The last ArtFire Crazy Train rider for March and incidentally the first for April, for 3/31 – 4/1, is Cheyenne Star Studio. Carla is the artisan behind Cheyenne Star Studio, and she works with metal – hand forging and hammering copper and silver into wonderful jewelry creations. Go check her out!
The ArtFire Crazy Train rider for March 29-30, is Mayz Lampwork Beadz. May creates lampwork beads, if her studio name didn’t give it away. I love the look of lampwork beads, and maybe one day if I have enough time, I’ll try learning this art form. But for now, I will just ogle and drool [...]
The ArtFire Crazy Train rider for March 27-28 is Mother’s Love. Natasha is a jewelry artisan, with many beautiful items available in her studio, from earrings, bracelets, necklaces, and sets in any combination thereof. I believe I even spotted a few beaded rings as well! Please go and visit her studio!
The ArtFire Crazy Train rider for March 25-26, is the husband & wife team, On Pens and Needles. Now, I have featured them before as a member of one of the Artfire guilds I am member of; however this time they are the Crazy Train rider! *choo-choo*! Here are a couple new items they have [...]
What a day. I was having a rather bad day (day job related), and then I checked my email and saw I had a sale! Oh my gosh! I can hardly describe how happy that made me and it just made my day. I’m ecstatic! It is only a few dollars, but really I don’t [...]
The Shops with Less than (10) Sales guild’s featured studio of the week of March 22 is Dancing Wind Designs. Sue creates hand beaded jewelry. Beautiful hand beaded jewelry. Go check out her items!
The ArtFire Crazy Train Rider for March 21-22 is Glass and Wire Gems. Donna creates beautiful jewelry with mostly dichroic glass as well as lampwork beads; many of the fused glass dichroics are wire wrapped with sterling silver or gold-filled wire. Please go visit her studio and have a look!
The ArtFire Crazy Train rider for March 19 – 20 is Wearable Art Huggable Friends. Laura knits and crochets many items – mostly things for babies and children, but there are a few scarves available for adults or children alike as well. She has the cutest little crocheted stuffed toys, cupcake hats, baby berets, and [...]
The ArtFire Crazy Train rider for the 17th & 18th is Grand Prairie Woodworks. This studio is headed up by Tim, a master builder of Mission furniture. At his studio he offers cutting boards, wooden cooking utensils, picture frames, lamps and a few other items. I think the items look superb! Here is a small [...]
This week’s Shops with less than (10) sales guild’s featured studio is Liquidambar. Liquidambar is a husband and wife team, John and Kitty. They work mostly with pottery, but Kitty also works with glass and creates ceramic jewelry. Here are a few items from their studio:
I have to give huge kudos to a handful of my coworkers. When we started our project I think we had well over 2300 tasks to tackle. As of when I logged out of my work computer this evening, there were less than 1000 tasks left. I will be glad when this is over, I’ve [...]
I’m taking a bit of a break tonight from the day job work, since I did extras yesterday and will do a few extra tomorrow to make up for it. So since I have a little time for myself tonight, I figure I should at least post the Crazy Train rider for today and tomorrow, [...]
Relatively speaking. Kind of. This pertains to my full time day job. Short story, we’re salaried. As thus, if our company wanted to make us work 16 hour days with no compensation other than our regular pay and a clap on the back, they could. The edict is to do “this task” by “this date”. [...]
The Shops with Less than (10) Sales guild’s Featured Studio the week of March 8, is VABeachQuilter, our hardworking guild master. She has SOOOOOO many items in her shop, it’s very difficult to pick out a few to feature here. Nevertheless… here are five: Just a very small sample of the many items she has [...]
The ArtFire Crazy Train rider for March 7-8 is Acadienne. She lives in Tucson, AZ and knits, crochets and embroiders her wares in her studio. Acadienne has a wide variety of items available in her shop. From hardanger bookmarks and Christmas ornaments, to hand knitted & crochet socks, dishcloths & washcloths, shawls, scarves, kitchen towels [...]
I wasn’t able to participate this time ’round, but head on over to my guild’s blog to take a look at the pieces of those who did participate. They did great!
The ‘Spotlight’ studio for Shops with Less than (10) Sales this week, is Tali’s Creations. The rapid cart for her studio will be over on the right sidebar so if you see something you like, be sure to click on it to be taken to her shop.
Hi everyone. The featured studio for “Shops with less than (10) sales” guild is Krystallized, hailing from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The artisan at this studio makes generous use of Swarovski crystals – so sparkly! Just a small sample from her studio of what she has to offer – please go pay Krystallized a visit!
The first ArtFire Crazy Train rider for March, for the 1st and 2nd, is Designs of Avalon. Athena, who lives in New York, originally started out making jewelry, but has since switched gears to a new medium that I think is pretty ingenious, and I’ll just say, the woman has some patience for sure! She [...]
