Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Bubble Necklace

I’ve been in lust with this j crew bubble necklace for a really long time, and I could probably have afforded it a few months ago. But now, being funemployed at all, I can’t even afford the off-brand bubble necklaces that have been popping up everywhere for $30.

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I decided to hap-hazardly attempt to make my own. I used Sculpey clay in white, tore it up to “condition” it or whatever, and made a bunch of nice round circles in two different sizes. I also had a couple of gold chains I had acquired a long time ago from a jewelry “grab bag” from a thrift store.

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In order to attach everything together, I used the chain as a sort of “hinge” between each piece, and pressed a little more polymer clay on top of each piece in order to secure the chain to the clay.

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Then, I baked the clay per the instructions on the package and/or may have left it in a little too long because it apparently started turning brown :(

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I painted it turquose using a mixture of acrylic paint, glue, and water.

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Here is what it looks like, finished, on encyclopeda pages. This is the best picture I could get of it, since I am apparently terrible at taking self picturess of my décolletage (see next picture).

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In retrospect, I would have used color clay instead of using white and then painting it. This is probably more of a summer necklace? How do you wear it in the winter because scarf season! SCARF SEASON!

Monday, December 10, 2012

reIntroducing reTreasured

Helloooo from the world of funemployment.

And in this free time of job searching and pretending to clean my apartment, I decided to re-launch my Etsy shop, reTreasured by Nidhizzle.

You can find lots of fabulous artwork made from recycled materials, including tributes to your favorite alcoholic beverage.

And of course, with a new business, I need business cards!

I took my old business business cards and covered the parts that have my now-defunct contact information on them with interesting images I found in an incredibly misogynistic magazine called cosmopolitan.

The fronts:

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The back:

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Thanks for reading! And remember, any of the pieces from my shop can be used as a fabulous stocking stuffer. Support your local funemployed poor artist. <3 <3