I Have My Own Blog!

Hurrah!

Indeed I do my friends.
A blog of my very own. I will get better at blogging but for now it’s just about my products but I will try to be more interesting and talk about myself more. Right now I am not doing much so, it’s hard to talk about nothing.

But, if you want to take a look at my blog you can check it out here!
And Thanks to my sister, I am selling my little charms and such on Etsy. You can see my store here.

If you have any questions about me, my products, or a custom order, please feel free to contact me via Etsy or through email at brianne@seaofcreations.com

Happy Crafting Everyone!
xoxo-Brianne

Edited: May 23rd, 2010

Oh my Gawd

I died…No not really. My internet got turned off for a week because I had to get my own internet. Lawl, I have 3 bills now! I’m so excited! It’s like I’m finally growing up! But not really because I still feel like a 16 year old. I am going to hang on to that for as long as I can though. Not those crappy 16 year olds that drive like crap and thinks it’s cool to cuss loudly in public. One of the cool ones that likes to play games and stay up really late. Yes. One of the good ones <3.

Anywhozel!
I made a couple of things while the internet was down but mostly I read books. Amanda would laugh at me because I finished 3 or 4 books while internet was out; The books are regular sized paperback books and it took me 7 days. She could finish one of them in like…20 minutes…Yeah, not kidding. I wish I could read that fast. But I will just have to keep reading till I can.
Anyways, really neat series by Charlaine Harris, the Sookie Stackhouse novels. Great books. Also known as TrueBlood on HBO. As much as I like the series I like the books way better. Also…Bill and Eric are the kind of vampires that burn in daylight if that makes anybody happy. No sparkly vampires in this series.

So, the creations I made.
A cute Alligator Ring that I heart.

A pretty red bow with white polka dots.
Also a ring. I was testing out my glue, so I used the boring rings. My glue works good. The next one will have a pretty, intricate band.

So, this is my second to last post on Geekdetails.
Tomorrow, I will be purchasing my very own blog/journal/thing for my business. I will post a link to it here once I make it pretty. Should be easy enough. I dabbled slightly in coding, but I’m sure I can find a premade layout till I can make my own.
The Happy Toad opens soon. A little nervous, but it’s time to start it. ^.^

Happy Crafting Everybody!
XoXo – Brianne

Edited: April 28th, 2010

Gah!

Hi there!

I have been a very very busy girl! My house is semi put back together and tomorrow one of our room mates is going to start moving in. We still have a few cupboards to sift through and there is a big pile of stuff in my dining room. Well two big piles. One is the shtuff my mom has to go through and decide what to do with, and the other one is my stuff I have to put places.
And there are a few big things outside still. My goal tomorrow is to do a bunch of laundry and get all the stuff from the outside to the inside. Lawl.

So, now you get to see how our house looked for three days! It was horrible. The worst part was not being able to get to the cups, plates or stove. Haha we had to eat out. But we had sushi instead of fast food. So that was fun. I like sushi but I HATE crab. HATE. IT.

That last one is the outside.
Lawl.

And finally.
KITTY!!

Alright, Happy Crafting Everybody!
xo-Brianne

Edited: April 3rd, 2010

Oh Em Gee A Post!

Hey everybody,

Whew! It’s been a rough couple of days. Saturday we spent 20 consecutive hours moving my mom from one city to another. That includes packing, unpacking, and driving there. It was quite a day. Then Sunday we got her house mostly arranged, the big stuff at least and I spent 6 hours driving home. It’s only supposed to be 3 and a half. So, yeah. Turn left next time not right.
But all in all it’s good.
Monday I went driving around town with my boyfriend and one of our soon to be room mates. They were putting in job applications all over the place, trying to find a new job. It was okay until my car freaking died. Then it was not okay.

After that I came home and started cleaning. It is trashed. Everything is everywhere! But the living room is livable and the kitchen is clean so that’s a start.
Thursday all the carpets are getting cleaned, then I can really start getting this place together. Our roommate is all excited and really wants to help us get it decorated and put together.

Eventually we will get to our garage sale and get the garage all de-cluttered. It’s going to take a couple of weeks though. Unfortunately getting my store up and running is not possible at this time. And I am going to have to put thing a day last on my list.
I suppose house stuff counts, but I don’t know that I will want to blog about it when the day is done. Haha, as it is I am a walking zombie. I think I’m passed the point of being tired. But not quite exhausted yet.

Tuesday we destroyed the house again to get it ready for the carpet cleaner. Everything is getting taken onto the tile. We can’t even get into our kitchen. Hm, I should take a picture and show you. Haha, We have so much to get rid of. It’s almost depressing to see everything we have to do. But I keep telling myself it will be so awesome when we get it all done.
We’re painting the walls a darkish brown, and my cupboards are going to be a really deep red. (I loved Amanda’s red cabinets. So much so that I am going to paint mine that color. Woot!!) Then the ceiling is going to be relatively the same color as the floor.
Mom’s was like that and I freaking loved it! It’s going to look so nice.

Anyways, Staying up late again tonight to finish moving everything. Then Friday it will all be moved back. Yay! Then the real work can begin.
As soon as my house is livable I will start up my creative stuff again. All of this will take months so, I will have some free time I hope.

Alright, well I am going to go get going.
Happy Crafting Everyone!
Xo-Brianne <3

Edited: March 31st, 2010

Paper Boxes of Awesome!

Hey everybody!

Early morning Thing A Day!
I was watching a tutorial last night and I wanted to make it my Thing a Day.
The tutorial was how to make boxes out of paper! So, now I don’t have to buy any to ship my items in. Amanda gave me a bunch of really nice paper a while ago too. So I have a crap load of paper that has been sitting around for years and now I get to use it for something awesome!

These boxes are so neat. I have a problem getting them to fit into one another and with making perfect squares out of rectangles…But other than that it’s working out great!
Looky!


The thing in there was a new little make up circle thing. I cut it into a square and shoved the ball chain through it so it looked nice. Well nice-ish. I have to cut it better next time.
I might use cotton instead. I just happen to have some of those, so I don’t have to buy anything else yet.

I made 4 boxes this morning, chances are I will make more.
I am trying to find a way to make them even without doing the first two folds. It leaves creases on the top of the box. Which isn’t bad, I just want them to not have creases.
The big one you can see the creases on, the little ones were made crease-less.

The lady that did the tutorial has a lot of neat stuff on packaging your etsy items. It was really neat to watch the videos.
But since my mouse has been sucking, it didn’t save when I tried to bookmark it. Thank you mouse. Now I hate you. I click click click the left button but I get nada.
So! I have found another tutorial for the same box. It’s not a video though. I will post the video later if I can find it again.
Nifty Paper Box Tutorial! – http://askthesky.wordpress.com/tutorial-paper-box/

Now I’m going to go back to bed.
I love sleep <3

Happy Crafting Everyone!
Xo -Brianne

Edited: March 25th, 2010

I made it pretty

Hello everybody!

A neat little thing of the day today. I have a new obsession with bunnies and scarves. Although, I forgot to draw the scarves on the bunnies….Darnit.
That’s okay it’s still cute.

I bought this wallet at St. Vincent’s for 50 cents. It’s got lots of pockets and keeps my money nice and straight for me. It was boring and black and I felt kind of silly with it. You know because it’s boring and looks like something an old lady would have.

I fixed that today though!

Isn’t it ADORABLE!
I glazed it with multiple layers of the spray on gloss to keep it from coming off. My mom says it doesn’t look like the little girl bunnie is far back and the little boy bunnie is close up to the front. I thought it did but I could be biased.

There are lots of mistakes, but I still like it. And I will be happy whipping it out to let the moths fly forth.

Other than that, we got more things packed. Starting pricing a bunch of stuff for our yard sale/open house. Lots of junk has collected over the years. Some plates were worth a little but really I just want to get rid of all the crap.
So yeah, early night for good ol’ Brianne. I’m going to be done now, because I got a random cut on the tip of my finger and now it hurts.

Happy Crafting Everyone!
xo-Brianne

Edited: March 24th, 2010

Oh Mai Gosh

Tutorials are freaking long!
I have to admit it was alot of fun! I took like 60 pictures and just picked the best ones. It was so big I had to do it in two parts.
Surprisingly I started it at like noon. But It took me so long I had to leave before I could finish putting the big tutorial all together. I just finished it now.

Here are the links to my DeviantArt. It was way to big to put on here.
Part I Part II
If it has spelling errors, I’m sorry. It was so big I didn’t even go back to read over everything. I probably will tomorrow…

That’s it for tonight though.
If you use it I would love to see what you made!! And if you post about your charm, all I ask is for you to link your viewers to this blog.
I hope it is informative!
Happy Crafting Everyone!

xo-Brianne

Edited: March 23rd, 2010

Garage sale!

Hai!

New thing of the day, new things to procrastinate for. I really should get better at this whole do something at the beginning of the day thing.

Anyways!
Helped mom pack up more stuff. Her kitchen is almost empty of things. Still have drawers and tupperware to go through. Yay!
I was talking to one of my soon to be roommates and he is all excited! So two excited roommates! I’m so happy they feel comfortable moving in with us.
We’re going to have a big huge garage sale and open house to sell everything that is useless. We have to clean out all the junk that doesn’t work but Dustin and I get half the profits!

So today I was experimenting with the shrinky dinks again. Still working on getting the lineart perfect.
Instead of coloring it before it went into the oven I colored it after. I love the way the colors came out. They just seem more solid.
So yeah, boring day but I was doing pricing research on shipping stuff to other places. But I am going to post this before it’s tomorrow!

So until later, Happy Crafting Everyone!

Xo-Brianne

Opps, I almost forgot to show you the Alice in Wonderland charms I got today!
Aren't They Cute!!!

Edited: March 22nd, 2010

Etsy is Nifty!

Hi everybody!

Didn’t do anything real crafty today. I helped my mom pack up some of her stuff and I got my new Etsy account up. I have nothing for sale yet, but I did spend a lot of time poking around the Account options and such.
Tomorrow I have to make my banner and fix the picture of my mascot girl. She needs a name and I can’t think of a good one. I’ll just have to let her tell me when she is ready.

If I had to pick one thing about art that I love, it’s how the things I draw really come to life for me. The two I drew the other day for Amanda and myself just really created themselves. I know a lot of artists feel this way as well. My characters really just tell me what to do and I do it.
Anyways, yeah.

On a side note, I destroyed like 5 of my charms. That was fun. Blue and Pink bunny look like acid ate the side of their faces and some of their scarf. So my tutorial will be on how to make them! Because I have to make more…because I love them and they were cute…and now I am sad.
Thank you Beth for the suggestion of a charm tutorial! <3

Not a big day but progress is being made! And that is all that matters!! So, expect a tutorial of some sort in the next couple of days.
As for now, I am going to go try to fix my sleeping schedule.
Happy Crafting Everyone!

xo-Brianne

Edited: March 22nd, 2010

I want a Bunny

Hai Guys!

So, Easter is coming up. April 4th I believe.
So I was working on some new little charms that are Easter inspired. You know, bunnies. Probably going to do some cute chicken type stuff. Even though chickens aren’t really that cute…they’re kinda gross…
Anyways!!
Two cute little bunnies, one a blue bunny and the other a cute little pink bunny. I’m sure you see the similarity between my favorite little clay kitties. What is it about scarves on animals that I love so much? Who knows.

So, I will be preparing policies and things for my store tomorrow. That will be my thing of the day! Creating a legitimate picture for business cards and other such things. I’m excited. I’m getting closer to opening it. I just want to make sure I am fully prepared…

New goal?
Have the store open by next Sunday. That gives me a week to get everything in order and I hate to disappoint me!

Happy crafting everyone!
xo-Brianne

Edited: March 21st, 2010