I thought I would try my newest canes in my etsy store. So today I listed the kokopeli cane, the petroglyph deer cane, and the hopi sun god cane. Heck, I made a sale already so they are doing way better then my dragoneyes, or the fundraising hearts I made for our “Relay for Life” event. Without further ado, click right here to enter my etsy store. Thanks so much for looking 
caning. I love making my dragoneyes and the hearts for Relay for Life but I have been missing doing my PNW and SW Indian style canes. I love the intricacy of building these canes. I love the colors used to make them. I love holding my breath while I reduce hoping they don’t distort. Heh, they haven’t yet. I guess working with a custom mix of FiKatMo is a blessing in disguise for reduction.
So in a three day span I made 4 SW petroglyphic style canes. Tonja L. asked to do a swap. She loves my canes I love her swap stuff so it was a good deal all around. I made her the 4 new canes plus am adding a couple PNW style and a couple older SW style canes to the swap. Without further ado….the canes
I figure folks might also want to see a couple pre-reduction slices beside the post reduction slices so here is the Hopi Sun G_d Wheel and the Kokopeli cane.
Once I make a few more canes I think I will reduce them a bit more (Yes I kept a few pieces of all of them) and place them in my Etsy store. Who knows, someone may need them for something Thank you for reading and looking.
Happy claying!
or what can one woman do with eyes and hearts? Heh, I figured the title would grab your interest. Yep…you know about the eyes…dragon eyes to be exact. I have managed to find a few spare moments to add some more to my collection and thought I would share with you.
In between making eyes, I made 50 cancer awareness heart pins, and will be making more in the days to come. Next month is our city’s Relay for Life walk. Since my eyes weren’t selling I thought that I could make these hearts and ask for a $5 donation and then give the money to our team. I have had too many people in my life be touched by cancer. My mom passed from cancer, my brother is a survivor, my partner is a survivor, a good frined passed two years ago. Yes, it is time to raise enough funds to cure this insidious disease.
So the last couple of days I have been working at getting my etsy shop stocked with the DragonEyes I have done. There are even a couple pod DragonEyes up there. I don’t know if they will sell for the listed prices but I have nothing to lose giving it the good ole college try eh? Tomorrow I think I will make up some pink hearts with purple awareness ribbon pins to put there too. I figure they can go for $5 with $3 going to the Cancer society for our “Relay for Life” team. Nothing like getting a late start on it
I am so bad at “merchandising” myself. I would so much rather sit at the clay table and get lost in my muses’s crazy schemes. Sometimes she scares the crap out of me and other times I just want to hug her to death. sort of schizo like me eh?
It seems my muse has an evyl sense of humor. A couple of days ago I was taking my morning shower and I was smacked upside the head with her latest desire. Pod DragonEyes. Hello? What the heck is a pod dragoneye?
Seems the silly muse inside me remembered the pods I had collected from trees last fall. Now she wanted a dragon eye looking out of the pod hinting at the dragon inside. Yeah right…like a dragon can fit in a pod. I believe that, sure I do! Don’t you?
So yesterday I was planted at my clay table to create this pod Dragoneye. Not bad for a prototype if I say so myself.
Ok…so maybe she does have a good idea, but lordy, lets not tell her that ok? I would never get anything that I wanted to do done if she knew that. This morning I was back at the clay table and three more pod eyes popped forth. I am not that happy with the shine in their eyes…but that can be fixed.
I can feel her in my brain, tweaking things in her mind at how to make these eyes even more outrageous. Help me!!!!!!