2 posts tagged “jewelry”

At the moment, due to the economy, not only is my current job only scheduling me for 4 or 5 hours a week, but nowhere else is apparently hiring.

Consequently, I am forced to get creative in my ways of making money on the side.

(No, not like that, you pervs.)

I have been experimenting with unique jewelry.  Once I get enough sample pieces, I hope to open an eBay store, maybe sometime in the next couple of weeks. 

Here are a few that I've come up with.  I welcome honest opinions, both positive and negative:

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This is a Labyrinth-themed necklace I made a few months ago, mostly on a whim.  In case you can't tell from the substandard picture, it includes miniature portraits of all of the main characters, plus charms of significant story elements.  This would be a more expensive item, considering the cost of the materials, the time investment, the fact that there are several of the pieces that I will never have again, and the fact that the audience is a limited one.

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I call this the Shadows and Light ring - hematite and glass strung with fishing line.  This would be a mid-to-low priced item.

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Gargoyle earrings, pretty self-explanatory.  These would be somewhat more expensive than the ring, since the gargoyle beads came from a non-local specialty shop that does not do online orders, and so would be hard if not impossible for me to replace in the near future.

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This bracelet is a work in progress.  I'm trying to figure out various fun things to do with computer chips and electrical wire, and I like this idea but it would have to be considerably tidier for me to consider selling it.  In any case, it would  be a low-priced item.

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Coffee and doughnuts!  These would be low to mid-priced; they are very simple to make, but the beads were expensive and came from the same specialty shop as the gargoyle beads, so I could not replace them.

Thoughts?

Problem with me is, I'll go through these phases of about a week or two where I'm really into something, usually a craft project, and I'm convinced that this is going to be my new hobby and possibly a ticket to a little extra cash.  Then, after that week or two is over, I don't lsot interest, exactly, but I lose the drive. I lost the enthusiasm.  This has happened with jewelry making, collaging, t-shirt alteration, acrylic painting, and stuffed animal designs, which included a Fierie and a scarf in the shape of Longcat.

Now, the jewelry phase is a strange thing, because unlike the others, it sort of comes and goes, usually triggered by some cool thing I've seen that I want to imitate or spin-off, or possibly some cool jewelry supply I've found.  At the moment I'm in an on-again phase, which is aggravated by the fact that the bus system makes it incredibly annoying to get to Hobby Lobby. 

I really want to make a Labyrinth necklace, having seen this one on DeviantArt, although I think I would go about it in a more metallic and less organic fashion, but that's just my style.  I also want to make some sort of found-object sculpture, wearable or not, due to all of the cool little trinkets I seem to have a knack for finding in the dirt.  (Right now I have a silver snake, half of a gigantic heart locket, an earring minus the hook that looks kind of like a mandala design, and "09" in rhinestones, probably broken off a graduation cap.  Interestingly enough, I also found a fully functional wristwatch back in the fall; I'm still not sure what to do with that.)  And then finally, I have the idea to make an Unseelie crown out of silver wire and leaf-shaped beads, based on this Holly Black cover image. 

I hate it, because I have all this creative energy and nothing to do with it.  I have these two huge boxes of beads and jewelry supplies at home but I won't be able to get them until April, since I'll be coming home from spring break on a plane and those boxes wouldn't exactly make handy carry-ons.