The Wigglebutt Blog

HaHaHa! I kill me☺ Just working on being a little more consistent with the blog. ~The sad thing is that I started this draft on Nov. 4th :( 😒 No need to rush a good thing.. right? Doesn't everyone take 6 weeks to write a blog post that consists of mostly pictures????? Ummm...no? 😞 Well, coincidently this necklace took over a year to complete. This is a beautiful lamp work heart by Juli Cannon. Every time I picked it up to work on it, I was at a loss as to what to do next. So I would set it back down;(    Even when I had it all finished something just wasn't right.   One tiny change and all was right with the world. Well, at least with this necklace☺ I made this using a tutorial. Much easier than it looks☺ Then I had an urge to use another of Juli Cannon's gorgeous lamp work focal beads, so I tied some knots☺ I do try to post pictures of new stuff semi-regularly on the Wigglebutt Creations Facebook page. So until I ca...

I was able to finish a couple more pieces recently. The first one here feels kind of like a little victory☺ I have had the focal and accent beads, and even the thread set aside for more than a year. Every few weeks I would look at it; but that's it... just look. So... a little over a year later, here it is☺ I do like the way it finally turned  out. This one took far too long to wrap because I kept  over thinking the bail. I finally convinced myself to just start doing something - anything and if I didn't like it I could just start over, not that big a deal. Once the pendant was done the rest came together pretty quickly. Still not feeling as creative as I would like,  but I'm moving in the right direction. I can do this!☺

I may have mentioned before  that I pretty much suck at that thing known as social media☺ These last few weeks haven't seen any noticeable improvement  to that suck-age:~( And in my last post I kinda sorta promised to be a little more chatty this time around aaaaaaaaaannnndd....... I lied. This is all I have for you today. At least I made a couple of collages instead of inundating you with a hundred bazzillion pictures. Really just seven, but that can seem like a lot. No? If you want to see bigger individual pics you can go here . There are some really nice pieces by some very talented  jewelry artists in The Year of Jewelry Project I'm not making any promises this time but maybe I'll actually have something to chat about next time and maybe next time will be sooner than  2 months from now.

A very quick quicky this time☺ Been very busy getting the garden and greenhouses  ready for winter. Back to being a couple of weeks behind. Not bad though, considering☺ I'll be more wordy next time, k?

Another quicky post☺ This actually gets me caught up again;~)

I like all of these but I'm particularly pleased with Week 14☺ Week 12 and 13 were kind of quicky designs to keep up with the project while spending far too long  trying to accomplish Week 14☺ haha! Usually when I start with a tutorial (which I did for this bracelet) I can't seem to  put my own spin on it without ending up with something that is just horrid. The kind of thing you look at and say to yourself "What in the hell is that supposed to be?" The vague idea in my head seems do-able  but I always seem to end up with "What were you thinking?" "What were you even trying to do?!!!" But I like this one☺ I even tried to finish the ends of the cuff like the tutorial and ended up "trimming" the wrong wire (oops) and had to come up with my own end design with what I had left to work with☺ The focal bead is, of course, made by my absolute fav glass artist Juli Cannon of Juls Beads. C...

Do you ever feel like you have way too many things going on at  once and start feeling overwhelmed  when in fact it is just you feeling like you should be  or want to be accomplishing "x" number of things  and you simply don't have time for all of them? And then you beat yourself up because you can't "do it all"? Oh.... and then there is that full time job thing. Yea..............   I just have to keep reminding myself......... If you think about it, for the most part, the only person you are letting down is You. Give yourself a break! ☺  I've been spending A LOT   of time in the greenhouse. Absolutely loving the warmth and the smell of dirt☺ tomato plants, broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage   Lots of transplanting and watering happening. Everyone is growing so fast! squash, peppers, flowers I've also been having all kinds of ideas of things I want to be making. Not just jewelry, but some ne...

Well, we are up to Week 6 and I am blogging as regularly as usual. Ha! This one is a matchy-matchy to Week 2. I made it so I wouldn't have so many beads to sort and put away;~) (Still working on that) I really hope to carve out the time I need to actually list a bunch  of items in the store. I've got tons of stuff that I need to get to listing:~)

Maybe I'll blog more in 2016. Maybe☺

Been on Vaca :-) But still trying to get caught up Still trying to find a good online photo editing program  Tried a wire wrap tutorial Loved it, want to do a few more of these:-) Decided I wanted to accomplish something a little more substantial, and I''m pleased;-)

I am in the middle of a bit of a Vaca;~) But I am still determined to catch up! (Vaca has been awesome, by the way:) I will have to admit right now that I am very spoiled by the programs on my computer back home. (Specifically PhotoShop, Picasa, PrintShop, etc.... basically all of the programs Honey felt we had to have)  I have spent the last hour trying to make a decent looking collage of the last few weeks of projects using whatever free online programs I can find. No luck, so there are quite a few pics here;~( Ok, here we go.......... I think I'm only about 4 weeks behind now so I'll be caught up in no time;~)

Not going to apologize. I just seriously suck at social media right now☺ I also haven't felt very creative lately. But I have been feeling very antsy about "creating" something. So I have been messing around with some tutorials. Happy with the results so far. Breaking the wire out for the next one ( or more☺).

This is me slacking on blogging again~ but I'm gonna give myself a pass.   Just cuz;~) I actually posted all of these to the group    pretty close to when they were due, just not here☺ Some day I will remember to look for the tiny "hairs" from the  scrubby with the mag glass BEFORE I take the pictures. ~sigh~ They have since been removed☺ I'm seriously in love with this piece♥ I made it using a photo tutorial by Anacely Olmedo Hopefully you will be seeing a lot more of this style in the future, using my own designs of course☺ In other news, I planted my tomato seeds, and they were almost all up in the first week! SQUEE!! It's amazing how excited I get when I get to start growing things. I've already had to re-pot some of the pepper starts. But since peppers and tomatoes aren't really quick growers, I decided to plant some leaf lettuce just for the heck of it. January 27 February 13 ...