Stars – for Chanakuh or Christmas ornaments, in gold, with ghost images. Got the first side done, need to get to the other side, then sand and polish – and drill. I found a container of gold clay from last year’s Cabin Fever Clay Festival class with Grant Diffendaffer. He was teaching a number of techniques for using mica shift and I still had all the clay with these techniques applied to it ready for application to something. How convenient!

So today I listed the last (almost) of this year’s switch plates on etsy (www.marcympc.etsy.com). It’s always my wild guess as to what people might search for besides the word “switchplate” or the words “switch plate”. So I try things like “wall decor” and “toggle switch cover”. If anyone out there has ideas, please let me know!!

So here is a sample of today’s listing work:

I have a really big craft fair coming up this weekend at St. Louise deMarillac on McMurray Road in Upper St. Clair (or is it Bethel Park?) (It’s where the 2 communities come together, anyway.)
Stayed home this afternoon to finish up some things and also to get started on the next PCAGOE (Polymer Clay Artists Guild of Etsy) challenge – ATCs, otherwise known as Artists’ Trading Cards. Not sure what they’re good for, but that’s what the challenge is and I’ve not handled raw clay for a while. It’s time.

So I’d better get away from the computer or the whole afternoon will be gone without me even noticing ’til it’s too late.

Just finished my first Craft Show this past weekend, getting ready for the really big one coming up. It’ll be at St. Louise deMarillac Church in Bethel Park/Upper St. Clair this coming weekend. In honor of this show and the demand it may put on my resources, I’ve finally completed work on switch plates and on 7 clocks, sanding and installing clock parts.

Then I photographed and listed both the clocks and (most of) the switch plates on Etsy yesterday. Some of the clocks are pictured above.

Followers of my Facebook shop page, marcympc, must have felt bombarded with new listings yesterday. I’d be doing more this morning, but Etsy was acting up when I tried. So here I am blogging instead.

With Thanksgiving only a little more than a week away, things are getting kind of hectic. We’ll be seeing lots of family members, which means playing lots of board games. I’m looking forward to this. And it’s a weekend off from Craft Fairs!

It’s getting to be that time of year again – Fall Craft Shows. And to prepare – I’m finishing projects at last! For example: assembling pens and pencils and letter openers –

Getting ready: the medieval torture device in the center of the photo is a pen press – squeezes the pieces together, one by one – a loooong, slooowww process.

Got a few assembled above…

Just a couple of the finished product before the photos are cleaned up for posting on my etsy shop (www.marcympc.etsy.com).

Finally have my craft show schedule together for this fall:

November 12, 2011 – Bethel Presbyterian Church – Holiday-A-Fair, 2999 Bethel Church Road, Bethel Park, PA

November 19, 2011 – St. Louise deMarillac, 310 McMurray Road, Upper St. Clair, PA

December 3, 2011 – St. Margaret School, 915 Alice St., Greentree

December 10, 2011 – Mt. Lebanon United Methodist Church Christmas Cookie and Gift Bazaar, 3319 W. Liberty Ave., Mt. Lebanon

all in the Pittsburgh, PA, area, of course.