Serendib Sprout

-which I think I really needed. Animated Star Trek playing in the background (I’m rewatching the original because it’s been so long I’ve forgotten most of it), and I got to make little golden foxes and and an owl, and embed them in mica-swirled resin notebook covers. I love them muchly. These are little – […]

and then I said no, that would be a foolish choice, Mary Anne. Remember that you got the booster vaccine on Tuesday, and you had a fever of 100F on Wednesday and felt pretty terrible all day (which is good, sign the vaccine is doing its thing, protecting me from worse down the road). So

One little acorn necklace that I love. Gold flakes in the acorn body. This was super-fiddly to make, with separate molds for the acorn caps and gluing those to the body pieces, so I just made one! $18, ping if you want it, will otherwise be dropping off to the shop later today. Berwyn Sprout

Three little raven pendants, dropping off at the shop later today. $18 each, I won’t be making more this year, so ping me ASAP if you want one, happy to ship or arrange porch pick-up. Berwyn Sprout Small Business Incubator 7129 Cermak Rd, Berwyn Tuesday – Saturday from 10am-8pm Sunday from 10am-5pm

I think I know what went wrong, though. The Arteza clay is a little soft, and so when I ran the pumpkin embossing roller over it, it sometimes picked up bits of clay; I think Fimo clay might work better, and I’m going to try that next. Also, I tried embossing over the baked clay,

I’m happy with how these bookmarks came out. Kavi calls them my latte bookmarks. Berwyn Sprout Small Business Incubator 7129 Cermak Rd, Berwyn Tuesday – Saturday from 10am-8pm Sunday from 10am-5pm

Kavi decided to design a tea towel, and it came out SO WELL. I advised a little on choice and placement of various elements, but all the drawing is hers. She’s working on a winter holiday sugar cookie tea towel design now. I’ll have three of these in the shop by Thursday, and per usual,

Is good. Autumn tea towels (isn’t that witch reading a book fabulous? I’m in love with her…), random napkins and the like, jewelry, and of course books books books…. Berwyn Sprout Small Business Incubator 7129 Cermak Rd, Berwyn Tuesday – Saturday from 10am-8pm Sunday from 10am-5pm

Now I just need a proper sign to go above…working on it! Berwyn Sprout Small Business Incubator 7129 Cermak Rd, Berwyn Tuesday – Saturday from 10am-8pm Sunday from 10am-5pm

Sales are still a little slow, but trying to be patient, especially given that the store has only been there a few months and most locals still don’t know about it. I don’t know if any of you are actually interested in my little sales reports, but maybe you want to know what’s actually selling…a