More faces

I made some more faces! and I'm not going to stop!


These are three sisters and they are made from ceramic clay and painted with acrylic paint. I want to make a lot more of them because I think they'll look really good hanging together.
Millie:
Wendy:
Lucy:

I'm also working on some cool new jewelry (no faces involved). I'm pretty excited about it, so I will post it soon!

Painted Faces!

New rings and necklaces!

New Things

I just woke up from hibernation and am working on new things.

These faces are so fun for me to make. I'm going to paint them and turn them into necklaces and rings. I know they are kind of "out there" for jewelry, but they are so natural for me to make and I always love jewelry that is out of the ordinary. (or "fucking peculiar" as my dad would say)

I've been spending a lot of time with my family lately, we went to Florida recently for my cousins bar mitzvah. The weather was beautiful and I kind of wish I was still there. The highlight of the trip was when my uncle told me he was proud of me for starting my own business and keeping busy instead of waiting around for someone to hire me or for something good to happen. (I think this applies to all crafters/artists, so be proud!)

I don't think he knows how depressed and lazy I've been this winter, or how little money I'm making, but I thought it was really sweet.

and then we came back to freezing rain and hail.

Anyway, I also learned how to cross- stitch from this martha stewart article:

http://www.marthastewart.com/photogallery/customizable-cross-stitch-projects

I tried a few, and I found cross-stitching to be really relaxing, but it also takes an incredibly long time to finish anything.

For example, I wanted to make three cats, but it took way too long. I am working on a shirt right now that will have an embroidered design on it, but it's going to be awhile before it's done.

Also, I might go up to Rochester this weekend for a craft show and the launch party of Fawn's jewelry line!!

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=205722672778308

(I hope my car can make it)

Valentimes

Valentine's day is in exactly one month! So I'm stocking up on my boxes and I designed this Valentine/best friend card:

front:

inside:

I want to bring it to a printing place to have them printed on some nice card stock and they will soon be for sale on my etsy site! yay!

More figures!

Here is another example of some freelance work I recently finished. Somebody hired me to create personalized figurines for their family to give to them as Christmas presents. I think they turned out pretty well:

Finally!

Hello! I haven't updated in awhile because I have simply been busy. I finally got permission to share some freelance work I did this past fall. I was contacted by an ad agency all the way in San Fransisco to take part in a promo for the new Windows Phone 7. They sent a bunch of popular bloggers two Windows Phone 7s (one to keep and one to give away to their readers) along with the Phones, they sent each blogger a shadow box that contained handmade things that represented different functions of the phone. My job was to make small people that would represent the contacts in the phone. There are six figures featured in every box in the upper right quadrant (does any of that make sense?)

I ended up making about 400 figures in all and the boxes were sent to a lot of bloggers.

This SF blog wrote an article that describes it better:

http://www.thesfegotist.com/news/local/2010/november/29/windows-phone-7-shadowboxes-hub-strategy

and here are pictures of some of the work:

^These were for the family and parenting bloggers
^these were for beauty and style bloggers

^food and drink^design

I had a lot of fun with these and I've gotten really good at making people in this size! and I was even hired to make personalized christmas gifts for a family in San Fransisco.

I've been working on some new craft items as well, which I will post another time.

Handbags!

Hey, I made a handbag, it looks like this:

The front of this bag is a hand-sewn design depicting four Arabian ladies wearing niqabs, walking past pink minarets. I was inspired by an article the I read about how they want to ban burquas and niqabs in France. Also, if you really want me to get into it, I thought the juxtaposition of these oppressed women next to these large, sharp phallic symbols was very interesting.
Anyway, my boyfriend and I found a bag full of these beautiful antique handkerchiefs that belonged to his grandmother. (Obviously, I cleaned them before I made the bags) and we used those along with an old tablecloth and other fabric scraps.

He made one too. It features a person walking in the rain:


Both bags are up for sale on my website:

http://themadfawn.etsy.com