Etsy

So, Etsy is pretty cool. Its a community for crafters to sell their crafts to the entire world. There is a small listing fee and commission when you do sell something, but the rest it yours. I've always enjoyed crafting and when I lived in PA, my mom used to sell crafts for a living. We traveled to craftshow what feels like everyweek. But it was fun. I don't think the craft show route is for me, but Etsy. I can dig that. So I did.

The top rightmost pic in the screen capture above is of one of my listed pieces.

New Art

For my birthday my mom got me the goods to do stained glass projects again. I took a class 7ish years ago and said that when I had a garage, I would do stained glass at home.

Now I have a garage and I do stained glass at home. In the dinette area off my kitchen.

The first project on the list is an almost 3' by 3' window for my mom for above her garage. That's it about 1 week ago. I've got a lot more pieced cut for it now. My Aunt Diana might remember those beveled pieces.

Productivity on the Home Side

This weekend I made a little creature to give to my cousin with the blanket for her baby that I finished. I also finished painting some Escher models to make up a Vega's gang for Shannon and I. I painted about 12 movement trays. I also puttied the holes in the wall in the kitchen. I would have started to tape things off, but we have no painters tape! So I will do that later. I also started an apron made from some old jeans from Gary.

Between getting all that done (plus laundry and usual cleaning) and having my PIFF team do well, it was a very good weekend!

Treasures Part 4

Back in the day, I used to work at craft shows with my mom''s little company Creative Crafts by Irene. She made all sorts of neat things and sold them and I helped. As I got older, I started to try and make some things to sell, too. That's were the above plastic canvas doggie bag holder comes in. I stitched them up and we sold them for pretty cheap at the shows. Don't really know how good they did, but I made them! A rather noteworthy thing about doing craft shows... Mom had an old Ford tempo and she was able to get all of her crafts in there for shows and the tables/tents needed to sell them (if not provided). There was a lot lot of stuff inside that small car. Mom is very good at packing things.

One of my best friends in high school at Honesdale was Anna Marie Cunningham Smith. She was a year older then me and we rode the same bus. Our bus driver, Walter, even let me ride the early bus route so I could hang out with Anna some more because they changed the bus routes during my sophomore-ish year. Anyway, Anna made me this mug (or at least made the mug and decided she'd give it to me later). It never got used, and sadly it's falling apart now. But it's still fun to see it and have some of my foggy memories come back.

When I went to Anna's house once, we watched Monty Python. It was my first time seeing it. I also saw Dazed and Confused with her at her house. Her cousin, whose name was Daniel I think was pretty cute and my age.

Here are some candles I made while living in Garden. The first four from the left I made with actual candle molds. But the blue one on the right I used an old toilet paper tube with some wax paper and duck-tape as a mold. That was much more common for me.

Not much here that you can't see for yourself. It my old gym uniform shirt from Honesdale. The shorts that went with it were awful of course, but we could wear sweatpants if they were red. So I got me some and wore those most of the time. Remember, I didn't shave back then either, so my legs were often hairy.

Ah, back in the day when we tried to get rid of the nickel-width space between my two front teeth (I couldn't hold a lollipop in between my two front teeth because the stick was too narrow). I wore braces on top for a good while and then got this spiffy glow-in-the-dark retainer to wear afterwards. Even though my space went away, it wasn't permanent. It's rather small now, but still there.