[ The usual cupcake tray full of beads & such sits on the wooden shelf, along with a bendy piece of driftwood & an arch-shaped bit of copper wire with blue & gold-coloured beads fastened to it. ] I started this one at home & as usual didn’t manage to take pictures at my workbench, […]
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[ An aluminum cupcake tray. The hollows hold beads in a couple shades of blue & silver, and some white seaglass pieces wrapped in tarnished copper wire. Atop the tray are spools of copper wire, a piece of driftwood, & a tube from a wind chime. ] What I started with!
[ A small label printer, about 4x4x6″, sits in an open drawer, with 4×6 labels stacked behind it. There’s a small space between the front of the printer, where the labels come out, & the front of the drawer. ] (This was written on Monday but scheduled for Wednesday; who knows what’ll happen between now
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[ A good stick, a bunch of copper wire, & some beads. ] Above, the ingredients!
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[ My usual Woods Day workbench is holding TWO hunks of driftwood, a LOT of copper wire, a tangle of three different pieces of jewelry, & several ziploc bags holding MORE jewelry. Optimism! ] I got REALLY ambitious last Saturday. Surely I could finish TWO faery home decor pieces! Right? Right?
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[ A narrow but bendy length of driftwood, copper wire in various sizes, & a couple ziploc bags of beads. ] I had NO idea what I was doing with this one until I found the cool dangly rounds in with a bunch of beads I’d forgotten I had, & then the name happened &
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[ Tyrava’s front door frame, which is painted purple; a length of unpainted wood maybe an inch wide & half an inch deep runs along the inside of the frame, right where the door will stop when it’s closed properly. ] Last Saturday & today I got a bunch done on Tyrava, including the door
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[ one long stick, shaped somewhat like a lacrosse stick & about a foot long; three shorter sticks, each about four inches long; & two tangles of copper wire sit in a pile, waiting for me to get a clue ] As is traditional I picked up the big stick & it told me what
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This thing where they’re telling me their names as soon as I pick up the right pieces, I’m kinda liking it.
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I found this rusty weird-ass chunk of wire in the backyard of a house in Albuquerque, & I knew right away it was gonna turn into something like this. When I tucked it into the basket to go out to the woods yesterday, it told me its name: Suspend.
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Celebrating seventeen years of The Vagabond Tabby — & the seventeenth birthday of my VP of Marketing, the horriblest cat in the world, my dearest Loiosh.
(25% off everything in the shop — yes, it’s my biggest sale of the year! — running April 25 through May 1)
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