Bead artist: Christa Weldon
October 26, 2009 by Cyndi Lavin
Filed under Beading, Other Bead & Jewelry Sites
Christa Weldon has both a blog and an etsy shop, where she shows and sells her jewelry and her scrapbooking supplies. Christa has figured out a way to stay home with her children and still do the things that she loves!
Christa writes:
Doohickies & Such is exactly what the tag name says…ALL THINGS CRAFTY. I love to be creative starting first with scrapbooking (my first passion) and then venturing out into jewelry making (and soon to other types of crafts…just check out the categories in my store).
The store’s name came from a word my dad would mention every now and again when I was little…doohickies. And then I started thinking of other names he would say that meant basically the same thing and viola…that’s how the categories to my store came about.
As for the contents in the store….scrapbook embellishments and tags buttons and jewelry…just a taste of all things crafty. Lately I love making some jewelry. Walking into a jewelry store makes me feel like a kid in a candy store. So many possibilities! I love the bright colors the textures the designs of the beads. I myself do not wear jewelry (other than my wedding band) but I one day would love to wear jewelry like the ones that I make for my store. I guess this is my way of making up for it. I don’t wear any special uniforms or have special outfits for work because my work is being at home with my children and caring for the house, a stay-at-home mom. I don’t think that these pieces would look good in my ‘house clothes’! LOL
The things that inspire me: for scrapbooking it would be the time of the year the seasons/events and then the colors of course. I love colors that pop texture and bling. For my jewelry it’s just what strikes me when I go bead shopping. I love silver and unique looking beads. Either the shape or the style of the bead is what I look for. When I sit in front of my beads and bead board I just start placing the beads here and there until I feel it’s worthy of being a necklace bracelet or earring. If I can see myself wearing it then I make it.
For the month of October I am running a special for donations to the National Breast Cancer Foundation. *For EVERY purchase you make a $1 will be donated to this worthy cause! *Buy something that is “pink” and have $2 donated!!
I enjoyed your article. Your article is mostly about how others are reinventing themselves to do things that they really love doing. Keep writing.