An outing a couple months ago launched a few very different non-illustration creative projects I've been having fun with lately.
We wandered around salvage yards
and dug through scrap bins at a leather and hide seller.
The salvage pieces were to become display pieces to feature my friend Joe's hats for a few pop-up shops he would be having at our local Fluevog store.
For these I relearned how to do paper mache
and had a blast collaborating to build the pieces.
I think my favorite was my Medusa head, designed especially for the event that would coincide with a mythic-themed convention.
She looked pretty awesome showing off the snake hat, too.
Digging through the leather scrap bins started a-whole-nuther fun project:
I've been back making earrings again, and having a blast.
I realized that my older jewelry had sort of gotten lost in my main Etsy shop, so I've opened up a second shop: Artstuff Jewelry. I'm hoping that having a place of their own to showcase my earrings will help customers find them and ultimately, give me an excuse to make a lot more - because it's super fun for me.
These projects have gotten a different flavor of creative juices flowing which feels awesome, and there's actually more of these kinds of things on the back burners - can't wait to share the rest of it with you guys. In the meantime, I'm busy working with my awesome licensing partners on a few new collections and will keep you posted about that when I can, too.
Happy Spring to you all and thanks again for visiting!
xoBeth
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