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Purple Ducky Designs At Moscow Artwalk 2017
I was able to get a booth to demonstrate and sell my jewelry and art at this year’s Moscow Artwalk. I had quite a bit of fun, tho only made one sale. But I did talk with a lot of people and gave away a few cards. Quite a few people also took pictures to post on Snapchat and other social media.
Picked up a pop up canopy from a friend who sold it to me for $40, brand new, never out of the box. It is a very good color too:
I had a very nice location also. Weather was troublesome tho, wind was annoying. Luckily I’d brought pretty much all my gear and supplies as a couple of my bins were heavy enough to use as weights, as was the Del computer I was going to take apart:
At this point it was more useful as an anchor than for materials LOL! I had plenty of hard drives and laptops to take apart if needed:
Had a very good view up and down Main, Â tho being downwind of Duke’s Place was a bit problematic, it smelled so good my mouth kept watering all evening LOL! I’d brought munchies along, but grapes and string cheese just wasn’t what my taste buds were wanting.
Tried to sprinkle a few times, but the rain held off. The wind however! Tried to move my canopy a good 2-3 feet at one point, so glad I had the weights on at least 3 corners. Will be looking at a better solution than bins and Dell computers. Wrap around sandbags maybe, or just fund barbell weights at the thrift shops. We’ll see.
But I love my new canopy. Need to get a banner to hang across the front. Have one designed thru my Zazzle shop, just need to order it before the next event in July.
The sun finally did come out:
Tho the breeze didn’t quite go away. I was taking my jacket on and off all evening and I’d dressed in layers as is.
Made quite a few items, a couple pair of Pride earrings using spindle rings, here is one set:
Will be uploading all the new items to my Amazon shop in the next couple of days. Need to get some good photos of them all.
Getting a lot better at chatting with people, tho my brain derails frequently when I try and think of a particular word when I am discussing the materials I am using. But I have the most fun talking with the little kids who just are amazed at what I can do with dead computers. I keep a regular hard drive and a laptop hard drive intact with the covers off so they can look at it and spin the platters around. I also have one desktop mostly intact so they can see what the inside of one looks like. Same with a couple motherboards (tho eventually all those will be replace with others as I use up my display models LOL).
Made contact with a couple people who I can get more dead computers from, so that is nice. So while not the most profitable event I have been too, it was fun and I hope to do it again next year.
Now to see about getting booth space at two more events this summer.
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Art show opening
The opening reception for the “Masks revealing the artist” exhibit at the Artisans at the Dahmen Barn was yesterday and it was very nice. The person who hung the displays did a fantastic job. Mine was placed on a plinth in the middle of the room so people could walk around it. Had the hubby snaps some photos of me with my piece of course.
I didn’t stay for the whole reception, but another member figured up to that point at least 200 people had been thru with quite a few people who came in before the reception as they were at the barn for other reasons.
And for once I looked around and didn’t think my work wasn’t as good as the other artists LOL! In fact my brain started racing with ideas to do more masks with recycled computer parts. Now I need to get a scroll saw, soldering iron, and a whole lot of other supplies. And a decent work space out int he shed so I don’t ruin my dining room table LOL!
And for once I looked around and didn’t think my work wasn’t as good as the other artists LOL! In fact my brain started racing with ideas to do more masks with recycled computer parts. Now I need to get a scroll saw, soldering iron, and a whole lot of other supplies. And a decent work space out int he shed so I don’t ruin my dining room table LOL!
The show runs thru April 30th at the Artisans at the Dahmen Barn. If my piece doesn’t sell at the show I will be posting it on my Etsy shop.
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Vote for Purple Ducky Designs at the Etsy Small Business Contest
Help me try to win $10,000 to help expand my jewelry and art at Purple Ducky Designs Etsy! Please vote HERE.
Purple Ducky Designs is about reusing and recycling items such as computer parts in order to keep as much of the waste out of landfills while turning it into unique wearable art as jewelry and interesting art pieces. The whole thing started when I took some read/write arms from hard drives my husband had dismantled and made them into a Christmas ornament for a party. Someone jokingly suggested they would make great earrings and I took that idea and ran with it.
Since then I have been thinking up different ways to use dead computers as jewelry and art. I haven’t looked at computer e-waste the same way since. I even find ways to use as much of the leftover materials such as wire, etc in my art pieces to further reduce the amount of waste that gets thrown out.
Plus I really love turning stuff that people wouldn’t generally think as still useful into something they would see in a new light.
Vote for Purple Ducky Designs at the Etsy Small Business Contest was originally published on Purple Ducky Designs
Back to being active again
Because of a car accident way back in March of this year, I’ve not been doing much at all in regards to many of my shops. Recuperating has taken pretty much all of my time. But I am back and have even gotten out and about to take photos. Stopped at a local harvest fest on Saturday and took quite a few nice photos. Here is one I really like:
I love finding things like this to photograph. Hopefully the weather will hold long enough this fall so I can get out and about and get more.
Will also be adding more recycled computer art and jewelry to my Etsy and Amazon shops over the next few weeks to get ahead of the holiday gift season.
More updates as they come along.
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NEW! Wire wrapped capacitor earrings
Wire wrapped capacitors from a computer mother board accented with green glass beads.
NEW! Wire wrapped capacitor earrings was originally published on Purple Ducky Designs
NEW!
Computer hard drive circuit board ornament
NEW! was originally published on Purple Ducky Designs
A small art project
Participating in a fund raiser for Alternatives to Violence on the Palouse where we take old telephones and decorate them:
So I was originally going to do zebra stripes, but hubby mentioned we had some orange spray paint and I decided tiger stripes would be cooler.
Went to spray the phone with the orange as a base, but it was dead. So instead sprayed it black:
Then picked up a small can of orange and went to town:
Painting the orange was a couple day project as the paint was an oil base and dried slowly. But finally got it done and then detailed it with a black marking pen to add some more black lines and define the orange strips:
Will be dropping off the phone today at Cafe Artista where the benefit show and sale will be happening tomorrow night from 4-7pm.
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Hard drive spindle rings with sea shells earrings
Hard drive spindle rings with sea shells and cat5 wire is a great fashion statement for the fashionable techno geek.
These are available thru my shop Purple Ducky Designs on Etsy.