I have new art supplies arriving shortly. Both soap and veil stuff. Yesterday after spending most of the day packaging sales from the Obama sale, the baby played on the floor while i whipped up a batch of the most gloriously beautiful mahogany colored soap. It's swirled with brick red and burgundy, has a thick layer of black gold, then topped with a thick layer of gold dust. God i love micas. Mixing soaps brings me back to the primitive joy when I first discovered mixing dyes for veils and the colors that would come about with experimentation. The past few years I've missed that aspect of it because if you have a best seller, you make the best seller. People want the best seller. Of course the artist wanted to make what the artist wanted to make but best sellers have their purpose huh. I had to mix in what I wanted to do with what I should do. With what made sense to grow this into a business that helps feed those growing boys.
So anyways working with the micas make my eyes round out and mirror with glee. I mixed a METALLIC cappucino color and showed it to Zack like..WOULD YOU LOOK AT THAT. i immediately thought of my dye artist friends and wished they were here with me in my kitchen looking at that color.
Unfortunately i didnt have enough to make full bars so i made a thin layer of guest tray soaps. Later I may cut them and stack them and glue them together with a thick layer of another color but I'm afraid to touch them . I've been thinking lately about making rock soap, soaps that resembled different types of crystals and rocks. Of course everyone wants more merkaba soap cuz it sure is cute with a merkaba scarf and rub and dub dub but come on i have new shit to play with!! wheeee!!!!
I also pulled out some of the marbling tools I bought in a flurry many months ago and then never got around to. It's important to change your medium. Dyeing a rectangle piece of silk doesnt have to be the same all the time. Just one new type of dye can change the world. (put that on a coin). I'm still hesitant to indulge more into bellydance veils, any new things for bellydance veils will likely be a leftover recipe from dyeing what i want to dye..mostly more of those ruanas and a sleeveless one I'm working on and more dresses and god knows what since if we move to the desert again then 'm likely to be saturated with golden sandstone colors and bright wildflowers, sunsets, hey even smog is pretty with the right lighting.
so hey the etsy store is pretty bare right now. i still sell more scarves to stores and thru craft fair than thru the store but i dont think the phenom has caught on yet. maybe i'll have to lower the price to get people hooked on them. you wear one you get compliments. all women love compliments. there's so much to do .
whether or not i pack the etsy store again when we get back from az will depend on our moving date if and when we go. i HATE stock just sitting in a store. its like going in a physical store and seeing the same exact item on display and you wonder why it hasnt sold yet. i hate that i have some items in the etsy store like that. items should have a shelf life of a few weeks. no one wants stale merchandise. time to revise!!! that hot pink dress in there ..well she just needs a smoky black and pink cape to go with. (that cape sold). i have a rust colored dress not listed but it would go lovely with one of the ruanas not listed yet. so much to do .
if you are not excited about your art you need to get another job :)
ps this one sold
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