Hey guys! The Far Grove now has a Deviant Art page! I’ve been a Deviant Art member for three years, but TheFarGrove only joined up a week ago…and already the FG gallery has 18 submissions. It’s great to see my work all on one page like that…it reminds me of how many new things I’ve tried and reminds me that I can go back to them and improve on them. And they look pretty good like that, so it’s nice to know the 250 or so hairsticks I’ve made in my time haven’t been work wasted…I’ve learned a lot, especially when I consider the way I made them when I first started, when they weren’t strong enough to hold up to daily handling (now they are plenty strong enough for daily wear).
So please visit The Far Grove’s Deviant Art site. If you want to remember the link so you don’t have to come back here to click it, it is simply http://thefargrove.deviantart.com. That’s pretty easy, isn’t it? 
As mentioned last time, I’m still tired of making the same old stuff. So I am slowly getting into new stuff and using new methods for old stuff. I’m playing around with polymer clay…and I’m doing accessories for short hair (though they work for long hair as well…most things that work for short hair work […]
I price my items fairly, based on the cost of the supplies plus the time it took to make the finished product. However, only a dodo would fail to take into account the downswing the economy has taken in the US (where most of my customers are from) even if the economy HERE is not […]
I haven’t written in four months. Wow. But then, that’s about how long I’ve been UTTERLY SICK of hairsticks.
I clearly need to diversify. I’m investing in half a dozen books, all on different techniques, and plan to make a piece in each, even if I don’t immediately fall for it…I need to think of new […]
In news that is not fun: my health is still causing a lot of trouble right now. But I have fun news as well! My supply order was made…and arrived sooner than expected! Not only that…I made my new work area! To do this I had to:
Move my piano.
Buy 3 bookshelves
Assemble the shelves
Buy a melamine […]
I only make orders from my main supplier once or twice a year, because shipping is VERY expensive (even the cheapest option) and the discounts are WAY better if you order in bulk. So I make giant orders to save on shipping and get nearly 50% off what the cost would be if I was […]
Well, I did actually do a set of floaters and I even tried a black and white clippie…but they’re not turning out as I’d like. I think I’m going to have to go with something a bit more unconventional. It’s VERY hard to make a clippie look anything but ‘cute’, and floaters mostly fit in […]
There really has been nothing to say, this month…until now.
I finally got my hair chopped off to a VERY short cut again (not that my hair was ever longer than just-above-the-shoulder) and it has increased my desire to make more short-hair accessories. Also, I turned 30 at the end of May this year, and […]
Etsy is STILL down. But at least I know the reason why. Etsy moved their servers to a new data center…which means that their IP addresses have changed. Some ISPs update daily on these things but others are slower, more like once a week. So anyone who has an ISP like […]
For the first time in a while I felt a bit excited about something I was going to list on Etsy…and Etsy has been down for the last five hours. I can’t get it to load at ALL, let alone log on. So I’m going to have to forgo listing today unless it comes back […]
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