Simply Crafting

Funny story

Kim — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:15:16 +0000

As you all know I ran out of beading wire so I had decided not to purchase any more until I can sell some of the things I already have made. Well I guess I forgot to tell my husband of my plans. The other day he asked me why I wasn’t beading any more. So I told him I ran out of wire and wasn’t going to purchase any more until I sell some stuff. He then asked if I had any beads left over and I told him “yes, a ton of them”.

Well…he came home from town yesterday and threw a bag at me. Yes, he had purchased me some wire. So…I guess you all know what I’ll be doing once again. I can’t see these supplies go to waste, so I’m going to use them up. Hopefully I’ll be able to sell most of it at a couple of craft sales and a yard sale. Otherwise, I’m going to have a lot of inventory on hand. The good thing is, is that jewelry doesn’t go bad so I guess it doesn’t really matter if I have to keep the jewelry on hand for a couple of months.

Well, I’m off to create. See ya all later.

Not much to report

Kim — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:08:03 +0000

When I think back on these last three weeks of what I’ve accomplished in my crafting world, I am kind of getting depressed. It seems like some minor crises or another has taken over my world and I haven’t been able to get much accomplished. I have started (barely) on my father in law’s wedding present and I did make a couple of bracelets. But that’s been it. I think probably the next month or so things are going to go this way as well. I have so many things coming up in the near future that I really can’t see me accomplishing a lot. So for today I really have nothing to report or show you. Hopefully soon I will.

Jewelry making going on the back burner

Kim — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:35:21 +0000

Last week my father in law announced to the family that he is getting married. It was a huge shock to the entire family as he has only known this woman for about two months and his wife (my husband’s mother) has only been gone since September of last year. But my husband and I have decided to make the best of it. The man is almost 70 so he has his mind made up and there is no changing it.

So I have decided to make them a unicorn cross stitch picture as a wedding present. And because this pattern takes me so much time to do I will be devoting all my crafting activities to this one project. Everything else will be put on hold until I get this done. But I will be posting pictures of my progress and if this cross stitch is something that you would like to own, just let me know and I have no problems making another one.

Who’s up for a contest??

Kim — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:55:03 +0000

I really do love contests! Who wouldn’t love the chance to win something for free?? My favorite type of contest has definitely got to be a crafting contest. And it’s just icing on the cake when it’s held by one of my favorite craft bloggers. Yes, I would be talking about the creator over at craft therapy.

Right now the Craft Junkie (I really do get a kick out of that name) is holding an awesome contest to celebrate her birthday. She is giving away a customized bracelet to one lucky participant (hopefully that’ me LOL). But because I’m such a nice person I have decided to share this chance with you all. It’s super easy to get into her contest with several chances to win. You can do a post a post about her contest on your blog, leave her a comment that you entered and subscribe to her blog feed.

Easy right?! So what are you waiting for? You only have until July 24 to enter so get moving. Oh yeah, and tell her Kim sent ya!

Sweet Home Blogger Award

Kim — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:47:46 +0000

First of all I need to thank Lynne for presenting me with this wonderful award. I am extremely honored that she likes this site as well as my creations as much as she does. It gives me goosebumps when I know someone appreciates all the hard work that goes into creating crafts. And since she is a crafter herself, she can appreciate my hard work. So Thank You Lynne for this wonderful award. I really do appreciate it.

Update on jewelry making

Kim — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:29:13 +0000

Well this hasn’t been a very good week at all for any type of crafting. I have done absolutely nothing! I have both the kids home this week and when their around, I just can’t concentrate. And we all know that when your creating jewelry, you need a lot of concentration. But they both will be going back to art camp next week so I’m hoping I’ll get more accomplished when they are out of the house.

I only have enough wire left over to make five more bracelets and then I’m done for a while. I would like to be able to sell some of the inventory I have in stock now before purchasing any more supplies. So after these bracelets are made I am then going to take a stab at trying to make some earrings. With the links that Jeannine so graciously supplied me with, I’m hoping I can teach myself.

So I’m just going to enjoy this nice up coming weekend with the family (camping) and on Monday I’ll be back at the crafts.

ps. Happy 4th of July to all my American blogging buddies. I hope you all have a fun and save holiday weekend!

Dishing out the linky love

Kim — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:10:05 +0000

Although I have been involved with Entrecard since January, this blog has only been active in Entrecard for the past couple of months. But I must say that I am highly impressed with the amount of traffic that has been finding my site through this program. So as a thank you to my most active Entrecard droppers, I am sending out a little thank you for all your visits. So if your on the list then a great big thank you goes out to each and everyone of you and if your not on the list and want to be all you need to do is drop.

So thanks to all of you and maybe, just maybe you’ll see your name on the list for next month.

1. Lapidary Queen Wannabees
2. All In A Day
3. Mariuca’s Perfume Gallery
4. The Sewing Mom
5. Craft Therapy
6. Surprisingly Insightful
7. Steven Humour
8. Caption This
9. Make Every Day Your Lucky Day
10. read my mind

I need help!

Kim — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 21:45:31 +0000

Well my jewelry making activities are almost at an end. I have enough wire left to make five more bracelets and when they are finished I will have run out of wire. I don’t want to purchase any more supplies until I sell some more items so I’ll be using my profit money to buy these supplies and not our household funds.

This is where you all come in. I do have enough materials to make about 20 pairs of earrings, but for the life of me I can’t figure out how to get the top wire wrapped around the strait pins. Someone told me that I needed a small pair of needle nose pliers so I went out and purchased them, but still haven’t been able to master the art of making earrings.

So for all you experts out there, this question is going out to all of you. How do you get your wire wrapped around the strait pin? Is there a trick that I’m not aware of?

I’m thanking you all in advance for any help and assistance that you may be able to give me in this matter.

More bracelets for sale

Kim — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:34:13 +0000

The past couple of days I have been busy creating. I’m trying to get as much jewelry made as possible to hand over to my friend at the end of next month. She is going to take everything I have to a couple of major craft sales and try to sell them for me. So I’m working continuously at this. The following is four bracelets that I have made. If any of these pieces interest you, they are being sold at $7.50 a piece with a charge of $2.00 for shipping. Or if you buy two pieces of any of my jewelry on this site, I will pay the shipping for you! So here are the four pieces I have recently made.

If you would like to make a purchase, then all you need to do is leave a comment on this site or you can e-mail me directly at kdarrell21@hotmail.com. I look forward to hearing from you all!

More jewelry

Kim — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:25:45 +0000

Last week I went on a mission to see how much jewelry I could create. With it being the kids final days of school and being quite busy with all their activities I didn’t accomplish as much as I wanted, but I was able to create ~~four~~ three pieces of jewelry. The fourth one turned out so wrong that I ended up taking it all out and starting from scratch. Well here are the three pieces I did manage to get done. Hopefully this week I will be able to do more as the kids are enrolled in summer day camp so I have extra time on my hands.

These pieces can be purchased through this site. The single stranded pink and green necklace will be sold for $12.00 each plus $2.00 shipping and the three stranded pink bracelet will be sold for $15.00 plus $2.00 shipping. If any of these items interest you and you would like to make a purchase, all you need to do is leave a comment on this site or contact me at kdarrell21@hotmail.com.

I look forward to hearing from you.