Well, I made a change. I moved this blog and the Crafting English Prof over to Blogger, and combined them. Makes life much easier. Go check it out! http://definitivedesignsbyrwilson.blogspot.com/
See you there!
RLW
Well, I made a change. I moved this blog and the Crafting English Prof over to Blogger, and combined them. Makes life much easier. Go check it out! http://definitivedesignsbyrwilson.blogspot.com/
See you there!
RLW
Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a Comment »
Yup! Yup, there is! And it’s cool! Last weekend, I started a Facebook page to help promote Definitive Designs. I thought long and hard about it, and decided the time was right (see, I’m still a very small business-y thing, so I thought if I started it now, it’d be there when I really needed it!)
You can find it here. This is just a place to post info about shop happenings and the blog, and to hopefully keep my confusing life a bit more organized!
Thanks!
R. Wilson
Posted in Definitive Designs | Tagged Definitive Designs, Facebook | Leave a Comment »
So, last week, as I begged my boss and all the office ladies to vote for my Art with Heart piece (which they did! So, yay!!!) they also asked to see what else I made. So, today, or I guess, yesterday now, I took all my work in so they could see. And guess what! I sold a pair of earrings, and have orders for five, (yes, FIVE) African Helix bracelets. YAY!!!!!!!
I know it’s not much, but it makes me happy! 🙂 And now, I get to play on Artbeads and buy some new seeds and druks. Whoo-hoo!!!!!
I also ordered the kit for Art with Heart Cycle 3, and I cannot WAIT to get that sucker! Here’s a link; check out those colours. How gorgeous are those! And that focal! I’m tempted to get a few of those just to have on hand. I can feel a fabulous piece in the offing!
Well, that’s it for my quick update. Look for some new pieces in the shop in a few days, and have a great weekend!
R.Wilson
Posted in jewelry | Tagged Art with Heart, Artbeads, artfire, beads, inspiration, jewelry, update | Leave a Comment »
Art with Heart Cycle 2 is finished, and the pieces are posted! Mine is a very cool watch (it has a magnetic clasp–awesomeness!!!!) I call it “No time to be Blue” and I love love LOVE the dangly bits!
Here’s some pics:
So here’s the link to vote, and my piece is #12. I had a great time making the piece, especially because I had to ponder for so long before I got inspiration on this one!
So go vote! Please? Pretty please? With, like, cherries on top and stuff? LOL!
Thanks!
Rana
Posted in Contests | Tagged Art with Heart, contests, Cycle 2, dangly bits, inspiration, Vote, watch | 2 Comments »
So, you know that annoying junk mail you get every Tuesday? Yeah, I hate that… Most of it I dump directly from my mailbox into the recycle bin. But every once in a while a piece makes it into the house. oops…
Anyways, I opened one of these annoying pieces the other day, cuz I thought, “hey, why not?” It was a visa offer (like I need another credit card…) but you know how you can get those pretty cards now? Yeah, it was one of those. The pictures were all Zodiac signs… very cool. So I put the insert in my craft-stash to ponder later. That was two days ago…
Three days ago I made a few poly-clay pendants, thinking that I would Mod Podge some pics of my niece and nephews onto them, for gifts, if they turned out okay. Unfortunately, none of the pics I have printed would work at all well for that, and I’ve run out of ink (boo…). Then yesterday, I remembered the pics from that Visa offer.
So I started pondering, and made this:
Here’s the back:
So here’s what I did: After pondering the 12 designs offered up in the mailing, I decided on the Leo, Pisces, and Cancer (right, that’s the crab?) images as the best for this project. And I cut some backgroundy bits from the other pieces to fill in the gaps a bit. Instead of painting the Mod Podge on each individual piece, like I normally would, I just painted a thinnish layer on the front of the pendant, so that I would have a base to arrange and stick the pieces to. It seemed to work best for this project. After I had them arranged (actually, I arranged on the dry piece first, then did the Podgey process…) and stuck down to my satisfaction, I painted some Podge overtop. After that layer dried, I painted another layer, and made sure to seal the edges and back of the pendant as well, so that it’s all nicely shiny… Shiny is good….
This project holds a number of firsts for me. It’s my first mosaic piece, it’s the first time I’ve mixed polyclay and ANYTHING else, and it’s the first time I’ve used Mod Podge start to finish. I can honestly say, I was very pleasantly surprised at the workability of the Mod Podge. See, I usually use Elmers to stick stuff down, and until the tea-tray, I’d not used Mod Podge EVER. I think I’m in love…
So, what am I going to do with this pendant? No idea. It doesn’t really match any of the jewelry types I wear, but I’m kinda loving it. But I’m not sure about the ethics of selling it, either, since I have no idea who the original artist is so I can’t give them credit (and here is the dilemma of being an English teacher and a jewelry designer. I worry about plagiarism in art… kind of annoying actually!)
Ah, well. In the meantime, I’m just going to enjoy my craftiness…
R.Wilson
Posted in crafter, Uncategorized | Tagged art, crafter, hand-made, Mod Podge, pendant, poly-clay, pretty images, Visa offer, zodiac | 2 Comments »