Graveyard Glitter

As a cat person, I always loved Meowth. Even the villain Meowth. When it was time to find the right inspiration for this evolution family, I had to once again decide not to use the Alolan forms and just go with the classic. Meowth: When I found these white beads during my second time buying from radrockmama on Etsy, I also found these little 'scaredy-cats' that I knew would be better for Meowth than any other cat charm. They remind me of my sister's cat, so I might have been biased. The memory wire bracelet closes with a small magnet clasp. Persian: Since Persian has the same colors as Meowth, just with a different forehead jewel, I decided to copy the Parasect design using the white beads and cat charms, add some red beads I got for the Oddish family. This set is adorable, but unfortunately, I don't look that good in white. I'm sure someone will buy it. Maybe for Christmas.

I thought Diglett would be a simple  Pokémon to do. I was wrong. After struggling to find how to do things right with these, I eventually decided on this design. Diglett: The single brown bead is the color of Diglett's single head, while the gray beads are the rubble it sticks up from and the pink the same color of the nose. The brown and gray beads came from SofiasCottage on Etsy, the pink ones were left over from Clefairy and Jigglypuff. Dugtrio: The same brown head, gray rubble applies here, but, like Dugtrio being a 3-headed Diglett, there's even more. The wooden beads are from Hobby Lobby, and so are the tiny pink ones. This turned out cuter than I imagined it would when I first came up with it. 52 Pokémon in and this challenge is still going.

I've always thought Venomoth was pretty cool. I thought about making it into a hair bow instead, but I decided against it. Luckily, I still had stuff left over from the Caterpie family, so I only bought one more strand of beads for this one. Venonat: Venonat is just a simple purple hairball with big red eyes. The ovals were left over from the Butterfree necklace, and the red was left over from the Gloom bracelet and Vileplume necklace. Venomoth: One of my favorite bracelets ever, made with memory wire and a magnet clasp. The purple beads are new from ebay, and the butterfly beads are left over from the Butterfree necklace. This is one set that I want to keep, but I know that I should sell it. If I love it this much, I know somebody else will.

I love the Paras family. The cute little crab-insect-mushroom thing, the surprisingly creepy inspiration, Parasect being a zombie-crab-insect-mushroom thing. I just love Paras. Unfortunately, I have never actually used a Paras in any game, so I don't really know how useful it is in battle. But I can tell you this, it makes cute jewelry. Paras: A simple pair of earrings, using orange beads and mushroom charms that I bought from ebay. Parasect: This bracelet was a lot of fun to make. A simple pattern on a single loop of memory wire, with dangly mushroom charms and a magnet clasp. The camera can't capture how nice it looks in person. With this set, I have completed the first TV Tropes page of Generation 1 Pokémon. If I make it to Generation 2 is a question I ask myself whenever my funding gets short, but I made two surprise sales this week. The challenge is still going.

Despite things reopening now, I continue to shop online for beads and other necessary items to complete my challenge. I'm selling half of these sets on ebay, though not under Pokémon names for obvious reasons, taking advantage of their free listings. If my sales go well, I can keep buying beads until Kanto is done. If not, I can pause my challenge. My first-ever branched evolution, I made two versions of both Oddish and Gloom, and gave Vileplume and Bellossom different necklaces to finish it off. I needed to buy more beads for the second set, but I consider it worth it if I can sell both. Oddish: The beads came from ebay. I found that this was the best design, because it was simple, just like Oddish's design. I can even draw Oddish, and I have no drawing talent at all. Gloom: A stretch bracelet using ebay beads, just like Golbat's. Gloom's design is a little more complicated than Oddish's, but it was easy to do. Vileplume: This was th...

Wow, I'm behind. I know most players find Zubat annoying, but I have several reasons for loving this evolution family. 1. I love bats. I have a good memories involving bats, Halloween is my favorite holiday, and according to Pottermore, my patronus would be a bat. 2. My Crobat in Moon saved me from certain doom at the hands of both Guzma and Kahili. 3. I had a shiny one in Sapphire . 4. Human attachment to the unloved. It's not Mawile or Gallade or Eevee (my top 3 choices) and Lunala is a better bat Pokémon, but I felt I should give the Zubat family some respect. Zubat: I am so proud of how these earrings turned out. After being forced to abandon my original design because I didn't know the size of the bats I ordered first, these turned out even better than my original design. The purple beads came from Hobby Lobby clearance years ago, the blue ones from ebay (I think they're sold out now) and the bats are from the Etsy shop radrockmama . Golbat...

As I continued in my search for craft supplies for my Pokémon project, I ordered bats that were too big to make good Zubat earrings. They're still good for other designs, but not for what I wanted. So, I found this shop on Etsy, and gave it a try. I am so glad I did. Here's my haul video for YouTube: This shop sells what I like, not just what I can use to make stuff. Cute bats, the big Beetlejuice beads, the pendant...and other things that I wanted but am not making enough money to buy. Everything I bought is so cute, and if I ever get back to selling, I will probably come back to this shop. And it's in Minnesota, so it's even in the same country. The link to the shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/radrockmama?ref=add_to_cart_overlay&page=1