These made it to NL in a week! Thank you USPS!
I had two pairs of these and both have sold out. More religious kitsch in the section of religious drawer at JunkDrawerAndMore here.
Here is the kind email I received:
Hi Kennedy,
Thank you so much for the beautiful earrings I ordered.
I really love them !
I was looking for a long time for big crosses but couldn’t find them anywhere.
And I already got them within a week !
I really love all the things you sent with the earrings.
It just was great to unpack the package after a long day at work.
It really made me smile for the rest of the day.
Thanks again dear Kennedy !
It makes me smile for the rest of the day knowing I made someone else smile for the rest of the day! And I didn't know big cross earrings were so hard to find!
I had two pairs of these and both have sold out. More religious kitsch in the section of religious drawer at JunkDrawerAndMore here.
Saying Goodbye: I am so thankful this went to a forever home with a new life ahead of them because I can't even remember why I have these, except maybe I was going to use them for my religious folk art from back in the 90s.
I loved making milagro crosses back then. Those were the days when milagros were hard to find. I have a huge collection of milagros. I am not ready to give them up yet!
I loved making milagro crosses back then. Those were the days when milagros were hard to find. I have a huge collection of milagros. I am not ready to give them up yet!
These must be hard to find, since she still bought them with the manufacturing flaw on it! It did look like that little piece might come off with a pair of pliers and a hard tug. More religious kitsch in the section of religious drawer here.
Photo via JunkDrawerAndMore
Photo via JunkDrawerAndMore
What I Learned:
1. There I go again with enough craft supplies to last me several life times! With a bizillion craft projects and ideas rolling around in my head until another several tons come rolling in to take their place.
2. I still have hundreds, maybe even five hundred more homeless religious medals because milagros were so difficult to find back in the 90s that I started to buy religious medals instead! I'm not sure how many milagro crosses I thought I was going to make, but I did make at least four. Two I gave away, one I gave to my brother and he gave it back to me and the fourth one was for myself.
I gave one to a friend who was the chief engineer of the Shelby Series One. It was a wooden cross with the Monopoly cars on it, so he could complete his mission of making that car by it's due date, which they did with a lot help from rags and duct tape!
The second was a housewarming gift for someone with the same literal humor as I have and it was a wooden cross with a green Monopoly house in the middle and red tipped matches on each cross limb.
The third cross was a Lover's cross I made for my brother during a very bad disastrous break up, so he could one day heal and find true love. And it worked! He had it on his wall for three or four years and then met his wife and that was that! He returned it to me because by then I was single and it worked for me too!
This has only 3 milagros because back in the day I had to go to San Diego to sift through Mexican folk art shops for them or very tediously look on ebay using "metal charm animals" because back then no one had even heard of milagros. There's corn milagros on it, not just for fertility but for abundance in all things. Available here. Photo via The Destiny of Things.
The fourth cross I made for myself because I come from a line of farmers, but I'm the only one with a brown thumb! I made a Garden Milagro Cross to remind me of how to grow a better garden and it eventually worked too!
This one has a few milagros and many sterling and silver tone charms. The one on the top is a sterling bench charm for taking in the garden view, instead of wanting the flowers to hurry up and bloom and there is a snail on the bottom to remind me that everything moves at it's own pace. There is even a rodent chewing at the wood to remind me that even the pests we don't like in the garden are part of our world and connected to me. Available here.
Photo via The Destiny of Things.
Both of these crosses were in a local coffee shop art gallery last summer and I still need to write a post about that!
3. As a recovering hoarder, I haven't been doing so well in the NOT buying department! However, I do love my new art projects, which is basically slow stitch visible mending and I've been making a lot of textile art patches out of boro, which is Japanese cloth that has been used and mended over and over.
I made the little textile art patches as an example of how to use the boro scraps in the little mini Japanese paper books. Funny thing, the boro textile art patches sold out in a couple days, but the books are still available here. Each book has about 20 mini boro scraps to make the textile art patches as shown in the photo. I'll be making more patches and listing those next week.
Photo via Hoarder Rehab
4. I'm been trying to let go of being so reward based. I need rewards for all kinds of motivation, but mainly to get up at 3am. I used to get up automatically at 3 am and got soooooo much more done and slept soooooo much better, but then I got sick and I'm back to square one. So it's been rewards getting me up before the crack of dawn and it's been buying spree after buying spree! I think I'm on my way to getting up early, the other day I woke up at 12:30 am feeling wide awake and ready to go and another day at 2:30 am, so hopefully I'm good to go soon without rewards!
What do you use to motivate you to start a new habit? My numero uno motivational tool is to start a new habit with someone else and support each other, so it's more team based, but no one else wants to get up that early, lol.
Here is more of my religious folk art that carried over from Milagro Crosses. Andrei Rublev's Trinity Angels wooden icon with bead assemblage made by me, here.
Photo via The Destiny of Things.
Thank you Etsy buyer from NL for letting me know that your big cross earrings arrived so quickly and that you love them! And the best part is the whole package gave you a smile the rest of the day! Thank you so much!
Today I've been mending a two log cabin squares from a tattered frayed cutter's quilt and it's been so fun! Time just flies by and after I post this I'm going to work on it some more. Here are the quilt squares in their before state.
I think the 2 I've been working on are more frayed and tattered than those shown in the photos and have super duper raw edges, everything I like about a cutter's quilt! Anyways, 2 have sold and 2 are still available here. I'll be listing more of the square's above and the one I've been mending up next week. Photo via Hoarder Rehab
My goal of listing on each shop
until each has 180 items had been reached at 2 shops! I thank my lucky stars more hoard keeps selling! So I'll be new listing again next week.
We are having 20% off spring cleaning sale at all our shops at the moment. They are
kind of rolling shop sales, which just seemed to happen again, but I'm pretty sure all the sales are until the end of April.
I've been trying to adopt this new way of thinking, "Be willing to forgo all perceptions of gain, desire or profit and thereby be willing to be of selfless service to life in all it's expressions," but it's really difficult for me and putting it in to practice is very wishy washy for me. Which I practiced with the mini textile art patches, but maybe I priced them too low, since they are all almost sold out and 8 people have it in their cart. Anyone out there have any suggestions to help me?
Still trying to figure out how to price items and how much I should charge for my time. I feel carefree about the time it takes me to make things, but not so much when it comes to new listing, describing in detail, especially vintage items which usually have some sort of flaws going on and Etsy chores, like cross marketing. Anyone out there have a reference guide from their own experiences I could try?
How to include the new Etsy shop fees, plus their commission for shipping now and USPS fees increased in Jan of 2019 too by zones, so 4 oz now costs $4.00 to ship to the east coast including tracking and insurance. Yowza! And on top of all that sales have been down and cross marketing (faving/liking) has changed also, so I'm not sure if cross marketing is even helpful anymore. Anyone out there can help in either departments? Thank you in advance!
I've been trying to adopt this new way of thinking, "Be willing to forgo all perceptions of gain, desire or profit and thereby be willing to be of selfless service to life in all it's expressions," but it's really difficult for me and putting it in to practice is very wishy washy for me. Which I practiced with the mini textile art patches, but maybe I priced them too low, since they are all almost sold out and 8 people have it in their cart. Anyone out there have any suggestions to help me?
Still trying to figure out how to price items and how much I should charge for my time. I feel carefree about the time it takes me to make things, but not so much when it comes to new listing, describing in detail, especially vintage items which usually have some sort of flaws going on and Etsy chores, like cross marketing. Anyone out there have a reference guide from their own experiences I could try?
How to include the new Etsy shop fees, plus their commission for shipping now and USPS fees increased in Jan of 2019 too by zones, so 4 oz now costs $4.00 to ship to the east coast including tracking and insurance. Yowza! And on top of all that sales have been down and cross marketing (faving/liking) has changed also, so I'm not sure if cross marketing is even helpful anymore. Anyone out there can help in either departments? Thank you in advance!
Click on the shop names to visit new hoard listed weekly: HoarderRehab with 184 items, The Destiny of Things- 182 items, VintageToGoEasy - 178 items and JunkDrawerAndMore - 179 items.
Maybe you'll find something and give it new life and a new home! Thanks for looking!
Small Saint Cecilia wall decor or for ofrenda, nicho or alter shrine. I think the Saint is from a Vatican sticker I bought a long time ago that I duplicated using modge podge, available here. Photo via The Destiny of Things.
Thank you for visiting my Hoarder Rehab and The Destiny of Things! Happy Easter!
