Beautifully Irrational

I mentioned last month that I was going to try and get some more of my jewelry pieces listed at My Etsy Shop to try and make some income since I lost my job, and i finally got my a$$ in gear. I don't have all of my pieces loaded, yet. Hopefully, this will be an on-going project. The actual making of the jewelry is a great stress reliever, and hopefully, so will be the income. I hope that you will all take a look, even if you can't buy something right now.

*Note: if you are overseas and want to make a purchase, let me know, and I will give you the best break on shipping that I can, even if I have to investigate other methods. In the US and Canada, I use priority mail with delivery confirmation.

I just posted about half of the jewelry that I made in May to my etsy page. I am having trouble getting really sharp pictures, even with my lightbox, but I really like these, and everyone who has seen them in person has like them, so I am mostly happy.



As always, I will entertain offers, and anyone from lj who buys directly instead of through the site will get 10% off.

The pics on these suck. I will be working on setting up a better system for them this weekend, but I feel like sharing, since I haven't been posting my fic.


These are my School's Out celebration creations!!! Spring break is next week, and I finally get a day off with no work and no school, and i don't have to go back after break - on-line classes only :) (If it wasn't for the fact that I failed my UABF lab final yesterday, I would be 100% thrilled.)


( 2 pairs earrings, 1 necklace )

Since I've been talking about jewelry lately, this is the piece that started it all. I'm posting this mainly for amireal, but anyone who wants to can check it out behind the cut. Just, you know, look at the necklace and not me.

( Psst. In here... )

So, a bunch of the jewelry stuff that I ordered arrived today. It is very pretty. I am just waiting on the crystal beads to arrive, but they are coming from overseas and will have to clear customs, so I figure another week or so for them. In the meantime, I am planning supply orders as money comes in, and setting goals.

The biggest one that I have is to save enough to pay for my summer tuition. If I don't I won't be able to attend, as my husband works at the college (but not for it) and likely will be laid off all summer, again. That means I need to raise $1800, because there are classes in my degree program that are only offered in the summer session, such as Parasitology.

As I mentioned, my eBay and jewelry stuff will be going to that goal. I am not going to count what I have spent so far, but everything I make or spend from now on will go toward my goal. (And I made a nice little visual to keep myself on track.)



I have about $200 worth of supplies that I want to order as soon as I get the money, and I have to replace my dremel, unfortunately, but I have some nice pieces planned/started. It is helping with my current level of depression to make things and accomplish things. I like that.


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Also, Spring Break is a few weeks away, which means some of my classes will be ending for the semester. That means more hours at work (which is good)....

That's all for now :)

So after a long time talking about it and a couple of helf-hearted efforts toward doing it, I am working on starting a home-based business. I'd love for a thousand dollars to just magically appear before me in the next thirty-six hours, so that I can run full-tilt at this, but alas that is unlikely to happen. I hate doing this piece-meal, because I don't want to overextend myself money or time wise, as I tend to do when I get impatient. I can do it, though, and I keep telling myself that.

It's important because DH and I really could use the extra income. Perhaps our crappy jobs wouldn't be so bad if we weren't living paycheck to paycheck, if I wasn't trying to figure out how to make summer tuition so that I'm not going to be stuck in this rut forever. Pessimistic? Perhaps. I do have a plan though.

////Also, I have had plans for an actual business for years that DH and I talk about on an almost daily basis. The idea of actually being able to open/run it is one off the few things that helps keep him sane. I hope to be able to eventually do that////

I do have a large inventory of Hermit Crab supplies and shells, etc, that I got a huge deal on (practically a steal) from a store that was going out of business. I am going to push that all on ebay and an on-line storefront until it it gone! it is essentially all profit, provided I don't majorly undercharge on shipping (as I have done in the past).

Next, I am going to start making jewelry again to sell. Expect to see a bit of that in coming weeks as I finish a few pieces for amireal and a few others as I can afford to buy new supplies and put them together. I used to make quite a lot of various jewelry, and sell it (and a few other craft and sewing projects) at festivals in the area, and there seems to be a good market for the type of stuff that I do the most (reproduced and repurposed vintage-type costume jewelry).

That's what I want the thousand dollars for (yes, I know it's not going to happen, but a girl's gotta wish). That would set me up with a very nice selection of supplies, crystals, beads, wire, findings and more. Still, I am finding some decent pieces; it's just that they are pieces here and there - a brooch, some findings, a couple of crystals. It's a little frustrating when I want to be creative NOW.

I think I'm on a creative streak, in general.

Anyway that's what's up with me lately, and why I am currently not sleeping (or studying for my dreaded biochem test, or catching up on my clinical chem assignments).