My First Custom Jewelry Order!

Another seller on etsy contacted me last week and wanted a custom pair of paper bead earrings. She was such a pleasure to work with and loves her earrings. I've heard horror stories about custom orders in the forums on Etsy. I'm glad to say mine was the opposite! I think it helped that she is also an Etsy seller. More understanding. Here are the earrings!

What a Great Week!

This week has been just great! I was in a few treasuries. One of them made it to the front page too. My first time on the fp! I got super dorky excited. I still am come to think of it. Got my first custom jewelry request. It is for a pair of paper bead earrings. Got the perfect paper for them today! Sold some stationery and thank you stickers on Zazzle. And today I sold my first pair of paper bead earrings. They were sold to someone in the UK. My first international sale.

My fiance also got an offer to build a tree house that he designed for a competition in 2001. He was one of the winners and his design got published in a book. Here is the book. People who own a resort in Bali want to build it for themselves at the resort. It is not a typical tree house. It is really a full on house. It has bedrooms, a kitchen, bathrooms, etc. We will have to see what happens with this. I'm hoping for the best.

Hope you all had a great week too! I'm hoping for more to come.

Life is Crazy!

Life has been busy lately. I got accepted to my first craft show and I am super excited! I am already preparing for it. It is Dec. 5. Me and other members of the MICE team on Etsy are in the show. I'm actually right beside another team member. That should be fun!

So far I have made earring cards and the bracelet display. I am also making earring trees and little merchandise bags. I was going to buy the bags, but the quantities I have to buy are crazy. So I am making little bags out of all the scrapbook paper I have. I haven't made any new jewelry in two weeks because I've been busy with getting ready for the show and making all the Christmas gifts my mom has ordered from me. And I got my rubber stamp with my logo and website yesterday and need to stamp the earring cards. I am also stamping the bags once they are done.

If anyone needs a rubber stamp, I highly recommend lovetocreatstamps on Etsy. They are quick in answering convos, you can send your own artwork, it arrived fast, and it looks and works really great!

OH! I also am retaking all my photos for Etsy. I started almost two weeks ago and I am still not done. I was all over it, and then I got accepted to the craft show, and that has taken over my life. People always talk about getting ready for these is a lot of prep, but I didn't realize everything you had to do until I actually had to do it. I hope it will all be worth it though. I love people and love what I do, so I am sure it will be fun!

I will post pics of my craft show table at some point too!

-Libby

OMG! FINALLY!

I FINALLY got accepted to craftgawker! This bracelet did it! WOO HOO! I'm a dork. Had to share. :)

New Picture Style for Etsy

I was getting bored and not 100% happy with the pics of my jewelry for Etsy. I was also determined to not be afraid of shadows. I thought everything would look best on stark white before. I have found shadows can be your friend and cropping photos in a different way can be good too. So far I have gotten really good feedback on my new photos. I would love to know your thoughts too!! Below are some examples of what I am doing now. Enjoy!

Weekend Makings and Experiments

So last week I was lazy with the blog. Shoot me! I wonder if more than a handful of people read this anyway? Anywho! I had experiments with new paper and die cut paper strips this weekend and made some earrings that aren't my usual style. I did make more than this and will post these and the others during this week. Enjoy!

I'm featured on handmadenews.org!!

I'm so freakin excited to be a featured artisan on handmadenews.org!! I would like to thank Heather Folkner for interviewing me. Her and I know each other through Twitter. She, fairly recently, became a writer for HandMade News and she is such a peach. She asked me a few weeks ago if I wanted to do an interview. The answer was obvious. I like her questions and her intro to all her articles are always very good. As she pointed out to me, she was a literature major. I found it funny she loved my "perfect grammar". I hope you enjoy the interview and would love to know your thoughts on the article. Also, you can let Heather know your thoughts. On Twitter she is @SugarPlumFerret. Click here to read the article. Be sure to vote on the article too! There is a thumbs up and a thumbs down icon at the bottom. If you give it a thumbs down, I will come break yours off! Ok, maybe not. Thank you and enjoy!

-Libby