Thursday, December 12, 2013

My Life as a Twenty-Something Robot

Hey-o!

So ya'll may be wondering why I haven't posted anything in pretty much forever. The answer is, astoundingly, I haven't finished anything in forever....

As you may or may not know, I happen to be a college student and planning a wedding set to happen next fall. And my wonderful fiance just accepted a job as an artist for an agency in Hollywood (Yay Erik!) which means now we're going to also be moving on top of everything.

Understandably (I hope) thanksgiving vacation was insane this year and then finals started happening and, well, you get the picture. I would be working on new things except.....my workspace currently looks like this:

Supposedly a desk is in there somewhere...

Yes, that is my bra on the ground, deal with it.

I'm pretty sure I have a problem.

Yes, I am a total wreck at the moment. There is no excuse, but the evidence is right in front of my face. Another reason I'm so behind is that Monster High Dolls went on sale over the black friday part of the Holiday. And I of course thought 'custom monster high dolls? That's a thing I could do!'
Which resulted in this:



A half-finished X-men Mystique doll. I could go on and on about the dozens of unfinished projects I have laying around, but really if you look at those messy pictures you can already see each and every one of them. Plus there's the needle-felting I have been doing but not posting about...





Yay for needle felted pokemon!

But seriously, I need to get myself organized for the new year. Badly. So please excuse my absence from the internet world lately, I'm doing my best to rectify it. Give me this week to just organize my mountain of neglected projects and hopefully new stuff will start happening again soon. Until then enjoy the posts of treasures I found while digging through my mess heap.
Maybe I'll get some of them posted in the Lee's Menagerie store.

Dutifully Yours,
Stefani Lee



Monday, December 2, 2013

Jewelry Experiments

Happy Monday Everyone!

Hope the holidays treated ya'll well, mine were a bit crazy but we made it through! I have a bunch of projects in the works right now, but I thought I would shift gears and talk a little about my biggest seller: faerie wing jewelry. 



This isn't going to be a 'how its made' or anything like that, really just a little blurb to let everyone know what I'm up to this week. The necklaces and earrings are actually my main source of income, and I supply 3 boutiques in the area at the moment: The Hummingbird and the Honeybee in Thousand Oaks, Salem Magic in Simi Valley, and the Rabbit Hole Cafe in Agoura Hills.

Additionally I'm going to be in couple holiday craft and jewelry sales over the next few weeks. Yay! The first of them is the Moorpark College Ceramic Sale this coming Wednesday and Thursday. In preparation I decided to toy around with some new styles of necklace. I thought I'd post a little sneak peak at some of the different styles I'm going to have at the sale. These pieces all have a mix of metals and some sort of fabric as well as wire wrapping all done by me. I hope you enjoy, and if you're local be sure to stop by the ceramics sale at Moorpark College December 4th and 5th!








Best Wishes for the season,
Stefani Lee