Will necklace

My mom bought this before I could put it online, haha. I made it with sterling silver chain, wire and clasp, faceted glass beads and a metal pinecone charm.

Meg necklace

I made this for Meghan for her birthday. All metal is sterling silver, the beads at the clasp are glass and the pendant is a Czech crystal. It's a nice piece of bling! :)

Upcoming Holiday Sales!

[envelope seals by KisforCalligraphy]

Hello hello,
just wanted to give you a heads up on the sale that will be on in my Etsy shop from November 15 - December 15.

Between those dates, if you buy 2 items or more you will get free shipping: either let me know before you make your purchase and I will adjust the listings, or I will refund you through Paypal afterwards. Buy three items or more and you get %10 off your purchase, the same method as above.

I always wrap items so that they are ready for gift-giving, and I can include a gift tag with "to & from" at your request. I can also ship purchases/gifts directly to the recipients. Please leave any such requests in the "message to seller" space upon checkout. If you want your purchase sent directly to the recipient, please enter their address while checking out on Etsy as well as making a note about this, including their address, in the "message to seller." Failing to do so may result in your package being sent to the wrong address or in delayed shipment. Purchases may only be sent out to one address.

I will also be participating in the Free Worldwide Shipping sale on Etsy between Black Friday and Cyber Monday (Nov. 27-Nov. 30), so any purchases made during that time will automatically get free shipping.

As always, feel free to contact me with any questions!
Hope you are all staying cozy.
xxo.

Pumpkins and Sales and Love

I am terribly disorganized these days and have neglected to blog about many things that I meant to. Maybe I will get to them later - in the meantime, I would like to let you know that there are many new shiny things in my shop, and even better, I have a sale on right now! I lost my job a couple weeks ago due to restructuring and don't have a new one yet. What better time to hold a sale? It's a great time to snap up something for yourself or buy a few gifts for your loved ones for the holidays. Hop on over to the shop to check it out.

Birthday Presents!

I couldn't share the photos before as the gifts hadn't been received yet. But now they have! So photos of some earrings I made for friends' birthdays are now on flickr.

Star Princess

Star and I did a handmade exchange: here is what I sent her.






[sterling silver, freshwater pearls, Czech glass]

My surprise from her is in the mail and I am sooo excited!!

Lists

I like lists.
I have a home for them on the internets now.

Also:
- I should be asleep.

- I (hopefully) get to hang out with my Little Sister tomorrow! I think I failed to mention that I now have one? She's super fun. I didn't get to see her last week as she was sick. So! Tomorrow!

- I still have three new items to list in my shop, and I'm excited about all of them!! Cornflower blue chandelier earrings, a lemon bracelet (so fun!!) and fancy yet simple cherry gem earrings. They are not really cherry-like, but the big red beads remind me of those delicious red berry candies made from fruit juice.... Mmmm. I used to always get them when I went to the Queen Elizabeth Theatre (that's the Queenie [quee-en-ee] to me - mashed up shortened version I always heard when my dad mentioned it - he's a stagehand and works there a lot - he probably says "Queen E").

New Items!!

I've been a terrible updater lately, on this blog & my Etsy shop. So sorries!! So here are some lovely things coming to the shop this week ... I should hopefully have those last promised items into the shop this week as well ... as long as work and everything else doesn't kill me before then.

"We'll put the lonesome on the shelf"

I've got some new stuff for the shop, I just haven't found the time yet to photograph and post it! I'm holding some of it in the photo (I know, I promised no more bad photos ... sorry!). The pearly ones in the back are two pretty pretty anklets, the dark one which you can't really see is a nifty men's bracelet made with dark wood beads and jet glass leaves, and the one in front is made with square salwag seed beads and little turquoise stone beads. I especially like that bracelet!

In other news ... I was freaking something awful about this thing with my friend. I spent last night convincing myself not to call him and trying to chill, although I was wildly unsuccessful. In chilling: I did manage not to call. Part of my worries was that he would just disappear. It's happened before. But he didn't!! So I'm feeling much less paranoid now. It's good. We talked on the phone tonight and it was nice. And we have plans for after Christmas. Can't wait can't wait.

Tis the season to be ill ... boo!!

That is hopefully the worst photo you will ever have to endure on this blog. I won't even try to explain or excuse it... I just feel entries without pictures are kind of lackluster. Anyhoo.

I'm icky sick!! Some evil sort of cold monster has taken over my immune system and seems determined to stick around. Anyhow, I wanted to give a little update on what's coming in the shop, and I thought I'd throw some recommendations your way while I was here.

My picks of the week:

The film "The Go-Getter." Watch it! Enjoy! It's refreshing as it's not a Hollywood cookie-cutter script, and it's really sweet. Truly. I look forward to watching it again.

The book "delible" by Anne Stone. It's a heavy subject; basically the story of girl's sister who goes missing. I thought it would be depressing and dark, but I found it sweet and heartbreaking. It's a pretty quick read too. I really enjoyed it.

This bear toque! It makes me think of Tank Girl and Zombie Hunters. Wicked awesome! I want one!!

As for things coming to my shop...

The glass pearls on the left of my shitastic photo are for some anklets (I got some pretty pink & peach seed beads for them as well) and the earrings are some shiny chandeliers I quite like which will be in the shop just as soon as I get proper photos of them. I'm still recovering from school, holiday staff parties and this germ. I still have one exam to go as well :(
Sad pandas. Anyhow, I do hope to really get going in a bigger way with jewelry soon.
xxxo.

VOTE!!

The time is closing in!
If you live in the US, for the love of all that is good, please vote!!

Here are a few of my faves at Etsy right now concerning the issue...
Go Barack! Comic-style.
Yes We Can Campbell's/Warhol style.
Barack You Like a Hurricane! or, if you prefer, Barack the Casbah!
"never anything false about hope" That still moves me.
I'm sure you've noticed that dogs have also joined the cause!
I, for one, do care about the polar bears.
I also have a bracelet up.

I will still love you no matter who you vote for so long as you do, indeed, vote.

Hoot hoot

Owls will be flying into the shop this week in the form of a necklace and earrings! Keep an eye out.
xo.

The News

So this semester is slowly consuming my life. But come December I will have my BA and I will be free! Well, sort of.

Anyhow, I have been looking at my beading supplies longingly and there will be new pieces coming soon, that is a promise! I currently have a honey-bear necklace that wants to be listed, I just have to get some photos of it. Unfortunately the weather has gone to shit, so I have to make a light-box (or whatever they're called) so that I can take decent photos of jewelry without natural light. Other than that piece which I have already made, there are perhaps some honey-bear earrings coming up, as well as an owl necklace or two. Owls are awesome! So are honeybears! In case you weren't aware.

I also want to make some jewelry with sterling silver chain and some nifty beads I've picked up lately. Like cranberry pearls! Perfect for the holidays! I love Christmas, I'll put that out there right now. When I think of winter and the holidays and Christmas I think of cozy fires and knitting and hot chocolate and hot apple cider and curling up with a good book and family and friends and and and ... warm fuzzies :)

So anyhow. I will evidently be slow with updating things, but I still have things in the works. Hope the fall is treating everyone well.
♥

Whoops

Sorry guys, my bad. I forgot I had a class at the bead store tonight, so I got home très late. Therefor, today's business lesson will be postponed until at least tomorrow evening. At least I have some lovely new supplies, and a pair of chandelier earrings that I made at the class tonight! Damn those things are time consuming! Anyhow, I'm happy to have learned the "looping" technique, which shall hopefully help me with future projects (like coral peach earrings - keep an eye out, they'll be lovely!).
Hope you all go to sleep happy and have peachy dreams.
xxo.

LOL!

Heads up that I will be posting 2 new Lol-cat items tomorrow morning. A pair of earrings and a bracelet.

I was going to post about what I've learned so far about starting a business and paying/charging taxes in BC, in case it might be useful for anyone, but I want to try to get to sleep at a somewhat decent hour tonight. Therefor, our lesson on business stuffs will have to wait until probably tomorrow.

In other news, it was so bloody hot out today, holy doodle. I couldn't spend more than 30 seconds upstairs. I also made the huge mistake of bringing bottles to the bottle depot today. Oops! What was I thinking with that heat? Evidently the heat baked my brains.

Also, I maybe overuse the term "in other news."
OH WELLS. You'll just have to deal.
Have a good night. Don't overheat. Don't let the bedbugs bite.
Unless you're into that.

"Like 'O' like 'H'"

Sorry I've been absent! I was lounging around sunny Osoyoos, BC: Canada's only desert. For reals! It was lovely. I've gone every year of my life with my family. I picked up a dress (I ♥ dresses!) and some yummy herbal/homemade-y body stuffs, and flavoured honey made in Keremeos for some friends... So delish!

In other news, I have so many things bouncing around my head lately I hardly know what to do with myself.
Here is an itemized list:

○ My shop: I need to get more people coming through it (and purchasing), and I need to dedicate more time to making & listing more pieces. Hopefully that will help?

○ My jewelry: I'm thinking of trying to get my stuff into a local store or two. I would need to invest more money into supplies so I could make a bunch of nice stuff to bring in and show in hopes of them taking it on (thinking of naming the line "Mixed Company," what do you think of that?). This will have to wait until I'm done school (and my BA!) in December.

○ School: I currently can't afford my tuition. I'm hoping to get some help without needing to take out a *shudder* student loan.

○ Boys: What else is new.

○ Work: it's getting boring. I like it there, but it's so dang slow, and I really need to be making more money. Le sigh.

○ Family: the politics of living together. Moving back home is difficult! Who knew! Ha.

○ Money money money. I hate that is matters.

The list goes on.

Speaking of the fam, my brother needs my computer. We currently have 3 foreign students in our home - things are getting a little overcrowded! So goodnight my lovelies. Sweetest dreams.

I want to live on an island...

I've finally made a piece of jewelry with some of the beads I picked up while I was in Italy this spring. In the next couple days look out for a bracelet with some glass beads from Murano, a pair of purple summer-y beach-y earrings and possibly another goody or two. Yay!
LOL stuff coming soon, I am just missing some supplies.

Also, check out one of my new favourite Etsy people's shop - Star is super sweet and so is her art!
Loves & goodnight.

I can has cheeseveggyburger?

I sold the two pairs of LOL cat earring that I had in my Etsy shop, so I will be listing some new similar pieces soon. [for my shop, look to the left, to the left...]
Look at the sweet wrap job on them! A lovely gal from Germany is having them sent to a friend in the UK. My work is going abroad! Yay!
That's all for now, folks.
Kthxbai!

It's in the air, I think

After some trouble with the last thing I made (namely that I dislike it), I have made something lovely. It's a double-stranded (my new fave thing, apparently) bracelet with frosted Chinese square glass beads and other frosted glass beads: it's called "Something Like Love." It's a delight. It will be posted Sunday, I guess. I won't have a chance to photograph it to be ready before then.
I'm happily daydreaming about what might be with someone I met recently, and a customer at my store seems to have taken interest too, so I think it's in the air.
Summer lovin, it's true.

Shiny things

Man, I am sleepy! I just stayed up making some gorgeous jewelry, if I do say so myself. I hope to post it mid-day tomorrow, if I can get some good photos. There's a double strand skinny beaded anklet, a beautiful seed & glass bead bracelet (I love it sooo much) and earrings made with lampwork glass red delicious apples which are oh so sweet. The apples are made by Kerry Santisteban of Crazy Lady Beads.
I have a spot in Monday's jewelry showcase on Etsy, so watch for it and wish me luck, I suppose. Or wish me lots of views & sales.
xo.