JEWELRY PARTY?!

[letterblade]

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a part-time crafter, in possession of an increasing dislike for Etsy, must be in want of a chance to sell some fucking jewelry already. Because seriously, I have a fuckton of stock, some of which has never even been posted anywhere, and it's gathering dust. Pretty things should not be abandoned, after all!

I realize that jewelry parties are generally the domain of really well-established people who have two assistants and do wirework trees, but whatever, I do what I want! My plan is to basically be open to visitors for a long span of time (something like 2pm to 8pm so people can drop in whenever), have home-baked cookies and other nice things around, and all my stock out, probably cheaper than you could otherwise find it. As well as all of my supplies; in case you're interested in something custom, I could probably make it on the spot. (This is not officially a destash, but if you see supplies you like, I may or may not be convinced to sell them, depending upon whether I have something planned.)

I would like to do this on Saturday the 21st or Sunday the 22nd. I'm leaning towards Sunday, so unless people are like NOOOOO SATURDAAAAAAAY that is what I will do. This would be at my place in Watertown, off the 71 bus, with free parking. House contains cat, cat can be secured but cat's hair is everywhere.

INTEREST? COMMENTS? DATE PREFERENCES?

Comments

[lucky-otter.livejournal.com]

If you haven't already, maybe sign up for http://watertown-open-studios.org/ ? Yeah, it's in November, not *now*, but it may also be worth doing. The Somerville one was pretty cool.

[wired-lizard.livejournal.com]

Ooh, that sounds like an excellent idea. Thank you!

[nevacaruso.livejournal.com]

Jewelry party sounds awesome. Unfortunately, I have a horrible, sneaking suspicion that I will be working on that Saturday and Sunday afternoon/evening. I will let you know if this changes but I am sadfacing pre-emptively.

I would, however, like to see you at some point, if you are able and willing.

[wired-lizard.livejournal.com]

Well, it now looks like it won't be that weekend because there's a LARP-world event I forgot about. *facepalming*

I am honestly not sure how much time or energy for hangouts I will have this month, this month is crazy. :( But I will see.

[vortexofchaos.livejournal.com]

That is, of course, the NELCO (http://nelco2012.concentral.net/events/1) weekend. Many people would like to see you out in Chelmsford those days.

[londo.livejournal.com]

I keep trying to notice the jewelry in your icon, but the front-and-center cleavage is really distracting from it.

[wired-lizard.livejournal.com]

Queen Latifah's cleavage being distracting is understandable. I did not make that jewelry, sadly. But. Boobs. :D

[vortexofchaos.livejournal.com]

I don't know why it thinks my other response is spam.

[wired-lizard.livejournal.com]

It still showed up in my inbox for whatever reason, even if not here. Sigh. I don't know how LJ works anymore, it's gotten all gussied up.

Anyway, uh, this shows you how on top of things I am. *facepalming all over the place* I really really want to do this before the end of the month, I suppose I could be crazy and do it Sunday the 29th, the day after running River? That's the only time unless I go to a weeknight.

[vortexofchaos.livejournal.com]

I can see my original "spamming" reply in this string, and I know that there are controls to both bar and unspam the entry. The problem is that LJ made its interface more dynamic. Controls are hidden unless you mouse over the title region. While this makes the interface less cluttered, it also hides functionality from most users.