Desert Bunny Flare

New stuff

aixaster — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:42:19 +0000

I admit, I have been a bad desert bunny. I haven’t created any new items since December, nor have I posted anything since December. But I plan on creating some new items this month and will try my best to post weekly. If anyone has any suggestions on an item I should make please feel free to let me know!

Until next week!

Away ‘Til New Year!

aixaster — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 04:13:49 +0000

This Desert Bunny will be on a much-needed vacation until the end of the year. For those who would like to order anything please feel free to email me at DesertBunnyFlare@gmail.com, but please know that I won’t be in town to create or ship anything until January 1st.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all my readers!’

Current inventory!

aixaster — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 05:07:36 +0000

I was finally able to decide on which items I wanted to post. I currently only have one of each available but I plan I making some more this week. I will try and make the newer items look like the ones I am posting today, but since they are handmade, no two items will be exactly alike. As you will also notice some of the items can be bought in a set. This is because I tend to be color coordinated and most of the pieces have corresponding colors in the bows, feathers and headbands. Below are pictures of the items with a brief description and the price. Enjoy!

Item 10-01: cost $6

Grey headband with black & white bow

Item 10-02: cost $2

Simple black bow on a hair barrette

Item 10-03: Cost $10

Black feathers with a silver star on an alligator clip

Items 10-01, 10-02, 10-03 as a set: cost $16

The black set

Item 11-01: cost $15

Light tan (with a hint of green) feathers with multicolored glass pearl beads on a clear hair comb

Item 11-02: cost $2

Tan bow on a hair barrette

Items 11-01 & 11-02 as a combo: cost $16

Tan set

Item 12-01: cost $6

Navy blue headband with a light blue bow

Item 12-02: cost $12

Light blue feathers with blue glass beads & silver stars on a clear hair comb

Items 12-01 & 12-02 as a set $16

Blue set

Item 13-01: cost $10

Light pink feathers with multicolored glass pearls on an alligator clip

Item 13-02: cost $2

Light pink bow on a hair barrette

Items 13-01 & 13-02 as a set: cost $11

Pink set

Item 14-01: $6

Maroon headband & teal bow with multicolored spots

Item 14-02: cost $2

Teal with multicolored spot bow on a hair barrette

Item 14-03: cost $12

Teal feathers with clear glass beads on a clear hair comb

Items 14-01, 14-02, 14-03 as a set: cost $16

Teal set

The items below are currently single items. I plan on adding corresponding color items to compliment the single items sometime this week.

Item 09-01: cost $10

Bright blue feathers with blue glass beads on a hair barrette

Item 08-01: cost $10

Hot pink feathers with light pink glass beads on a hair barrette

Item 07-01: cost $10

Dark and light purple feathers with silver beads on a brown hair comb

Item 06-01: cost $10

Clear glass beads on a brown hair comb

Item 05-01: cost $2

Dark green bow on a hair barrette

Scarves, Scarves, Scarves! Below are two crocheted scarves that are looking for some necks to warm. Also below are three example scarves that are currently not looking for necks to warm as they have already been spoken for. I am including these scarves so that you have a general idea of the different types of yarn that I can work with.

Item 16-00: cost $15

Black yarn with pastel details. Yarn is 60% acrylic/34% polyamide/6% polyester. Measures 5"x48"

Item 17-00: cost $17

Black with multicolored 'hairlike' details. Yarn is 60% acrylic/40% polyamide. Measures 4"x50"

Currently out of stock examples.

Item 18-00: would cost $20 because of the difficulty of the yarn.

Pink & Purple scarf. Yarn is 60% acrylic/34% polyamide/6% polyester . Measures 3"x 53"

Item 19-00: would cost $20 because of the difficulty of the yarn.

Black with gold details. Yarn is 60% acrylic/34% polyamide/6% polyester. Measures 3"x 57".

Item 16-00 in green: cost would be $15

Green scarf with white & pink details.Yarn is 60% acrylic/34% polyamide/6% polyester. Measures 4"x 54".

I am currently only selling the sets to local folks. For local orders email me at DesertBunnyFlare@gmail.com

I think this will help the local economy and it makes it easier on me. Enjoy!

Update: Tis the Season for Crafts!

aixaster — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:54:47 +0000

I decided to take Julie’s suggestion and opened an account with www.Etsy.com. My username is DesertBunnyFlare and you can click here to see my shop.

I will be posting up pictures of some of my creations, scarfs and hair accessories, along with the prices for each pretty soon. I am working on a scarf today and hope to finish another tomorrow. My goal is to have my shop all set up by Monday. So far the estimated price point is from $3 to $20. Broken down the items would cost:
$3 for two hair ribbon bow clips
$6 for one headband with ribbon bow
$10 for one hair clip with feather & bead details
$10-15 for one hair comb with feather and bead detail
$15-20 for a scarf

I am basing my prices on the cost of the supplies and the time I invest in making an item. Since the scarfs take the longest I am pricing it at $15-20 depending on the yarn. The feather comb with beads will be $10-15 depending on the beads used. I hope the prices are fair…please let me know what you guys think. Once I finish setting up my shop I will post the link again and the prices with pictures so you all can have a better idea.

Tis the season for crafts!

aixaster — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 01:12:40 +0000

As I mentioned previously, I am a bookworm and I am very proud of it. Before my mother decided to get her second Masters degree and then her doctorate, she was an art teacher. I don’t think I inherited her talent for drawing. I do think I got her organization trait and her ability to be patient with children, animals and with inanimate objects. From her I also inherited her love for music and wanting to sing. I don’t think I am a great singer but I can carry a tune and I did earn some medals while in concert choir, so I guess I can’t be that bad. From my father I inherited my love for sports and athletic ability. An ability I might add that I haven’t used in the past few years, much to my dismay. The point of this drawn out background information is to say that I never had any crafty hobbies growing up.

A few years ago when I went to visit my great friend of many years (13 years to be exact), Judy, in London I learned something I never thought I would be good at…crocheting. I am a visual learner so it was great to have her show me. I have since then learned to crochet scarfs and hats. I have tried to learn to crochet animals and toys from books but I still haven’t mastered the ability to read the short script language of crocheting and with no one here to explain it to me I have sort of given up on it for now. Since 2007 (when Judy taught me how to crochet) I have decided to try and find other crafts I could be good at. As mentioned in my Junkie blog, while in high school I learned how to make a country house facade from coffee stirrers. I decided to see how good my memory was a recreate one. You can see the end result here.

Last year as a Christmas present for the girls in my family I decided to try and make little party headbands. It was a learning experience with feathers and a hot glue gun. Here is an example of two headbands I created:

My Mom and then pregnant sister-in-law

Being anal retentive I wasn’t very happy with my creations, but being the first time I had done something of that nature I decided that I would improve on the idea in the future. Since then I have been creating new protocol designs for these years party hair pieces along with working with new and more difficult yarns for scarfs. I have had some positive feedback from Will’s mom, sister and nieces on both my crochet skills and my hair pieces. I was in fact commissioned to make a scarf for both of his nieces. Will’s mother even suggested I could sell my hair pieces, but I don’t know if they are good enough, or if anyone would buy them. I guess I will leave it up to my readers to let me know if they are cute enough to sell or if anyone would actually buy them. Here are some examples of simple pieces to the more elaborate pieces.

Purple feathers with silver beads

light blue feathers with clear beads

Clear beads with wire

Here are the scarfs I made for Will’s mom and nieces:

For the 5 year old

For the 11 year old

For Will's mom

So…should I try and sell versions of these crafts?