Creatively Tinkering

   Alrighty I have here some photos of items that I plan on selling at my booth at MAGFest, provided my application gets approved. As of right now I only have pictures of one of the bags I'll be making, a few of my earring designs, and the cat/fox ears and tails. More pictures well follow of the other items I plan on making, such as Link hats, fingerless gloves and another bag design.   Here's my one-up mushroom bag, a cute little triangle shaped bag made out of cotton with a hand-painted mushroom on the front corner. Its a sturdy bag that can hold an Ipad or netbook and a few essentials like your wallet, cellphone and favorite magazine.   Here are my hand-beaded earrings, so far I've made the red mushroom from Mario, a tri-force and pokeball designs. I have plans to try and make the cake from Portal and the Minecraft creeper face.   Last but not least are my fox/cat ears and tail. The ears are made from faux fur with craft foam to keep th...

    Well it has been quite awhile but I've finally got some stuff to talk about. That silver vest I mentioned around the time I finished that Link costume has finally been finished. It turned out pretty well. I had a devil of a time making it though as the fabric wasn't exactly fun to work with. The vest was made out of a silver satin with a matching silver lining fabric so it was like trying to sew on a slip n' slide. It took me much longer to make it than it should have, mostly because working with the fabric was frustrating. Now that it's done I can start to work on products to sell at MagFest in January.     Over the past week or so I've been narrowing down the tons of ideas I have for products to potentially sell at MagFest. As of today I've narrowed it down to earrings, hats, cat ears and tails, fingerless gloves, bags and wallets. Whether all of those items make it into my repertoire of things to sell at the booth or not is the question. As of right now ...

   Well sadly my little dream of having an Etsy shop has severely floundered. Mostly because I have been insanely busy with school and work. Honestly I haven't stopped feeling overwhelmed since the beginning of the semester. I haven't even had time to make the vest my coworker wants me to make. Luckily spring break is coming up so I'll have time to do homework and that vest. I'm looking forward to the end of the semester in hopes that I'll be able to get into my sewing/craft room and play. I have been just itching to get in there and let the creative juices flow. Sadly I can't because my homework gets in the way, on the plus side some of my homework is fun since it's photography assignments. It's the english assignments that aren't any fun. In three semesters I'll be done at GMU, I am soo looking forward to being done. After I'm done with school I look forward to really getting into building my Etsy shop, till then I will use summer as my opp...

 Well so far, no such luck with my Etsy shop. I think that has a lot to do with the lack of items in my shop. Also maybe my necklaces aren't all that great. Anyway I'm not letting this sway my feelings about attempting to sell things I can make.  So there are many reasons why I haven't added any new items to my shop; lack of inspiration, increased hours at work, side projects and the holidays. All of this sounds like excuses I know, there is also that wonderful little thing that lots of people suffer from called procrastination. One of my goals for this year is to try and schedule more time to my little (floundering) Etsy shop. Also I recently went to MagFest (a video game convention, look it up it's super fun!) and inspiration hit me, I've decided that next year I want to have a booth at MagFest. I've been brimming with ideas to sell at my potential booth and I can't wait for it to come to fruition. Of course till MagFest rolls around I've got plans to...

  Well its been almost three weeks and so far no one has purchased any of my necklaces :-( I suppose I'll have to find a way to promote them better. I still plan on adding more to the shop, I think I've just been a little disheartened from the lack of transactions, kind of kills the creative spirit a bit. I've been toying with the idea of trying to get a booth at a local craft fair or farmers market to see if I can start selling things there. However I think I'll need a bit more than just a few necklaces to sell in that setting. I really want to make some retro aprons, just need to acquire some fabric.  On another note I recently started making a renaissance costume for myself, I haven't made something for me in a very looong time. I haven't finished it yet but I think it will be very pretty its being made from a dark teal wide corduroy and a chocolate brown lining fabric. I'll post pictures when I'm done. Today I went shopping for fabric with a friend ...

Alright I finally did it. I posted some necklaces on Etsy, please go have a look at my shop: http://www.etsy.com/shop/DreamingDragons?ref=pr_shop_more . I have a few more jewelry ideas to make and on top of that I'm hoping to make some retro style aprons soon. This is just a short little blurb of an entry, I'm looking forward to adding more to my shop.

   Well it occurs to me its been a month and four days since last I wrote. I apologize for my lack in more frequent updating. Also I am writing this post via my phone so I'd like to apologize for any grammar or spelling mistakes I might possibly make.     Anyway things are going slowly in the lines of progress. I have however managed to make some necklaces to sell. I had a bout of scrapbook fever take over me that distracted me from setting up shop. Luckily this passed and I finally set myself down and filled out all the necessary information to open my Etsy shop. I have made my shop policies a banner logo and all that's left now is to list items to sell. I plan on having those necklaces listed within the week.     Aside from all that I have been asked to make a Link costume, a vest and a halloween costume for coworkers and a friend. Hopefully we'll go out soon and pick up the fabric so that I might get started on these fun projects. Hopefully ...