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Now that I have boxes for the barrettes, earrings and other jewelry, I need to make a display to hold the boxes that can also display them. I’m working on the first attempt; this one will hold 3 rows of 6 boxes each, or a total of 18 pieces.  I drew the design in Coreldraw, [...]

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I got around to ordering some jewelry boxes from ULine last night–they came in this morning.  Since ULine is one state over, orders usually come in overnight. Anyway, these boxes will be used to house pieces of jewelry, such as this small butterfly barrette. The boxes come with the cushioning already installed, and run around [...]

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In a previous post I mentioned cutting out some small butterflies for jewelry.  I finally got around to getting a picture of the little bugs. They’re clustered around a 1-2-3 block for scale (1-2-3 blocks are 1″ x 2″ x 3″). I made one into a necklace for Jenny, which she’s been test-wearing a couple [...]

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I tend to follow politics a bit–it’s a lot more intricate and complicated than football (both American type and the black-and-white ball type the rest of the world calls it ), so I was back and forth between the saw and the TV today. Since this is not a political blog, that’s all I’ll [...]

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Below is our latest earring design: A cat wearing a stocking hat.  Jenny came up with the idea and the initial sketch, and I drew the pattern and cut it out today. This is mainly a prototype…Jenny hasn’t seen it yet !  I’m going to try to take a pair to Artistry in Wood [...]

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Since we’re doing a Rail Festival this weekend, I thought I might try some train earrings.  The demographic is all wrong; figure most of the folks there will be male.  Jenny thinks there might be some “bored wives” who might be interested.  Anyway, I drew a simple 4-4-0 “American” type engine and cut out some [...]

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Jenny is leading Arts & Crafts at “Camp Discovery” over at Mounds Baptist Church in Anderson, Indiana. She originally thought that the “kids” were going to be like 1-6th grade. Actually, the ages range from 15 to 50. Oops. So a quick change in activities had to take place. We had [...]

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Since the initial reception for the small butterfly jewelry was good, I’ve been making some more patterns.  Here’s a picture of three more of the little bugs. One of the readers here, Fran, suggested a pin using the rare-earth magnets.  In addition to barrettes and pendants/necklaces, a “pin” sounds like another good application for the [...]

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Per a request I’ve been cutting out some smaller butterflies. These will go mostly into the wood jewelry as barrettes or possibly as a pendant for a necklace. They are around 2-3″ wide, and have flat instead of angled wings.
One of the butterflies has a body with some fretwork. There would be more, but #61 [...]

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As those who’ve reading this for a while know, I’ve been coming out with various barrette designs including dogs and butterflies. One issue is: How does one glue a flat piece of fretwork to the curved and springy barrette clasp?  What I’ve done is cut out a piece that goes between the clasp and the [...]

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