On the Bench Today - Metal and Leather
I have been super busy, which is great!
Making Journals...
Leather cut
Paper folded
Making stitching holes with the awl
Stitching
Adding the straps
Meanwhile...
Bronze hair forks out of the tumbler...
Grinding the ends on the Nickel hair sticks to get them in the tumbler
all ready...
Wrapping up orders...
The only potential problem is the tumbler in these temps. I think it will be okay though.
And there you have it...what I have been up to creating :)
I finished 11 9x6 wrap journals...and now onto some small ones, and more forks...editing photos, putting up listings, wrapping more orders...
Two more weeks of intensive focus, and then I can relax...and BEAD :D
I love my leather journal! Such a lovely present <3
This is awsome. Do you sell your stuff anywhere online? Thanks for sharing
Thank you :) Yes! We sell them on Etsy https://www.etsy.com/shop/PohakantenJournals . But we are also happy to accept payment in STEEM or BTC too.
So far Etsy seems the best place for us, and we have built up a following there. I tried Peer-hub, but that would be starting all over again, and it is not well known.
Awesome looking journals, @elew! The hair forks are also neat looking, though at first I thought they were part of the book-binding. But are they really, or am I completely lost?
Haha, no, you are not lost. We have three shops on Etsy...one for journals, one with beadwork and things, and the third for metal jewelry and long hair accessories...so you are seeing one days work for me, with items for two shops. The only thing the hair forks have in common with the journals, is my hands making them :)
These journals are gorgeous! From where do you sell them?
Thank you :) I need to remember to add the link into the posts...I always forget!
We sell them on Etsy https://www.etsy.com/shop/PohakantenJournals and these will hopefully be listed tonight. I still need to edit photos and then make listings. But we are also happy to accept payment in STEEM or BTC too.
I should add...we trade for beeswax and Honey too :D
I'm totally willing to make a trade when we rob our hives next summer! I'll hit you up. Those are soooo pretty. 😄
Yay! I would much rather trade. Let me know if you see one that you feel must be yours, because they are one of a kind and I will set it aside for you :)
Lovely Check my blog :)
Thanks Woody :) And you made such a lovely post...thank you... <3 It was my pleasure to make it!
Such beautiful work! :)
Thank you :) I saw your message too and have not had time to respond yet, but am excited! I have to get these journals listed, and then will get back to you <3
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STOPSuch beautiful works you do @elew!
seeing the hair forks along with your journals here
made me think of a hair fork with a 3rd leg to use
as a journal bookmark tool!?
❤
Thanks Shasta :) That is a very cool idea! Unfortunately I have no torch set up here, too dangerous in an RV. Hopefully when we get a bit of land at some point I will build a proper workshop...but until then I have to borrow a friend's torch bench to even solder the rings we sell and I don't want to impose.
I am thinking of doing some thin stiff veg tan with pyrography for book marks though!