Starting up "Let A Girl"

I am on a journey of starting a small business of my own called Let A Girl.  It's mostly jewelry I make from antlers but also crafts I make using the theme of the outdoors and hunting.  I am prepping to sell for the upcoming Farmers Market in my area, and have a lot of positive feed back on it so far.  

This is my barn, my workshop.  The one place I can make a crazy mess and don't get into too much trouble for it.  I slide this big door open and I am lucky enough to over see the beautiful Shiawasee River.  The ducks and geese are so loud in the morning.  I love it.   

This is my little desk area that I sit and do the more detailed work and some of the thinking.

Here is my ancient work bench.  In the center is the oldest vice known to mankind (jk).  It does the jobs I need done though.  I use so many old and even antique tools.  I get most of my tools from garage sales.

This is a few of the displays I have made for my antler rings and bracelets.  I love "rustic" so I really like the looks of these. 

One of my most favorite bracelets I have made is this one I call "Hunting Is Forever".  It is wooden beads, with a silver feather and silver arrow with a silver womens wedding ring set hanging in the middle.  

Other items I make that I keep in the natural, rustic, hunting theme is pallet signs and wall displays for you to hang your stuff from.  Sometimes I put antlers on them to hang a coat or hat from. 

This is a bracelet I made that has a teardrop piece of antler with crossing arrows burned into it. 

And the antler rings I make.  This is my personal set.  I have made so many rings of all sorts of designs.  I was recently featured in Girls Guns and Rods magazine for my Antler Ring Crafting.


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Girls, Guns & Rods Magazine

I was so lucky to be asked to be in the magazine called Girls, Guns And Rods Magazine.  I have been doing all kinds of crafts and projects all my life and to be noticed and recognized has been a real honor. I love making things with my hands whether its the Antler rings, refinishing old "junky" furniture into something new, or out in the barn building a new deer blind or Duck house, I just love to be doing something and creating something thats all a style of my own.

This is the May-June 2015 Issue

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The Gun Case Redo!

This is the finished product, with my Let A Girl Show You How To Hunt And Fish decal on it!

This is the before of the gun case.  It was an old nasty brown color.  I cleaned it very good with an all purpose cleaner and let it dry.  After it was Dry I sprayed it with a dark teal spray paint.  I sprayed it in many coats because I did not want to take the chance of running paint.  

I feel like it turned out really well.  It's loaded up with my "goods" and moving it around and opening and closing it has not caused any scratches or peeling.

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Antler Jewelry

Alls a person needs is a decent size antler, chop is into small sections, use a dremel to hollow out the center, and change your bits as you go to smooth it out and take the rough edges off.

These are a few of the pieces I have made using Whitetail antlers.

I have made tons of rings, but also have made a few necklaces and beads.

A few of my finished products.  It is a messy, dusty, and very stinky project but its very easy and you will amaze yourself with what you can come up with.

Here you can see pieces of antler in different stages of the dremeling process.

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