Fire Stalkers Guild featured shops - Week of 6/29/10

VALMADE.ARTFIRE.COM

This week the Featured Studio on The Fire Stalkers is Valmade. Valerie is English and lives in Hong Kong. She has knitted and cross stitched since she was a young girl and now she makes cards. She loves to make things and always has numerous projects on the go. Valerie has a wide variety of beautiful items in her shop. Be sure to take a look at this studio!

You can find VALMADE at:

Valmade.Artfire.com

METALPETALZ.ARTFIRE.COM

This weeks Featured Studio on The Fire Stalkers is METALPETALZ. Jennifer adores making jewelry either from scratch or from the vintage bits and pieces she picks up her and there. You will never see the same thing twice because each piece is unique and one of a kind. Stop by her studio and take a look!

You can find METALPETALZ at:

MetalPetalz.Artfire.com

Featured on Artfire.com by the Fire Stalkers Guild

I am lucky to be featured on Artfire.com by the Fire Stalkers Guild this week along with Leta Marie Designs! Check out her shop!

LetaMarieDesigns.ARTFIRE.COM

This weeks Featured Studio on The Fire Stalkers is LetaMarieDesigns. Leta makes beautiful jewelry and Ear Wires. She loves variety and that is whaty you will find her. Be sure and take a look!

You can find LetaMarieDesigns at:

Artfire Studio

My First Sale!

I just had my first official sale from my store on Artfire.com!! It was this rainbow magnet with a pot of gold at the end.

Emily of Exquisite Studios bought this magnet. You can check out her shop on Artfire.com as well. She has some very beautiful jewelry. Look at this beautiful, handpainted brass butterfly pendant necklace by her!

Pro!

I have finally went pro on Arfire.com! I just love it. I have rearranged my studio and learned how to create a coupon! So, to celebrate my new pro status I would like to give you 15% off in June! That's right, everything in my studio is 15% off during the month of June with this special coupon! Happy shopping!!

Harlamy Creations' studio

SAVE 15.00 % On
All Items

Use Coupon Code:

3317JUNEDISCOUNT15

during checkout.

Midnight Ramblings

Perhaps it is my lack of sleep that makes me think I could just quit my job and take a year long road trip, but sometimes it seems possible. I mean, I don't have kids that I would be uprooting from school. I rent, so I don't have a mortgage I need to pay and I have a dependable car so travel should be somewhat easy. My dog, Harley wouldn't mind. He loves car trips and spending time with "Mom". I guess I'm at that point in my life where I'm looking at where I'm at and feeling as though I should have done more. Should have experienced more. Accomplished more. I know it's bad to compare, but I look at others my age and remember when that was where I thought I would be at this point. Goodness, maybe I'm having a quarter life crisis...or maybe I just need to go to bed....

New Avi and banner!

So that I don't skip over my last post, I will start with the fact that the poor little dog you see below met a sad fate. I was very discouraged by this and have not attempted to create another one as of yet. Now, with that said...

I HAVE however, been playing around with my Photoshop Elements program and have created my own avitar and banner! Now, I'm sure a graphic artist would laugh at my creation but I am proud. Took a long, long looooong time to figure out just enough about that darn program to create both of them.

What a pain in the butt, but I finally have a new avi and banner for my artfire.com shop (http://www.harlamy.artfire.com/) <----{shameless advertisment} and I have a new banner for this blog.

New

I'm trying to decide what to do with this little guy. I think he needs some front legs, but I'm not sure. Maybe he could just be cute the way he is.... What do you think? I apologize for the horrible lighting.

Harley Pie

Let me introduce you to my only son. Furry, four legged and adorable! He is 3 years old and a boxer mix. Right now he is pacing around the house trying to find a place to bury his rawhide bone.

The Experiment

A new bracelet with glitter filled translucent clay. They are called inclusion beads. It was just an experiment. I didn't realize how hard it would be to cut them with the glitter inside. It was interesting. I put them up for sale in my artfire studio. Look to the right for the "rapid cart". Clicking on one of the pictures will take you to my studio. ---------->

Handmade bracelet with pillow beads

I made this one yesterday with the red pillow beads and I added a silver toggle clap to finish the bracelet. I think it turned out rather nice. I really liked the red beads I put with this bracelet. They have a very nice shine to them.

Making a Bracelet with Pillow Beads

These polymer clay pillow beads have been sitting around for a while. I couldn't really figure out how I wanted to put them all together. Maybe white pearl, cats eyes, plain white beads? I plan on putting them together in a bracelet today and I think I'm going with some white pearl beads. I'll let you know how it goes.

Harlamy Beginnings - Polymer Clay Creations

This was my very first bracelet. I made the gold and black beads with polymer clay. The beads didn't turn out how I had planned but, for a first bracelet, I was pleased.

This was my first attempt at a dog. I used some scrap polymer clay since I didn't really think it would turn out very well.


This was my first attempt at the mica shift technique. I glazed the pendants with ultra thick embossing enamel (utee).




This one is for sale in my artfire.com studio. Find it at http://www.artfire.com/users/harlamy.

Just opened the new Harlamy studio!

http://www.artfire.com/users/harlamy

Find me on Flikr!

http://flikr.com/photos/harlamy