simply-crafting

As most of you are aware, I am doing a counted cross stitch of a family tree for a friend for this Christmas.  This is a very detailed piece with lots of colors and I’m not even a quarter of the way finished.

I thought I would give you all a quick tutorial of how I go about creating a work of art using counted cross stitching.  First thing you need to do is find the center of the piece as well as the center of the aida cloth.  Then you start stitching from the middle out.  What I do is I will find the center and then work my way through the colors until I have reached the very bottom.  Once I’m at the bottom I will then work my way up the piece until it’s finished.

I have found this method to be the most effective on for me, as it seems to make the work go on a little more quickly.  So for all you counted cross stitchers out there, what’s the method you use to complete a piece?

As you can tell by my posts (or lack of posts) should I say I haven’t been accomplishing very much these days.  Between work, the house and the kids I’ve been pretty busy.  I haven’t even been able to squeeze much crafting during this time and this is really starting to get on my nerves as well.

As far as the posting, I haven’t been doing a lot of this either because I really have nothing to share.  I haven’t really worked on much during this time so of course I have no pictures to show you all.  Hopefully in the near future I can get on some sort of schedule and be able to get everything done that needs to be done.

Until then happy blogging and happpy crafting to those who have the time.

As you all know I just recently went back to work outside the home.  When a co-worker asked me what I had been up to in the past year and a half I just had to tell her all about my latest love.  That would be my love for creating unique pieces of jewelry.  She then informed me that she creates homemade jewelry as well.  Then she went on to say that she has a friend who is opening up a small craft store in a town very close to us and if I wanted she would contact her friend about me to see if we could work something out for me to sell my jewelry at her store.  I thought this was an extremely wonderful gesture on the part of my co-worker.  So hopefully she does contact her and hopefully I will be able to try to sell of my crafts there.

I will let you all know how I make out with this experience.  I’m just thankful that my co-worker is willing to talk to her friend on my behalf.

Well I have to say that I’m pretty impressed with myself today.  Normally when it comes to Christmas I am a last minute shopper.  Honestly guys I’m one of the ones that you see running into the malls on December 24 and I normally don’t even start shopping until December 1st.  Until this year!

We just got a brand new store in our area.  This store is a discount store and has tons and tons of stuff in it for very cheap prices.  So this morning I decided to take a look around to see what they have.  They have a ton of craft and beading supplies that would be very nice for my daughter so I just had to pick some of these items up.

All the craft supplies that I purchased today will go away for my daughter for Christmas.  It is because of these purchases that I can say that I have officially started shopping for the Christmas season.

Well today is the day that I intend to take a whole bunch of pictures of my jewelry.  Why?  Well because I found a site that lists a whole lot of places where I can advertise my jewelry for sale and I need to get some good pictures of them to upload onto about five different sites.

As a crafter and creater I do fine, but as a photographer I don’t do so well.  All the pictures that I currently have of all my jewelry are pretty crappy.  So I have decided that I’m going to haul out my digital camera and try to take better ones.  So far the sales of my jewelry online isn’t going so well and I think part of the problem is because I do not take a good picture.

So I have decided that today I’m going to spend a lot of time making these pictures just right.  Hopefully then I will have some very pretty pictures to show people and hopefully this will create more sales.