Busy as a bee - my creative space

You remember I mentioned that I have 2 big markets coming up?
And that I had very little stock?

I've been busy!

Pendants with 3 types of filling - some have glass domes, some have resin, and some have 2 part resin.

 Long decorated shell and bead necklaces - these were very popular last time!

Colourful semi-precious gemstone and bead necklaces.

I've been having so much fun!
This is why I do what I do - I love getting my beads out and playing with them.

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Piles and piles of earrings - my creative space

There's nothing like an impending festival or market to get the creative space humming!
And I have been in full production, making batches of things.
I know it's not really very creative, but these will help to pay for the stall space (not cheap!)

I made a whole bunch of pendants.
Here are the Alice in Wonderland ones -

I also have some Paris themed pendants, steampunk inspired and some cute ones with birds and flowers.

But earrings are my bread and butter, and what I really, really enjoy making.
Unfortunatley my right hand decided to seize up, making holding pliers too difficult (very inconvenient!) so I had to let these sit for a while.

Instead I reckoned I could do some glueing! (I can hear you all rolling your eyes!)
When I was in Sydney a couple of weeks ago I visited The Button Shop in The Rocks - in fact it was conveniently just behind our hotel, when we stayed here.
Picked up some sweet little buttons to make some stud earrings with.

Here they are all ready to go - 

Then suddenly I am all out of stock of glass drop earrings.
My hand isn't too bad today so I reckon I can do a bit of wire wrapping.

 

I'm posting this on my creative space over on Village Voices - pop on over and have a look at what others have been up to this week.

Production lines and art shows

Not too much creating going on this week as I had an art and craft show to get ready for.
This has got to be one of the most boring jobs - you have to label all your goods, then catalogue them and then I like to arrange most of my pieces on display boards before I go.

This art show is the type where you leave your goods for the duration of the show (2 days and one evening) and thet sell them for you (hopefully!)

But I decided to make some more pendants and that is what I did this week and then I catalogued ....nearly 200 items - I hope they ALL sell.
Well they won't but I can dream, right?

Do you do these sort of art and craft shows?
Often they are fundraisers for schools and such.

Here is part of my display at the school.
You can see what I mean about the boards, I think it helps my display to stay neater as I'm not there to tizzy it up.

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7 on sunday - ceramic bead artists - blogtoberfest day 23

Many years ago I was a potter - strange, but true!
And then one day I became interested in beads and jewellery and I thought "I could make pottery beads!"
But did I?.....Well, no I never did, because I became totally obsessed with glass beads and stones ...and you know the rest....
So maybe this is why I am so drawn to ceramic beads and pieces and today I'd like to share with you some of my favorites.

My most favorite ceramic artist has to be Round Rabbit.
The designs are always unique and amazing - glazes so beautiful and always something different, like these asymetric pendants -

pendants by roundrabbit

Round Rabbit's shop is in vaction mode at the moment, but you can see more of her work on her blog.



In complete contrast Jennifer Jangles makes bright, vibrant components - such fun!

necklace set by jangles

I posted a few days ago about my Kylie Parry purchases - this pendant has got to be one of my most faves of Kylie's pieces -

Maku studio acheives wonderful colours and textures by firing their pieces in a raku kiln.
(check out this listing to find out about raku)

raku starburst by Makustudio

Artisanclay uses recycled glass to embellish their handmade pendants  -
Delicious!

deep rich greens and blue sparkly pendant by artisanclay

Earthenwood have been in my radar for a long time!
And the thing that I love is that they don't stand still, there's always something different

bicycle pendant by earthenwood

And for some really out-there other-wordly ancient artifact-looking creations check out wondrous strange.
I am strangely drawn to these raku faces.

soon will be winter moon by wondrousstrange

What do you think?

Do you love the organic, earthy look or the bright festive ones, or the more sophistcated ones?

Do you have any favorite bead artists to share. I'd love to see them.

 In the meantime -

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My Creative Space - blogtoberfest day 6

Hi and how are all the crafty creators today?

I've been busy making lots of new stock for the start of the spring fair season.

I wanted to have a bit of a floral/nature/birdie theme so I made some pendants with some images that I bought ages ago.

One of them I made into a necklace with a silver branch component but the others....well that's a surprise!

I also made some owly branch necklaces with brass findings.

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My creative space

 Hi and happy Thursday to everyone!

 How has your week been so far?

I have been doing some serious creating, realising it's only one week until the start of the spring fair season.

With that in mind I have been making some spring themed jewellery like these bird's best necklaces.
Now I realise that the bird's nests are not new, and I didn't invent them, but I had a stash of czech glass pearls that I wasn't using plus a few other round stone beads that needed a purpose.

 These wire-wrapped pendants are perfect beacuse they use 3 little round beads and wire (that I already had).
Also although there are plenty of these on etsy I haven't seen them out in the markets here, so they will be a bit of freshness on my stall.

 Next up - I've had a few requests for stud earrings.
The other week when I was in sydney for my wedding anniversary I had a bit of shopping time and as luck would have it our hotel was almost next door to the most fabulous button shop "Buttons buttons buttons". I always love having a poke around in there and picked up some sweet little buttons to use for earrings.

What do you think?

And that's about it for now...back to my creative space to do some creating, however if you'd like to see more creative spaces or join in then pop on over to Our Creative Spaces.

See you next time!