Phat Hemp Jewelry Blog

My Holiday Supply Order Is Here!

Phat Hemp — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 21:46:21 +0000

Holidays are great and all, but the real treat for me is gearing up for the holiday jewelry order rush, which means I get to order all sorts of supplies. It’s been awhile since I’ve ordered from Firemountaingems.com, mostly because it’s better to wait until you need a ton of stuff before your order.

The main reason to wait is because Fire Mountain Gems has several different price tiers. The more units you order, the lower the price is per item. This discount is applied through an all-assortable setup, which means that anything you add to your order is counted towards the next price tier. This allowed me to pick up about 10 extra bead strands for practically nothing, so now I have a bunch of new stones I’ve never worked with before. They’re mostly on the neutral and earthy color scale, with riverstone, moss agate and feldspar chief among them.

As you might notice from the picture, I also stocked up on Hemptique hemp. My colored hemp twine is still fine stock wise, but I was running brutally low on my .5mm brown and black strands, as well as regular 20lb black hemp. That’s all taken care of, at least through the holiday season.

In other news, I’m going to be opening the Etsy shop back up from the middle of November through February, for those of you who preferred the Phat Hemp Etsy shop. When I was getting this site / store established, it was somewhat difficult to run the inventories side by side. I’m going to be putting up the made-to-order pieces on Etsy as well as here, although I believe I’m keeping my one of a kind items over here, for inventory tracking simplicity.

I will be working on pieces over the weekend, so expect to see new jewelry going up soon. I know it’s been awhile, but trust me, these holiday pieces are worth the wait. I’ve got crazy knots, wild colors and new handmade lampwork beads making appearances.

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Finished with my book proposal!

Phat Hemp — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 16:07:54 +0000

Eric helped me out with the step by step tutorial photography I needed to get done before I could send out the book proposal with my projects. I just spent the morning editing the photos and it’s all day. Finally, phew. Now it’s time to send out the proposal package, cross my fingers, and make an attempt at patiently waiting to hear back from the publishers.

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New Hemp Jewelry and the Search for Eco-Friendly Packaging

Phat Hemp — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 15:13:24 +0000

So I finally had a full day to bang out some hemp jewelry – the last couple of batches I had were either mushroom necklaces or more complicated stuff, so I added in a batch of the sweet and simple for those of you looking for the understated and cool look. The beads featured are either one of a kind or brand new to the store, so you’ll be getting plenty of eye candy. Click here to see all the new shiny things.

The other thing that I’ve been doing is looking for some new eco-friendly packaging. It doesn’t exactly make sense to make a sustainable, eco-friendly piece of jewelry if the packaging is wasteful, after all. The bubble mailers are pretty good on that account, as the outer shell is kraft material which decomposes fairly quickly. It’s just the plastic and paper wrapping I’m using that’s giving me cause for concern. I have finally found a site that does eco-friendly packaging that looks good and doesn’t require me to pay for 1000000 units at once. The company is called Nashville Wraps and it has a line of packaging called Green Way.

So it looks like I’m going to replace my cello bags with compostable, biogradable plastic, organic cotton ribbon, natural fiber organza bags (my favorite discovery) and recycled kraft gift boxes. Yay for new packaging.

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So I Went to Anthrocon

Phat Hemp — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 17:11:52 +0000

This is one of the most interesting experiences I think I’ve had lately. My friend ended up inviting Eric and I to come hang out at Anthrocon in Pittsburgh. I might not be a furry but I certainly appreciate the insanely good art that comes from them, so I was rather excited to go. I saw all sorts of handmade stuff there, a few people off Etsy, and plenty of Deviant Art folks. It was great, and it makes me wonder if I should grab a booth and sell some jewelry there next year. It would certainly be entertaining.

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New Shrooms and New Office

Phat Hemp — Sat, 01 May 2010 20:05:25 +0000

It’s time for a lot of new things at Phat Hemp Jewelry. The weather is heating up, so it’s prime time to show off some great handmade hemp jewelry. All made to order bracelets can also be crafted in anklet length, at a small additional cost. Just look under the bracelet options!

So we’ve recently moved (and for those of you waiting for your orders, thank you for your patience, everything was sent out on Thursday). So I have an actual half an office and studio setup. Here’s a quick pic of where all the jewelry gets made at

I’ve also picked up some new mushrooms – these batches are from Duste and SaysJodi.

Finally, I have two new mushroom necklaces up featuring my two favorite shrooms out of the whole bunch.

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New Mushrooms and Other Supplies

Phat Hemp — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:37:07 +0000

So I’m almost out of mushrooms pendants, and I needed to grab some from new and old suppliers. The mushroom above is from a new supplier for me, FireLily and it’s a very cool looking boro shroom. Not exactly my standard enclosed fare, and that’s why I like it so much.

For a supplier that I’ve used before, Australian lampwork artist Saylesjodi is sending some more of those big, phat, and awesome lampwork mushrooms my way.

And in the non handmade but still cool supplies section, I have finally found another mykonos greek bead supplier, Linden Avenue Designs.

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25 New Pieces in the Phat Hemp Store

Phat Hemp — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 02:26:38 +0000

I’ve managed to figure out enough of my new camera to get half of the new inventory up – check out the Phat Hemp Jewelry Store for new shrooms, bracelets, vegan hemp jewelry, and more.

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Phat Hemp Yearly Inventory Completed

Phat Hemp — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 03:20:43 +0000

I’ve finally gotten through the reinventory process – something I probably should have done awhile ago. Ordering is back up on Phathemp.com, so if you were holding off by all means head on over. Eric got me an awesome camera for Christmas, so if you see the pictures changing around on the pieces you’ll know what’s going on. Also, I found out that I have a whole boxful of pieces that I haven’t gotten around to photographing, so you’ll be seeing plenty of new pieces coming your way starting in 2010! And of course I’ll be adding new pieces regularly (much more regularly than 2009, that’s for sure). Happy New Year’s!

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Any orders between November 9th – November 15th might be delayed

Phat Hemp — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:04:30 +0000

I discovered last week, after a particularly painful ER visit, that I have a large gallstone and my gallbladder must come out. I am getting it done laproscopically, so in theory I shouldn’t be down and out for long – but just in case, I wanted to let everyone know ahead of time, and I’m expecting to be able to at least sit up enough to craft by the 15th. Should this change I’ll let you all know – and sorry for being so quiet lately, but it was mostly due to the frequent attacks I was getting that was killing my sleep – I hope to bring you a ton of great new designs for the holiday season!

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All About Bali Beads

Phat Hemp — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 23:41:26 +0000

Usually when I incoporate metal beads into my hemp pieces, I prefer to use bali and hill tribe silver beads. These are the same or better silver content than sterling silver beads (.925 to .999), but there is one particular aspect of them that has me choosing them constantly. Well there’s a few reasons – I love the weight that they add to a particular piece, and it also works great for making more men’s jewelry pieces. However my main reason is that these pieces are made by hand in Bali, Indonesia, and you can see the detail in each piece. The Karen Hill Tribe beads are in much the same boat, although with those I’m typically getting their intricate focal pieces instead of spacers. These types are also the ones that tend to have the closer to fine silver content (.999).

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