be more crafty

I am refining this goal. I am going to aim to make one thing each month. My first project: a camera mount for my bicycle – similar to what this guy did: http://www.camerahacker.com/build/Bicycle_Camera_Mount.php …

i want to be able to eventually do crafty things and make some money with it!

i’m signed up with etsy.com, just need to have something to sell.

now holds things that I might actually want to reach. Feeling ambitious one day, I hauled out the plastic pegboard that Tony (my brother) had given to me around a year ago. I cut a piece of rope to a length just over twice the length of the short end of the board. I looped that through the outside pegs, knotted it, and slung it over two unused wall-hooks. A trip to Home Depot yielded a $6 container of assorted peg-hooks. These peg hooks were carefully arranged to hold my keys, wallet, backpack, and various office supplies. Even if this pales in comparison to ReadyMade, I’m proud of it!

i started painting today. it’s going to be a masterpiece.

and deep down in my being I believe that I have the fundamental skills required for the projects in there. But I never seem to do much. The closest I’ve come is turning my walk-in closet into a personal office space (although mine is far more utilitarian than the concepts presented in ReadyMade #25).

so this whole lanyard business has taken off at moms work. but now my moms being a lanyard nazi… she comes home telling me i NEED to make this and that in this amount of time for this person… i spend almost all my free time trying to keep up… its really not fun anymore which is disappointing

in other crafting news… i have opened my own etsy shop!

www.undeniablyimproper.etsy.com

im trying to craft more things for it
but ive been busy

i have made 10 of those beaded lanyards, my mother bought three, and she took the rest to work today and sold all but one by 12.30… i feel accomplished! = D

so far i have decoupaged two picture frames and one box for christmas presents…

also…
at my mothers place of employment, they are required to wear ID badges… being a workplace of mostly women, they have become addicted to these laynards called boojee beads… i have since gone to walmart and collected the things i need to make my own lanyards and successfully built four of them… if i can sell them for $10 each, not only will it be $5 less than what theyre buying them for… i can also make some money…

oh… and maddox, my cat, has also been “helping” me with my projects…
so thats fun?

Sooooo Shery wants to do a make it yourself christmas (again) and I mean you can’t turn down a lady twice right? So I’m making my gifts this year. Super stoked :). Can’t say what I’m making on the doubtful chance someone actually reads this thing.

So I do have this one skill that is very neat. I’m really good with hemp. I have a book on macramae and am going to teach myself new knots and see how many strings i can work with at the same time. I very excited. The problem however is that I don’t know what happened to all my hemp and beads.