Adieu

I have recently made the decision to stop Jellybones. I'm not sure if this is forever or just for awhile.

Thanks to everyone who has been supportive and those that have bought Jellybones products.

Bye!

Ways to buy

If you want to purchase any of my goods, you can find them at:

Felt

Wazala

or

Foxes

Or email me directly at hello.jellybones@gmail.com

Nothing

We start, then, with nothing, pure zero. But this is not the nothing of negation. For not means other than, and other is merely a synonym of the ordinal numeral second. As such it implies a first; while the present pure zero is prior to every first. The nothing of negation is the nothing of death, which comes second to, or after, everything. But this pure zero is the nothing of not having been born. There is no individual thing, no compulsion, outward nor inward, no law. It is the germinal nothing, in which the whole universe is involved or foreshadowed. As such, it is absolutely undefined and unlimited possibility -- boundless possibility. There is no compulsion and no law. It is boundless freedom.

Charles S. Pierce "Logic of Events" (1898)

Fierce!

Yay... it worked! Made a new mold recently and just turned out some of these awesome tiger face pendants.

Unfortunately the other mold I was working on hasn't worked (yet). Will keep trying!

Extremely Silly Season

It's gonna be a busy month ahead - 3 markets! Crafternoon Tea is this Saturday 12th December, and then next weekend is Love Handmade on Saturday 19th December, and Kraftbomb 20th December. I've been working on things every night but still feel like I'm not producing enough! I'll be so happy to have a break by the time Christmas comes.

I have a new product which I'm casting at the moment (resin, of course). Will post some pictures when I have them all finished!

Oh... also going to see Kitty, Daisy and Lewis next week! Excitement...

Market Economy

I'm getting excited about all the new craft markets popping up.

I went to check out the Devonport Craft Market yesterday (not as a stall holder unfortunately). Lots of cool stuff and familiar faces. I'm a big fan of these carnival themed cups from lilysmakebelieve:

Kinda wishing I bought one now! Maybe I'll pick one up at Crafternoon Tea next week, where I'll be a stall holder too.

Also looking forward to being at Kraftbomb at the end of the month and I've also applied for Kraftbomb, Love Handmade and Crafternoon Tea in December. Hope I get to do all of them!

Yikes... I'm gonna go cast some resin now!

New Stuffs!

Here's a couple of new-ish items for your perusal:

These little heart earrings are only around 1.5 cm high...

This set was my Dad's idea, after he saw the pencil earrings.

Russian Doll Necklace. Speaks for itself.

Head in the sand

Okay, so I haven't posted in a really really long time.  Here are my excuses - working hard at uni, working hard at work, and moving into a new home with my lovely.  Excuses are always boring - sorry about that.  Anyway I am here again and hoping that I'll be able to really get into craft stuff again in a big way soon.  I've decided just to do one paper at uni next semester, work 3 days a week and have a little bit more ME time. Which, incidentally includes more crafty time (Woot!).

All this will happen after exams are over, and after my quick trip to Europe in July! Yussss! I'm very excited about that. In the short space of 2 weeks I will be holidaying in Croatia, Rome, London, and Barcelona.  In Croatia I will be visiting Split and also hanging out off the Dalmatian coast on the island of Hvar where my great grandfather came from (and ran away from).  Soooo exciting.  By the way - does anyone know of any AWESOME shops to go to in London? I'm thinking that might be the best place to find Charles a little present.

Yes, that's all for now. I am actually supposed to be studying Company Law right now. How did I pull myself away??

XO

This makes me hungry.

This is awesome:

Oh, and this hamburger cake:

Hello 2009

Happy Belated New Years!

I hope everyone has had some holiday relaxing time!  Our trip to Melbourne was super fun and Charlie and I had a bit of a downer on coming home to boring old normal life and Auckland.  Oh well... I have Europe in July to look forward to - 3 weeks spent in Croatia, Rome, Barcelona and maybe a couple of days in London.  Yay!

I'm in the thick of summer school now and I'm not enjoying it like I did last year, thanks to no longer living in a holiday destination (Waiheke) and a horrible chest infection that has still left me exhausted a week and a half after getting it.  I am, of course still getting awesome marks.

You know what's getting me down today though? Chains.  Yes, chains.  Necklace chains.  It's so hard to find a good necklace chain for my jewellery.  I was excited before Christmas because I thought I'd found an awesome gold plated chain that was exactly what I wanted. Unfortunately I've now found that said gold plated chains quickly lose their gold plate and end up steel coloured.  It's a silly thing to get down about but I am so sick of doing chain research instead of thinking about fun new ideas.  Blah.... more internet trawling to do.

I need to seriously start making stuff for the Cross St Carnival now which is looking to be an awesome day!

Over the rainbow.

Hey!

So, did I tell you that way back in September I won a competition and the prize was a $1000 Flight Centre voucher? No? Well, I did.

So now it's come time to use it! My dad, my beloved Charlie and I are going to Melbourne on Sunday for 9 days. Woot! My bro lives there so we are going to spend Christmas with him.  All my favourite guys in one place!! And we found cheap as accommodation in the city.

I'm pretty excited about it, especially as I made some spending money at Craftwerk.

And I am really really over work and making stuff right now so just doing what I want is going to be sweet.

So that's probably me for 2008.  Hope ya'll have a fab Christmas and a fun New Years!

Kraftbombtastic

Weeeeee! Kraftbomb was fun yesterday!  Seemed a bit busier than last time, but that could have been because I went sans-Charlie again.

I had to have a cup of Fred's delicious lemonade, and 2(!) of City's cupcakes. SO. GOOD.

I also picked up this cute necklace which I have been thinking about for awhile from lilysmakebelieve. I'm gonna send it to my lil sis in London for Christmas.  I know she'll love it!

Bicycles to Drool Over.

I've been thinking lately that I need to get into bike riding again - it saves me spending money on the bus or spending time walking and it's exercise.  Then I start to think about my bike - a charming old Raleigh 20. It's purple and once had two white tyres (but now has one white, one black).  I really love it but it's always breaking down.  At the moment the seat is doing something weird and I need to get a spanner to it and the pedals slip when you are trying to ride uphill (kinda scary and dangerous).

So... I started investigating buying a new bike with the classic old fashioned look that I love.  I found a lot on overseas websites! These are my favourites. Unfortunately they are all hugely expensive and possibly not able to be shipped to NZ.  Anyway... makes for good drooling:

Fietsfabriek "Retro" 

Gucci release this little red beauty as a special item during the Beijing Olympics for a cool US$3,420!

Jorg & Olif have this cutey "Oma" at a fairly reasonable price ... for those in the States only!

These two are from the British Pashley Cycles "Sonnet Bliss" and "Princess Classic"

Kronan! These are probably the most viable for me to purchase - they have an Australian distributer.

I'm digging the cream quite a lot.

Velorbis "Victoria Classic", "Dannebrog", and "Scrap Deluxe".  Another great example of Northern European design. I love the cane baskets too!  And the Scrap Deluxe have an interesting kinda modernist look.

And finally the Skeppshult "Nova", "Promenade" and "Nature" (x2 colours).  The Promenade is the mens model but I love the colours.

YUSSS

I finished my exams!

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!!!

EXAMS

I will be absent for the next couple of weeks.

Have fun while I am in the library studying.

    (dead eyes)

Kraftbomb October 08

I'm crazy about this guy.

Burgled

Charles's house was broken into on Saturday night, while he was staying at my house and his brother was away (probably the first time in a year of living there that neither of them were home). We didn't know until we came back from Kraftbomb on Sunday.

They took money, a digital camera, a PDA type computer thing, a surfboard, and a few other bits a pieces.  Part of that money was several hundred dollars of Jellybones money (saved over many months of doing markets and lent to Charles briefly). I was going to take it on Sunday to bank the first chance I got.

That kind of thing really makes you feel stink about humanity.

KRAFTBOMB!

I'm excited. You should be too!

Busy-ness

Did anyone ever think that the word "business" was funny? Because it's like busy-ness?

Well I am definitely a busy-ness student. I have been so busy lately, not getting enough sleep and unfortunately not having much (well, any) time for crafty-ness. Uni is a relentless task master! Just finishing my last few assignments, then it's exam time. Fun.

Tomorrow I am going on a road trip with my dear papa to Palmerston North. He won a regional architecture award so we are going down to the awards functions (He won it for some apartments in New Plymouth he designed). It's going to be a seven and a half hour journey apparently. I do quite like road trips though (It's easy when you don't drive!). Dad's promised we can stop at op shops and antique stores on the way back. Yuuusss.

In all my madness of busy-ness I have managed to do some extra hours at work AND...

Auditioned for Wheel of Fortune. Ha! I'd really like to get on and win prizes but the idea of being on TV is a bit scary. I just have to wait and see what happens now!

Oh Yeaaaaaah

I bought a new camera. Weeeee! It's not the newest model or anything but I like it...

Here's a picture.

The end.