Leather stuffs by a Curious Cat

Bit of a treat for you today! I want to show you some lovely pieces from a fellow Craft Pimper.
Her name is CJ and I really think you should head over to her facebook page to see what she's up to :D Teehee.
Leather is her medium and I love what she does with it. Pretty flowers and some perfect colours for spring.
As well as these decorative flowers, CJ creates gorgeous jewellery, one of my personal favourites is this octagon pendant and I can just imagine how hard it was to get the perfect shape!


Head over to facebook, or Cj's website and her blog as well to find more gorgeous handmade items!

And just to finish off for today, a couple more of my favourite items from the Curious Cat! :) Enjoy and have a good day!

Whatta slow week.

Not a lot going on in the world of me at the moment.
Uni is going very slowly, no more work to do til revision for exams after Easter and the weather has just been so lovely that no one wants to do any work, including me!

I also haven't been making much. Planned on making loooads yesterday as I had quite a free day but ended up just varnishing beads really. Today I've played around with seed beads, not what I normally do at all but I needed to make something! Made quite a cute little bracelet that I've laid claim to.

I did have a hairy encounter with a wasp earlier today - was not fun. It was big and scary and angry! Buzzed right by my ear when I sat down to eat me eggs. Needless to say, my eggs went cold before the wasp was dealt with.

I also managed to slice my finger while cooking yesterday and today I burnt my tongue. It hurts! I think I should just do nothing for a while, might not get hurt!

I have made a couple of bits and bobs, a variation of the tile necklace I made the other day, a couple of cute bracelets and that's about it really!

Looking forward to this weekend - get to see my boyfriend (woop!!!) and we're going to London to see Dirty Dancing on West End, he bought me tickets for my birthday :) Can't wait!

Going to be a busy few weeks, not sure how much making I'm going to be able to do over Easter. Things to do and people to see! Plus I guess I should start revision.

I will carry on blogging though, and I'm also going to be doing some featured artist posts. Some really fun stuff coming up! So you better keep reading :POooh and this necklace, forgot I made it! It's so pretty (I think anyway hehe). I love the colours and the simplicity of it. Normally have some patterning on my pieces but I like the fact that this one doesn't. Hope you like it!

I just found these!

I just found these gorgeous pieces of art on another blog, of course I've completely forgotten which because I accidently closed the tab. But just look at these! They're wondeful! They're by aMused Creations, take a look :D
The polymer clay along with the silky fabric hair makes them so funky and tactile, love 'em!

I'm trying to not stick to making the same things over and over again. All my things are sightly different but I feel I should try to vary the style... I still want 'me' to come through in the pieces though so I'm having a bit of a tricky time because I love the styles I tend to stick to!
I also tend to just stick to bracelets, but I am trying to make more necklaces. I don't really know why I don't make more!
This was yesterday's project:

It does blend from purple to brown, but my camera isn't the best for picking up subtle changes in colour.

Looking forward to the coming weeks - almost finished uni for the term, and have no more essays due in so I can make more stuffs, woop!

Have a fantabulous day :D

Wow I really am useless at this.

I don't know why I don't keep this up to date. It'd be a perfect way to tell you all what I'm up to in my making ways and I suppose in my everyday life I guess as well :)

Now though, I would love to become part of a group of bloggers, and so I guess I better keep up to date :)

I have made some uberly funky bits and bobs (if I do say so myself) since I last posted anything on here - I'm sure I'll put up new pictures soon, maybe even one at the end of this post if I can decide which! :)

I've also started uni since my last post and turned 20 (eugh!) as well. Uni is fun, the course (philosophy) is great :D But, does give me headaches, make you think quite a bit. I've actually just picked the modules I want to do next year, should be really good. Going with my main interest, Philosophy of Mind, and a fun one, Philosophy as Film among others. Will e a really good year. Though I must admit I can't wait until the third year when I can do a dissertation :D

As for what I'm up to with my crafty goodness at the moment: I was going to have my own shop for a couple of weeks this easter but unfortunately couldn't make enough stock along with keeping up with studies so had to move that back. But I have been making lots of stuffs, hoping to do a craft fayre this summer. If anyone knows of any good ones in East Anglia, please do let me know! Building up quite a bit of stock, I have a weekly aim of how much to make. Haven't met this aim over the last couple of weeks because uni work had to take priority. However, I am going to catch up over the next week or so and over Easter :)

Anyway, that's enough for now. I promise I will keep more up to date from now on, including new photos and projects I'm working on. Tomorrow I plan on making a funky necklace so that'll make it's way on here in the near future :)

Love to all!!

A couple of bracelets. I love these. It takes a lot of effort to not steal these back from my box of things to sell!

Long time no speak...

Hey everybody!!

I'm sorry it's taken me so long to write another post. I kept thinking about it but never got round to it. Plus I went away in July for a few weeks so didn't get a chance to write anything then.

Anyway, what has been happening?

Quite a lot really I think.

I am at the moment in the process of getting ready for university. I will be studying philosophy and I am planning on having a permanent headache for 3 years! The downside to uni is not seeing my boyfriend much (boo hiss boo) but I guess it'll just be even better when I do see him!

On the crafty side of things, a few bits and bobs have happened. I have started a range of 'Piglins.' They are really really cute. No pictures as of yet, but I'll try and put some up soon. The Piglins are a family of pig cross breeds. They all have pig heads but got mixed up somewhere along the reproductive chain and have other animals' body parts. May sound strange, but definitely cute.

Also in the testing stages are some notebooks. I love this and I think they will be a huge hit with everybody (she says). Again, no pictures but will have some once I've done a few more. I can't really describe them but they are funky.

What I do have pictures of are my new toadstool necklaces!! Have a look below at them. I love them, it's hard not to keep them all but I will have to sell most of them. I just might keep one. Or two...

Now for my BIG news :D
. . .

Next April, I will be in my own shop in Ipswich, Suffolk selling my own things for two weeks only, so hurry down there if you want something because I will be gone before you know it!! How amazingly cool is that though? Me running my own shop, eeeek, excited!! Just got so much to do before then, like making looooooads of stock. Because of this I will be shutting my Etsy shop down slowly to concentrate on stock-making. But I will still be around!

That's it for now I think. Only a quick post, but I need my beauty sleeps before my last say of work tomorrow! Enjoy my toadstools :)

Have a look at my facebook page too, I'm getting better at uploading pictures frequently :)

www.facebook.com/Kayleigh's.Craftyness

Now just how cute are these little things?!!

Disaster Struck!

Ello ello ello again :)

Just a quick post this time I think, in the process of making a bracelet but thought I'd just give you all an update.

I haven't actually made anything in the last week, eek!! Not through choice, trust me, but as the title of this post says, disaster struck! Some of my things got broken and went missing, naturally the most important parts of my clay-making.

But! I am now back up and running :) Still missing some clasps and some varnish so at the moment I'm just making the beads and waiting til my varnish comes through before I can string them. Haven't got any pictures yet but the bracelets that are coming alive are very cute :) Got a black and white one on the go and the moment, and already made the beads for a yellow, green and blue pastel coloured one and also one made out of cat beads, it will be adorabubble when it's strung!!! :D

I'm also thinking of making some funky earrings, different and unique hopefully. I'll see how they go, if they go, and let you know about them, hopefully with pictures to accompany the descriptions! I really hope they go ok - my clay is getting kind of sticky because of the heat so have to keep shoving it in the fridge. Takes patience which at the moment I don't have a lot of but oh well.

But I am still loving my work, and things will be going up on Etsy very soon, I promise so please do keep checking back - www.dizzykitten.etsy.com Also, for anyone who is local to me, go and have a look in the Jewellery Box in Hadleigh because I've got things in there now too, yay! They look so good in the window!!

Anyways, I said it'd only be a short post so I better get back to bead making now :)

Have a good day all!