Hey friends,

Find me at www.goodspeedempire.com

Lookit that!  All grown up and stuff with my very own URL!

Fun at the Swap Meet

Rockabilly show, check. Yay for Brian Jay and The Last Call Boys!



Sweet lookin' shoes, check. My friend Reagan wore these, and they were too fantastic not to show. Look at the velvet bow!


Churros large enough to take over the world? CHECK! Megan holding our hearts delight that day. Our hearts were delighted most of the day, seeing as we found a craft supply tent and sensible socks. :)

GIVE AWAY! Woohoo!

Here is an angry donut magnet:


But what is he yelling? Leave a comment on this blog creating a fun/clever caption for the donut. After a week I will pick a winner!

We must help each other

I'm really excited about this coming craft fair. As a contract theatre craftsperson I don't often have one lump sum that I can give as a donation to a cause. But I can give jewelry and craft pieces for auctions, therefore doing what I love and helping out causes that are in need.

If you are in the area stop on by, support Breast Cancer Angels, eat some food, listen to some local bands and shop with some local artisans.

Time for some do-gooding.

Fixer-upper

I highly recommend this to anybody:

1: Clean out your jewelry box. Grab all the stuff you never wear anymore.

2: Call your peeps and tell them to do the same.

3: Get together and revamp.

*see below

When my friends and I got together and revamped I gave everyone a post-it and we kept a list of items we needed from the bead store. That is if I didn't have the item in my stash (<-shock and horror, not having a supply in my stock?!). Then we walked to the bead store in my borough and gathered.

This is a great way to finish projects that have been laying around forever wanting to be competed. It's really better with a gaggle of people, because you have more creative heads and more fun.

Oooh, collaborate on snacks too!

(*isn't my coffee table the raddest color!?)

What have I been doing?

Workin' on a new look.

Sooo.... I've given my jewelry a bit of umph. It's been a long time coming, I was missing something in my jewelry design. The pieces I made looked cool to me but weren't all they could be. Do you ever feel like that? Like there is a missing link in the chain of awesome? Well I sat back and thought about what exactly I wanted my pendants to look when they were actually on a person.

When I thought about stringing I panicked. Because I focus mainly on making the pendant, not finishing. As a designer (costume, jewelry, whatever) I tend to focus on the beginning of a project or a piece, get to the mid point of the project but finishing fizzles. This time finishing fizzled because I just didn't know what My Look was ultimately. Sigh.

But I started trying different chains, different arrangements and came up with this:

It's been a long time coming, but I finally feel like my look has arrived!

Piggies!

I made piggies for my friend Patricia, because pigs are her friends. And it was her birthday. I thought up putting them in a locket cuz maybe sometimes she wants to be dressy, but not too cutesy.

But open the locket and her cute can still be there!


Noriko wanted some piggies too, but I made hers ninja.

I want to make myself a locket with Napoleon inside. Not Dynamite, the short one from France. Or maybe some sort of Commodore, so I can hang anchors all over it.

ps JoanGoodspeed.com is up, you can see what I'm doing when I'm not making cute stuff.