mid-week..

I feel satisfied and happy when i get to start/finish orders or projects during the middle of the week..that means i still have lots of time to finish more before the week ends:)

i finished the locket that i will give as a gift, started the orders of a client and finished one locket order! yahoo!:)
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I got to finish Liam's vest also for his presentation this saturday! I showed it to him this morning and let him fit it. He liked the design that i made and named all the smileys, peace signs and spirals that he saw! hahaha! He saw the fabric pens that i used and wanted to design the vest some more....so i let him and this is the result!



I got my Steampunkery Book yesterday! Double yehey! Lots of tutorials inside! loved the way Christi Friesen presented each tutorial..very easy to follow and with lots of humor! If you are a clay enthusiast, i suggest you also get one! I got mine from the beadlady craft cafe :)

and one more thing to cheer about.....the book was autographed by the author!! woohoo!
one more book to add to my collection:)

I love collecting books especially ones about polymer clay and beading because you get so many tutorials and new ideas from them! But i'm the type of person who would buy books at a sale price! ;) Luckily, everytime i decide to visit Book Sale to search in their messy piles...i can find one or two polymer clay books or magazines hidden there!
So far these are the ones i found.. (my favorite is the mixed media mosaics!)

-----Two more days before the weekend! But before the week ends, I will be announcing the winners of the Giveaway! See you this friday!



How's your week so far? I hope all of you are having a productive one!:)

I love Weekends!:)

Weekends are really something that I look forward to! Time well spent with my family, relatives and friends! Weekends are also the best because we eat out and i don't have to cook! (lol)

Here's how we spent our weekend..

Woke up to a beautiful saturday morning! Marlon sneaked out while liam and I were sleeping and took a picture of the magnificent sunrise!:)



Then off to my workshop at 9am! I had a super fun time again teaching! here are the projects we made! Stamping, antiquing, Pearlex application, photo transfer and the steampunk bug!



My student was Jackie. She really loves playing with clay. She ate a little of her snack because she just wants to keep on claying! (lol!)



While I was having my workshop, father and son went to the barber shop because Liam already needed a haircut!

His hair before the cut! "Bieber-ish" already! hahaha:)
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Then off to a birthday party!! At the party, Liam fell in love with the celebrant, Agatha! He just wanted to stay by her side the whole time! I think he wants to be her Prince! (LOL!!) here's their pic...



Sunday was spent with Liam's grandparents and he played with his cousin, Sophie!

Now back to reality..hahaha!
Orders to be finished, lots of cooking to be done and DIY project to be finished.

Here's the DIY project...a hippie vest for Liam! He'll be using it this saturday for their Grandparents' day Program in school.
Here are the materials that I'm going to use..vest (got it at a sale price of Php 150) and Leeho Dimensional Fabric Paint pen (got 5 colors, Php35 each). I'm still thinking of a design and I'm planning of doing it tonight (24 hours for the paint to dry). Hopefully it will come out nice! hahaha:)


A few more days to go before I announce the winners of the RockyBeads Giveaway!! I will announce who won this Friday!! So send in your answers now!

So that was my weekend! I hope you had a nice one too!
Have a good week everyone!

*thanks to Marlon for the wonderful pics that i always use in my blog!

"Going Back" and RockyBeads GIVEAWAY!!

now going back to "Going Back"....

I was so fortunate enough to be featured in the following!:)

Polymer Clay Craft Gossip


Tejae Floyde's book - Polymer Artists Showcase
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And recently in the blog of Ms. Angeli Sobrepena - Confessions of A Chronic Crafter



Playing with clay for two years now, I had my own share of trials and errors...burnt clay every now and then, bubbles during phototransfer, unsuccessful experiments of mixing clay with other materials..but I learned a lot from these mistakes and so I decided to share these learning through one on one workshops!:) I only started this year and all can say is it is super duper F-U-N! I love meeting new people and sharing with them my adventures with clay and i also love it when they say that they learned a lot! Seeing them apply the techniques they learned in their new projects give me so much joy!:) Here are some pics of my workshops..
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RockyBeads brought me HAPPINESS and I want to share this by having a GIVEAWAY!! This is also my way of thanking all the people who supported me and my online shop! Thank you so much for appreciating my work for the past two years! Still looking forward to more years of designing and customizing unique pieces for you!:)

Now its time for the RockyBeads GIVEAWAY!!:)

2 years, 2 lockets, 2 questions, 2 winners!!:)

The 2 Lockets:


The Questions:

What's your most treasured trinket/accessory and why?
What's your most favorite RockyBeads Creation?

Pls. email me your answers to rockybats@yahoo.com. I will choose two best answers and will post them here in my blog next week!

Send in your answers now!:)

Have a great weekend everyone!!

Going back...

It has been two wonderful years already since I opened my online shop. The exact date? I don't really remember (lol)! I just based it on the date when I first opened my shop in multiply and that is April, 2008. "RockyBeads" brought me so much happiness! I met lots of people, experienced a lot of new things, and most importantly..it gave me direction to the path that I really want to follow until my granny days! I can still imagine myself inside my work room, tinkering, molding, baking and making trinkets. :)

A trip down memory lane...

These are what i'm selling when i first opened my shop. I still haven't read about polymer clay and I was still in love with beads during that time haha:)


Then my love for beads was forgotten because polymer clay introduced itself to me via angeli's site, yummytrinkets.com and it was really love at first sight..."sight" because I still didn't know where to get it! (lol) After much googling..I found out that you can buy it at hobbes and landes!! yahooo! I bought my first bars there (i really bought lots! acutally the word that should be used is "hoarded" not bought haha!). From then on, I got hooked and never stopped..that is from playing with clay and buying materials (tsk..tsk..tsk!) :)


After a few months of selling online, i started joining bazaars. My first ever bazaar is at the A. Venue hall in Makati. The experience was not that good but at least i learned a lot from it and met new faces that i eventually teamed up with in joining other bazaars. My second one is at the WTC in Pasay, this the most memorable one because my lockets were a hit and were sold out! then came the Us Girls bazaar, Mag:net bazaar and etc etc. I really have a good time when I join bazaars because i get to meet my clients online and meet other sellers too! It's really tiring but fun!




At the A. venue hall....look at my booth it was really poor looking! hahaha:) Still didn't know how to style my booth and still didn't have a proper table :)








At the WTC, Christmas Bazaar. For this bazaar, i already had an idea on how to fix my stuff and what props to bring! haha:)













Here are more pics of the other bazaars i joined.
The hardest things that you will do for a bazaar are making what you're going to sell, the packing/unpacking of your stuff and of course the selling! :)


Then came the media exposure (yahoo!)....i feel so blessed to have been able to share my craft through shows like....Sweet Life with Lucy, Kabuhayang swak na swak and at N.U. 107!



This is really getting long. It's so hard to put 2 years in just one post! (lol)
..so to be continued! :)

attempting to be a "blogger"!

Thinking of what to write on your first post is a very hard job. It has been days already since i put up this blog and until now i still don't know what to write!!

So finally i decided..what the heck..i'll just write whatever i feel today! :)

THANKFUL!! yes, that's what im feeling today. Im very thankful for all the blessings that have come my way.

And these are what i'm thankful for..

A loving husband who always supports me in whatever i do, who always takes care of liam whenever i have a bazaar/workshop etc, and who always says "ganda" (beautiful) whenever i show my new designs to him.:) Lucky me because he loves photography...he helps me in taking pictures of my work and i get to use his lens all the time! :)

my son who never fails to put a smile on my face! I'm very thankful that i spend my 24/7 with him. Being a hands-on mom is very tiring but a very rewarding job! :)

RockyBeads, my online shop. This is where I use all of my creativity! It cannot always be all household work and no play right?:) So for a stay at home mom like me, having this outlet really helps me in keeping my mind active. Thinking of new designs makes me happy and thinking of what i can do with polymer clay makes me happier (lol)! It has been 2 wonderful years already since i opened it..so i guess its time for me to give back already to the people who supported RockyBeads...its now time for a GIVEAWAY!!:) I'll be talking about this further in another post! So do watch out for it.

So there!! I just wrote my first post! woohoo!! (I'm not really a writer, so pardon all the grammatical errors..haha!)

It feels so good that i can share all the wonderful things happening in my life through this blog! I plan to use this in sharing my adventures with beads and clay (so expect updates about RockyBeads and tutorials soon!) and of course my mommy/wifey adventures too!:)

See you again soon!