A Sassy Conspiracy

As warned, I’ll be posting the awesome handmade goodies I received this past friend’s xmas. Its been almost a month now since the party so I am rather behind (tsk tsk!) which is in no way a reflection of my feelings towards the awesome loot I received! I’m also rather disappointed in myself that [...]

Back in January, the lovely Ms. Nven somehow managed to knit up a tree cozy to submit to the Winterlude Urban Cozy Project while caring for a very active two month old. Erika was checking out Winterlude and happened upon said tree cozy in the downtown festival site. Her’s is the forth one up :)
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Yes, that’s right, I won the challenge! So excited! *happy dance*
You should go and check out all the great submissions here!

Finished my submission for the Craftster jewelry challenge! I struggled with the photos - didn’t have time to photograph it last night in my lightbox so I had to take pictures by a window this morning and they’re… not ideal. But there you have it, at least i HAVE pictures! My lovely coworker P also [...]

Took about 4 hours to make. I ended up using silver (not sterling) because its a little stronger and I was concerned about how delicate the design is. I’m still getting the hang of using the flex shaft to polish my work - sometimes I’m a little heavy handed and end up making the surface [...]

look look look! yeah, i totally made that.
Also, reposting the poster because the venue info has changed and, well, the show is in one week. Apt613 posted about the venue debacle (as well as some very lovely things about the SO) here if you’re interested. Anyone who’s free should come to the show to support [...]

So I did what I said I wouldn’t and went on craftster last night to see if there were any jewelry submissions for the challenge. There was one, yes, and boy, did it set the bar high. I sat there for a few minutes, totally demoralized and sulking until the boy threatened to throw something [...]

Craftster is having its first jewelry challenge and I’m dying to make something for it. I love working with a theme - this one is “colours of the sea”. I’ve done ocean-themed pieces in the past, so I’ve got lots of left over materials hanging about that I could use and, despite my affinity for [...]

Figured I might as well give the Overtones a little plug here (since I’m now an official member, yay me!). The Sexual Overtones are a very cool non-profit burlesque troupe in Ottawa: check them out at www.sexualovertones.ca. Our group will be performing our silent film act at this event, which should be lots of [...]

The very last of the Christmas present posts, I promise. Well, actually, that’s not true… now I have a bunch of awesome handmade goodies that were gifted to me by my talented friends, so I’ll be posting photos of those soon. But at least its the end of the Christmas crafts made by ME :)
Aeramel [...]