Gothic community

Ever since I saw my first horror movie I was absolutely hooked. I remember it like it was yesterday.

I was eight years old (yes a little young to be watching) and I couldn't believe that my big sister was letting me see A Nightmare on Elm Street. I loved it. I also never had nightmares from the horror movies I saw when I was younger. 

Now that I am in my 30's and is still a very big fan of all horror movies (Zombie movies specifically) I can say it had a lot to do with shaping my mind and how I not only see the world but how I see fashion. 

In my teens I have gotten in to Gothic clothing and jewelry. I still in my 30's have some of the old jewelry that I used to wear as a teen. I absolutely love the style and how romantic it can be. It can be extremely big and some what out there in style or it could be very minimal yet still have that goth feel to it. 

I have been wearing and seeing it all over the place. I loved it. I thought it was the most amazing jewelry in the world. Not everyone agreed with me on that. I thought I was the only one who loved it and would wear it. 

Until high school. As soon as I got in to high school I noticed that a chunk of kids were into that same fashion as myself. It felt great to be around people who loved the same style. 

The reason for the story is so that you know where I'm coming from and why I love making Gothic style jewelry. I understand that not a lot of people like to buy or even look at Gothic items, but I know one day there will be enough of us out there that people will start to accept us. 

I now know its not a phase and I will always and forever love who I am and what I do.
As always thank you for reading and ill have more post to come soon!

Stay Scary!! 

  

You don't need Wire.

I was looking all over the web for new ideas on how to make new products or to take an already awesome idea and make it my own. As I have said in a previous post I want to open my own shop online. Well in order to do that I need buy-able items to put in my store.
Don't get me wrong I have tons of great products to put in my shop, however if they are not buy-able products than people will not buy.

I found this awesome video that was nicely shot of a 5 strand braid wire wrapping on how to make a Celtic braid. I thought "that's too hard" and " I'll never be able to do that"
Thankfully she was an amazing teacher. I was able to learn it super fast and in my excitement and still watching this woman doing this amazing braid with wire I realized... I don't have wire to accomplish this amazing look. I don't have the little jewels she has in order to make it look like hers.
I also realized WAIT I am NOT HER.

This got me thinking... Humm what DO I have in order to accomplish this amazing new to me technique?

A few months ago my boyfriend and I went to a bead shop here where we live and see I have always been intimidated to work with wire seeing that I have always thought that it was supper hard to manipulate. Well with our visit to the shop we ended up buying seed beads for me and black elastic cording for him ( he has his own projects he works on)
The exact kind he bought is called Elasticity .039 in - 1.0 mm. 82 Feet 25 M. by Beadalon.

I decided to grab it and try it out. I did exactly how she did it on her video and even though mine came out a little smashed up and way different looking because I decided to use a different type of material than wire, I was really pleased with the out come of it!
It has that Gothic vibe I like most if not all of my jewelry to have. The seed beads I put in it are #6 SB SL Sapphire AB.

I am supper happy to now know a new to me technique that I can use on not only with wire (and I will be doing this on wire!) but on elastic as well.

We never stop learning and as a new OR old shop owner we need to always try and learn NEW techniques even if we think its scary. We can do it!
I proved to myself that I can over come a silly little fear with not having the items I thought I needed and with having different type of material made my item a lot different than the original.

Thank you! I will be making more post like this soon!
In the mean time check out my tiwtter I have have photos of the bracelet I made there!! @christin3creats
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Christine Creates

This blog is about my creations and how I like to create as well as what I like to create.
I have a large range but at the same time I feel like my range is not that big.

I like working with polymer clay (the oven baked kind), wire, sewing, elastic, seed beads, I like to mold by hand as well as molds, rhinestones, charms, spikes and studs, lace, and ribbon.

These are literally just a few things I like to work with when I'm making my jewelry. I hope to be working with resin in the future.

I will be opening a shop online for all of my handmade crafts very soon. My goal is to try and get that going before the end of this year (2015) Seeing that we are already in November and I have a lot of awesome projects and ideas that I'm working on at the moment I feel good about getting the shop open before the new year,

I will be going with Big Cartel as a shop because this will allow me to design it how I want my shop to be.
My inspiration for my crafts are Gothic, horror, fantasy, science fiction, punk, romance, steam punk and even playful. Yes my style is very, VERY eclectic in witch I have gathered from both childhood and into adulthood.
As I get done with the final touches in my shop I will be posting when it will be up and ready for everyone to come in and buy!

 Until my next post... Stay scary!!
 Also you can find me on Twitter at christin3creats
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P.S. I am by NO means a pro at writing. So please be kind with the comments.