baubles from hell.

i was up late last night. i was finishing pieces, starting new ones. trying to label stuff but finding my pen inadequate. and then when we finally went to bed, i tried reading myself to sleep, but my thoughts kept getting in the way. will i have enough food? i still need to get plates. and napkins. and soda! and wine so i can make sangria. so i guess i need fruit. ack!

i need to clean the litter box. it'd be easier if they used the toilet. there's even one in the basement, a scant 12 feet away from the litter box. i'm just sayin.

i need to wash the kitchen rug and the bathroom rug. i need to leave here early today so i can start the cleaning. chairs... we'll need to move some of the chairs from the dining room and into the living room.

i was thinking about grouping things by color, instead of "here are necklaces, here are bracelets," etc. that way there's not one person holding up the line, looking at the earrings. and i'm going to use the china and crystal to display it. maybe intersperse it all with the food? ooh, i'll use the antique cake plate to display the moon pies. love them. and the cake plate is blue.

i can't organize all my beads tonight... i'd never get to sleep. but i should probably have them out and available in case people want to look, and maybe custom-order something.

BK said she probably can't make it. that kinda sucks.

feh. i have work to do. i'm gonna go do it. then i'll get out of here early, and go make my house perfect. or as perfect as it can be. or i'll make sangria and nobody will notice the house's imperfections. (no, jen, they're not coming for the house. they're coming because they want to play with shiny things. stfu+gbtw.)

chips, chips, chips... du du du du du...

i frikkin' love paolo conte. i'm listening to a mix i made, containing songs i probably shouldn't have spent money on. but right now, they're making me very happy. (currently: the buzzcocks.)

so i sent out an evite for my trunk show. now i just have to get my butt in gear and actually organize stuff. crappy part: jenny can't come. like a fool, i didn't check my calendar, and jenny'll be in texas for her mom's 60th birthday. poop. i mean, yay, mom, but poop on me for not checking to see if she'd be in town.

so. things to do before the trunk show: clean the house. make a stuffed form/display for my bracelets (rolling up a wad of fabric didn't work. maybe i'll try to make a bolster pillow, instead). while i'm at it, revamp or recreate my other displays. there are so many pretty displays out there, but i don't want my stuff to look like other people's stuff. there's so much competition out there in the handcrafted-jewelry world; i need to differentiate myself somehow.

ideas are appreciated. :)

oh, here's my latest and last piece, until i get my act in gear for the trunk show.

welcome to newmoonpie!

i'm always bad at updating stuff like this. we'll see if it sticks.

welcome to newmoonpie! i'm jen, and i make pretty jewelry, based on the idea that the classics don't have to be relegated to the past. pearls with jeans and sneakers, i say.

please visit my website, www.newmoonpie.com, and my shop on etsy at newmoonpie.etsy.com. (incidentally, if you haven't been to etsy, you're missing out. it's like ebay, only everything's handmade and awesome, and there are way fewer prada knock-offs.)

the latest at newmoonpie is that i'm taking a hiatus from creating new stuff, for about a month. i did a show last saturday (etsyCREST's Savage Snowdrop, which was lovely), and after selling nothing, i realized that it doesn't make sense to keep buying supplies and making stuff just to fill my office at home with said stuff.

so.

i'm having a trunk show on 3/22, at my house in silver spring. if you're interested, i'd love for you to come out and see my latest creations. there'll be foods and drinks, and lots of fun stuff to try on. heck, there'll even be door prizes. why? because i can.

if you'd like to attend, please e-mail me at newmoonpie (at) gmail (dot) com.

if you can't attend, please feel free to visit my website - it's just launched, all soft-like, but there's a good bit of new stuff there that wasn't on the old site. holler if you have any questions!

thanks,
jen at newmoonpie