4 posts tagged “wire wrap”
I've finished those wedding pendants. ^_^ I threw in an extra green one because I was worried that one might be too dark or the other might be too pale, this way she can just pick whichever one looks appropriate when she has them all in her possession. I was trying to think of a nice freebie and that seemed to be the most useful. :)
I like how it came out but I'm a bit worried that they're all coming out looking much the same. I guess that means I'm getting good enough at it that I'm starting to be able to replicate the random patterns that I come up with as I go.
I've been super busy with this project lately, I'm trying to get the bulk of it ready by the end of May so we can launch the website. I did a custom stylesheet for Tarski, and it came out real pretty, yet sort of somber and historical looking. All I have to do is draw up a couple custom images and base site will be done. Heck, those can even wait until after launch if need be, the site functions and looks nice without them. We'll see how much time it takes to do everything else.
I won't be worrying about any of that tonight though. I'll be glued to the season finale of Heroes. *woots!*
For a little while there I wasn't sure if I was going to list absolutely all my pieces on Etsy, I had to tinker with a few shopping cart softwares first. Now that they've got a handy little "mini etsy" feature that makes it much easier to display my listings on my own site, I made my mind up and got down to it. You can find my shop here, and it's also linked in my sidebar.
Here's a few of the pendants I've put up.
I never did find out what kind of stone this Cabochon was, but I think it's some sort of Agate. I think I listed it 5 times on eBay, and nobody seemed to want it. I have no idea why, I think it's pretty cute. ^_^
The other reason I've held off listing is that I'm getting pretty close to the end of my stock and I haven't made a significant number of new pieces in quite a while. Fortunately Etsy listings last for 4 months if they don't sell first so I've got a pretty big window in which to get new pieces up. I've also got some custom stuff to do for a project that hopefully is launching sometime in may so I really need to get busy again.
Nothing against the friends I've done custom pieces for, but this one is special. It's a contact I made through myspace (I guess it is good for something no?) and it involved an 1844 Sixpence featuring the young Queen Victoria.
I was also contacted recently on my eBay account with an inquiry about a possible commission for some bridesmaid accessories next fall. I'm positively giddy with this little burst of popularity.
I'm so glad I completely overhauled the site last week. New versions of Wordpress and my prefered theme came out within a couple days of each other, so I had some code wrasslin to do. I think I'm happy enough with it to leave the base design alone for a while now. The upgrades broke my forum plugin so I ended up just installing a full forum. Overall I think it's a lot slicker actually, and I found a theme for it that was super easy to sync with my Wordpress, so it all looks of a piece. I'm still not completely satisfied with my gallery plugin but I haven't found anything better yet.
Busy busy busy.
