February Top Droppers

I had conferences at school this week and then I was in Chicago for a few days, visiting some of my family, hence the lack of posting this past week. I'm still working on my temptation piece. I'm going to make a piece for the Awesome Chicks of Etsy Spring Challenge after that, and then it will be back to my more random regular scheduled projects (I think anyway...).

Thank you so much to all of my regular Entrecard droppers! The top list has fluctuated a lot this month, but here are the current Top 10 Droppers:
1) A Rose By Name
2) Three Fates Design - Beaded Jewelry
3) Basketball Daily
4) Alteredevents
5) Beaded Tail
6) Time2cre8
7) West of Mars - the Meet and Greet
8) Zero
9) Health.duniasoer.com
10) angelrhona

Check out these awesome items from the Top 10 Droppers who are also Etsy sellers:

A Case of the Blues Cuff Bracelet by A Rose by Name

Lovable Robot Cuff by ThreeFatesDesign

Buttercup Yellow Morning Glory Hair Wreath by Alteredevents

Azul - Royal Blue Cat's Eye Bracelet with Cat Face Toggle by BeadedTail
Treble Clef - Peyote Beadwoven Bracelet / Cuff by time2cre8

sale and new listings

The new avatar is now up and running! Thanks again Taliana!

My friend Lindsay (who first introduced me to Etsy over the summer) bought 2 bracelets today - a blue button charm bracelet and two-button explosion charm bracelet. I made her one very similar to this button bracelet back in the fall as a thank you present for not only introducing me to Etsy but being part of my inspiration to open my shop there. I'm really glad that she liked it so much that she wanted more! I will see her Tuesday and will give her the bracelets and get her payment then. I will definitely be making another blue button charm bracelet, seeing as how it's proved again to be my most popular item. I will probably make another two-button explosion at some point, too.

All of creative energy is going into finishing my temptation piece as the deadline is quickly approaching (March 5). These are the last new listings that you're going to see from me until temptation is done:

thank yous

Thank you very much to Alterity Art and SandFibers for featuring me on their blogs in response to my spring bracelets treasury. I do my best to thank those who feature me in their treasuries and appreciate it greatly when others do the same!

Also, I owe a thank you to ripperarts who made me a new banner totally out of the kindness of her heart. She's a fellow Awesome Chicks of Etsy member who decided that I could benefit from one of her awesome banners and made NINE of them for me to choose from! It was really tough picking just one, as they are all really great. I settled on the one that I did because it shows off several different types of bracelets that I make. I also like the multicolored letters. :) The banner is now here on blogspot as well. I decided to change the journal layout, too, to coordinate with it a little better. Taliana's currently working on an avatar to match. Very exciting!

I am in the middle of my tempatation bracelet now and am very pleased with the results this far. Are any other EBW's working on temptation pieces yet?

100 listings, the next two Hawkeye bracelets, and the EBW challenges

I am now at 100 listings on Etsy! These two Hawkeye bracelets are the last two I needed to get me into the triple digits.


I was hoping to hit 100 hearts at about the same time as 100 listings. I'm not quite there yet, but I just hit 90 yesterday, which is still very cool.

Also, thank you to everyone who voted for my Dreaming of Hawaii bangle in the Jan./Feb. Etsy Beadweavers Challenge! Congratulations to BeadCatcher who won with her Tropical Treasures necklace. Gorgeous!

The March challenge is Temptation. I already started working on my piece. Think: chocolate. :)

more treasuries

I went over to Treasury West this evening just a few minutes before it was open. I was totally not prepared to curate a treasury, but I put one together right away. I think it turned out really well.


You can visit it live by CLICKING HERE until Tuesday, Feb. 17 10:39PM EST.

I was also very lucky to be included in another treasury, this one curated by noahsarkcollection.
You can visit it live by CLICKING HERE until Wed., Feb. 18 3:29PM EST.