An Olivia Bracelet

If you look back a few posts you will find the one where I was excited about making a clay bead that was a Boston Terrier face. I've since made a whole lot more and I turned one of them into this bracelet! I bought the other beads at Hobby Lobby and strung them all together on a stretchy cord. Hopefully this with be one of the items available on my future Etsy store! Everyone should watch out for that post when I finally have an inventory and open up shop :) I'm hoping to maybe even be able to donate some of the earnings I make in my Etsy store to a Boston Terrier rescue.

Look what I made!

So I've been slacking in the blog department... oops :/

But today I made this:

I made it out of Sculpey clay (black and white) that I bought at Hobby Lobby and used a small Black and Decker toaster oven that I got for cheap to bake it (apparently you're not supposed to bake this sorta stuff in an oven you cook food in). 

I'm really happy with how this turned out. (The black "spot" is actually a hole so I can make it into a necklace). I'm hoping to add this to the line of handmade goods my mom and I want to start making and selling together. This could be made without the hole so it could be a pin.. or made smaller to be made into earrings. This ended up being pretty large, I think in the future I may scale it down a bit, but I'm still totally thrilled with how it turned out!

Everyone should definitely keep an eye out for the opening of my future Etsy shop!

Mommy's Little Graduate

So... as you may remember from my wordless wednesday post, Olivia graduated from puppy class! WOOHOO! I put her in her fanciest party dress and my mom and I attached a silvery, glittery, graduation cap hair clip (left over from my graduation in May) to an elastic and Olivia dutifully wore it on her head. All the other pups came in their birthday suits and so Olivia really stole the show. The new class that had their first day right before our class began really got a kick out of her too :)

Olivia and I are already starting the Intermediate class on October 2!

(When I get my hands on my dad's camera chip I'll post some more grad photos)

The Graduate!

... and her "diploma"...

... and the Graduate with her proud mommy!