Going live with some antlers...

Here it is finally. I've open up shop (again) with some antlers this time and as of now, I've got 6 to sell. For those of you wondering, these are naturally shed. No harm was done to the owners of these beautiful antlers. Hope you guys like them.



Here are a few of them with the back detail.

Creating Antlers....

More than a year ago, I bought a naturally shed antler. I had this idea that I was going to be making it into a jewelry stand or somehow attach it to the wall and be able to hang my necklaces from it. I had seen some on different websites and had pinned some on Pinterest as home decor. I loved the idea, but then it just laid there for a little while.

Once I finished working on the horsehair tassels, I started thinking that maybe I should just try and thread the antler that I had and just use it as a decoration since it was already sitting there on my table. When I was done with the threading, I thought I should hang it but I kept wondering if it was still missing something. That's when I came up with the idea of gilding it and I knew then that once I was done with the gilding, it would be complete. This was the final product. 

Antlers, the mighty thread and some amazing news..

Almost a year ago, I bought an antler at the Long Beach Flea Market with an idea in mind and unfortunately for it, it sat alone for a long big while...until I ended up threading it. Also almost a year ago, I bought horse hair and threaded my first tassel and ended up making some for friends. I got amazing comments on them and people asked me non-stop where I got mine or asked how I had done it. I let it be and never really did anything else with them until...

A while later, when I received a request from a store asking me if I would be willing to make some horse hair tassels for them. Today, I am happy to say that almost a year after the first one, this amazing store in San Diego decided to place an order for the horse hair tassels and now carries a few at both of their locations. Love and Aesthetics, thank you. 

Horse Hair Tassels...

A while back ago I saw a Baggu bag. Now this was not just any Baggu bag but a collaboration bag...with Fredericks and Mae. What came of that collaboration was these. I loved the bag but I really fell for the tassel. So much so that I set to find out what else they had and ended up here. The website is sublime and what they sell is amazing but oh so off my price point. Then I started thinking...maybe I could try and make some of those tassels for myself. I searched all over the internet for a place that would sell horse hair. I emailed some friends that are super crafty asking them if they knew where I could find horse hair and I even called my landlord who lives in an area that is surrounded by horses. Everybody gave me numbers to call and so I did but to no avail. Nobody was selling horse hair. I was bummed but figured somebody surely was selling some somewhere. I researched the internet a little bit more and found a link to a Martha Stewart DIY post regarding a horsehair tassel. Now this was not the kind of tassel I was looking to make but with the post came a link to where to buy horsehair and I happily clicked. I had finally found my horse hair which I happily bought. I made my first horse hair tassel and it looked ok but not amazing like I had dream of it being. So I put away everything and just kind of forgot about it until I showed the tassel to a friend at work two weeks ago. She told me it was nice and that she would buy one from me if I ever made more. Funny how things happen. I ended up picking back up my horse hair and trying to figure out how to make them look amazing. I even dyed one of them and in the process ended up with red fingers for a week. Since then I've had three friends ask me to make them one and I've happily obliged.

These are the ones I've made so far.