The Wigglebutt Blog

 Haven't been here in a while. Thought I would dip a toe in and see what happens.... I am currently updating my web-store and planting seeds for my garden. All kinds of new beginnings going on😃 I've got herbs and onions and peppers going so far. Planting tomatoes this next weekend.  Getting kinda excited for summer. I also got a new computer for Christmas and it came with Windows 10.  So I am figuring out how to use a computer all over again. LOL! Wigglebutt.com   is live with some new stuff. Feel free to take a look and share if you want😉 There are some of these on there -->

Apparently I only come  here occasionally to dust off the cobwebs. Well, it is March. More specifically, it is St Patrick's Day. That's not even why I'm here.  I know ... random.😏 I'm here to post a bunch of pictures of stuff I have been doing since the first of the year. I've mentioned before that I do post pics more regularly on Facebook . If you would care to click the ever so convenient link to my page and give it a like you would see stuff a lot more often😉 Ok...... here we go! I'm really enjoying making these! I've been doing a lot of wire weaving. This one is from a Nicole Hanna tutorial. So is this one with a slight variation due to a broken wire☺ And then there is this super cool but quite large birdie pendant☺ I've also been doing some clay work. This time around it was air dry paper clay. Talk about trying my patience! I am not good at waiting. The dry time about k...

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!☺

a post appears☺ I have been feeling decidedly "uncreative" lately;~( Hoping to change that pretty quick like. This is from another tutorial by  Nicole Hanna She has some pretty awesome video tutorials too. Hoping the mojo returns pretty soon☺

"We owe them a debt we can never repay; all we can do is remember them, what they did, and why they had to be brave for us."- Ronald Reagan

I've been keeping busy, how about you? A lot has happened since the last time I posted. I won't apologize (again) about my lack of posting . I guess that is just ME☺ I've been gardening and making stuff (and cleaning - bleh)☺ Let's start with gardening. Gardening in Alaska in February and March starts in the greenhouse unless I was growing icicles☺ I started corn and basil super early. These were planted Feb 4. This is 2 weeks growth. I planted 1 tray each of tomatoes and peppers  on February 19th. The rest of my veggies got planted  on March 1st I will spare you the gory details of the many re-plantings☺   This is where we are today This makes me so HAPPY☺   And the fact that it got into the forties today didn't hurt☺♥ In other news I did finish this ~ Super happy with how this turned out. I love moonstone!   Also finished this~ I am even happier at how this turned out ♥ Then ...

I've actually been accomplishing quite a few things since I decided to take a break from YOJP. ~Not all jewelry related... just things I want to accomplish☺ I used a tutorial for this necklace (I changed it slightly from the instructions) I loved the way it looked but it wore really funky. The only way this was going to lay right would be if it was a choker. Didn't like that..... So I reworked it☺ Much happier now. It wears really nice now. Very comfortable☺ And I got to use one of my hoarded  JulsBeads focal beads☺ Win ~ Win! ☺

I've been wanting to try one of these for quite a while now but I have successfully talked myself out of doing it multiple times. What if it's too hard? What if I try and it just looks like crap?!! Well then just take it apart and try again☺ Just try. So I finally did! And it turns out it wasn't as hard as I had been thinking. And it didn't look like crap. And I didn't have to take it apart:~) But I am going to try again. I got the larger stone when Hubby and I visited Utah (I think) It is rose quartz. I ordered some rose quartz chips to make the tree.  I had some, vague grand plans to wrap the "roots" around the large stone for the base but when it actually came down to  doing the attaching..... Um... no. All I did here was wrap the roots around the stone and staple  them to the wooden base. I covered the wire ends and staples with air dry clay then colored it with inks. I was going for a "moss...

Like I said before, I am going to be sitting out this year from The Year of Jewelry Project. (It already feels weird when I see a notification that someone has posted:) But I am really excited to be doing more with the clay again. Soooo........here goes. This was my last contribution for 2016.  I made it a two-fer☺   This pretty much sums up my New Year's resolution for 2017☺ But I am hoping to get into the habit of posting something, whether it is an "in progress" pic or a finished item or even an idea, at least once a week. I got this app called "Hootsuite" that is supposed to post to multiple social media sites at once. We'll see if I want to get that "techie" or not☺ 2016 was actually a pretty good year for me (& mine) and I am ready to keep on keepin' on:~) Bring on 2017!

This was my fourth year participating in The Year of Jewelry Project I have one more project to submit for this year and I will have completed all 52 weeks of all 4 of those years☺ Some years I have been caught up almost all of the year And other years I have had to play catch-up for 6 to 8 weeks. But I have successfully FINISHED at least 52 pieces  and photographed and posted them. I am pretty proud of myself for actually being able to create pieces even when I wasn't really "feeling it" or being super busy with other things. But I felt it was a commitment I had made,  even if it was really just to myself, and I was determined to finish what I started☺ I have explored a lot of different techniques and mediums, I have improved a lot in several of them☺ and I have gotten much better at the photographing of the pieces. At least I think I have☺ I did not sign up to participate in the project for 2017. I seem to have a lot less ...