Crochet: Work in Progress

ooak

I will be launching one of a kind (ooak) work in May and decided to soft launch it on my site and blog now to start the hype! Then thought I'd ask if anyone had any tips for selling ooak work on the web. I'm still figuring it all out, right now I might need to just sell it in my etsy shop since I do not have inventory control on my site. I will also be bringing this work to shows, along with the pieces from my line and need to highlight this difference in some way. I will have some table signage but is that enough? Any tips will be appreciated : )
-Linda

Before and After - Chainmaille Earrings

My name is Glamorosi; this is my first week participating in the Philly Makes project. I am a full-time jewelry designer with several online shops – you can see them all and find out more about my work on my blog.

For the theme “Before and After” I made two-tone chainmaille earrings with rose gold plated centers and sterling silver borders in a weave called European 4-in-1. Every single ring is opened and closed by hand, with special attention paid to the closures so that no gaps or sharp edges remain. I love making chainmaille of all sizes, but I especially enjoy the discipline of working with small rings - it is both relaxing and addictive.

The earrings measure 2.5 inches long from the top of the ear wire; you can get a closer view by clicking on the photo.

Before and After

The First picture is a BEFORE picture of some new grid cardstock I have been working with. The AFTER picture is of the project I made using it. You can faintly see the grid on the front of the tea card behind all of the stamped colors. The last picture is of the inside of the card.

Painting in progress- Orbit

A few weeks ago I wrote on my blog about how I have way too many unfinished small paintings. 52 of them to be exact. So tonight I had the brilliant idea of setting myself the goal of finishing one per week as my thing to post here. Unfortunately this brilliant idea did not occur to me until 11pm, and alas, I have to get up in the morning to go to work. So for this week I'm posting another work in progress. I'm going to make a sincere effort for following weeks to post a finished small painting each week though!



Acrylic and collage on 8" x 4" canvas board. This painting contains several of my current fascinations- circles, planets, and this particularly gorgeous shade of turquoise paint I picked up at Utrecht a while ago.

Feeding the Muse

My friend Victoria Janssen has a new book contract! As I have done for years, I celebrated this by baking a pie today to feed her muse, an apple tarte tatin. She generously dedicated her first book -- something most definitely made in Philly -- to me (see cover image), and even mentioned the pies in her dedication.

Sorry; I'm a terrible photographer. The photo doesn't capture the caramelized deliciousness of this dessert.

The husband wrote a book in Philly as well, Higher-Order Perl (2005), and here's a pie I baked for that one years ago, when he was working on Chapter 9. He incorporated our wedding quilt into the cover for that book. His design for that quilt was his first-ever gift to me and I hand-quilted the whole enormous king-sized monstrosity as my nuptial gift to him.

The Past 2 Wks...

I took a really long train ride. 12 hrs each way. While on the train, I colored in some previously drawn sketches, and worked on a few crochet projects that have yet to reach fruition. Took a ton of photos too, oh and I redesigned my website.