In my heart I feel that creating Etsy Treasuries is helping to promote my Etsy shop.
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| Beads of Clay Members Treasury for August 2011. |
While at the same time helping out fellow Etsians and various teams that I'm on…
It is all about getting out there promoting items right?
Being part of the Etsy community…
Building and promoting and getting fast at it...
Sometimes - like right now - it feels a bit on the procrastination part.
I think I'm a little anxious about firing my little kiln.
The same kiln (the cone actually - it did not melt properly) that did this:
Glazes ran down the beads…
Colors were muddied & not even…
A bunch of these pieces were custom made pieces for Etsy orders…
That took me all last week to work on and get fired…
But it is firing now.
I still am weary.
I think it will pass if this next firing comes out "normal".
So I'm doing all kinds of stuff down here in the basement studio…
To keep an eye and ear out for the kiln as it is firing.
Want to make sure nothing is going on weird with the kiln itself...
A quick little family excursion to the beach helped me get over the depressed feelings of a weeks worth of work into the garbage...
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| RJ experiencing the waves onto the beach for the first time (and not freaking out). |
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| Chloe and her favorite drippy sand castles... |
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| Milkweed seed and a secret wish attached... |
I have also come to love even more the blowing of secret wishes into the air from atop of seeds that have burst from their protective pods, now that I've got two little ones that enjoy making wishes and catching them as well...
So I'm sending this little one out to Andrew on his blog for the Word of the Week:
Secret
It will be the color inspiration for some new silk bundles I'm going to be pulling for my Etsy shop Silk Knot Bundle Section soon. I am wishing to have an entire blog post designated to some new palettes and the inspirations for them later this week - but that is not the secret ;)
So I'm sending this little one out to Andrew on his blog for the Word of the Week:
Secret
It will be the color inspiration for some new silk bundles I'm going to be pulling for my Etsy shop Silk Knot Bundle Section soon. I am wishing to have an entire blog post designated to some new palettes and the inspirations for them later this week - but that is not the secret ;)
Thanks for stopping by!
Hope you are enjoying this last month of Summer…
That bunch of beads looks fine to me, maybe you should just send them all to my house so they get some love. HAHAHA
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I know how you feel, I had a whole kiln of fused glass come out all wrong ugh. So much work!
Hope you are having a better day today.
I am still deciding what to use my gc on. I need some bright silks so maybe I should have you do a surprise bundle!
I am so sorry to see and hear about your kiln disaster. And knowing how much you fit into a kiln, I can see why you were so devastated. I am glad the trip to the beach helped. What a great option for cheering up. Your Treasury is a beauty. An especial thanks since my piece sold!! Love the silk colors. H ope your firing went well and that that doesn't ever happen again!!
ReplyDeleteThat's thing about clay....it's a waiting game...sometime wonderful things happen in there and sometimes not so wonderful...It definitely deflates you when it's the latter and inflates you when it's wonderful...kind of like the lottery or bingo..Lol... A beach trip is the perfect fix! Did you figure out what happened..overfire? Is it digital or a kiln sitter?
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