Find of the week!

Hello world,

Anna here reporting on the awesome leather find of the week. Walking to Snappy Mart through the alley, I found a discarded leather chair in excellent condition and guess what I did? Ran home, grabbed a bag and my box cutter and went to town! I now have expanded my business after doing the necessary cleaning and preparing of the new leather find.

Here's a pic of me trying out new design ideas and messing with proportions before making the new batch of designs for the day, with my lovely cup of tea in a doggy mug and jamming Tobacco on the laptop.

Now all I have to do to get back up to speed is make ONE of each design in the new red brown leather, take pics, and upload it for everyone to see.

3D Rectangle Earrings

These are one of my creations for the day. Super lightweight and nicely accented brown re purposed leather with faux gold thread. This baby is sewn into a three dimensional rectangle... I guess you would call it a quadrangle? Maths, how I have forgotten you.

Anyway, these bad boys are on sale for $10 a pair on my Etsy.

Business Cards

Dear Everyone,

I made my own business cards to hold in my back pocket today. Just in case I'm wearing my own jewelry and someone happens to ask where I got it, and I can give them a card when I say, "I made them!" There's only 12 for starters. I used some old photographs of mine I shot and developed back in 2008 and my oldie but a goodie Remington travel typewriter.

Also, there are a few more designs up on my Etsy. I'm toying with an idea for plush floral cube earrings right now. Hmm, should I?

I've done it. I've gone and set up an Etsy account (and started a twitter)

I can't believe myself! It took this long to come up with something creative I could produce in reasonable bulk to hopefully be sold. I started making leather earrings and pendants for a pretty fair price of around $10 a pop. WoolenNickles is open for business! The idea for the first pair, 001, came to me in a dream. I wanted to make a present for my sisters 22nd birthday and in my sleep state came up with that first pair. I've been brainstorming for the other designs, using various shapes around the apartment as inspiration and circular guides.

Oh and I probably won't get used to tweeting for a while, but shoot me a tweet or ideas @WoolenNickles .

For now, here is a pic of my sister enJOYing her new jewelry.

Reusable Grocery bags from scraps

These are the first of hopefully many reusable grocery bags I will be making in the future. I've been copying paper grocery bags, or other box-shaped things in my apartment and making up patterns as well. They are all reversible, and sturdy. Most of them will have pockets from the shirts used included in the bag as you can see on the top one, from a long sleeved shirt, the breast pockets are visible. 

Anyone want a future bag? These three are wedding presents.