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This piece (red, sparkly, plus a silvery leaf) is honestly a little too bold for my personal tastes. But it was fun to make, and I do think the end result looks pretty cool. Somebody bold will hopefully love it. Playing with resin is fun.

This one was a happy accident — I over-filled the bezel with the holographic bits of paper, so I had one piece sticking up in the resin once it had cured. I sanded it down, but that turned the front cloudy instead of clear…which I actually love as an effect. It feels sort of softly

It’s tricky photographing jewelry so you can see the details! These are the resin experiments from last night; for these, I was working with bits of moss, dried salvia from my garden, gold leaf, sparkly gold ink. I don’t love the effect of the sparkly gold ink (though that salvia pendant was Kevin’s favorite out

My Starry Woods (in poly crepe de chine), plus Tardigrades and Unicorn Woods designs (in jersey). I wanted some pinks and reds available for Valentine’s Day — I’m probably never going to be planning months ahead for holidays the way crafters who do this full-time do, but look, I made a bit of an effort!

Spent a little while today experimenting with various resin pendant options (while re-watching Avatar with Kavi and Kev, who hadn’t seen it before — oh, that was not a good movie. Very pretty at various points, but not good). The goal was to figure out what I might want to do for the next Serendib

I’ve been wanting a better backdrop in my office for Zoom meetings than a blank white wall, and I’ve been meaning to paint something for a while, but I kept not getting around to it, and FINALLY last night I put an underpainting layer down… …but then I was so waffly about what I wanted

We opened our Christmas presents from Kevin’s family today — his parents got me the serger I wanted, yay! Now I need to learn how to use a serger. “A serger, commonly referred to as an overlock machine, combines three functions into one simple operation-stitching a seam, trimming the excess seam allowance and overcasting the

Morning, folks. Hope you’re having a nice Sunday. The semester starts tomorrow, so I’m trying not to go into my usual panic-mode of trying to do ALL the winter break projects in the last hours before school starts. I think my main goal for this year is to be more sane, which for me, mostly

I finally got around to stitching down a cheater quilt I pinned together probably last summer. Last step will be sewing a binding around the edge; will it take another six months? We’ll see!