treasury feature

Yukonski included my Button Bracelet - Blue, Orange, and Yellow in her Beautiful bright colours... treasury.  She curated it earlier this week.  I found it over the weekend.  I finally got a screen shot at home tonight.  Enjoy!

leafy feature number 19

Happy Friday!  I still have A LOT of leaf items saved up in my favorites so I'm continuing this feature every Friday now through at least the end of the fall.  Enjoy!

Brown Oak Leaf, felt headband by lupin

Sweet Copper Acorn Necklace - Copper Leaf Bead Cap and Leaf on Brass Chain - Limited Item by RhondasTreasures

Amber/Green Stoneware Leaf Pendant...Beautiful by uniquebuttons

Fall Orange and Yellow Fabric Leaf Bookmark or Decor by ArtfullySew

Copper And Sterling Silver Autumn Leaves Necklace by LittleGreenRoom

Maple Leaves - 8x8 fine art photo print BOGO SALE by elgarboart

Autumn Leaves (handmade buttons set of 6) by TessaAnn

reworked to perfection

For the sale that I mentioned in my last entry, the buyer was looking at two different bangles.  She wondered how well they would coordinate because she wants to wear them together.  Instead of trying to describe it,  I took a picture.

As you can see, the greens coordinated beautifully, but the red in the Christmas bangle was a little too bright.  She wanted a different size for the Christmas bangle so when I made her version, it was easy enough to switch the bright red for darker red.  This was the result.

I would never have thought to put those two bangles together, but now they coordinate beautifully!  It got me to thinking about making more Christmas items, too.  I've been planning to make another Christmas button charm bracelet for a while.  I actually need to get going on that now...before Christmas is here.

I'm still waiting for the wire for my sea glass pendant order so I've been putting together the beads for Grace's blog giveaway earrings.  She wants bright purple and yellow (not pastel).  This was my original color palette suggestion.

She ended up deciding on the yellow with just one dark purple (I'm going with the one right next to it in this picture), which should be nice and simple.  I love these four beads together, too, so I may do something with that at some point.  Like Grace, I'm not really into pastels, but a pastel color palette could be pretty, too.  So many ideas and not enough time!

and the blog giveaway winner is...

Thanks to all 14 people who entered my blog giveaway for my 2nd Etsy anniversary!  I used a random number generator to select the winner.

Number 7 is Grace from Hugz Before You Go!  Congrats Grace. :) I contacted her tonight.  She can choose a peyote triangle pendant or pair of earrings in whatever color or color combination she'd like.  I'll be sure to post a picture of her finished piece.  I will most likely make a second version to sell as well.  Thanks again for playing everyone!

I did not have any sales during my free shipping promotion, but I switched some holiday items into my sale section early this morning.  One of them sold today along with another bangle!  I also have a custom order in the works from one of my eBay customers (which is why it pays to give out business cards to everyone!).  She wants some sea glass pieces she inherited from her grandmother wire wrapped into simple pendants.  I'm still so over wire wrapping after my pearl project, but this will be very different and hopefully more fun.  I got the sea glass pieces today.  I'm still waiting for the wire.  I'll keep everyone updated.

new listing, October Top Droppers

I listed one of my newest pairs of earrings last night.  Whenever I poll people about color requests for new items, purple comes up frequently.  So here it is. :) Beaded Dangle Earrings - Peyote Triangles - Purple Striped

As always, purple is very hard to photograph, but the different shades of purple blend together beautifully in person.  I'm planning to make another purple version that matches this bracelet.  After that, I'd like to work on a few more tubular triangles for more earrings, chain links bracelets, and chain links necklaces.

The start of a new month means that it's time to thank my Top 10 Droppers on Entrecard again!  As always, I really appreciate everyone who visits my blog regularly, especially those of you who comment.  Here are the Top 10 for October:
1) The Twitterer
2) Sparkle
3) Moonangelnay on Etsy
4) BeadedTail
5) The Sewing Mom
6) Learn Affiliate Marketing
7) the crazy suburban mom
8) Dave Lucas
9) Three Fates Design
10) Patsy's Words of Wisdom

And as always, anyone on this list who is an Etsy seller and would like an item of theirs featured here, please leave a comment.  I'll feature the item of your choice in an upcoming post.  I'm choosing Sharla's (BeadedTail) for her this month.  I love her new paw print earrings! Furiends - Pawprint Polymer Clay and Black Onyx Beaded Sterling Silver Earrings

I hope that November gets off to a great start for everyone!