Featured Seller on Etsy

This week's featured seller on Etsy has some stuff that really appeals to my interests.  Check out Avril Loreti's Scrabble and crossword inspired work! Her other stuff is nice, too. This is the kind of seller I hope to be one day. Her advice to new sellers in her interview with Etsy is to work on your shop every day, even if it's only 15 minutes. That needs to be my new goal!

Retro Stripes Necklace

This is one of my latest creations.  I got my inspiration from a pile of my colored pencils laying on the coffee table.  The colors of the pencils reminded me of the 1950s/60s.  I'm thinking sea green refrigerators and burnt orange carpet.  I drew the stripes onto shrinkable plastic, picking up the pencils almost exactly in the order in which they were randomly laying on the table.  After shrinking the square, I discovered that it fit perfectly inside the square frame I had already.  I finished the piece with square jumprings to attach the pendant to the chain and as the ring for the clasp.

Check out my Flickr page for more photos, and my Etsy shop for the listing.