Craft

 

My candle and coaster

In the last twenty years, I have developed a love for crafting. I wasn't a big fan before that until I tried candle making. I absolutely love the smell of candles being made. It's completely different to a burning candle. It's softer somehow. 

My witchy bookmarks

In the last ten years, I discovered resin craft, creating jewellery, bowls, and candle holders. 

Then I discovered phosphorescent powder. Ooh I love making stuff glow. 

Then I discovered shrink plastic. I didn't play with it as a kid so absolutely love seeing my designs come to life. Mostly, I create earrings as they're small enough that they don't warp in the oven.

I even opened an Etsy shop once I got a Cricut machine but I only have 92 sales. I got two bad reviews, and now my items don't rate high in the search so I removed most of them. 

One of my bad reviews was because the vinyl words were coming off a bauble I made and sent. It was crazy humid and when the bauble went through the post, it arrived badly. I refunded that one and apologised.

Winking sticker

My second bad review was mean I think. It said that the buyer wanted bigger and better. It was a winking eye vinyl sticker. The thing is, the buyer chose that size so I don't understand why she thought it would be bigger. 

My Valkyrie Sticker

Either way, my star review ended up going down to 3.5, and sales died. My store is still active, selling digital downloads and my book as I figured you can't mistake the size of them and they aren't going to get trashed in the mail. It's more fun than anything. I get like a $4 sale a month if that. Yay me!

Anyway, I'm no expert, but I'm going to make some tutorial videos. Warning though, I may burn myself or break something, or screw it up, but craft is supposed to be fun.