Looking for more craft ideas!

So I made one more letter (slow, I know)... an E!

I've been messing around with colors and toying with the idea of listing color versions of my letters.  Then I think... they're not selling in black and white, which I think is a beautiful contrast and therefore the best version, so why pay for additional listings in color that probably won't sell either?

At this point, I'm thinking I'll just play around making whatever I want and enjoy making, instead of focusing on sales (which are nonexistent, lol).

I'm super interested in trying my hand at embroidery hoop art or mixed media hoop art (which involves little to no embroidery, if I end up sucking at embroidery).  Hoop art is just so darn pretty on the wall, especially in little groupings of multiple pieces of art.  May or may not actually try it, I'm just thinking as I type here.

I really do LOVE making the zentangle letters, but it's disheartening when nobody shows any interest in them.  I, personally, think they're gorgeous, but my opinion doesn't mean much, being the creator of them and all. :)

Here are a couple of my trials with color:

More New Letters

Tried out some different patterns on these letters... the curly pattern in particular intimidated me a bit.  Plus I waited until I'd almost completed the letter to try it for the first time on the M, so if I jacked it up, I would've wasted a TON of time on that letter.  Luckily I liked how it turned out.  Then I had more fun doing the same pattern on the J. :)

I want to do a LOT more letters, but they take so freakin' long and I want to continue to enjoy drawing, not feel like it's a chore, so I might mix it up with non-letter drawings from time to time instead of cranking through all the letters all at once.  Whew!  That was one helluva sentence right there.  Total run-on.  Do I care?  Nope.  It's MY blog and I'll do what I want to!

New Letters, No Sales :(

Soooo... I still haven't sold a single drawing!  Business is BOOMING.  Obviously not.  I have sold a couple of sets of bottle cap magnets in the past month, but that's not all that exciting.  How hard is it to glue a magnet to a bottle cap?  Okay, I do a little more than that... I fill the cap with sealant and let it dry for a day or two and THEN glue the magnet to the hardened sealant so that the magnet's not lost down inside the cap, but seriously... anybody can do this.  Yet it's the one and only thing in my shop lately that anybody wants to purchase.  I want to sell the things that take me time and that I LOVE making.

I added a couple of new letters today: L and S.  I thought I was randomly picking letters, but it appears I've now made my four initials (first, middle, maiden, and last) without consciously meaning to.  Does that mean I'm self obsessed?  I didn't think so, but gravitating towards your own initials might possibly perhaps indicate that.  Oops.  Oh well.  Hey!  If you can't love yourself, why would anybody else want to??  Eh?  Eh?  Didn't think you had an answer to that one.  Yeah.
I'm thinking next I'll do O, H, E, I, R (in no particular order).  I would ask for requests, but nobody reads this blog!

For my ghost readers - here are my two newest letters:

Zentangle Letters!

I've now discovered that I love a form of drawing called "zentangle"... or would that be zentangling?  I'm new to it, so I don't know anything about it except that it looks cool, you must have a steady hand and extreme focus, and it takes FOREVER.  Normally I'm not a fan of things that take forever, but the awesomeness of this just completely overrides any thought of time.  I'll draw for an hour and think it was 15 minutes.  And really, this shit is beautiful.  Or maybe I'm just really full of myself.  Either way, I'm happy with it!! :)

As you can see, these are clearly letters.  I'm thinking they'll look cool as a unique and funky way to spell out a baby's name over a crib in place of those overused letter blocks hanging from ribbon.  Examples:

I don't know about the rest of the world, but I'm tired of seeing letter blocks hanging over cribs from cutesy ribbons.  I want something different!  (If I ever have a need for announcing a baby's name over a crib, that is.)  

The zentangle letters I'm drawing will be printed on 65 lb linen stock, which has a really cool texture to it.  They're 8 x 10, so perfect for framing in standard frames (no expensive frame jobs), and they're the perfect size for lining up in that empty wall space in a kid's room! 

Another way I'm thinking they'd be cool is to spell out the family name over the fireplace or other location OR a cool dorm room decoration... just initials or a full name on the dorm room wall.  Spiffy! :)  

Yeah, I'm trying to sell my art here, but I truly do believe these are awesome ideas and that the letters themselves are awesome... I definitely plan to use them in my home.