show in St Louis–Green with Indie. Wow! What a great show. Good publicity, supportive and organized organizers, nice vendors and a good volume of browsers/buyers.
March 15–I will be in Savoy, IL for the Hatch Show. Another re-use, recycle themed show. Again good publicity and participation/attendance for the pre-sales event.
April 12–I am returning to the Prairie Village Earth Fair at Shawnee Mission East High School. This is a funky Earth Day themed event. There a vendors selling plants and seeds, demos for electric cars, urban farmers (complete with chickens).
This is the most up to date list of confirmed commitments.

 

Craft Yeti

Green with Indie mascot-Craft Yeti

09 Mar 2014
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Grand Budapest Inspiration, part 2

Here is the rest of the ensemble–a little slouchy hat and a sweater jacket. All of the pieces are made from thrift store sweaters. I made another jacket and a couple of skirts (because I bought a lot of sweaters). This is an interesting diversion but I don’t think I’ll perusing this for sales. My tailoring skills aren’t that good and the learning curve might be too long and too expensive to pay off. I did learn to not panic if a sweater gets a hole–I can mend it, after a fashion, and it’s still functional.

Upcycled wool sweater hat

Upcycled wool sweater hat

Upcycled sweater jacket

Upcycled sweater jacket

09 Mar 2014
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