Vastly overdue shop update

Well, I'm committed to a shop update that I've been avoiding for a good long while.  A deadly mixture of procrastination, uncertainty, angst, and inertia from too many ideas with no immediate hope of resolution made me think that most of my work should be put on a shelf to 'age' like fine whiskey.  The hope being, of course, that it would look better the next time I saw it!

But you just have go forward and listing and selling ( and describing) the work is part of that.  One step in front of the other....but rest assured that anything really terrible will stay on the shelf where it belongs!


Tuesday at 6 PM I'll be listing owls ( and other portraits) and new Strata beads...

Wednesday at 6:00 PM, I'll be listing assorted beads (all hollows) and the new free moving clasps I wrote about in my last post....and some new pendants....

On Thursday at 6 PM, I'll be listing pods, buttons and bracelets...

Lots of listing work ahead and I'll post some more pictures on Monday with some other yummy stuff that will be going up...including this new hollow fan strata bead with Mokume Gane surfaces on front and back..I love this bead! 

 Love these tiles.....

Have a great weekend!  15 more centimeters of snow forecast for tonight into tomorrow.  Hmm, first day of spring....

Shamefully overdue shop update

Just to let anyone know who might be interested that I'll be doing a big shop update at noon tomorrow. I have been diligent about working and finishing, but so much less so about listing.  I confess that I have at least 150 listings to add to my shop - by this, I mean work that is finished, tagged and ready to be photographed and written up.  There won't be 150 new listings tomorrow, but there will definitely be close to 30 or so -  some pods sets, some single pods, and some interesting new beads in sets, pairs and singles.  ( and some old bead friends as well.....)


I can’t explain this delay except to say that lately, I’ve felt compelled to experiment continuously with all kinds of stuff. Some ideas have proved to be fertile and interesting directions, others… not so much…but – I feel compelled to try anyway.  As though it were a race to the idea I have in my mind.  This may have something to do with the fact that the polymer world changes so rapidly and images and ideas go viral almost instantly.  For me, this creates a self-imposed tension ( I stress the self here) to try to resolve ideas and incorporate them into my vocabulary.  Perhaps a kind of ‘taking possession ‘ of the idea!  It’s ridiculous really, but there it is.

I think I just need to turn off the computer for a while…except to list, of course!


Listings will go live at Noon tomorrow in my Etsy shop!




                                                            

                                           


            If you’re wondering what these are, well….


I think my kids might think I’m a little nuts getting out the camera to take picture of the sanded paint ridges on my old, old front door.  My wonderful kids are helping me with painting the trim on the front of the house – you know, sanding, scraping, primer, then 3 coats instead of the optimistic one coat you were hoping for.
I didn’t sand these cracks until after the first coat of the final paint  ( shoulda…).  But the paintings created by sanding back through the layers are so beautiful in their simplicity.                            
                      



             

                                            




And now they are gone…

Permanently covered by 2 more coats of this blue (totally influenced choice after seeing the Van Gogh exhibition…).  I will play with these images in my computer and see what else can happen!

Surfacing

It's March and I'm coming up for air. With a little luck (and some careful planning ) I should be able to keep my head above it all.

My apologies for the protracted absence. I know what it's like to like a blog and then you keep checking and there's...nothing.  And then you secretly worry if the blogger is ok.  Rest assured, there is really not a thing wrong except the process of life which has been full of both wonderful and unpleasant challenges.  As life is...

I'm at the end of a looong period of....what?  Paralysis of will might be the best way to describe it.  Lots of changes going on here and far too much to do had the unpleasant effect of making it impossible for me to decide how to start or finish anything.  The bright side in all this is that the ideas have kept coming so that the notebook is full...yeah, yeah, you've heard it all before.  Now I have to produce the goods, as it were....

A few new projects are in the works - more about those later.  This is just a hellllloooo out there, how are you sort of post, with the shamefaced announcement that I'll be updating my shop tommorow morning with 30 new listings ( I can hardly believe it myself.)  Included in those listings will be some of the beads you see in this post.  It's a very long overdue update, and I have 20 more listings to go up by the end of the week.  NOT included in tomorrow's update are Hollow Pod beads (singletons or pairs).  Pods will be listed on Thursday at noon!

I can at least deal with the work I've already finished, right?
What a maroon I am, sometimes....