TheWeeJenny.net

A wirewrapped pendant, made from buttons!

I did this for a friend who was staying with us (after she bought this wicked big bag of assorted buttons on an art supply run). It was terribly fun and simple to make, so I’m going to be doing a lot of them methinks. They will be available for sale, I just don’t know where yet.

I’ve got more stuff to post but it’s not quite done yet. If you’d like to follow me on Deviantart and possibly see some of it before I put it up on the website, you’re more than welcome. I threw a new sketch into the scrapbook that I’m rather happy with. I screwed up the positioning of the subjects in it a bit so I’ll be tweaking it digitally.

Now if I can get at least one piece of writing done this weekend I’ll be on a roll!

I’m reorganizing some navigational stuff at the moment to try to clean things up a little. Yet again, I was experiencing difficulties with a flickr plugin (a totally different one this time) and so had to change all the jewellery gallery pages again. They now all link to flickr set slideshows. It’s not a perfect solution, but it’ll hold for the moment.

A while back I bought the domain theweejennydesigns.com, and I’m thinking about using it. I can’t decide how though. It could be an art and design blog, or the storefront that I’ve wanted to put up for so long, or both. I’m trying to think of ways to separate all that content from the generalized “bloggy” types of posts and site update posts and so forth. I’m going to be doing more of the art stuff and I really want it to be prominent, as that was the original point to having the site really.

It’s a tricky decision. I like the domain but “shop.theweejenny.net” seems a bit simpler, and doesn’t sound bad either, so that might be better as far as store fronts go. Then again, this domain sounds more like “here’s my online resume/portfolio” than it does an artist’s site.

Anybody have any suggestions? I’m kinda going in circles on this.

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I was asked to do some sparklies for my sis and her bridesmaids for her wedding. At a sort of last-minute-ish time she informed me that they had to move the wedding up by two weeks, and that she’d like some hair things instead of necklaces and earrings (the stuff I usually make).

This was a bit of a pickle, as I really haven’t done this sort of thing before, and wasn’t sure I could get them to come out nice at all. I’m still not sure, but I’m hoping it’ll do. I’m also hoping that they actually make it in time, since I only just finished them this afternoon. It took me a lot of tries before I came up with something that I half liked.

I wanted to do something bigger and more ornate, but this ended up being all I could manage with my materials, since I sort of screwed up the supply order (that I placed in such a hurry that day that I ordered the wrong number of beads, the wrong size combs, and entered the wrong credit card number, doh!)

I was pretty nervous about this project. My sis can be pretty perfectionist, and has been a bit less than tolerant of my failing to live up to stuff before. I think it’ll be alright, she’s been way more relaxed about the whole thing than I would’ve expected a couple years ago. When I had to tell her we wouldn’t be able to afford the journey home for the wedding, she just said “That’s okay, you’ll make the next one. HAHA!”

Methinks the hubby to be must be a good’un, I’ve never seen her this relaxed about anything that was ostensibly a “big deal” ever. I’m happy for her. ^_^