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Drama Cuff
Commissioned week-and-a-day-(oops) project. The commissioner spent an incredibly long time looking for just the right pendant/charm, but the rest was pretty easy to decide on.
This is some leftover leather from a vest that I... tore apart and repurposed into a bag that I've realized is not actually in gallery, and one edge most certainly retains evidence of that. We liked the "lived-in look", and it was already one nicely turned edge, so why mess with it? I hand-sewed the rest, because on top of not being all that intelligent, I didn't want to risk doing damage to my very solid steel sewing machine which may or may not retain the solid-ness given how thick the leather actually was in parts. Extra-sharp beading needle and pliers it was!
We also worked out a magnetic clasp as the favored approach to actually keeping it on, which looks a mess in the photos because... I forgot to clean the magnets before taking the pictures. ...Nevermind these details, it was all conditioned, cleaned up, polished, and very well-received, so that is success enough.
Shades of Control
Well. I got the urge to revisit one of my old FFVII SOLDIER logo designs... and then decided I also really wanted to tack on a couple of very subtle Shinra logos. They might actually have turned out a little too subtle unless you know what you're looking at, but that's also kind of perfect.
Because I am me, a few new things were tried on the "floating steps", and I did get the hang of something that's technically a little easier on both my fingers and the beads themselves... but it left a couple of slightly loose-looking beads framing the negative space and it annoys me. Greatly. Not that it affects anything but me personally, but still. Now I know how to avoid that for next time, anyway.
Currently available.
Shades of Control
Well. I got the urge to revisit one of my old FFVII SOLDIER logo designs... and then decided I also really wanted to tack on a couple of very subtle Shinra logos. They might actually have turned out a little too subtle unless you know what you're looking at, but that's also kind of perfect.
Because I am me, a few new things were tried on the "floating steps", and I did get the hang of something that's technically a little easier on both my fingers and the beads themselves... but it left a couple of slightly loose-looking beads framing the negative space and it annoys me. Greatly. Not that it affects anything but me personally, but still. Now I know how to avoid that for next time, anyway.
Currently available.
Snow Melt
Comprised of some leftover wire from another project, a bunch of beads I've been wanting to use together, and a whole lot of wishful thinking when it comes to when winter "actually ends" in New England. I just really wanted to do something simple and light and different, and I did actually enjoy this project even if getting back to the finishing fiddly bits took... about a month-ish.
Currently available to buy.
Progress and Solidarity
I've had this pattern worked out on my computer for ages, along with several smaller versions. But did I try the easier, faster versions first? Of course I did not. How silly.
Something something politics, I don't know, I just want everyone to have a chance at acceptance and survival and dazzlingly sparkly objects declaring such, how dare I.
Visit the Etsy page to see an actual itemized cost breakdown because I... do not want to copy it here.
(Currently Available)
Winter Nights
I keep trying not to quote "Zooropa" lyrics, but that's exactly what this feels like to me. I'm deeply happy with the result but this is not a project that I saw coming. Whoops? Very sparkly whoops?
The blue really hits you first, that luscious indigo/cobalt/color of dark sky not-quite-black. And then then the little purples and greens are definitely there when you start inspecting it. Which is, basically, impossible to show in 10 pictures, let alone 20, but I tried. Lighting matters, obviously. I had all these beads and I wanted to use them. So I did. Exciting stuff, this. It was just really nice to have no plans and come out of a two day project which should probably not have been a two day project *cough* with... well, sparkly.
Currently Available.
Still Breathing
Well. ...It's personal. And something I wanted to make for me before I delved into a bunch of other projects.
Plus I was trying something a little different with the end pieces there. Success! More of this style might pop up in the near-ish future.
Better Than Chikin
It was absolutely time that I finally got around to doing this. I've had the idea for a couple of years, but... 2020, man. I had to get it done by the end. Feel free to check out the legitimate cost breakdown in the Etsy listing I just figured out and don't know how to feel about, too.
Actual information about all of this: Chick-fil-A’s many controversies, explained.
(For Sale.)