Agnes Friday Y'all...

I've never really understood the whole "black friday" mania. I mean, I get that people want to save money & all that but then when I turn on the news & hear that some poor schmuck was trampled outside a Radio Shack 'cause he wanted $15 off a TomTom I find myself thinking...what the fuck is a TomTom?

Anyholidaymadness...I've decided to throw my creative genius to the sale zombies & do a Black Friday Sale at the Etsy shop.

It will begin on Midnight Thursday night & end at Midnight on Friday.

Get to it kids.

Here's what you do.

1. Go find a bauble you lurv.

2. Click Buy, or Add to Cart or whatever it says (come on people)

3. When it takes you to all the payment junk, it'll ask for a Coupon Code...enter BLACKAGNES (see what I did there?) & you'll get 15% off that bauble you were lurving.

4. That's it...the rest is up to me & my ability to ship things in a timely matter

Let the madness begin! No really, you should take advantage of this because after the Crafty Wonderland sale I may only have like 3 necklaces left & then you'll be pissed.

This is my crazy black friday sale picture.

My New Favorite Listing

Those of you that know me know I rarely ever do "little & simple"...It's just not in my repertoire. However, I found these little horsey charms at the last antique fair & challenged my need to GO BIG OR GO HOME and made THIS little bauble. Once it's gone, it's gone folks!

If you lurv it, you better snag it.

Busy Busy Busy...

I will now take a break from being "photographer" Agnes & be "bauble maker" Agnes. Deal with this.

I totally got in to

Crafty Wonderland.

Which is freakin' awesome & I'm waaaaay too excited for this. I've been busy people...no really, I've actually been doing stuff.

For example....I made freebies:

Over 300 to be exact. THREE HUNDRED. That's alotta buttons. Just sayin'...

All those bad boys will be handed out to the lucky first 150 shoppers on each day! Get there early...or come buy something from me ( I give the extras away with purchase). Me = awesome generous. For realz.

THEN. I made an ad to go in the Crafty promo guide they're putting in something like 40,000 copies of The Mercury. BAM. Mass advertising y'all!

You don't even have to tell me how cute that is...I totally already know.

Website Launched in 3, 2, 1...

Awwww yeah I built me a website. With the patient help of Lettuce Press' Allison & her awesome hubby, I was able to build THIS little gem. I also discovered that I am a horrible word-mixer-upper & have spent my whole life saying stupid crap wrong like "intensive purposes" & "detrius". I sincerely hope you are all entertained by this...

Anyway....

WWW.AGNESBAUBLES.COM

is officially here!

It's your one-stop shop for all your Agnes-made things.

The House I Couldn't Find...But Then Did & It Was Totally Awesome

Soooo lately my alter ego bauble making self has been making a lot of sparkly things. Rhinestones, crystals...you know, SPARKLY THINGS. Which I'm pretty sure chicks love...it's an Audrey Hepburn thing. Case in point:

Anyway BECAUSE I've been making all these sparkly things I decided I needed to do a bridal-esque shoot to showcase them.

Problem #1: I have no wedding dress. No, you weirdo, I'm not gonna go buy one 'cause that's creepy. I already have 2 birds & a cat. It doesn't take much for "eccentric" to turn into "oh god there's that bird lady who wears the wedding dress to the grocery store". Trust.

Problem #2: There's this house I found once that I reeeaaaally wanted to do the shoot at but I couldn't remember where it was. I even drove around for like 2 hours trying to find it. Alas...

I did, however, have an awesome model. I also happen to be her boss so I was all like "hey, wanna be a model?", and she was all like "yeah" because I'm super authoritative & stuff.

Problem #3: Said model has shorter hair...long hair is awesome so we decided that we would buy hair extensions. This made me uncomfortable. See below...

The day before the shoot I managed to find my little crooked house on google earth (thank you for this somewhat unsettling advance in technology, smart people) & was SO happy 'cause ohmygodthathouseisawesome.

Then...the dress. Well, I already have all these cute vintage slips & dresses so I just packed those then turned my attention to my tulle curtains in my closet. Then...because they were white & boring...I did this:

Sorry, those are totally my boobs at the bottom of the picture. Didn't notice til now.

EAT YOUR HEART OUT PEOPLE. Moving on...

I dyed them curtains a blush pink...

Then....the short haired model. I BOUGHT A WEAVE Y'ALL. Seriously. I bought a real human hair weave. It was a scarring experience to say the least. Mainly because all I can think is where the eff did they get the hair? Are there hair sweatshops with like baby Cambodian girls taking vitamins & shit? I don't want to know honestly.

I have a new found respect for all those reality show girls that have their weaves ripped out in fights though. That hair gets sewn on clips (I sewed them myself thankyouverymuch) then clipped in your hair. That HURTS to get ripped out. The price paid for beauty is steep folks...STEEP.

**Really feelin' the CAPS lock key today...

So once the house was found, the weave was purchased & clipped in, the dress was make-shifted & the necklaces were packed in the car, we did THIS:

We also took some more "everyday" wear shots which I am also particularly fond of...

As always, jewelry is available HERE...but my website is getting launched super duper soon so keep an eye out for that!

I Shot A Wedding.

A surprise wedding no less. No really, like people showed up for a BBQ & ended up watching a wedding. It was pretty cool.

Here are some of my fave shots...