After visiting other Etsy shops that sell those nifty Scrabble tile pendants (and seeing that they seem to FLY off the shelves) I've decided to give it a try.

A few weeks ago I found a couple old Scrabble games with all 100 tiles and figured now was the time.
I see many people do their own drawings or use that pretty Chinese origami paper - but to make my tiles my own, I will use my own photographs!

Anyway, the other night I ordered the glaze that covers the image on the pendant - so as soon as that stuff arrives in the mail, I'll be set!
I also ordered the silver bales to attach to the backs when I ordered all of my beading supplies and whatnot - oh, and I can't forget about the necklace cord for the tiles, got that too!
...now I just need to go out and take loooots of pretty pictures and figure out a way to print them so they look nice.

I really like the way Target photos turn out! Pictures from a digital camera print out like film photos - NOT pixel-y or grainy. Shame the nearest Target is 2 hours away :(
Supposedly Dad has a great printer for photos...but alas, his printer is broken and I'm not sure I would trust it to print nicely enough.

I also ordered a set of 50 "rare earth magnets" from a seller on Etsy. I've been wondering what all the fuss is about but haven't found them at a decent price - but I found that price last night! Yippee!


Time to close it up I think. The power just went of and came back on like 5 times in 20 seconds.
I'm so happy Livejournal does the autosave! I was nearly at the end of the entry!!!

I received my crimping pliers in the mail this morning and I am pleased!
Hopefully this will be another instrument that helps to improve my beading :)

I've only just recently learned about these fabulous pliers and if you've not discovered them already, here's a couple pics that my googlefu picked up.

Diagram of the pliers:
http://www.bartky.net/CRIMPER/pliers.gif
How it works:
http://www.beadingdaily.com/media/acmimages/crimping.jpg

That's all for now - off to play with my new toy!

I received all of my beading/jewelry supplies that I ordered online! Now I've just got to stop being lazy and do lots of crafting and then take pictures and post them on Etsy!
I can make 100 pairs of earrings now, haha!

I ordered a pair of these the other day:
http://cgi.ebay.com/BEAD-PLIERS-CRIMPING-PLIER-JEWELERS-TOOLS-BEADING_W0QQitemZ200240094898QQihZ010QQcategoryZ83892QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
I saw that the pliers were sent out yesterday, so hopefully I'll get them soon!

I was able to make a trip to the Hobby Lobby and found some pretty beads there - mainly pearls and a set of very pretty glass beads. I also picked up a bag of jewelry bags - so that will make shipping a little nicer I think.

Still no sewing machine or supplies - but I really hope that gets resolved very quickly!

That's really all I've got for right now, but be sure to check my shop often as I will be adding more and more stuff! - Especially now that I've got so many more supplies! I actually ran out of my earring hooks!!!!

Here is my shop link for those of you who might not have seen it yet!
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5497210

After quite a while not being (too) active on Etsy.com, I have come back!

I am still without my sewing machine (so no pads or nursing pads for now) but I really really hope to get everything in that area back in order!
Shouldn't be too much longer and I can just sew 'till my mind goes numb! Oh yes, I am absolutely looking forward to it :D I've been feeling sort of lost lately not sewing.

Anywho, I used to make jewelry (mainly necklaces) back when I was in high school and thought I would give it another go.
Since then, I've worked on my techniques and improved quite a lot!
Mainly everything on my Etsy.com site right now is jewelry, but I hope to do mostly my pads.

Check me out, folks:
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5497210