Day 4. Today’s challenge is to make lots of earrings ready for @thelastofthecreativesmarket on Sunday! Inspired by one of the first pairs of earrings I made as part of my daily earring challenge last year, expect to see some very cute and colourful mismatched earrings at very special prices on Sunday.
Day 3. Two bracelets heading to @stationmaster5255 gallery tomorrow! I can never decide which beads I prefer, the ones with the ivory? Or the other ones with two transparent colours?
Day 2 of my #makingitthroughwinter2021 challenge and I made 2 pairs of earrings. I am getting ready for my next shift at @stationmaster5255 gallery in Strathalbyn on Friday morning. Really looking forward to being in the gallery from 10-1. Love visiting #strathalbyn.
Making it through winter 2021. If you have been following me for a while, you will know that I love a daily creative challenge. In 2020 I set out to make a pair of glass earrings every day. I finished that challenge and thought…no more of these challenges! But lately I have been feeling a bit low on energy thanks to it being winter, and also excited about all the making I did for the window exhibition at T’Arts. I was thinking about what I could do to motivate myself a bit more, and the idea of a #100daychallenge felt like something I could do. So for the next 100 days, to well and truly get me through winter, I will be making something and posting a photo here. It might be beads, earrings, a bracelet, a necklace, or something else. Who knows? I can’t wait to see what the next 100 days brings. Today I have made a necklace featuring handmade wave beads and pearls.
Dear Mum and Dad, I hope you had a wonderful 50th wedding anniversary! A really impressive achievement, congratulations. I am sorry I forgot it was the Golden Wedding anniversary, I hope to make it up to you when I see you in a couple of weeks. Love from your daughter xx P.S. bracelet made from recycled beer and gin bottles with touches of gold and silver for extra sparkle.
Have you had a chance to check out the window exhibition at @tartscollective that @tangerinemeg and I have put together? We hope you enjoyed it if you did! Have you wandered down @adelaidearcade recently? So many lovely little shops to explore, and T’Arts is located off there in Gays Arcade.
Getting ready to photograph and list some new recycled glass jewellery pieces for my Etsy shop. It will be nice to have these bracelets and necklaces available as options for people who love the Green Depression glass jewellery range, and also the Hendricks Midsummer Solstice Gin range. The dark purple glass has already been a popular choice for earrings. Available from tomorrow night.
It can be tricky buying jewellery online. I have all sorts of recycled glass earrings to choose from, and the gin and tonic range is always very popular. It was so nice to see this feedback on Etsy recently. I love using Etsy to sell my work, and it’s really awesome when people take the time to leave positive comments, as it helps other people to decide it’s OK to shop online with me.
I am so excited to be attending @thelastofthecreativesmarket on June 20 at Crafers Institute Hall from 11am until 3pm. I am getting some old and new work together, all at special EOFY prices! Hope to see you there.
Our third creative challenge was inspired at first by Frida Kahlo, and slowly shifted towards Mexican Folk Art. I looked at lots of images, and the bird motif kept popping up which led me to make brightly coloured bird beads! Margie also used birds in one of her paintings.
