My latest adventure!

Hello my Lovelies!

It has been a slow week for me and EMarie Designs. I made one dream catcher this week, and that's about it. But the person I made it for was very happy with it, so I'm satisfied! Last night and tonight I have been working on a new project. I'm making my own pattern for a cute owl plush pillow!

I have created each piece, with help from my amazing hubby, this is what we came up with! Isn't he cute?! I can't wait to get him all sewn up and stuffed! It's been too hot for me to work on any resin pendants. I have to work out in the garage to buff and smooth the edges, and it's really hot out there! So I decided on an inside project. Well, I must be off to bed!

<3
EMarie

New this week!

Hello Lovelies!

Boy has it been a crazy week! We had a minute leak from a pipe in the wall of our laundry room. We ended up tearing a huge strip of drywall out to see it, and tearing up the carpet on the stairs to get to the spot to fix it. But it's fixed now!

We also purchased a new car this weekend to get ready for baby. My New Beetle was becoming a money pit, so we had to get something more reliable and something that has more room. We bought a VW TDI Jetta Sport Wagen, and it's a gorgeous RED! I am in love with it! It already needs a bath, it's starting to get dirty. :(

I was able to post some more goodies on my Artfire page. Http://EMarie.artfire.com. Please stop in to check it out! I hope to be able to finish working on the pieces in my previous post sometime this weekend. Then whatever doesn't get claimed, I will post that up too! I hope everyone is having a wonderful week!

TaTa for now!

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New resin goodies!

Hello my lovelies!

Here's a few pictures of my new resin pieces I
am working on. These little orbs will be attached
to some barrettes. I have other colors too, but
you will have to wait to see those!








These will eventually be pendants.
Some of them didn't come out very well,
but that's how it goes with resin. You
win some, you lose some. The colors
that you see here are not accurate,
I was just really eager to get a picture
to show you what I have been working on.
Some of these will be spoken for,
I promised some of these in a trade.
I don't know which one's she will pick.





And this little jewel almost came out perfect.
The thing I did wrong was use paper stickers
and not seal them. Any paper you try to embed into resin will absorb the resin unless you seal it with some modge podge or any other type of glue that dries clear. :( If you look closely at the fish, you can see what kind of looks like water spots, that's where the resin absorbed into the stickers.

This is all for now ladies and germs!
Thanks for looking!

<3 EMarie

Dream Catchers

Good evening my lovelies!

Here is a look at my latest creation. This dream catcher was made
for a friend of mine. He loves the ocean. I had made one for him
just like this last year, but sadly hurricane Ike blew his home away and it was in it. :( He loved it so much, so I made him another at his request!



This little one here is for a little girl.
The same friend that I made the Star
Fish dream catcher for wanted this one
for his girlfriend's little girl. She's 5 years
old and loves fairies! This one was lots of
fun and my first small scale dream catcher.


I love to make dream catchers! I make them to sell and will do
custom work. The custom dream catchers are always the most
fun to do. If you want a dream catcher and have an idea for
something custom, send me an email and I will whip something
up for you!

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EMarie Designs is online!

Hello my Lovelies!

I have put up some goodies on my Artfire page as of last night and today. I am off and running with my store front. As of today I have had one order so far and I am very excited about it! When I woke up this morning I was like a kid on Christmas morning logging on to see if I had any takers! LOL! Feel free to check out my store on Artfire, http://EMarie.artfire.com. I will be uploading goodies throughout the weekend!

Hope to see you there!

<3 EMarie

Work is play and play is work....

Hello friends!

I don't remember where I found this. I remember saving it to my computer and thinking to myself that this, in my mind, is how I want to live. This is so inspiring to me that it has motivated me to get organized (somewhat) and start selling my creations. I hope it inspires you in some way!

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The way it is when your work is your play and your play is your work. Your life is all yours and you have no one to answer to or hide behind but yourself and you are free to go just as far and just as fast as your native talents and energies and desires will allow. Which is a whole lot more satisfying than having your existence busted up by the "experts" into little chunks, neatly packaged in airtight boxes labeled "work" and "play" and then fed back to you piecemeal at some federally mandated pace.

And that most of us now sit around vacantly watching garbage on the boob tube each evening, instead of laughing and talking to each other while we knit our own sweaters and whittle our own art objects...and that very few of us now make our work our play and our play our work...and that only a handful of us even understand the inner workings of a car or tractor (let alone are capable of building one that is better than any you can buy, using only simple hand tools)...and that most of us now spend our days doing what we are told, instead of what our souls cry out for us to do...

Author Unknown


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Soon to come....

Hello my friends!

I have been busy this week researching packaging and labeling for all my goodies before I actually put everything out on the web for sale. I am going to be uploading some wares to my Artfire store front by the weekend. I will not have the packaging sorted out by then, so why make you, the greatest customers, wait to be able to wear some of my lovely things?

My Artfire store front web address is:
http://EMarie.artfire.com

I have 3 items up right now and will be uploading more items this weekend. Oh, I can't wait! Hope you can get a chance to drop in sometime this weekend!

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EMarie

Handmade Is Awesome!

www.handmadenews.org

I found this site about a week ago and it's a great place to see other crafty people being successful in their business. It's a great place to find sources for handmade goodies! The site also has articles on Craft Trends, Marketing, Craft Techniques, Crafty Kids and stuff Just For Fun!

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EMarie