Crafts by Chris

Musing on polymer clay, beads, jewelry and other stuff.

heavy heart

My heart is very heavy today. I just learned that an online friend, Dawn Habisreitinger, was tragically killed in a motorcycle accident.
http://blog.nola.com/tpnorthshore/2007/12/woman_killed_in_motorcycle_wre.html

Dawn was a lampwork artist and jewelry designer. She was also a single mother to two young boys. Dawn pretty much rebuilt the inside of her house with her own two hands after hurricane [...]

easily sidetracked

Ok, I admit to being easily sidetracked. I’ve been going to share the latest bracelet I made, but got sidetracked by things like the weather. LOL!

I rarely make jewelry with my own beads. I’m not really sure why, other than I have this addiction of buying other people’s beads and have to do something [...]

we have a winner

Congratulations to Mary B. from Missouri!
She is the winner of the necklace in my Holiday Giveaway.

last chance

Today is your last chance to save BIG! All beads, jewelry, and keychains on my website are marked down 50%!

Today is also the last day to earn entries for a chance to win the necklace shown below in my Holiday Giveaway. You can check out the details here. I will be announcing the winner [...]

ice

Ice! We have about 3/4 of an inch of ice on everything. We’ve had power sporadically throughout the day.

You can click on any of the pictures to be taken to a full size version.
This picture was taken this morning. We had about a half inch of ice at that time. These are the huge old [...]

out with the old

Ok, it’s that time of year. Time for me to clean out my studio. For starters, I’m having a BIG sale! All beads, jewelry, and keychains on my website are marked down 50%! Sale ends Sunday, December 9th, so hurry for the best selection! Update: Sale extended through Saturday, December 15th.

Here’s just a small sampling [...]

love/hate relationship

Ok, I admit it. I have a love/hate relationship with custom orders. Well, hate is a pretty strong word, more of a dislike. It’s really one of those instances where I’m my own worst enemy kind of thing. Many of the things I make are done in multiple steps. Normally I do a step and [...]

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