Photo shoot & Product Shots!

Hello everyone! I'm really excited and happy to say that the majority of my product shots are completed! I do have a couple one of a kind items that have not been finished yet and they will be photographed next weekend.

So what does all this mean? I'm one step closer to opening my Etsy shop! A big part of my Sunday afternoon was spent writing shop policies, writing item descriptions, and setting product prices and shipping and handling. I was able to upload my pics to Etsy and create listings, but those listings are not live yet. The last steps in this process are my banner for my Etsy shop, blog and Facebook. It's in process, as I type and I hope it's done by tomorrow. (crossing fingers)

To tide you all over, I'm sharing a couple product shots from the photo shoot. First a big thanks to my husband, Tony, and his business ASHDR Photography for taking the photos! So without further ado....

Alameda Leather Earrings

Irvington Leather Earrings

The Alameda and Irvington Leather earrings are made of leather and suede scraps that were leftover from a local community art project. I was lucky enough to know the organizer of the project and she gave me the leftover scraps and cut outs. Each earring is comprised of hand punched leather and silver plate jump rings and earwires. There are a limited number of these earrings in a variety of different colors.

University Park Ombre Chevron Plastic Necklace

The University Park Ombre Chevron Plastic Necklace is made out of plastic samples from a sample book I acquired about 6-8 years ago. I was thrilled to have it but had no idea what to do with it so it has sat in my stash of odds and ends for all those years. Each necklace is made of three translucent pieces of plastic. I love all the colors. Since the cutting out and sanding of each piece is a little labor intensive, I have yet to finish assembling all the necklaces from the sample book. The blues and greens are still to come.

For this fall collection I decided to name the pieces of jewelry after neighborhoods in Portland. There's no real significance to the name they received except for I love Portland and I chose neighborhood names that I thought suited each piece.

As soon as the shop goes live I will be posting about it on Facebook and Twitter.

Craftily yours,

Camille

Etsy Shop Update

Whew! It's been a busy couple of weeks and I'm just getting back in the groove of crafting again... I'm not quite ready to post anything in my Etsy shop but I'm getting there. Product shots will be taken this weekend and hopefully I'll be posting items for sale sometime next week. In the meantime, I'm finishing up the rest of the jewelry to be photographed this weekend, getting some knitting and a little bit of quilting in.

Oh yeah, got to work on the blog because right now it's still a mess, might have to change to a different template.

Enjoy the rest of your day!

Camille

Pearl Charm Bracelet

Hello!

Done with the summer festival that I work for and back in town from a trip to San Diego!

It's time to get back to crafting and blogging about it.

The latest project I did took me all of an hour (including the trip to the craft store... I ran out of headpins!) and was inspired by Honestly... WTF's most recent DIY. Their goal was to teach people how to wire wrap to make the charms for the bracelet. The DIY is easy to follow and has good pictures.

Here's Honestly... WTF's how to:
DIY Charm Bracelet

And here's my version of their bracelet.

My bracelet uses glass pearls from my bead stash, brass bead caps, brass headpins, and brass chain. I love how it turned out!

Happy crafting!

Camille

Friendship Bracelets

As many of us did, I used to make friendship bracelets out of floss and during my hippie stage, hemp. Everyday I visit the blog Honestly WTF and check out if they have any new DIYs. They usually post at least one per week. Last summer they posted quite a few bracelet tutorials including making chevron friendship bracelets, which I have never done. I always did the plain jane versions with all the colors in a row.

Here's the link to the tutorial and my first attempt at a chevron style friendship bracelet. I was going for nautical but it looks more patriotic and I think I should have used more than 6 strands of floss.

-Camille

Do Over Challenge 2

I am participating in the Do Over Challenge 2 created by Jeannie, a jewelry designer and here's the link to the challenge posted on her blog, http://site.jkdjewelry.com/blog/2011/09/19/do-over-challenge2/. And here's an explanation of the challenge:

"The jewelry sent out for this challenge are designs I made when I was new to jewelry-making and did not know any better.  These are designs I won’t sell.  I can’t guarantee what you get or that you will even like it.  Just have fun and keep within the spirit of what this challenge is about; DO OVER! Take a “before” and “after” picture.  Try to use at the very least 50% of the do over piece.  You can add beads from your own stash."


These are my "before" pictures of the earrings and necklace I received. The photos aren't great, I still need to work on my photography.

Come back later for the "after" photos to see what I came up with!


Camille