Moon Lit Rose Crafts

crafting with yarn, stone, and met

[moonlitrosecrafts]

Thank you for coming by my page. I specialize in jewelry in multiple disciplines and crochet. My personal website is here:

Right now it is mostly collaborative stuff with my friend and mentor, Lihirielle, whose health prevents her from going on shows herself anymore, and since the pandemic, won't stop painting. Though currently up are the things that make sense to bring to a giant permanent booth at a Renaissance fair and not what I can shove onto my sedan on a single trip. More are being added as I edit the pictures.

I also have a store on goimagine.com here:

Shops :: Moon Lit Rose Crafts

I also still have up an etsy store that will probably be the easiest channel to initiate a custome order that isnt through email, not that etsy actually supports small artists anymore, here:

MoonLitRoseCrafting - Etsy

Shop Hand crafted, Crochet, Stone beads, bronze, Copper by MoonLitRoseCrafting located in Cedar Park, Texas.

You can also find me on Instagram @moon.lit.rose.

And on pinterest here:

Moon Lit Rose Crafts (moonlitrosecraft1299) - Profile | Pinterest

Moon Lit Rose Crafts | Starting a store focused on yarn crafts and stone and metal jewelry. Still setting up stock, but I have some examples

I'm the only one managing these so let me know if you run into any problem and I will address it.

And if you are scammer, please just move on. I used to be the front facing technical support person for a major company for years and, while my customer service training might demand I be nice and engage with random messages, I still keep up to date on current scam formats. All you will do is get an evidence file made against you and forwarded to the appropriate authorities.

To everyone else, what this means is that my sales are through my website, goimagine and Etsy only,and if I have to create a custom sales entry for an item for you, I will do so, through those platforms.

Anyhow, enjoy my blog!

[moonlitrosecrafts]

Some success on the 3d print scene. I have managed to get my rings to print out so that they are consistently off up and down the sprue tree, which means I can now adjust in program and make them the right size. In theory. Next step is to finish cleaning everything up and actually seeing how well this works out. After a 2 week break of trying to un-jank the shoulders because nerve pinches suck but heating pads are nice.

[moonlitrosecrafts]

So this is the +1.5 sec exposure from Siraya techs default settings for elegoo saturn ultra 3 showing as a size 6.5 instead of 7. And the -1.5 sec exposure not showing much better. What the middle pictures show are the fact that the +1.5 second one is showing that one side is thinner than the other. This would be the angle my sprue tree has the rings at, so now im going to repeat this test right side up as Matrix Gold defaults it and see if it makes a difference. Yay to another 5+ hours of printing. Good thing no one is fighting me for use of the saturn ultra 3 @asmblyaustin in the time booking program right now 🙃

#atx #cad #cad3d #jewelerycad #lostwaxcasting #3dprinting #3dresin #elegoo #elegoosaturn3ultra #sirayatechresin

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After deep thought, the low exposure setting that should result in the size accurate continuing to fail with multiple prints, and considerations for casting shrinkage anyways, I am instead going to aim for consistently a half size off because if I can do that, it is a simple matter adjusting the ringsize in matrix and saving the exposure settings.

Now im going to see if the neighbors shoot a firework through my window while setting up my next print test.....

[moonlitrosecrafts]

So I've been busy but forgetting to post to tumblr.... TL:DR changing the print im using to test.

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So yeah, my efforts are leading to throwing the the default, over exposed, and under exposed settings version of a ring of standard dimensions on a build plate, spend 6 hours printing them all, and throwing them on a ring mandrel to figure out which one is closer to the correct ring size. Which i should have done months ago, but my fellow classmate was able to get it to show right on his printer so i have no idea what I was doing wrong.

[determined-mind-deactivated2025]

[girlwhorpsalot]

I needed this.

[mentalmentalhealth]

Thank you to all the people who posted this so I ended up seeing it. I really needed this right now. Thank you!

[aro-ace-christian]

Yeah… Not gonna lie… I cried…

[muslimintp-1999-girl]

We need more people like this

[armillary-spheres-lover]

Goddamn it stop making me feel human

[dreamsrainandwitchythings]

The therapist I wanna be.

[positivelyqueerace]

Text in the image:

“I’m a therapist and keep this poster in my waiting room, apparently it’s saved a few lives.”

I don’t like the phrase “a cry for help.” I just don’t like how it sounds. When somebody says to me, “I’m thinking about suicide. I have a plan: I just need a reason not to do it,” the last thing I see is helplessness.

I think your depression has been beating you up for years. It’s called you ugly, and stupid, and pathetic, and a failure, for so long that you’ve forgotten that it’s wrong. You don’t see any good in yourself, and you don’t have any hope.

But still here you are: you’ve come over to me, banged on my door and said, “HEY! Staying alive is REALLY HARD right now! Just give me something to fight with! I don’t care if it’s a stick! Give me a stick and I can stay alive!”

How is that helpless? I think that’s incredible. You’re like a marine: trapped for years behind enemy lines. Your gun has been taken away, you’re out of ammo, you’re malnourished, and you’ve probably caught some kind of jungle virus that’s making you hallucinate giant spiders.

And you’re still just going, “GIVE ME A STICK. I’M NOT DYING OUT HERE.” “A cry for help” makes it sound like I’m supposed to take pity on you, but you don’t need my pity. This isn’t pathetic. This is the will to survive. This is how humans lived long enough to become the dominant species.

With NO hope, running on NOTHING, you’re ready to cut through a hundred miles of hostile jungle with nothing but a stick, if that’s what it takes to get to safety.

All I’m doing is handing out sticks.

You’re the one saying alive.

[ultimate-science-nerd]

I legit cried at this. I’ve needed to hear it put this way. Bless this post.

[tea-rabbits]

Every time I see this post I stop to read the whole image. It always helps — even on the good days.

Because it wasn’t weakness. It wasn’t shameful to seek help. It wasn’t pathetic to “cry for help”. I was looking for a stick, be that from myself or from someone else. I was trying to find a way out. I was trying to heal myself.

[aurora-nerin]

this is fuckin incredible. 

[irondad-not-ironsad]

I’m sorry if I repost to many of these, but if it could be someone’s “stick” then it’s worth it

[imfemalewarrior]

For anyone that needs to read this today. 

-FemaleWarrior, She/They 

[rosered3-deactivated20240912]

They also have this one and I think quite a few others but these two I keep on my phone and pull up on my bad days.

[mythigal1966]

Text on second poster:

‘WHY ARE YOU SO LAZY?’

But you’re not lazy. Lazy is when you shrug things off because you can’t summon up the give-a-damn. When you’re curled up tight in your chair at your desk, alone and grey and desperately wishing that you had your life in order, that you did all those things you had to do, that it didn’t feel like breaking rocks just to feed and clothe yourself and get some sleep, that’s not lazy.

People don’t understand. You tell them “It’s hard.” They tell you “No it isn’t, you’re just lazy.”

You start to wonder if they’re right.

is breaking those rocks easy for everyone else? Are they that much stronger than you?

They don’t look like they’re struggling.

“Just try harder,” they say. But you’re trying. It’s not working.

Breaking boulders in your path until you’re spent isn’t lazy. And you do it day after day after day.

You’re not lazy. Most people don’t have those rocks to break. They don’t even know what it’s like to have to break rocks to get things done. They don’t understand how hard you have to work, and how hopeless you can feel, when you try and fail to do what they do so easily. Things are harder for you. They really are. And if those people had to deal with your problems, they wouldn’t be doing any better.

You’re not lazy. You’re not weak. You’re fighting hard. I guess I just want you to know that I know that.

[moonlitrosecrafts]

So I belive i finally have the right setting for both the temp of the castable resin and the exposure setting; I just need to have time because everything got busy in the personal life. 😵‍💫

But I shall soon have one major inhibitor for getting work done efficiently: a new car! Or at least a new to me, only mine, car. 🥳

Will it likely try to melt me because it's painted black? Yes. But that is only motivation for me to work towards saving for a wrap with my business information on it!

Also, I'll be spending the summer working on product for the christmas crush, but I think I am going to sell some things sitting in my parent's storage unit at thrift markets till they are gone. They take a lot of space, so I'm going to keep working on getting pictures up of the product that I have so I can try and get movement there, but at least someone will be ae to appreciate those dresses and ceramics.

[moonlitrosecrafts]

So anyone following my Instagram knows that i have been trying to figure out what settings i should use for my resin and mostly come up with mixed results for calibration results.

I have done the calibration print with normal resin and the printer z height is fine, it's ability to run exposure is fine, and it is not defaulting to punching the bottom of the tray out. So the issue is with my resin. So I now have a little hot plate and a lazer thermometer to test with. And, after making sure the resin was at 26 C, did a print with the default settings. Nope. Going to try 35 C next time with default settings for that resin and then go from there.

[moonlitrosecrafts]

I hate that I am expecting phone calls and have to pick up what ends up being spam calls.

[moonlitrosecrafts]

While nothing approaching the big freeze a few years ago, the fact that there is any ice sticking is an indicator that the only people going to be out driving are northerners who don't know what the big deal is, and idiots who drive like it's the end of the world in mild rain conditions. This is why we stock up beforehand, and make fun of ourselves for it when often this doesn't happen even when predicted. And why this is enough to trigger a snow day for school systems.

Stay safe y'all.

And don't kill the power grid!

#austin #austintexas #coldweather #texasinwinter #snow #ice #snowday

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[moonlitrosecrafts]

No more moisture overnight, so everything is mostly normal up here in austin. The cleric/rouge duo appears to be stuck in Houston though. Stay safe!

[moonlitrosecrafts]

While nothing approaching the big freeze a few years ago, the fact that there is any ice sticking is an indicator that the only people going to be out driving are northerners who don't know what the big deal is, and idiots who drive like it's the end of the world in mild rain conditions. This is why we stock up beforehand, and make fun of ourselves for it when often this doesn't happen even when predicted. And why this is enough to trigger a snow day for school systems.

Stay safe y'all.

And don't kill the power grid!

#austin #austintexas #coldweather #texasinwinter #snow #ice #snowday

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[theweepingtimelord]

Lembas Bread (Lord of the Rings “authentic” Elvish bread)

Ingredients: 

 2 ½ cups of flour 1 tablespoon of baking powder ¼ teaspoon of salt ½ cup of butter 1/3 cup of brown sugar 1 teaspoon of cinnamon ½ teaspoon honey 2/3 cup of heavy whipping cream ½ teaspoon of vanilla

Directions:

Preheat oven to 425F. Mix the flour, baking powder and salt into a large bowl. Add the butter and mix with a well till fine granules (easiest way is with an electric mixer). Then add the sugar and cinnamon, and mix them thoroughly.

Finally add the cream, honey, and vanilla and stir them in with a fork until a nice, thick dough forms.

Roll the dough out about ½ in thickness. Cut out 3-inch squares and transfer the dough to a cookie sheet.Criss-cross each square from corner-to-corner with a knife, lightly (not cutting through the dough).

Bake for about 12 minutes or more (depending on the thickness of the bread) until it is set and lightly golden.

***Let cool completely before eating, this bread tastes better room temperature and dry. Also for more flavor you can add more cinnamon or other spices***

[bonesmakenoise]

as someone who has baked these A LOT

They are REALLY GOOD

and I am reblogging this because I KEEP LOSING MY RECIPE 

[moonlitrosecrafts]

To forward to the bakers in my family

[moonlitrosecrafts]

I'm the sort of neuro divergent that tries to a) rescue $100+ of acrylic flowers beads because i already lost the storage furniture to the cats, I ain't loosing the contents, and b) purposefully goes through and sniffs small hand fulls of the acrylic flowers post full decontamination process to ensure they realy don't smell like cat pee in the cat free room that had been flower candle bombed previously for palette cleansing purposes while watching air disasters.

But hey my cleaning proccess is successful because only three of the acrylic peices is going to be needed to be burned out!

[moonlitrosecrafts]

After christmas I will go back to updating my website with individual pictures of different items and venture away from mystery bag style of order form that works when in person but not online. I will also reformat my crochet placemat and coasters to be individually purchased because I was lied to and no one wants sets. Not even the grannies.

Otherwise, the austin market scene just proved that being a native austinite who has lived in austin the majority of my life is not austin enough to make sales when direcrtly competing against buy/sellers at a craft and artisian market.

[moonlitrosecrafts]

My last show of the season @vibeartisanmarkets @distributionhall ! And then I shall sleep for a week or two before going back to posting everything online.

I will be having, in person, on Lihirielle's pendants as this time next year the goal is to be able to have all her work on pendants I've designed and cast myself, as well as her mini flower pots as we have learned that this is not the decorative pot size people want for flowers despite being toddler and cat resistant. Tossed around, knocked a table onto a hard surface, have the entire display slip off a table, these flower pots are great for small plants where you want the soil to stay in the pot. They just happen to be shot glass size!

Also, bundle and save on crochet kitchen sets. The sets I made as sets because of course, people still buy sets like that. I should have known better.

See you Saturday!

#jewelry #atxartist #crochet #lostwaxcasting #handpainted #handmadejewelry #smallbusiness #smalls #christmas #christmasmadness #christmasmarket #gifts #giftsforher #giftsideas #uniquegifts #christmasgifts

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[moonlitrosecrafts]

First up BlackFriday and Small business Saturday with @originalaustinflea @stillatx.

(If anyone is going to be at @accdistrict highland campus on Wednesday the 4th, I will have a limited selection at a table near the @accjewelry @accfashionincubator departments as apparently of the ACC student and alumni craft sale)

On December 7th I will be @oldtaylorhigh with @taylormarketdays pictures with Santa will be avalible

Rounding off will be with @vibeartisanmarkets @distributionhall after which I shall enter myself into a coma and will emerge again sometime in the new year.

I am also starting a sale on the painted pendants as Lihirielle is transitioning from the mass produced, mystery metal pendant bases to small batched pendant bases produced by me! Though full new inventory for that will likely be some time nearer to next christmas as I am using either myself or local casting houses that are smaller casting operations.

And remember, i am happy to do custom peices in general, but that will be something for after the new year, now.

See you soon!

#atxartist #crochet #lostwaxcasting #jewelry #handpainted #handmadejewelry #smallbusiness #artistmarket #atx #popupmarket #smallbusinesssaturday #shopsmall #teamsmalls #christmasmadness #holidaymadness #christmas #hanukkah #festivus #gladimnotbigboxretail #wehaveinteredtheappropriatetimeforchristmasmusic

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[mysterybones]

If it sounds like the composer is trying to blast you with the orchestra until you're as deaf as he is, it's Beethoven.

If it sounds like the composer might be a vampire, it's Bach.

If it sounds like the composer is trying to set the violins on fire, it's Vivaldi.

[frenshaped-deactivated20241222]

If it sounds like the composer is trying to shoot you, it's Tchaikovsky.

If it sounds like the composer is mansplaining to you, it's Wagner.

If it sounds like the composer is making fun of you, it's Mozart.

[realgoogleclassroom]

If it sounds like the composer is being a father figure to the music itself, it's Haydn

If it sounds like the composer is playing Star Wars 60 years early, it's Holst

If it sounds like the composer is trying to incite a riot, it's Stravinsky

[moonlitrosecrafts]

This Saturday, is will be with @originalaustinflea at the @zilkerbeer with @austinpetsalive for their Tail of Lights market. See you there!

Barking song because evidently we are now to be subject to non stop christmas music.#atxartist #crochet #lostwaxcasting #jewelry #handpainted #handmadejewelry #artistmarket #popupmarket #

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