The Wigglebutt Blog

We were partnered up a few days ago but this is the first time I have had a chance to sit down and tell you about my partner for this year's Bead Soup Blog Party. So, without further ado...... TA DA! ~ Allow me to introduce you to the lovely and talented ~   Rachel Baron of  R. Baron Designs Rachel's earrings using her own lamp work beads. Purty!!  You can see her Website Here She makes her own lamp work glass beads. VERY NICE! This wine stopper just makes me happy☺  LOVE the color of those beads♥  She has her own handmade beads, jewelry and even really cool wine stoppers for sale in her Etsy shop. You should check out her Etsy store Here She's also on facebook, you should go and say hello to her  Here I ended up having two different soups to choose from to send Rachel and I really had a hard time deciding which one to send. So hard of a time that I had to get a couple different opinion...

There is actually a ton of stuff going on around here lately, so I have had stuff to blog about but no time to blog. Go figure☺ I'll have quite a few posts coming up very soon because Bead Soup Blog Party has begun! I'm in the process of creating a post about my partner and her soup! Look for that soon, but for today I only have time to post  my contributions for Week 10 of  The Year of Jewelry Project   This one is really similar to one I did last year. It uses one of my polymer clay beads. This isn't the one I had originally planned on submitting for this week but THAT one is quite a bit more time consuming so it didn't quite get finished. It also uses another one of my polymer clay beads  and copper but looks so, so different. (I am so pleased with how it came out ~ you'll see in a day or two☺) I am just putting the finishing touches on it while simultaneously  trying to finish the handmade components that will...

Ok... I am ready for spring. Anytime now. Really. It only took me 2 ½ hours to get to work this morning. An hour of that was spent getting myself out of a snow berm that I slid into.... in my own driveway:(  The other 1 ½ hours was spent creeping past the numerous vehicles off the road and various tow trucks and police cars along the 45 miles between my house and work.  That being said, in Alaska we still have better conditions this winter  than a lot of the lower 48, so I guess I shouldn't complain. This was my project for Week 9. It's another variation of a Nicole Hanna tutorial, I'm trying to add my own spin on the design. I have a ways to go but I'm getting better. I've spent the last two weeks building 3 different "soups" for this years Bead Soup Blog Party I just have a couple of things left to make and I will be ready to choose one to send when I find out who my partner is. I'm excited! ...

Gosh, I seem to really be the bloggy slacker. You would think I could at least keep up with one post per week. At least I have kept up with posting to the Project on time. So far☺   When I posted this to the project I still  wasn't sure how I wanted to string it. I think a beaded necklace would have been too much and when I tried plain leather cord it looked TOO plain, so I settled on this chain. It's now in the  shop . This was from a tutorial by the extremely talented Lisa Lynn Barth I have a long way to go with this technique. It's wiggly and wavy, but I still like the results☺ This bracelet was made following the tutorial exactly, but once I get the technique down, I have so many ideas of different directions to go with it! This one is in the shop here .

We are starting to see more and more daylight this time of year  and I was getting excited about getting everything prepared for planting seeds indoors for the garden this summer. I WAS excited until I did the math. We still have approximately 15 weeks before we can "safely" plant outdoors and since most of my seeds take  from 6 - 8 weeks to get ready to go outside, I still have 7 weeks before I can even start to plant.... Sigh..... Well, at least I have something to keep me busy until then☺  I am really loving chain maille   and micro-macrame. Both of these beauties are available in the shop . If you haven't checked out the new shop on the new site , you should. It's hip, it's cool, it's purty☺ Let me know what you think☺

Been keeping up with the projects but not with the blogging. It's OK. No one is perfect. We all  have room for improvement☺ This is what I finished for Week 4 The jury's still out on the color choices but they do match the colors in the focal bead  I do really like the section at the end.  So much so that I am in the process of making a pair of earrings to match that section☺ Overall I would have to say that I guess I am pretty pleased with the finished product.  I will have it in the store in the next day or two☺ While finishing this piece, I started playing with a chain maille pattern for a bracelet. For Christmas I got a whole set-up for making my own jump rings (Thanks Honey!!) So I have been playing around with the sizes and gauges and such with pre-made jump rings to see what I want to coil and cut. I like this pattern and I think I'm going to go two tone when I cut the jump rings, a combination of ...

It took me WAY longer than it should have, I'm sure, but the new website is up and running! I'm pretty tickled with it☺ If you have a free minute, I'd appreciate it if you would pop over and take a look. Wigglebutt Creations Let me know what you think☺ For the YOJP Week 3, I had something totally different in mind but I spent so much time figuring out domain transferring and website building that I did another wire wrapped pendant. This one is sea glass. It is a pretty simple wrap and it went relatively quickly so I was able to post it on time...just under the wire☺ (ha! see what I did there)