The Wigglebutt Blog

HaHaHa! I kill me☺ Just working on being a little more consistent with the blog. ~The sad thing is that I started this draft on Nov. 4th :( 😒 No need to rush a good thing.. right? Doesn't everyone take 6 weeks to write a blog post that consists of mostly pictures????? Ummm...no? 😞 Well, coincidently this necklace took over a year to complete. This is a beautiful lamp work heart by Juli Cannon. Every time I picked it up to work on it, I was at a loss as to what to do next. So I would set it back down;(    Even when I had it all finished something just wasn't right.   One tiny change and all was right with the world. Well, at least with this necklace☺ I made this using a tutorial. Much easier than it looks☺ Then I had an urge to use another of Juli Cannon's gorgeous lamp work focal beads, so I tied some knots☺ I do try to post pictures of new stuff semi-regularly on the Wigglebutt Creations Facebook page. So until I ca...

a post appears☺ I have been feeling decidedly "uncreative" lately;~( Hoping to change that pretty quick like. This is from another tutorial by  Nicole Hanna She has some pretty awesome video tutorials too. Hoping the mojo returns pretty soon☺

I've actually been accomplishing quite a few things since I decided to take a break from YOJP. ~Not all jewelry related... just things I want to accomplish☺ I used a tutorial for this necklace (I changed it slightly from the instructions) I loved the way it looked but it wore really funky. The only way this was going to lay right would be if it was a choker. Didn't like that..... So I reworked it☺ Much happier now. It wears really nice now. Very comfortable☺ And I got to use one of my hoarded  JulsBeads focal beads☺ Win ~ Win! ☺

I may have mentioned before  that I pretty much suck at that thing known as social media☺ These last few weeks haven't seen any noticeable improvement  to that suck-age:~( And in my last post I kinda sorta promised to be a little more chatty this time around aaaaaaaaaannnndd....... I lied. This is all I have for you today. At least I made a couple of collages instead of inundating you with a hundred bazzillion pictures. Really just seven, but that can seem like a lot. No? If you want to see bigger individual pics you can go here . There are some really nice pieces by some very talented  jewelry artists in The Year of Jewelry Project I'm not making any promises this time but maybe I'll actually have something to chat about next time and maybe next time will be sooner than  2 months from now.

A very quick quicky this time☺ Been very busy getting the garden and greenhouses  ready for winter. Back to being a couple of weeks behind. Not bad though, considering☺ I'll be more wordy next time, k?

Yeah...... I know I suck at blogging☺ But I'm a busy, busy gal☺☺  I seriously started this necklace over a year ago and  finally finished it. Whew!☺  This is another Nicole Hanna tutorial. I'm really heavy handed when I work with wire and I am really trying to get more used to working with thinner gauges without breaking the wire every time I touch it☺ Most of Nicole's tutorials call for 22g and 28g so it's really good practice for me.  Some polymer clay components by me☺ Keeping it simple again so I can keep up.

Another quicky post☺ This actually gets me caught up again;~)

It's June and I haven't posted in a month and a half. I'M SHOCKED! HaHaHaHa!!! I slay me:~) I am currently only about two weeks behind on the project And I am planning on some ~me~ time this weekend to play catch up. I'm just here today  to throw some pictures up of  what I've submitted up to this point. Later today or tomorrow I will be back with some gardening  and greenhouse updates:) (which is what has helped put me behind, as usual☺)  Apparently I used 26g on one and 28g on the other. LOL.... Can't really tell with the naked eye (obviously) or they wouldn't be different☺

Just a quickie☺

I've been spending a lot of time in the  greenhouse lately, (YAY! baby veggies☺) but I am still keeping up. Considering we are only on Week 7  I would be very sad if I wasn't. ☺ I'm getting more comfortable with this style of wrapping. I don't hold my work with a death grip anymore. lol I also made the beaded chain and I must say that it was  a pain in the ass to scrub all of those little wraps after I put it in the LOS.  If I remember, next time I will tarnish the wire BEFORE  I make all of those little links☺ Still need a lot of practice, but I want to start trying to go for  the more free form style with the larger gauge wire. We'll see☺ Here's a little peek at some of the goodies from the greenhouse.... I started planting seed a little over a month ago. I have several varieties of tomatoes, hot peppers and perennial flowers, broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage and squash. So far everybody seems to be prett...

Well, we are up to Week 6 and I am blogging as regularly as usual. Ha! This one is a matchy-matchy to Week 2. I made it so I wouldn't have so many beads to sort and put away;~) (Still working on that) I really hope to carve out the time I need to actually list a bunch  of items in the store. I've got tons of stuff that I need to get to listing:~)

We are three weeks into the new "The Year of Jewelry Project 2016" and so far I am keeping up. Lol.  This one was hard to photograph. The colors were more true when I took the pics on the necklace display but I was super happy with the way I did the back and wanted to show it. I made a similar necklace for my sister a while back and felt the need to explain to her where the button "clasp" was supposed to be positioned but with this design it is very obvious and it can still be worn with the clasp on the right or on the left. I really love this one☺ Love the way this one came out too☺

Lots of gardening, visitors and traveling has been happening around here (and not a lot of jewelry making) Hopefully, now that things are calming down a little, I can carve out some time to catch up again;~) Here's Week 24 I bought a blouse to wear to a wedding (part of the traveling) and it came with a seriously awful beaded necklace. I made this to take it's place☺

Just a quicky☺ I promised myself I would do some cleaning and organizing  of the disaster area I call my work space this weekend, then I spent most of my day today re-potting tomato plants so I need to get busy on the cleaning☺ Another failed attempt at framing stones, but I got another pair of "organic" sterling silver earrings☺ Seriously dislike trying to make a mirror image, and it shows. HA! Can you tell it's an owl?

This is me slacking on blogging again~ but I'm gonna give myself a pass.   Just cuz;~) I actually posted all of these to the group    pretty close to when they were due, just not here☺ Some day I will remember to look for the tiny "hairs" from the  scrubby with the mag glass BEFORE I take the pictures. ~sigh~ They have since been removed☺ I'm seriously in love with this piece♥ I made it using a photo tutorial by Anacely Olmedo Hopefully you will be seeing a lot more of this style in the future, using my own designs of course☺ In other news, I planted my tomato seeds, and they were almost all up in the first week! SQUEE!! It's amazing how excited I get when I get to start growing things. I've already had to re-pot some of the pepper starts. But since peppers and tomatoes aren't really quick growers, I decided to plant some leaf lettuce just for the heck of it. January 27 February 13 ...