The Wigglebutt Blog

I actually posted this on the group  on time but I'm late posting it here☺ I haven't followed all of the weekly prompts (they are just suggested prompts to help give you a kick start if you are lost for ideas) but as luck would have it this weeks "theme" was "Simplicity" Thank goodness!☺  Torch fired enameled beads on balled copper wire with handmade copper ear wires  I have been a little busy working on this and having a blast☺ Still have a ways to go on the moose but progress is good~ And getting a good start on the bears and whales. And I've made some progress on a couple of these trying to decide between clear or blue cubes for last bead row fell in love with these colors almost immediately (please excuse the multi-colored straight pins☺) and this one was a bear, to put it nicely! I tried about a dozen color combinations and hated them all. I had almost decided to start from scratch when this ...

Just a quick YOJ post today☺ I cheated just a little. I made the bears a few weeks ago but just got around to making them into earrings this week, so technically it counts☺ And since this weeks prompt was ~ Multiples ~ they fit right in.  Polar Bears with Northern Lights I've been working on my first order for the gallery , (I still can't get over how exciting that is to me☺)  a small intial order due this week, with an 80 piece order that has to be ready by the end of March. So far production is going well except that every time I work with clay  I get distracted by ideas of things to make or experiments to try☺ So, to maintain focus, I am just keeping a notebook handy to write down ideas I want to try after the orders are filled☺

Ok... I admit that I am a couple of days late with this week's (last week's) piece but I have a good reason☺ More on that in a minute~ Anyway... this is actually a re~do. The first one I made was literally the first micro-macrame bracelet I had ever made. You can see why the re-do was needed here I had meant to re-do it in the exact same pattern but changes were made (I can't help myself☺) Now it's a  little longer than I wanted but still totally wearable☺ Now for the news! It's official.... I'm going to have some of my goodies in a Gallery / Gift shop in Anchorage and this summer I will have same said goodies in a Gallery / Gift shop in Skagway . Apparently in the summer there are quite a few people in Skagway☺ With just under 800 year round residents, you wouldn't think Skagway would be a great place for a Gallery but more than 800,000 people pass through this town every summer, so this is very exciting☺ ...

I am really loving this project (so far anyway). It is giving me the incentive that I need to create something new  every week AND it gives me at least one interesting thing to blog about at least once a week☺ I finally got to break out the clay (I really miss it when I don't have time to play with it) I had a request for a small earring version of some "Alaskana" pins and magnets I made a while ago. So I made a couple sets of each... Then I made a few more Bears.....  and I think I will make a few more whales... just because☺ I also signed up for Lori Anderson's Bead Soup Blog Party I'm supposed to have the beads I'm sending to my partner mailed by Feb. 10 and I have no idea what I want to send!! I'm also working on re-doing a man's necklace. I've never really done "masculine" jewelry, so this should be really interesting. I am taking the medallion from an existing 'choker...