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Busy with Laser cutting earrings

Have been busy for past months with new Lser cutting machine XTOOL - making earrings for upcoming shows for this year - some samples

2 Weeks to Purple Turtle Show

Located at Jacksons Point (Sutton) at the Briars Golf and Spa facility

PURPLE TURTLE FESTIVAL - JULY 9-10 2022

Its a go for this year - The Purple Turtle Festival craft show at the Briars located at Jackson Point Ontario will be held on July 9-10th and the Application has been sent - its been 3 years at least that I have not done this show (possibly 4) the last 2 due to COVID and the previous was exceptionally busy at work. But I am going to get my A## in gear and get making and building inventory for this show and possibly others later in the year. So dont miss it - put it on your calendar

http://purpleturtlearts.ca/ Check it out

WOO HOO ITS 2022

My one new commitment is to start blogging again and to start blogging again means I need to start working in my studio and craft room on a more frequent basis

If all goes well I should be finally able to do a show in July and to do that I need to make a lot of things in preparation.

I already contacted the Purple Turtle committee to make sure I get a spot , bought a new pop up tent for the show.

In preparation I thought I would look back at that long list of things I wanted to get done in 2020 (yes 2020 )

1. Create a Vitrograph kiln and set it up - I purchased all the fixins for this years ago and have the kiln so just need to build a set up to pull from - NOPE Totally forgot about this almost right away but I may work on this project in 22

2. Clean up and get all my daughters boxes stored to the back corner - almost did this last year - enough so I could walk around the studio
3. Get all my books and magazines (that are in totes from my downstairs room that got taken over by my daughter ) either stored/stacked to back of studio or get some bookcases to get some of them out and accessible - I moved them around but they are not truly accessible but I know where they are
4. clean up my Pen turning equipment area (I left it a mess during the winter ) Ughhh no - this spring for sure
5. Clean up BIG kiln area so I can get in and start fusing - yes I cleaned it all up and now I have filled that area again since winter
6. Clean up my wine bottle area - its overflowing with bottles - sort of still needs work
7. Work on Some PMC Clay - nope
8. Do more steel etching plates- nope
9. Do more copper etching - earrings, pendants, bracelets- nope
10. Make more recycled glass Plates (round and square min 50)- nope
11. Make more recycled glass candle holders (min 50 )- nope
12. Make more fish large and small-nope
13 Make more cats regular and fat Paddy-nope
14 Make more lamp work jewelry (bubble necklaces min 10)-nope
15 Paint and finish a tiger or any other painted project -nope
16 Make painted beads-nope
17 Make more turtles -nope
18 make more dragon eyes-nope
19 make more hearts-nope
20 Make more ceramic pattern sheets for fusing-nope

pretty much no to all the list althought I did make an attempt last summer - but its gung how from this point on

reworking my indoor craft room - new storage towers and tables so I have access to my bookcases and better storage I hope to be 1/2 way done this weekend excited about the new mobile storage towers for paper and materials

so keep coming back - I should have new things posted soon

Scrapbook - Handmade Album - Alice in Wonderland

Alice in Wonderland Album

Handmade from scratch - binding and center and pages - did all the outside binding etc and then added paper

Not finished but almost - got a lot done at my retreat at Younique Scrapbooking Retreat - so much fun and relaxing

the cover has the title - if you can see the rabbit is a bit 3d ish with layers - the clock was a die cut out and layered to create a more 3d look same with the works - so cut about 4 layers and glued them togeterh and added metal corners