I. GRADUATED.

(Ta-da!)

It’s been nearly a year since I last posted… anything at all. And what a year it’s been. I’ve been focused on academics, as focused as I could possibly be, really. Eat, breath, sleep academic art. Incredible experience- it’ll be interesting to “get back to normal.”

In the time immediately after graduating I think we all feel a sort of deflation. Not an emptiness, but a stillness… the release of pressure and the sudden realization that, realistically, there are no imminent deadlines. (How is that possible? What am I forgetting to do?? haha) As I adjust to this… looser… lifestyle, I’m trying to pick up things I’ve neglected for the past few months: mainly, that means I want to get back to making things.

Though I let go of the thing-a-day format, and I came dangerously close to creating nothing at all for long periods of time, this has been a bizarrely productive year. I won’t bury myself under the task of recapping the things I’ve done, or scare myself by promising to jump right back into the thing-a-day format… but I’ll try to keep up with sharing what I’m doing

I’ve been making a lot of jewelry. Last December I was accepted to Seattle’s Urban Craft Uprising, one of the largest craft fairs in the Northwest. It was an incredibly validating weekend- I completely sold out within hours on the first day, and had to start making more stuff before lunch! I spent that whole night making more things, and sold out again on the second day.  I wish I’d taken pictures of the things I made, but they were made and gone so quickly it was pretty impossible. A humbling experience.

If you want to see the jewelry I’ve been making more recently, check out my etsy site for a nifty catalogue of it all (and maybe even pick something up! It’s all reasonably priced.) I just spent the day taking nicer photographs and overhauling the design, so it’s looking pretty slick and tied together finally:

www.molliefabric.etsy.com

Oh! If you want to take a class from me (yes! I’m teaching!) and you live in Seattle, go by Fusion Beads on Stone way and pick up a class catalogue! I’m really excited about this, I love to teach and I love to make stuff, so this is a pretty perfect gig

Ok, enough plugs. I’m back, and I’ll be updating more frequently once again!

Sweet,

M

Hello,

I’m preparing for my first show in a few months, and gearing up to graduate in spring!

Thing-a-day hasn’t died for me- the blog portion of it just needs to take the back burner for a bit here

If you want to see first hand what I’ve been up to for the past few weeks, join me in Seattle Dec 6 & 7 for the Urban Craft Uprising in the Seattle Exhibition Hall!

Mo

August 25: copper and glass bracelet

August 26: playing with shrink plastic (and amazing glaze, combined)

August 27: meat poster (for etsy), amazonite + nut earrings, 28g. artistic wire wire-wrap (bad idea)

August 28: Thom Yorke letter, fused silver (earrings, bracelet)

August 29: Lariat with fused rings
(has since been deconstructed)

August 30: T earring prototype

August 31: ghetto light box

September 1-3?
not sure? where’d it go?

September 4: rosary beginnings (peridot + sterling)

September 5: WTF spokane (photos)

September 6: bracelet sample (“Hey mollie, wanna make something for the store? Yeah it can be anything! But, actually, it has to use silver tubes. Oh, and some czech glass” haha)

September 7 – 8: super secret photo album that you can’t know about until, maybe, November? I’ll post it then.

September 9 – 11: ?

September 12: Knitted Calorimetry (Noro)

September 13: Crochet/Knit collar (soft acrylic bulky weight)

September 14: Crochet Mobius cowl (baby llama fur!!)

September 15: mini fused earrings

July 28: Lucite post earrings

July 29: Someone else’s creativity

July 30: Tuscan Soup (for Cale’s return… coincidentally he had eaten tuscan soup for lunch in NY earlier in the day) (true story) (photo from interwebs- i don’t own a leopard print bowl)

July 31: diamond photoshop play (looks a little better bigger)

August 1: circle photoshop play (doesnt really look better bigger)

August 2: Guilty Pleasures FF

August 3: Hike to Summerland! (Mt. Rainier) (album)

August 4: Bike adventure (not creative maybe, but awesome)

August 5: Gasworks adventure (drank and mexipops)

August 6: Discovery park hike (i found frogs! everywhere! frogs!)

August 7: MGMT PORTRAIT (dont ask)

August 8: cat cat cat

August 9: Guilty Pleasures again (pictureless, so here’s cale walking in the sky with some flowers)

August 10 – 15: In progress jewelry (Hearts and squares, marbles, tickler)

August 16: Ran into the pacific

August 17 & 18: Blackberry picking!
We went hiking and picked a huge bag of blackberries. Then we made blackberry slump with them. delicious.

August 19/20: Radiohead!

August 21: chocolates with coffee beans in the petals yummm

August 22: tiny beaded turtles

August 23: beaded braclet and ring

August 24: nut earrings (no idea where deez nuts came from.. found them in my house and put them in my ears. so there.)

i’m just still in school and haven’t made time to update the blog part of it.

but! i will after school lets out.

indubidably.

Dear blog,
Today was pretty good.
Ben and I made a cake.
It was pretty tasty.
I wore a witch hat.
Sincerely,
Mollie

I got a response to this post (about our second hand couch being full of history) from the girl who actually made the necklace, and owned the school planner.

How cool is that??

She says:

I am the owner of that planner! I googled my name out of boredom and found your post! What a funny quirky thing, now I am wondering whose couch it was in originally! Also, the necklace is mine as well, it’s one of the first things I ever made! You can see what my jewelry is like now on my Etsy site.

Thanks for making me laugh!

You can check out her etsy here
(It’s gorgeous!)

That totally made my day.

brass and czech glass

before long it’ll have hit the ceiling and doubled back: