Cafe Handmade Friendly Competition

My Etsy shop will be in the Friendly Competition tonight on the Cafe Handmade blog. The competition will go up sometime between 5:30 and 8:00PM EST. The competitions are listed on the right hand side of the page near the bottom. I will do my best to post another reminder once it's up and running. Please vote for me if you have a chance! Thanks for your support! :)

turquoise and red

Turquoise and red is quickly becoming one of my favorite color combinations. I'm not sure why I didn't put them together more before, since they are two of my favorite colors (which is saying something because there aren't many colors that I don't like). I enjoyed making the fringe on my chocolate temptation cuff so much that I wanted to make some more fringe, but on a smaller scale (for now at least haha). This bracelet is what I ended up making from that initial idea. This is another new design for me and I would like to make more of them in the future. I'm thinking about more turquoise for the base with turquoise, dark blue, and white fringe.


I finished remaking the clasps for both of the skinny square stitch bracelets. I made a new one as well. Hopefully I will get those photographed this weekend and then relisted/listed over the next week.

new button embellished bracelet

This is the first button embellished right angle weave bracelet that I've made. I love the color combination and am generally very pleased with the result. My husband actually likes it more than the button and button charm bracelets that I generally make. I'm planning to make a purple one next. I would like to do other colors in the future, though, and possibly a multicolored one at some point, too. Feedback and thoughts about future endeavors with this design are appreciated!

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:

return of the blue button charm bracelet (again) and spring fun

The blue button charm bracelet is back again! I feel like I need to keep making these since I've sold three of them and given one as a gift that was very well received. Here's the new one:


My Awesome Chicks of Etsy Spring Challenge entry is listed on the Awesome Chicks blog now. You can see the entry by clicking here. You can also view a bigger shot of the bracelet on my flickr photostream. This was the bracelet that I mentioned previously that I don't think I'll be able to part with. After I finished it, I had a beautiful mix of Czech seed beads left. I added some purple beads and made this piece:


I am still open to button exchanging if anyone is interested! I sent a little bundle off to KreatedbyKelly today and am looking forward to my exchange package from her in the mail soon. Please let me know if you want a package heading your way, too.

I have a couple more new pieces finished but not photographed yet. Hopefully I will have them listed within the next week or so.