How do you guys do it?

It has been forever since I last posted... I haven't been out thrifting in so long... I have been so lost in my world of accessories lately that I haven't had the money or time... not to mention the time to type endlessly to a blog. I would love to pick this back up again, but will I continue to not have time? No idea.
 

My "WHY" Blog....

Everyone gets to have a few of these. :D

 I have had a VERY bad day. Started as soon as I got up... and continued with me fighting with someone I have not known long, but that I respect and admire. My day has left me asking a BUNCH of Why questions... Here are a sampling of the things going through my random ass head....

   1st and most importantly - Why must I be limited in EVERYTHING I do?
  This one came from Facebook. I recently started up a page on Facebook to showcase all of the things I have been making. I am just starting out, but I have alot of background in making things. I started off on this page with earrings, necklaces, and bracelets.... a couple other random items. Now I have been working with more things and I want to expand, but I am being given advice to "earn the right" to expand. WTH?? I understand that to sell on Facebook (or anywhere else) I need to have a reputation as a trustworthy person and a trustworthy shop. I am willing to wait for that reputation, although I will always have haters. Everyone does. However, why should I limit myself to making just those things that I started off with just because someone else makes the same kind of item I am trying to expand into? Who in this world doesn't make something that someone else makes or has made?
  Example, I have been working on some very cute fascinator ideas. There are TONS of people who make fascinators. Does that stop the rest of them from trying to make them? Nope. I am certainly not going to go and make the SAME ONE as someone else... using the same materials and the same theme. I am going to use photos as inspiration of things I do not know how to do yet and then do it my own way... Is this not the way of the world?
  Does performing someone else's song at karaoke or making a cover of it mean that you are copying them? No.
  Does making a recipe for your family that someone else wrote or made FIRST (before you did) mean you are copying them?
   NO.
So why should me making fascinators, or anything else for that matter, mean that I am copying someone else? Like I said, if I were making it the exact same way, then I would be copying. But that's NOT what I'm doing. I have never seen things made exactly the way I am making them. With the same materials. etc.

  2nd and 2nd Most Important - Why is it that where I come from people accept you and expect you to be a good person, but here in So Cal, it is exactly the opposite?
  What happened to Your Word Being Your Bond and a Handshake Sealing a Deal? It's like everyone here expects you to be a cutthroat dirty bitch?
    That's NOT who I am. I was raised with morals... to stand up for what I believe is right and fair... to be completely real with someone... to see the good in people... What the Hell is wrong with the parents of these kids now-a-days? Noone values morals or respect anymore. Noone trusts anyone and noone can be trusted. Again, WTH??

Those are really the most important.... everything else can wait, I think.
  
  I just don't understand. I want MORE in life than a facebook shop or people that don't understand or respect me.


P.S. On an equally important note.... I GOT TO GO THRIFTING!!! I went to Gina's, because she wanted me to fix a necklace that she had. And I got 2 awesome bags of random broken jewelry for a GREAT deal because I was fixing her necklace. EEEEE!!!! I was so excited that I didn't even take pictures of it as I went through it. haha
   I'll have to dump out some stuff and show everyone.

 

Ok, I'm officially DEAD.

It's been more than a month since I went thrifting. My only consolation is the jewelry supplies I have been buying from Ebay for 99 cents each. I love my small start-up business and making things for it.
   I am actually working on booking some shoots with models with some unreleased items I have. I have been working on some avant garde sunglasses and fascinators. :) And they are turning out GREAT!!!
  But I am very disappointed that I haven't been thrifting. :(

Still No Thrifting... I'm DYING!! haha

   Still haven't been thrifting... but I DID get a mixed junk jewelry lot on Ebay, so that should be coming in and hopefully it will cure the itch for a bit... lol

    On a bright note, I made something utterly fantastic... didn't even know I could make it when I started, but I DID IT!!! haha

What do you think??? :D    

Working on some new stuff!!!

I just finished some custom owl earrings! Have a look!! (Sorry I couldn't get a better picture, I took it to her before I realized I hadn't gotten a better picture!)

I love them!!
    AND I made a custom fascinator.....

You like?????

Went to the swap meet today but all I got was 4 pounds of cherries for $5 and some socks. :( No good thrifty finds. I'm getting the itch so bad!!! I MUST go thrifting SOON!!!!!!!!!!!
     

Still No Thrifting... SIGH...

   I'm getting the itch... and it's not fun. :(

 I've been trying to create at home and have been making some cool things, but I feel the need to get out and THRIFT.

   For the heck of it, I'll share some things that I've made... I've been working on floral picks... they are so pretty and I can't wait to put them up on Etsy. I also have some vintage stuff to put up on there... (at least I'm pretty sure they are vintage... I would love some advice on how to spot it easily....!!! ) 

   Black Gem Picks.....

      Black Heart Danglies... For the Lover of the number 13... 13 black hearts, 13 bugle beads and 13 small round beads on each pick...

              Bat Danglies....

                                  Green Leaf Danglies...

                                   Pearl Picks.....

                   Purple Glitter Heart Picks.....

                                  Crystal Snow Heart Picks....

                             Purple Swarovski Loop Picks....



What do you think??? I'm also working on getting the beads to start making these..... Only BETTER... cuz these are WEAK.

They are pretty, but there are only 400 beads and they want $350 for one bouquet. I'm thinking of around 1000 beads for $200 or so... I haven't gotten it all calculated yet. Even if I do have to charge the same price though, I will have 3 times the beads on it to make it even sparklier. :)   I LIKE SPARKLIES. haha
  I also want to make some kind of like this...

     But again... better.... they want $350 for this one too!!!!!!!!!!


   Anyway, off to Etsy, I think!!! Hope everyone is having a good week and wish me luck on getting out to thrifting SOON!!!!!
   

Haven't been thrifting this week... Stupid sickness...

    So, as if being sick could make my life any worse, it took out all of my thrifting this week. :(
 I had a funeral and a wedding in the same week that I had to attend... even though I was sick... and each one made me even sicker... It started off as allergies and sinuses... which then turned to a sinus infection.. then on to a head cold. I am just starting to feel better today.
   On a lighter note though, the wedding was very pretty. Silver and purple were the colors and the bride looked absolutely beautiful. They aren't very close friends of mine, but are of my fiance's. A rather nice couple, if I may say so. Anyway, you know how they say a bride has a glow on her special day?? Yeah, this girl was glowing 15 feet around herself. She couldn't stop smiling.

               It makes a person wonder if there is such a thing as a "One True Love". 

She obviously has found hers... if such a thing exists in her world. :)