Weaving A New Future One Shuttle At A Time

I am just not sure what happened to September. It was here and then gone in a flash and now somehow it is the first week in October. Time flies and even faster when you have one crisis after another to deal with on the homefront and your creative juices are flowing again. So let's see what's in the works for this month.

First, I have been making more hand carved and hand-painted "Wild Weavers" band-weaving shuttles and having some fun with that.
 

Grab one while you still can! They are selling quickly, but I will make more as time allows and you can see what shuttles are still available here in this album on facebook. They make great gifts for the weaver in your life and are just  as useful as they are fun. Because not everyone weaves, but everyone loves art, and animals, I will also be making some little carved and painted ornaments and will post a link to an album when I get enough made up. Stay tuned.


There are other things in the works here, as well, and I will also be writing a post later this weekend about my renewed interest in making pen and ink drawings, and painting, and the fun I am having with Higgins Inks and Inktober 2019 #Inktober19 because the amazing folks at higgins sent me some Black Magic ink, some white and super white ink and I am all into re-learning the art of drawing with real pens and not just markers!

If you like what I do and want to help me keep doing it but don't want to buy any artwork right now, please consider buying me a coffee at https://ko-fi.com/ghosthorsestudios

Carving & Weaving with Whales & Dragons

Well the Summer hasn't been without excitement, so far the dishwasher has broken, the dryer has broken, and I have fought off not one but two seperate attempts of yellow jackets making a nest in the wall by my back door rendering that exit useless. But it hasn't been all bad. Thanks to Keto Ben seems to be so much better and I am feeling amazing. But I digress, that is not the point of this post, so let's get on with the show!

I stopped making my "Wild Weaver" band shuttles a couple of years ago when my life fell apart and no one wanted to buy them anymore, so I shut down my etsy shop and put away my carving tools and boxed up my remaining shuttles. There were a few random requests but overall people seemed to have lost interest and they are not all that easy to make, so I just didn't make any more.

Flash forward to last month, and I can't pay my bills, so I dug out the remaining shuttles and decided to take what I could get for them IF I could sell any at all and voila! I sold all but one! Now I find myself making more of them. I have 11 in the works but working time is pretty slow and I have had all these distractions plus the weather does not always cooperate with working outside but I am started on them now and will get back into the groove and start producing them a bit faster, hopefully.

All I have been able to make so far is a golden dragon and I am working on a blue sperm whale. I'd like to keep the whale but if someone wants it I can always make another one because I'd also like to keep the lights on, so if you ever wanted a whale or dragon or bunny or sheep shuttle you can find these listed for sale on my facebook page.  As I finish them I will put them into a sale album there and they will all be sold first come, first served. I need a better system to sell them but I don't have anything set up for that now so will we just have to manage as best as possible in the short term. 


If you like what I do and want to help me keep doing it buit don't need any artwork right now, please consider buying me a coffee at https://ko-fi.com/ghosthorsestudios

Wild Weaving Shuttles

Besides beading I have recently also become addicted to weaving and since I needed a way to weave - looms... shuttles... and since I also do woodworking of course I can't just leave it at that... so I get a hold of some power tools and get carried away... now I make these handcrafted wooden weaving shuttles for inkle,  card weaving and tablet weaving...
 

So now I am making shuttles in the shapes of fish and foxes and dragons and sheep and cats and hares and dogs and horses.... all sorts of WILD weavers! You can check it out HERE and they can be bought HERE in my Etsy shop...

 

 are you a #fox ? or a #blacksheep ?

 

I can even make a shuttle to look like your dog or cat!

(REQUEST A CUSTOM ORDER HERE)

#Siamesecat

#tabbycat

#poodle

#jackrussellterrier

 #tuxedocat

 And then I HAD to try my hand at making some Popsicle stick heddles - these will also be available to buy soon...

 

(REQUEST A CUSTOM ORDER HERE) 

My Beading Addiction (and more...)

HI, My name is Cindy and I'm an artist. I have been an artist for my entire life. It started back in the 1960's with fat crayons and those really big pencils.... then I moved up to paint, pastels, watercolors, acrylics... then sometime in the early 1980's I found out how to do beading and there was  no turning back... now I do this... Of course this sort of thing eats up all of my time and money, so if you would like to have some I would like to make some for you because I am willing to bead just about anything for a price.

You can find me here on Facebook most days...  Just pop in and say "Hi!" and scroll down to the bottom for a preview of my next post and to see what else I am doing......

 

SPOILER ALERT!

Besides beading I have recently also become addicted to weaving and since I also do woodworking I am currently making handcrafted wooden weaving shuttles and popsicle stick heddles for band weaving... card weaving... tablet weaving... will post more about that soon... but for now you can check it out HERE and they can be bought HERE in my Etsy shop...

 #beadwork #beading #weaving #bandweaving #cardweaving #tabletweaving #beadembroidery #art #artist