Night-time Creating

My creativity flows at night. Every night it seems that as soon as I think it's time to go to bed, and I actually get up to go, I see my craft table and just sit down to straighten up for a second, pick up something that catches my eye and end up working on some project till the sun comes up. I'm always super proud of what I create, and I want to share it with the world, but what is a good craft blog without pictures? And the best pictures are in daylight. However, when I finally get up, I have other more pressing things to take care of, like cooking myself something to eat or going to work. So, too often I put off posting about my latest works, ideas, and projects because I don't have pictures. I've come up with several new earring ideas, a bracelet idea, and a hair comb idea, as well as nearly finishing my patriotic kusudama earrings, and some colorful rainbow kusudama earrings. Well, I want to report what I've been up to, so sorry for the crappy pictures.

I give you bracelet:

Hair comb (this was just to get the idea out of my head, I know it's excessively rough):

Crane and butterfly earrings:
Kusadama earrings and future earrings:

I've had a few different people ask me about clip on earrings, because they like what I've been making but they don't have pierced ears. Believe it or not I'm in the same boat. My ears are not pierced. And, yes, it's ironic and creates several problems with knowing what hardware is most preferred, how long to make them dangle, as well as testing what I make first. I really need to get to the craft store and buy some clip on findings. Besides, what better way to generate interest in what you do than wear your creations?

We have a lot of down time at my job, so I've been taking little containers of papers in to fold. It had gotten to the point where I'd had several projects worth of paper folded and I didn't want to start another one before finishing those, so I sucked it up and took my bottle of glue and the contraption I invented to help the gluing of the folded papers into petals go unthinkably faster than having to hold each one of 120 individually closed, waiting for it to dry. I surprised even myself when I could have taken them to total completion if I had brought the rest of my stuff. And I still had 2 hours of "work" left! Thankfully I've taken to always carrying around another container of paper I've been using for my 1000 crane project, so I was not left without anything productive to do.

I've been completely obsessed with looking at beautiful delicate intricate hair pieces on Etsy lately, and if I was rich I'm sure I would have bought about $1000 worth by now. Finally I decided to sit down and see what I could make on my own, and that's where the hair comb idea comes from. I feel like it has potential, but I'm starting to think I need to find and take a genuine jewelry making class so that I can stop making it up as I go along based on what I see other people doing on Etsy, or how I think they do it anyway, lol.

Some of my family will be coming in either tomorrow night or Tuesday, and I really need to clean! This place is a total disaster area. I'm looking forward to the visit though. They are going to be taking me along to Yellowstone and Glacier, and I can't wait to take them biking along the river trail. I've completely fallen in love with the river that runs through town, I can't even tell you.

Well, off to bed with me. Good night!