long time, no update

Have I mentioned that life with a special needs, medically fragile kid is tough? Have I mentioned that adding a full time job to that means there's not as much time as I'd like to actually do things like art?

*sigh*

I'm not generally one for resolutions, but my goal this year is 1 hour a week on art-related stuff. I'm hoping for 15 minutes a day, but I know that's not likely to always work. I'm planning to use that time to update websites, get some networking going, apply to some galleries....

.....and, *gasp* actually make some art.

We'll see how well this works....

Giveaway today - Runes!

Welcome guests who are visiting as part of Mrs. B's 31 days of Halloween!

I have to admit, I don't post here quite as often as I should, but I'm hoping to improve that this fall when the weather is more conducive to working inside and making more art, rather than sitting outside here in Michigan.

Things in the works include updates to my more traditional Native American beadwork site, new runes (possibly silver and copper ones), new dream catchers, and maybe more.

So, have a look around, check out my etsy shop, say hi, and maybe head back over to Confessions of a Pagan Soccer Mom to enter to win a set of runes!

First sale!

I made my first etsy sale today!

In the meanwhile, I've re-listed a few more things, and will hopefully be listing more pendulums in the next few days.

Pendulum charts - limited quantity

I've been trying to get a few more things relisted in the last couple of weeks, and will continue listing new and old stuff every week (I hope).

I've also listed a pendulum necklace with a pendulum chart - we developed these several years ago, and I thought they were gone, but I recently discovered some more of them. When the cards are gone, they're gone - the file to print more is lost in the ether, and I no longer have access to the CAD program I used to draw it up.

A little slow around here

We've been busy packing - we had someone make an offer on our entire remaining inventory from the business, and of course, after some neegotiations, we said yes - no sense in all this stuff just sitting here.

With that in mind, I've got a few more sets of runes that I'm keeping out that still need to be listed, and after that it'll likely be a while before there are new runes - thousands and thousands of stones are already packed up to go to their new owners. I likely won't be able to pick up new stones until the return of the gem show in July - we do have a couple of mail-order sources, but they're somewhat flaky at times, and don't always have the things they claim to have in stock.

Not to worry though; I've still got plenty of jewelry to photograph and get listed. Time to do that will have to wait until  everything here is packed and shipped, taxes are done, and my son gets through surgery in late April.

Posted tonight

Runes, finally!

Amazonite, Apache Tears, Aquamarine, Bloodstone, Hematite, and Lapis listed tonight. More to come later this week.

Moonstone runes winner & a lack of new items

@MendyLady won the moonstone runes - I'd intended to announce that earlier.

I'd also meant to get more items listed, but Acorn has been sick again.  I got photos taken of more runes tonight,  but just editing the photos has taken forever, so I'll try listing them tomorrow or this weekend.