Dust and the Workshop

Vespa Baby needs a bath!  Poor thing lives in the workshop and keeps getting covered in sawdust.  Must get a dust cover and get it licensed for Oregon.  Gonna love these dry roads!

Spent most of the day in the workshop.  Loud music, sawdust flying, covered in paint, all of my favorite things in the world!  This is the newest display I am working on.  It will be a display for charms.

Finished Display

The finished product.  I like it!  I think chopping off the heads puts the focus on the necklaces.  Now I just need to spend some time in the woodshop building them!

Off With Their Heads!

In the end, I HATED the styrofoam wig heads as displays.  So now I'm trying to cut out a silhouette and see how that works. 

I have two painted.  One is black, one is silver.  I think I like the black one better, although it doesn't show up well in this photo.  I'm still debating on the head, it overtakes the display.  I may chop it off and just leave a partial neck.

So I chopped off their necks in photoshop.  Hmm.....still not sure what I think, but my initial thought is that I like it better.  "Off with their heads!"

Styrofoam Heads

Texturizing styrofoam wig heads.  Never a dull moment.  ;)
Today was a good day.  I stopped by a few of my retailers and dropped off the dog displays.  I love the response.  I hope the customers have a good response as well.  I have some new ideas spinning around in my head.  I wish I had enough time for everything I want to do.

I just got my styrofoam wig heads in the mail.  I'm so excited!  This is the start of displays for my necklace/card sets.  

Wig Head as Necklace Display

I also need to come up with a display for my necklaces.  I want to do something similar to the concrete wig head I have in my room.  The one I use to photograph my necklaces.  I am considering getting wig heads, texturizing them and painting them, probably silver knowing me.  But then, I need something to hold the necklace and card sets.  This is my first attempt.

I don't want to make it so big that it will deter retailers from putting it on their countertops.  Originally I wanted to put two rows of the card sets, but I think that would just be too wide.  So, I went with one.  But I only made it 4" deep.  I'm going to try it at 6 inches and see how that looks.

The actual wig head will be smaller at the base than my concrete one (the concrete kept dripping down the wig head so it became wider at the bottom.)

And most of the day I've spent trying to make friends with the scroll saw and  making another attempt at the pet tag display.  I'll get there someday!  I enjoy the creative process, the part that scares me is having to make the same thing over and over after I finally get the design finished.  Ugh, I hate doing something more than once.

Who Needs to Clean Her Room?

I think I have about five projects going at one time in my room.  Sigh, I feel like a teenager, a messy teenager.  Anyway, still working on the dog display.  I have decided for one thing, that I'm going to make it about 1/3 smaller.  I went to Home Depot today and looked at different ideas for texturing the display.  In the end, I went back to what works for me....mod podge and tissue paper.  I don't know how it's going to turn out until I paint it, but I think it's better than it was.  I want to try the silver, ultimately that's the color I want to use, but I may have to try black if it's shine shows all the textural changes.

I'm also starting to think about doing a display for my necklaces.  I like the idea of the concrete wig head I did for myself, which is what I use to photograph my necklaces for my etsy site.  So I think I'm going to start with wig heads, but need a different finish.  Hmm...

And I also worked on some custom ideas to show to the retailers.

Painted silver.  I think I like it!  I may add texture to the bowl as well.  I don't want to, I like the contrast in texture, but it's so easy to see every little inconsistency when it's smooth.  Can't wait for the paint to dry so I can put the collar and tags on and see how it looks finished.

I think it's actually getting worse rather than better.  I decided the silver looked like tin foil so painted it black.  Sigh, probably time to sleep on it, hopefully my subconscious will come up with something better than my fully awake brain did.