Help with photos

I'm creating this post to get some help with photos. I'm trying to photograph glass boxes with decorative interiors. I've constructed a light box, with an above light, and a light on each side, all otlites.



Here is how the pics are turning out. Very dark interiors, with glare from all other light sources.





Here is a shot with also using the flash on my camera. You can finally see inside the box, bit it's vary harsh.



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Yggdrasill

I'm working on a new box, and it seems it's just too darn small. I really didn't think this one out.
There's no way I'm fitting Asgardhr, Ljossalfheimr, Niflheimr, Jotunheimr, Svartalheimr, Muspellsheimr, Vanaheimer, Midhgardhr and Hel into a little 2" x 3" box. Not to mention all the wells, or the stags in it's branches, or the snakes in Hvergelmir.



Here is my wire Yddgrasill, in a little box with a water colored landscape behind.
I think I'm gonna have to set this box aside and work on a larger one. Oh this is gonna be a project.


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New Banner

Just whipped up a new banner for my shop, the old one wasn't cutting it.



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Slowly but surely

Oh how cool! I'm still figuring out all the neat little things to do on etsy.com, and today I visited the Storque Blog page. I was blown away when I saw one of my pieces on the front page. Too cool! You can check out the article here


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Yuletime!

I hope everyone had a splendid Yule. My mom sent me this amazing tree, a tall growth of spiraling black metal, very chic! And as this is the first year I've lived somewhere I actually had room for such a thing, she sent me boxes and boxes of splendid trinkets to suspend from it.



I've also been busy with more boxes. One a creamy collage of wax and paper and little metal treasures.



Another one that is a spunky use of some very strange shell parts that have been teasing me to use them in something for years.





And another encapsulating a grape vine beetle, Pelidnota Punctata.




I hope to have them up on Etsy sometime Monday.

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It's cold out there!

Brrrr! We've been waking up lately to a lovely coating of shimmering frost everywhere.



I finally finished a few of my boxes and got them put up on Etsy. They look very cute, and in one day have gotten more hits then any of my ornaments have in the weeks that they have been up.




I've gone through so much glass trying to learn how to cut, it's insane. I have a huge pile of shards, and just one remaining piece that is about 5" by 5". I need to go get more somewhere.




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Success!

Yay! So I was finally able to get some nice cuts in my glass. And thank goodness for the glass grinder, that thing saved me about three days worth of sanding glass by hand.



I'm pretty much just cutting the glass as close to size as I can get while leaving room for error, and then grinding them the rest of the way down.




And I really need to either get a temp control for my soldering iron, or a new one all together, cause I'm melting through my bits at an alarming rate. But at least I managed to get one piece done. It's pretty rough, and I'm probably gonna go back and touch up the solder, but it's nice to have at least one 'done'.



And it turned out really cute. A little eastern stink bug with some watch gears and paper. Small and cute and shiny.

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