Is Anybody There?

I'd love to hear from people, it'd be nice to know I'm not talking to myself. So, to that end I am offering 15% off in any of my 3 etsy shops to thank you for leaving a comment. Here's what I'd love for you to do.
1) look through my posts, there's only 12 right now, decide which one you'd like to leave a comment on.
2) decide which of my etsy shops you'd like to have a coupon for
3) comment on the post and mention which shop you're interested in
4) I will contact you with a coupon code!
 How's that sound? Does that make sense? If there is a better way to do this please feel free to let me know.

Here's a look at my 3 shops...

Do you love jewelry? Check out my jewelry shop!
                                                https://www.etsy.com/shop/ColieArt





Do you collect little boxes? Do you love journals and sketch books? Check out my newest shop!
                                      https://www.etsy.com/shop/ColieArtBooksnBoxes





Do you make jewelry? Check out my polymer clay beads!
                                            https://www.etsy.com/shop/ColieStash



I hope you find a post of interest to you! I know I just started blogging but I hope I've given something of value in the 12 posts I've created so far...

I'm so excited! I have admired Lorelei Eurto's jewelry since I discovered her in Stringing Magazine a while back. I am thankful for having such a great artist appreciate polymer clay beads. Since her work is everywhere I dreamed about her using my polymer clay beads but from what I could tell she only worked with a couple of polymer clay artists. Well, I finally decided to reach out to her and ask if I could gift her some beads. Lorelei was kind enough to take a look at my shop and point out some stuff she liked! I was too thrilled to send them to her. 

A few days ago she sent me a shot of this necklace! You can find it here:   loreleieurtojewelry                                   

Okay. It's a new day. I'm going to attack this layout thing again and see if I can't get this blog to look like I want it to.
Anyway. That's only half the problem. The other half is what to post. How about sharing my works in progress? That will give you an idea of who I am. And please feel free to comment, I love feedback and it'll let me know someone is out there! 
I love working with all kinds of mediums, in the chaos of where I create I have a polymer clay station, a paper station, a metal station, and a beading station. I'm in the middle of a few different things... lets see...

At the Polymer Clay Station

I was working on a pendant but too much has gone wrong I think for me to salvage it. What do you think? First the liquid clay is lumpy. Second, when I added the first liquid clay layer I smeared the word "bloom" I had stamped in silver. I don't know if i didn't let it dry long enough, maybe I should have heat set it? I'll try again, unfortunately I don't have another image transfer of that- its my own photograph of a flower.

At the Beading Station

I'm working on this coin pearl necklace, it's going to have a toggle clasp that doubles as the focal.

At the Metal Station

I hate sawing but I managed to get these two pieces for a toggle clasp for the pearl necklace out of a sheet of brass, now I have to finish them. I've still got to sand them smooth and I'm thinking a hammered finish. 

At the Paper Station

I'm working on these snowflakes for a garland. I used my Cricut and white card stock.
At first I planned to use glitter but I hated the look so I'm going with silver embossing powder.

Now I've gotta add silver embossing powder to all the tips and then string them up!

Also at the Beading Station 

I've been on a mission to use up materials I already have and I was staring at my seed bead stash (I used to love to bead weave) and thought I'd tackle a project from this book again.

That covers the big ones. The only one that is for me is the tuffet box. The rest will end up on etsy.