Progress

Hello March, now that you are here won't you bring some sunshine I'm really tired of all the cold and rain. Thank you :-)
On my desk today working on some houses to be made into brooches, still to be painted are the roofs, windows and doors and also these earrings from colorful waxed cords. Plus there is one more project in progress that needs to be worked on a bit more before it's photographed :-)
Catching up with my reading list of blogs that I follow, I came up with this list of things I found on the internet:
 a lovely desktop calendar for this month
 the most amazing silver jewelry, really they are
 tell me a story, from Camilla Engman
 a wonderful DIY project making colorful chalkboard paint
 this song
See more creative spaces right here.
Wishing everyone a great day and a great month!
xoxo
Aleka

Messy

I'm not one to thrive on messy spaces, I like my work space and home to be organized and clean but since the bazaar in December I had not managed to get things back in order. And yesterday after a sale on our etsy shop had me searching for a pair of earrings for nearly an hour I decided it's time to put an end to all this messiness. I've been sorting our inventory all morning, things that are already in the shop and things that I have to photograph and list. I'm halfway there as I still need to clean my workspace, it looks like something exploded in there but since it's been too cold to work there I'm going to put it off for another couple of more days. Of course in all this craziness I've managed to misplace (loose) my corner rounder puncher thingy, I've been looking for it all week and I'm wondering if it will eventually turn up or I'll have to buy a new one :-(

There's a giveaway you can enter here, it's open to international entries as well! Oh and his work is magical, just view these photos in the slideshow :-)
Linked to our creative spaces, join the fun :-)
xoxo
Aleka

Mermaid earrings

The european street team challenge is hosted by Gia from oneperfectday. For the theme she chose mermaids and my take on this is this pair of earrings. Painted in blue, green and turquoise with white scales they look like mermaid's skin. I really liked the theme and had so much fun making them!
They are now listed in the shop, right here :-)
xoxo
Aleka

Still tired

The bazaar has ended and I've been slowly cleaning my workspace, which I left in a completely chaotic state. It's been a three day cleaning fest but I'm finally done and the space looks so pretty.
Now for the bazaar: We didn't really sell as much as I had hoped, we did cover our expenses (thankfully the participating fee was not high) and had a good profit but we sold a lot fewer things than I had anticipated. Another thing that bothered me was the reaction of a lot of people visiting the fair, they would walk by without asking any questions or even taking a business card from us or the other sellers. I don't know maybe it's the difficult economic state, I did expect that to be a negative factor. Still, I consider it a positive experience, we got to meet many other lovely artists and gained valuable experience for the next one!
I haven't started working on anything new yet, I have a lot of new jewelry to photograph and list in the shop. I started by listing a necklace and these earrings, I just love the green color combination. I was a bit surprised (and sad) that nobody bought them, I thought they are perfect for summer! Oh well, that just goes to show you can never tell what other people will like!
Have a great day!

Work in progress

I'm making three pairs of balsa wood earrings in these new colors: tangerine, lime yellow and french vanilla. Still have to paint some patterns on them, not sure what they will be. But I'm not worried, ideas come to me as I work.
I absolutely love {the interview series} on Ana Pina's blog, you must check them out!