Exciting things in my basement….

  • Envirotex Lite (what’s the difference between regular & lite? idk! but I’m going to find out!
  • Roving + two felting needles….
  • Many, many half-finished metal curiosities!
  • A dozen+ landscape paintings that will get MONSTERS painted into them in January!
  • A piano waiting to be disassembled into many different pieces for different uses…. i forsee a bench, some jewelry, and some sculptures coming out of this 😀
  • Generally organized chaos!!!!!

VFW Craft Fair

Last weekend I was in a spur-of-the moment (like they called around 7pm the night before) craft fair. I met some nice people, didn’t sell much, and am super grateful to those friends who stopped by to hang out 🙂

2012 Dziesmu Svetki Milvokos

I guess I made enough stuff to fill a table 🙂 I almost even look a little professional, if I do say so myself.

I was at Milwaukee’s Latvian Song & Dance Festival from July 4 – 8. This year I was selling sandblasted glassware, jewelry, decorative switchplates, and lino printed cards. My mom had the table next to me, which was fun 🙂 Now slowly moving onto (what feels like a monumental task) photographing jewelry and other items to post up for sale on Etsy.

Three newest pendants

Today’s efforts after work yielded these! #27, #28, & #29 in a series of fifty. I am 58% finished with my bezel setting challenge! Yea!

New prints!

Here’s a proof of a new Latvian card I’m working on — I’ve cleaned it up a  bit since this picture was taken and have started printing cards for Dziesmu Svetki like this: