Weekly Special and the Artisans Challenge!

Have you heard of the Artisan's Challenge? I love it! Each week artists get to go head to head in 12 different categories. It's a great chance for exposure and a plain ole a TON of fun! Then, the winners of those 12 challenges, get to be in a weekly contest, and the winner of THAT contest is advertising on BlockHead Radio! Woot! And what's so special this week? I'm IN the challenge! Woohoo! Please go vote for my piece - Swiftly Changing Waters. The picture is listed below, fortunately/unfortunately it's already sold, but if your interested in doing a custom order (in these colors or others) let me know! jedimarri@gmail.com

Now it's time for my weekly special! This week I chose to feature one of my spiral earrings. I love making these earrings! I have a couple pairs in my personal collection, and these are some of the most popular earrings when I go out to fairs in markets! 

I thought these would be a great pair of earrings for this week beause the weather is warming up, and we all love the sun that's coming with the summer! They make me smile because they are so cheery, I hope they make you smile too :)

The Details: Normally these earrings end up being $7 after shipping has been added in, today, with your 20% off - you can get them for just $6, which includes shipping to anywhere in the world! Earrings are approximately 1 1/2 inches long, so they do dangle, but their not overly large. I hope you enjoy them! 

Thinking and Planning, and a Question

My original plan for this blog post was to continue writing about my crafty goals. Three posts ago I finished up telling you about my list of goals for last quarter - and what had been accomplished. So the plan was to go on today by talking about my new set of crafty goals. 

Then I realized theirs a degree of futility to sharing with you guys what my goals are. Why? Well, between planning to write this post, and actually writing it, a lot has happened! The list has grown longer. Two projects have been completed. Two more projects have been worked on. Not to mention there's the complication of realizing that I have crafty projects all over the place! I have crafts in different crafty genre's, projects not started that are on my list, and even a box full of unfinished objects (or UFO's), that I really should get to at some point. 

So here's the short overview :)  My crafty projects list is always growing and morphing, so this is very incomplete!

1. I'm working on knitting a scarf. It's going slooow...but I do want to finish it.

2. Whenever I finish the scarf Mom and I are going to pick out an easy first crochet project for me to tackle.

3. I have a few ideas floating around for cross-stitch projects.

4. BEAD-WEAVING - I have a LOT lined up here! Totally new pieces no one's ever seen, new takes on old favorites, and just plain lots and lots of fun :) 

I will tell you that one of my plans includes wrapping up my popular Elements series. So far Firebird, Swiftly Changing Waters, and my spin-off from the series - Woodland Fairy, have all gone to good homes! The only one currently in my shop is Wind Dancer, and this is the most unique of the whole series because I wove 50 crystals into this necklace! 

I'm still looking for the right beads to complete the 4th in the series, "Earth Walker." I had some that were perfect and the bead store hasn't restocked them yet. *sigh* After the 4th is done the Elements series will be complete, but I love this style so much that I know I won't stop there! I'll do many, many more spin-offs :) I have a few ideas of color schemes I'd like to do, but I'd love to know what your guy's ideas are! 

If your not familiar with this series I've been doing just click on any of the names to go see more pictures :)