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Hello!

I have a few more jewelry items left to post before I go back to bead business as usual for 2011.

Here are 4 pair of hollow bead earrings that will be posted before the weekend.  Enjoy!

Sale!

Thank you to everyone who stopped by my booth at Winter Market at the Eiteljorg this past weekend.  Lisa and I were overwhelmed by the number of people who braved the snow to support local artists and buy handmade for the holidays!

I'm currently offering some of my jewelry and other gift items at sale prices for the rest of the gift buying season.  Stop by the SALE section of my shop for items already priced 20%.  I can ship via priority mail upon request and include gift boxes with upgraded shipping.

Here are a few goodies:

Happy Holidays!!

Last Roller Coaster of the Year

I usually step up my jewelry offerings this time of year for the holidays and I decided to make this work for me in another way by vending at the Eiteljorg Museum Winter Market December 5th.  I will be sharing a table with my friend Lisa Atchison of Touch of Glass Designs. 

I will be working to get plenty of items made for the show and have a nice selection beyond what I have listed in my Etsy store right now.  While I'm working on jewelry for the show for the next couple of weeks, I will be listing bead sets to help give my Etsy customers a start on their Spring and Summer jewelry designs. 

I know it sounds odd that the first snow hasn't even hit the ground outside of my studio here in Indiana and I'm thinking about warmer seasons but jewelry designers are going to be starting their works for the next seasons just after the holidays and are probably already thinking about supplies and colors.

Listings for the next few days will be mini spacers (12mm or smaller) and glass ring/links.  Here's a preview:

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I've been making some super small hollow beads, small for me anyway, and they are working out to be fantastic earrings!  I have some purple sets and another denim set to make up after I tumble the earwires.

Matching necklaces for the pink and denim are also next up to be listed.  These are simple and beautiful!  I have purple versions of these in the works as well.

Enjoy!

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Hello!

I tend to have batches of items to list on Etsy but to keep myself at the top of the categories or searches, I list a couple of times a day rather than list all at once.  This works for me but I was thinking if it's really the best for my customers. 

So, I am going to try an experiment in which I blog a preview of items I plan to list in the next week or so.  If you see something you like, you can ask me to list it now or reserve it for you.  Now, instead of just shopping from what I have listed, you can see what I will be posting in the future and you don't miss out on anything!

Up for listing this week, more or less in order:

Orange Etch Earrings

Plain Black Spacers

I will have about 5 sets of spacers, in varying sizes made from "earthen" glass.

Yellow Transparent Vessel

Peach Transparent Vessel

I have more I'm loading into the kiln which I will need to wash and match up for next week.  Stay tuned...Thanks!

New Jewelry

Just an update, the studio is coming along nicely.  So nicely that I've been enjoying making some new jewelry.  The new bench is amazing; trade off of surface area for stability was worth it.

I have a few things to finish before I post pictures but I will...unless I get distracted by small shiny objects, again.

Give the Lady a Cigar (box)

Today, my box of boxes arrived!!!! Yep, I’ve been looking forward to receiving my box of boxes since I ordered them last week. And some women get excited about ordering shoes?!?!

As I’ve mentioned, repeatedly, I’m redoing my studio. By the way, it’s almost finished (the big stuff is done; paint, floor, new cabinets, work bench) and I will be posting lots and lots of pictures within a week or so.


Anyway, about my boxes. I was trying to think of a good and relatively inexpensive way to store frit, foil, enamels, and other lampwork stuff as well as beads, findings, etc. You know, all the junk that seems to pile up. I looked and looked but everything I found either wasn’t right or cost-prohibitive. Stupidly, the answer was right in front of me, on my desk, next to my computer.

Years ago, I lived near Tampa Florida and Tampa has a little incorporated city to the south, and I believe, east of it called Ybor city. This was, at least at the time, the trendy, artsy-fartsy district that became a one-stop boozapallooza at night. Ybor had other attractions including an old cigar factory in which was now housed a cigar shop. They had gobs of wooden and cardboard cigar boxes that they were practically giving away. I stockpiled a bunch and I think sold most of them when I moved back to Indiana. But I do still have a couple and I use them all the time.

I knew you could still buy them especially since the cigar box purse craze from a few years ago but I didn’t know where to look around Indianapolis so I looked on the internet. Etsy and Ebay had listings but Thompson Cigar Company had the best deal; 10 boxes for $10. They have a listing for “premium” boxes 10/$20 but I was thrilled with my “bargain” boxes!

I’m not sure what to do with the two Italian cardboard ones that have the satin over foam troughs…I mean they just scream bead storage and the Criollo box has little drawers, how freakin’ cute is that?!?!?! That one might have to be for show display. The rest are as cool as I expected, just not quite as unusual as those three. I can’t wait to start unpacking stuff tomorrow!!!!