completion of my international order and button trade, new listing

One of the bracelets that my first international buyer ordered was my Valentine's Day button charm bracelet. I sold the original during the spring so I put together a new one for her. I snapped a picture of it before I packed everything up.


I made another one to list as well. I am going to wait until I can take some outside or natural light pictures of the new one before I relist it on Etsy.

I uploaded the pictures of my button trade with Kelly tonight. Here's a picture of my full stash.
Ever since I saw my dad's parents back in August, I've been searching for maroon beads and buttons. My grandpa is a professor at Texas A&M, whose colors are maroon and white. I'd like to make a few A&M items that my grandma can sell or give as gifts to friends. Maroon is VERY hard to find, though! Kelly was so nice to go pull some maroon buttons for me, which is why those are all separated. I am also so excited about all of the SMALL buttons in the mix. They'll be perfect for button embellished right angle bracelets.

I also took a picture of just a few of my favorites.

Finally, Kelly attached this neat vintage fish button to the card that she included in my package. How cute is this?!
Thanks again, Kelly! :)

And now: my new listing for today: my newest wrapped skinny peyote cuff.
I'm thinking about a blue gold-accented wrapped cuff next. As always, I'm open to suggestions!

my first blog award

I received my first blog award today from Theresa of Theresa's Treasures!


I am so grateful for all of the support that I've had with this blog. I really appreciate everyone who visits regularly and offers advice, opinions, and support. I would like to pass this award on to just a few of these people.

KreatedbyKelly
BeadedTail
WillOaks Studio
Three Fates Design
Alterity Art
Linda B
LANYARDLADY

Thank you again everyone!

Also, I had my first international order today, which was very exciting. I will be shipping the package off to the UK tomorrow. Finally, I received my buttons from Kelly, completing the current button trade. More details about both will follow shortly. :)

buttons

I received another one of my recent Etsy purchases in the mail yesterday: two sets of buttons from kellwood - peppermint fizz and purple pie man. I ordered the rainbow brite mix last year and was very pleased with it. The two new mixes did not disappoint. Here's a picture with just a few of my favorites from the new mixes.


While I had buttons on my mind this weekend, I asked Kelly from KreatedbyKelly if she'd be interested in doing another button exchange. She said yes so I put together a mix of buttons for her today. Here they are in the measuring cup.

And here they are in a Ziplock, ready to be wrapped in tissue paper and then put in an bubble mailer.

I'm going to put them in the mail tomorrow. I'm always up for button exchanges so if any other fellow button crafters are interested, please let me know!

sale, completed button exchange, completion of March EBW challenge, and a new listing

My in-laws visited us over the weekend. We had a great time and fully enjoyed the beautiful weather. While they were here, my mother-in-law bought two bracelets from me: hearts and stars right angle bracelet and skinny black and turquoise square stitch bracelet. The black and turquoise was the first skinny square stitch bracelet that I'd sold. It became apparent after a couple hours of wear that the bead clasp was not going to work. So later that night I redid the clasp with a simple clear button instead. It works much better. I'm going back and redoing the other two I made with the same beads. (I made one more, too, with larger oval beads that I think will still work as is.) I gave my mother-in-law the bracelet back right away and didn't photograph it first. I will take pictures of the other ones, though, and post about it at some point in the near future.

Kelly from KreatedbyKelly and I finished our trade this week. She took beautiful pictures of both sets of buttons exchanged and posted about it on her blog earlier today. You can check it out by clicking here. :) Awesomeness. Please check out her Etsy shop, too!

Thank you so much to everyone who voted for my Chocolate Temptation cuff in the March EBW Temptation Challenge. Congrats to RachelesOriginals for winning the March Challenge with her Seductress necklace! The April Challenge is Time Machine. I am not going to make a piece for this challenge, but I wish the best of luck to all of those undertaking the challenge.

I listed a new item today and will be listing a couple more this week. Check it out: