Jelly Lane Art Blog: Doodled Pendants DIY

Jelly Lane Art Blog: Doodled Pendants DIY: Here is a fun DIY for you that has been inspired by the art of doodling. I started making these little pendants last summer when I was spend...

Art Bead Scene Blog: 12 Days of Christmas: Snowy Mountain Top Pendant

Art Bead Scene Blog: 12 Days of Christmas: Snowy Mountain Top Pendant: A snowy mountain made from sheet copper? Yep! I wanted to create a fun and playful winter pendant. This is a basic metal work project, i...

Who are you?

Worry about yourself!

I am the plaid wearing cowgirl with a country twang

I am the goth girl with black nails, torn leggings and skulls on everything

I am the quiet introvert who wants to be alone to read

I am the gamer girl who will whip your ass in MRPGs

I am the tree hugger who wants to save the planet and lectures you on recycling

I am the daddy’s girl, mama’s baby, and my grandparents’ lil angel

I am the one who broke the mold, doesn’t fit in with your plans and makes you think twice

Stop trying to label me because I can be any and all of these depending on my mood

I am a girl, I am a woman, I am a goddess

Worry about yourself

Art Jewelry Elements: Beading Beyond Jewellery

Art Jewelry Elements: Beading Beyond Jewellery: Regular readers may remember from my last post that I acquired an addiction for bead embroidery on my recent trip to the USA and since...

Art Jewelry Elements: Headpin Cuff Tutorial

Art Jewelry Elements: Headpin Cuff Tutorial: A couple of months ago I designed a necklace for our component of the month challenge featuring Diana’s stoneware disc, and came up with a ...

Lauren E Fabrications: Kimono Slipper Tutorial

Lauren E Fabrications: Kimono Slipper Tutorial: Kimono Slipper Tutorial By Lauren Mackey Materials Needed: Pattern  ( Cut to fit you. I have added a size conversion and measur...

Jennifer Jangles Blog: Flower Pincushion and Bowl Project

Jennifer Jangles Blog: Flower Pincushion and Bowl Project: Hey, Hey, Happy Wednesday! I

Jennifer Jangles Blog: Calculating Yardage, Fractions to Decimals

Jennifer Jangles Blog: Calculating Yardage, Fractions to Decimals: Here's a handy dandy reference guide for when you are calculating your sewing projects and yardage.  You can pin this on Pinterest and ...

Art Jewelry Elements: How to Host a Charm Exchange

Art Jewelry Elements: How to Host a Charm Exchange: Before I started hosting charm swaps, I hosted fused glass swaps, sometimes it was fused glass ornaments, sometimes it was a 2" or...

Jennifer Jangles Blog: Sewing Machine Decorations, Holiday Project #1

Jennifer Jangles Blog: Sewing Machine Decorations, Holiday Project #1: We are starting off the holiday projects this week, wahoo! I came up with this one about a month ago and got super excited about the idea...

feeling stitchy: Colour Complements Threads Test-drive

feeling stitchy: Colour Complements Threads Test-drive: Remember the Colour Complements giveaway we did recently? Well, Lorraine was sweet enough to send some threads my way so I could expe...

feeling stitchy: Tutorial Tuesday

feeling stitchy: Tutorial Tuesday: Hello and Happy Tuesday, everyone! It's back-to-school time for many of us and today's tutorial is a fun way to add some stitchery...

New Work, Textile Collage art

Lately I have been rediscovering old skills.  I started embroidery again, which I haven't used since I was little.  On Etsy you can find my new collages.  I use reclaimed textiles, vintage and antique lace, trims, beads and buttons.  I even used a few old quilt tops.  I added embroidered pieces to many of them.  Take a look.

I have also begun to turn several of my sketches and paintings into embroidery patterns.  You can find the first of these on Etsy.  The Rose from my blue/green embroidered rose above is in the store now as a pattern.  All of these collages are in my Etsy store as well.
Hugs*  Christy

Jennifer Jangles Blog: Eight Free Christmas Patterns

Jennifer Jangles Blog: Eight Free Christmas Patterns: Gift Card Tutorial Are you thinking about Christmas gifts yet? I'm starting to plan out my gifts for this year. It's never to...

Resin Crafts: Taxi Cab Tiles - Into Art Beads

Resin Crafts: Taxi Cab Tiles - Into Art Beads: This post has such an odd title.  I will explain. I do hope the resin covered beads caught your eye!  For this project I am using t...

Jennifer Jangles Blog: Free Patterns for the Holidays

Jennifer Jangles Blog: Free Patterns for the Holidays:  Bunnies and Carrots Garland I am loving my lists here's another. This time we've got holiday projects of all sorts. These wil...

Carmi's Art/Life World: Glitz Knitz Crazy Cuff

Carmi's Art/Life World: Glitz Knitz Crazy Cuff: This is crazy cuff number three.  It features this fabulous  Glitz Knitz Los Angeles yarn they actual call "ribbon fabric" ...

Jennifer Jangles Blog: Free Gift Patterns You'll Want to Sew

Jennifer Jangles Blog: Free Gift Patterns You'll Want to Sew: Happy Scrappy Scarves Here's a list of projects that make great gifts. Scroll to the bottom for your  Pinterest  friendly list....

Art Jewelry Elements: Silk Macrame Bird Bangle Tutorial

Art Jewelry Elements: Silk Macrame Bird Bangle Tutorial:   Some of you may remember this bangle from my Spring Fever design challenge earlier this year and as it was so popular I've put ...

Craft Show Displays

Now that things are winding down for me I am trying to figure out where to go next.  I finally finished school and received my second associates degree in HIT, my first was business mngt.  I am waiting a month to take my RHIT certification test, so I have plenty of time to study.  While job hunting I am thinking about going into craft shows.  This has been a mental argument with myself for years.  I make beads and other jewelry supplies but I don't really want to do bead shows because they are expensive and usually pretty far from me.  I do crafts but I have never really set a focus on just a few types.  I think craft shows would be the way to take but trying to make my self focus on just a few craft types is making me bonkers. 
If you are having the same problems you might try figuring out what is trending in your area, not just in fashion.  Hair items are popular on the internet, but are people in your area wearing them?  One problem I face is that my area is a low to middle income area and people just don't want to spend that much on luxury items.  This means that instead of the 50$ sterling silver or copper jewelry I might sell on Etsy, I may have to make only a few of these and make nickle of steel jewelry to meet a lower price point.  One idea are scrabble tile pendants, they are literally choking Etsy, but at a local craft show they would appeal to teens, kids, and adults because they can be kept cheap but look nice.  They can carry fancy designs or anime/ cartoon characters, just as an example.

One you have decided to do craft shows check Pinterest for cool ideas on Craft Show Display ideas.  Below are a few of my favorites:
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/160792649170930731/
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/160792649170930742/
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/160792649170930438/
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/160792649170930588/
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/160792649170930450/
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/160792649170930680/