DMCAY Designz

Armageddon Oct Labour Weekend '09!

2009-11-22T18:55:00.000-08:00

Only a month late! Ah well my excuse is it was the week before exams =P
Over 40, 000 people through the doors over the 3 days, it was a really great experience and so many jewels found new homes!

Day 1:

First shot of the day, set up and ready to go!

Down the Collectors/Artists Lane~ Spot my table!

The day began a little slowly...everyone wondered why there was hardly anyone around! Later discovered they were all stuck in the MASSIVE line outside! People were waiting in the queue for hours I believe...but sales soon picked up!

The first necklace I sold was a Death Note~ then after that the Ninja themed necklaces went real quick!

Day 2:

Remembered to bring my camera when I went walkabout!

Me with emo spidey and spot lil Ninjabot!

Then got snatched by the Joker! His makeup was scary awesome!

See the bowl of $3 phone charms in the corner? Most popular things ever! Kept selling out of them so brought along my pliers and supplies to keep restocking!

Pacman necklaces go OM NOM NOM NOM

Day 3:

My friend Shani came to help me out~

And left with an adopted Ninjabot for herself =P

Phew! Was so tired by the end of the 3 days! Sold out of DeathNotes, Pacman and a few other styles so came home after each day to restock til the early hours of the morning everyday!

Some Happy Customers:

Spot the Pacman!

Spot the Shuriken!

Spot the Death Note ^^

My jewellery really fit with the Comic/ Sci fi/ Anime loving crowd in so well! Seeing the smiles light up peoples faces as they browse the stall, discovering new exciting goodies as they stare, watching them just makes me happy! ^_^

And the goodies I came home with! :

Ahh awesome times. Deff hope to be back again next year!

Hellooo Holidays!

2009-11-22T16:09:00.000-08:00

And so my summer holidays have begun! Free for 3 months to work on my business unless I can find me a summer job =P

It's so hard to believe my first full year of uni is over...only 2 more years and wow. I'd rather not think about it! For now I'll just live each day as it comes...

Firstly comes the first of the Christmas markets- Just past Saturday was Crafternoon Tea in Kingsland. I hope to be at the December one too; its at my cousins' old school, Mt Eden Normal Primary, where we spent a lot of time roller blading around the grounds in those days!

And coming up is the November Kraftbomb this Sunday!
Come along to do some early Christmas shopping, I'm hoping to get mine done too!

Study time again!

2009-10-27T03:25:00.000-07:00

Eeep!

Just realised I have neglected my blog for one whole semester! Whoops. That's a lot of Kraftbombs' I havn't documented as well has lots and lots of new jewels and Armageddon Expo 09 that need some posts!

I'll get on to it straight after exam time next week...wish me luck!

In the meantime, somehow I always have time to tweet! Follow me http://twitter.com/dmcay =)

Back to Uni!

2009-07-18T18:31:00.000-07:00

Wow that one month break sure flew by quick...back to study tomorrow, starting my Marketing 291 paper with an assignment on Michael Hill Jewellers which should be fun (plus > accounting..)

Polyvore is kinda addictive when you get the hang of it, heres what I plan to wear tomorrow hehe! Minus the hat which I'm still wanting and space invaders bag in place of cookie monster.

Whats even more awesome with polyvore is the feature to import your own items, so of course I added my signature guitar pick earrings, designed and made by me!

Plus can't forget my Staedtler Fineliner pens- note taking is so much more interesting in rainbow colours!

What I WANT right now!

2009-07-16T05:15:00.000-07:00

So decided to try out Polyvore! Taking me awhile to figure out and ages to find what I want but its a pretty nifty tool!

Tried to make an outfit but couldn't find what I wanted so instead here's a mash of what I really really want but can't afford as of yet!

Clockwise from right:

1. A fedora/trilby hat - Got one from my Grandad but its too big for me *tear*
2. Dr Martens - love the shocking blue but black would probably go with more...wouldn't mind cherry red either..just need some!
3. A cool umbrella - my $3 umbrella broke and a replacement would be nice in this horrible rainy weather right now.
4. Purple Skinny Jeans - Was weighing up between new black ones or purple ones at Jay Jays last week...black won then but I still want the purple heaps!
5. Rainbow Block tights from urbanoutfitters.com - I'm currently obsessed with patterned tights and these would fit my collection perfectly.
6. Another Transformers Tee - er well I already have 2 but none with Bumblebee goodness! (and plus I was running out of wants so its a good fill in XD)

...Nothing really goes together but its quite nice to just see my goals laid out nicely!
Now to start saving...

Teaser pics

2009-06-25T02:20:00.000-07:00

...So I somehow I've misplaced my camera and can't seem to find it anywhere! Which means so far I haven't been able to complete no.1 on my holiday list: Take good pics of my new perspex necklaces!

Here's some quick pics that I took awhile ago though. Just need better ones!

Plus some closer pics of the vintage bronze necklaces for you Annabelle :)

It's my birthday tomorrow! I'm turning 18! Exciting stuff! :P gonna get me a credit card + paypal account and try selling on ebay and etsy!

Tokyo Mater!

2009-06-12T21:20:00.000-07:00

Cars + Ninjas + Japanese = Total awesomeness!

Yay for May

2009-05-31T02:41:00.000-07:00

May Kraftbomb!

Becca manning the stall

V. Cheesy pic of me n the stall

Was quite crowded today but sales didn't really pick up till the last hour. Took the pics during a quieter bit though. Cuz slept over last night and we didn't get to sleep till 3am...which you can kinda tell from the very sleepy pics hehe.

Picked up some awesome button jewellery from Leila Loves Handmade!
Mines the red one, check out the cute gold heart!
Love our polka dot stud earrings too =D

Plus a real random pic of my fave leggings...got bored waiting to get picked up...
From Cast Couture

Finally....

2009-05-15T23:03:00.000-07:00

A few blurry camera phone pics from April Kraftbomb!

And announcing...

May Kraftbomb!

Will have a half table again, much easier to manage with my many assignments due ;D

See you there!

Jewel Time

2009-05-07T16:33:00.000-07:00

Just realised I havn't posted any of my own jewellery yet so here's a few of my recent cluster and charm necklaces

Took the day off today, so stormy and didn't feel like getting out of bed for 1hr to uni, 50mins of class then 1hr bus and 20min walk in the rain home again. So catching up on various procrastinations today.

Not gonna Raichu a love song today

2009-05-06T02:21:00.000-07:00

Hehe these are so awesome.
Normal people prob won't get these but I'm such a poke geek :P

Source: http://lulzhero.com/tag/im-not-gonna-raichu-a-love-song/

April Kraftbomb!

2009-04-22T02:38:00.000-07:00

Yay for K-bomb! Feels like its been ages since I missed last months!
Time to get crafting!

Craftstylish.com

2009-04-15T03:48:00.000-07:00

hehe only just found my Hot Rod Guitar Pick Earrings featured on Craftstylish.com almost a year ago in a short feature on felt.co.nz...happened to randomly google DMCAY Designz and it came up ^^.

That reminds me...I should really post more things up on Felt.

..after I finish my many assignments due...

About time I posted again....

2009-04-04T03:16:00.000-07:00

Wow. That was quick. It is now mid term/Easter break. The last time I posted I hadn't even started uni. This blogging thing isn't really going to work if I only write during the breaks...It's not like I've had nothing to write about, plenty has happened the last 5 weeks! Just nothing much on the business front coz I've been too busy to make new products and had to miss Kraftbomb for an AYS Orchestra concert.

And so I've survived 5 weeks! And so far I'm loving it :) Well most things anyway...
So here's some pros and cons...

Lovin':
1. Making lots of new friends! and lots of opportunities to advertise and give out business cards :P
2. Class content is pretty easy to follow and the assignments and tests so far have gone pleasantly well
3. Finishing classes before midday mostly
4. Business and Info Management Classes = fun lectures
5. Having all my lectures with the same small class (104 ppl)
5. Kiwi Asian Club! Awesome as fun!
6. Being able to still meet up with old school friends almost everyday :)

And the not so great:
1. Having to wake up at 6:30 everyday, as early as school days in order to catch a ride with my dad, brother and sister who all go to school/work in the city also. Even if I only start at 9 or 10am.
2. Living so far away from the city. Takes more than 2 hours travel time everyday.
3. Accounting and Stats = Not so fun lectures
4. Not being 18 yet. >.<
5. Not having a drivers license.
6. Having to explain to everyone why the website printed on my card doesn't work. (which is because it really needs a renovation and I can't afford both that and hosting at the mo)

Ok so none of the cons except 1 and 3 really relate directly to uni...but I still find them annoying in uni life. So really the directly related pros heavily outweigh the cons and prove I really am having fun! XD

I really should take photos of my black perspex necklaces and post them before the break is over...but I have a big business assignment to finish too... And also this post is getting rather long and it's midnight and I'm sleepy.

Teehee!

xox

Goodbye Summer hols, Hello Uni life =D

2009-02-28T20:02:00.000-08:00

EEEKKKK! Wow. 3 months of holidays, beaches, hanging out, movies, sleeping in, friendlies, jewellery making and generally lazing around have finally come to an end. Uni starts tomorrow! I'm going to be studying Business and Information Management which will hopefully teach me the skills I need to become a successful business woman. LOL!. or something like that anyway :P

Very exciting stuff!!!

But dreading having to wake up before mid-day again....

Ninjas are cool

2009-02-24T19:18:00.000-08:00

This song is stuck in my head right now! Can't get enough of nigahiga, his vids are crack up! Other faves are How to be Ninja, The Ipod human (so need to get me one :P) and the Twilight version of Movies in Minutes, Ryan actually makes a pretty convincing asian version of Edward Cullen....

On the ninja note, I sold my beloved Ninjabot necklace on Sunday! He was laser cut from black perspex with robot like limbs stuck on with various hardware.
He was my only one and unfortunately I didn't manage to take a very good photo of him...oh well I'll just have to make him a brother!

Feb Kraftbomb!

2009-02-22T21:39:00.000-08:00

Had a stall at my 3rd Kraftbomb yesterday! Went really well, sales were just as busy as the Christmas Kraftbomb. Muchly needed to pay for upcoming Uni costs...textbooks are so expensive and I still need to pay off my laptop. Made a friend from japan buying pressies to take back home, my cousin and I are huge japanese drama nuts so practiced a bit of japanese with her....knew all those hours watching dramas would pay off! (literally!)

But it really was unfortunate being around so many tempting goods, I came home with an lovely rocket badge and owl from Niella and Bee, a very cool pikachu (or pichu?) from Alex and a set of Pacman badges from 5D. The latter is justifiable though, really needed to funkify my ugly laptop backpack....couldn't be seen walking around with it bare really...

Forgot to take pics of the stall but here are my awesome purchases:

Much improved but still needing something to cover those yucky grey panels...

Rocket Badge on my cardi, owl and pikachu

Can't wait till next time as always!

Greetings everybody in blogger land

2009-02-22T01:15:00.000-08:00

Well I've been meaning to start a blog for awhile before my website comes back and am finally getting over my procrastination by writing this post!
So hi all, I'm Danielle the creator of DMCAY Designz, running my small jewellery business in between school life. I make unique, quirky and cool jewellery of many varieties, designed to be easy to throw on to idividualise any outfit. My favourite materials are found objects, brass charms, laser cut acrylic, polymer clay and especially the ever popular Guitar Picks! Result? A combination of fun and one-of-a-kind designs all 100% handcrafted with love :D
Recently I have also expanded to brooches, magnets, pouches and earring holders to compliment my jewellery and am planning to expand my accesories line so stay tuned for more.

I hope to have fun updating this blog with new products and fun happenings of life and hope you enjoy my creations and I.