I'm finally going to start getting serious..

About making my resin jewellery. Here's my first real good proper one I made:

Selling for $20 (resin is pricey!) and you can have whatever design you want on it.. I'm going to start making default ones with berries and bluebirds on them. Once I get a decent amount of these made, I'm going to tag along with my nan to her market stalls in Smithfield, Mareeba, Yungaburra, etc. and try to sell them at the markets :)

I'm also going to draw up a book of designs people can choose from, just like when you go to get your face painted and they have that folder full of photos.. it'll be like that :)

Connections.

Finishing high school is a whole lot more work than slack time. Instead of feeling great about going out on weekends, I'm stuck stressing about all the time I'm wasting when I could be doing something productive, and with my exhibition to be held in MARCH next year, doomsday is a-loomin'. I really need to start thinking of ideas and pumping out some art. Frick!

Mrs. Williams took me into Crate59 (local artspace owned by Liz Dunn) today so we could connect with Kristen Tennyson, who'll become sort of my mentor artist when I finish school. She said she'd be happy to check out my work and ideas as I progress through my body of work, and for that I am so so damn thankful! She's an amazing artist; I'd own every single piece of her art if I could, and I still need to save up to by one of her tote bags..

But yeah, the pieces she's working on now are just mind blowing. Casting lace into resin skulls! I wish I could think of something that awesome. But what she's making looks a helluva lot like my necklaces I've been making with my El Día de los Muertos skulls and that makes me all depressed coz everyone knows just how much her work influences me, and before today I hadn't seen or known of what she was working on, but my necklace and her new pieces just look so identical, everyone is going to think I've been ripping her style! Gah! Besides that, I've very excited to be able to have her there to guide me.

Also! Recieved my cheque from the Peninsula Art Educators today, total of $300! It came in a little envelope full of animal sequins and a balloon, so I guess it's party time? HURRAH!

I need to think of a theme of my exhibition, I need to think of a NAME for my exhibition, I need to start thinking of ideas, I need to start taking photos.. I need to contact Naomi from work about her girl guides.. I need to make my Jesus costume for Halloween! That's right, I'll be rockin' it Old Testament!

Kayla lent me her fisheye lens for the weekend, so I'll take loads of photos and this page will be full of niceness again. I need to read my frankie magazine I bought yesterday, so I can get all inspired.

I need to clean my house. I need to create a budget. I need to organise formal. I need to do my schoolwork.

INEEDTOBECLONEDSOICANGETEVERYTHINGFRICKENDONE!

RESIN NECKLACES!

They're finally finished and I love them! I made two, one of a moustache, and one of Alice and Jasper, check it!







They're covered in resin, which is shiny and water-proof, and I'm thinking of selling them for $15, and that includes a chain. You can have WHATEVER DARN PICTURE YOU WANT on it, just send me a high res. copy of it.

Maybe I should start an Etsy..

peanut butter RESIN TIME!

I've been wanting to make resin necklaces for ages! That's actually how I found my job; I was looking for a place in Cairns that sells resin and I came across Cairns Craft Center, and though "you know, it wouldn't hurt to apply" :) but anyway, seeing as I work there and get a 20% discount, I bought some resin yesterday and JUST finished painting it onto two to-be-pendents. Here are the photos I used.

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They'll be ready in about 5 hours, so I'll post some photos of the finish products then!

I'm thinking of making custom orders for people and selling them for $15, taking into consideration the price of the resin, the chain and the printer ink. Would you buy one?

I love making things!