Shop Update

Today I bring you 7 new designs just in time for Valentines Day! A peek at some new springtime and St. Patricks day related designs was also included!

Shop Update

 Two new Message In A Bottle Necklaces and one new Vintage Skeleton Key Lucky Charm Necklace were added today.  New Valentines Day and  St. Patrick's Day design's will be added in by the end of next week!

Shop Update

SHOP UPDATE

Five new designs have been added to my shop, a unique mix of keys and vintage inspired designs.

 

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving

The holidays are finally upon us and so is my holiday sale. Starting Tonight at midnight From Black Friday through Cyber Monday all items in my shop will be 10% off, with my message in a bottle necklaces 20% off! This also includes free US shipping and 1.00 international shipping which will last through the rest of the year!

Getting Ready For The Holidays

HUGE SHOP UPDATE!

The past two days have been keeping me very busy, with shop related things. I've been creating new jewelry, photographing new jewelry, advertising new jewelry, and more! I am currently on a jewelry overload! My shop has had about 15 new pieces added too it the past two days and hopefully I will be able to crank out just a little more over the remainder of the weekend.

Many of my new pieces are also very affordable with the majority being priced under $20.00! I'm hopping I will get a decent amount of sales for the holiday. I'm really looking forward to see what happens with my Black Friday - Cyber Monday Sale!

Hopefully Dexter will be a good little puppy the rest of the weekend like he was today! I don't need anymore chewed up power cords or lost earrings! Yesterday I was photographing outside on my deck and came in to grab something I had forgot, when I went back out a earring and mysteriously gone missing.

If you haven't noticed, the newest owl pieces are my favorites.

New Geometric Designs

My Etsy Shop has been updated with 8 new geometric inspired designs. All the new designs are very simple, modern and bold. They each make a statement in there own unique way. Be sure to check them out.

Earlier today prior to photographing all the new jewelry, I spent some time photographing our two dogs (DJ & Dexter) as well as some of the leaves and all the wonderful colors. I put together a stop motion video of all of the pictures. I really wish I had a Digitial SLR camera, this would of turned out so much better... I will have one, one day. Regardless of my crappy camera I did have fun, just wish it saved as better quality.

Stop Motion video below, might take a few seconds to load. If for any reason you have problems loading you can also view it at flickr.

Vampire Inspirations

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Two new vampire inspired designs were released today, just in time for Halloween. A few more darker inspired designs should be on there way very soon as well. I've really been on a vampire kick today. True Blood is one of my favorite shows, which I have to wait another year to see new episodes. Thankfully I have Vampire Diaries to keep me entertained and inspired in it's absence.

New Techniques

It's been a slow week shop wise, I did work on a few things this past weekend. Mostly experimenting with some new techniques, mainly enameling techniques.

I did complete one new design with these techniques, using gold enamel. The necklace above, I hand panted the enamel onto the flowers. It added so much to the design.  I absolutely love how this necklace turned out, I had to resist myself not to keep it for myself.

Hopefully I'll get a chance to experiment more tomorrow as today was spent slaving away on a new site design for a client.

I've also been featured in this lovely treasury: Message In A Bottle

Message In A Bottle

My newest collection of jewelry has come in the form of "Message In A Bottle Necklaces." I simply love the concept of a message in a bottle. It's an exciting concept to think about, finding a secret message somewhere. The message's in the bottles are custom per order. More of these will definitely be coming in the future.

Oh My, Where Did The Time Go.

It's been about a year since I last updated my shop, blog or did much of anything even related to etsy. Today I went out shopping for some new supplies and found some very inspiring things. I made 4 new things when I got home, even if one ended up being for me.

Hopefully, I will slowly get back into keeping up with my shop again and not completely neglecting it for so long. I really enjoy creating new things, but with work and other things etsy related activities got put on hold for much longer then I initially expected.

I have been making some treasuries over the past few months, you can take a peak at all of those here. I really like how quite a few of them turned out.

New Things!

Just put 5 new necklace designs up in my shop, be sure to stop by and check them out! I just made a new record for myself, one of my new deisngs just sold. Definitely a new record for me, it sold within an hour of being posted.

TREASURY
Got a chance to make a new treasury today, it's called Autumn Spice and is filled with a beautiful variety of autumn related items. Be sure to check it out, Autumn Spice Treasury.

NEW BLOG
This morning I created a new blog strictly dedicated to etsy finds! The blog is called ALWAYS.etsy, please be sure to stop by and check it out! This is definitely going to be my newest project, and I'm looking forward to getting it started. It's still in it's infancy stages right now, need to still figure out affiliates and other blog such things.

Shop Update

Hey guys my shop has been updated with 8 new necklaces as well as a few updates on some other things.

My favorite of the new collecton is my "Peaceful Simplicity" necklace and it's a steal at only $15 dollars. I simply love this necklace, as I have been wearing one myself for the past few weeks.

Here's a peak at a few other things that you can find at my shop as well.

Shop Update

I spent St. Patricks Day making a few new creations, I've fallen in love with all of these from this batch. They are each a little different from my previous necklaces. I absolutely love the new beach inspired one, it's definitely one of my favorite pieces.

I hope everyone had a lovely St. Patricks Day! We had beautiful weather and I went out at night to celebrate my birthday (Which is the following day). Definitely had some fun this St. Patricks Day!

You can find all these and more at my etsy shop - candycrack.etsy.com

1 Month Anniversary

Today marks my "1 Month Anniversary" for my etsy shop.

My One Month Stats

• SALES: 5


• SHOP HEARTS: 50


• CURRENT ITEM HEARTS: 51


• GIFT GUIDES: 1 (St. Patrick's Day)


• TREASURIES THAT I HAVE BEEN IN: 1 (That I am aware of)


• SHOP VISITS: 888 (Based on Google Analytic's)


• FRONT PAGE: 0

I must say I am quite happy with my 1 Month Statistics. I wasn't really expecting to many sales in my first month as jewelry is the most crowded area of etsy (after supplies of course). I've heard many people say they didn't receive any sales until after their first or second month. I was even more thrilled to be put into one of the gift guides, even though that didn't lead to a sale of the specific item listed. Hopefully I can continue this trend with growing sales, and visits and don't take a turn in the opposite direction.

I've also added 4 new items to my shop today, here's a preview of the new items.

You can find these items and more currently in my shop, candycrack.etsy.com.

March Is Here & That Means Spring Is Near!

"March is a month of considerable frustration - it is so near spring and yet across a great deal
of the country the weather is still so violent and changeable that outdoor activity in our
yards seems light years away." - Thalassa Cruso

Oh how true this quote is. March is a great month filled with so many great things, St. Patricks Day, my birthday, various family birthdays, spring forward, spring solstice as well as national craft month (and various other month specific occasions).

However, it never seems to fail that on my birthday March 18th, we end up getting the last snow storm of the year. Their have only been perhaps two or three years I remember not seeing snow on my birthday. It's quite disappointing since my birthday is 3 days prior to the first day of spring. None the less this still means that spring is almost here and summer is right around the corner. Reagurdless of snow and coldness that March tends to start off with by the last few days we can normally see quite a change. Temperatures start to regulate themselves as it gets warmer and flowers start to bloom.

Then my brain instantly kicks into summer mode as I quickly forget about longing for spring. Summer is my favorite month, and Spring simply means that it is almost here. I'll soon be able to replace boots with flip-flops, and t-shirts with tank tops. Oh, how I look forward to days like these.

I also updated my Etsy Shop today with some lovely new spring pieces as well as a few traditional pieces. I also have 3 beautiful St. Patricks Day inspired key necklaces being featured at the moment.

SNEAK PEAK

My Very First Treasury

So I was roaming around the treasuries earlier today and noticed that the treasury west was going to have some opening. So I staled the treasury for 2 hours so I could make my first one. It was quite exciting and fun to make.

I chose the theme "Nature Inspired" It features items that are well inspired by nature and sticks to a color pallet of mostly brown and greens. I've had spring on the brain lately, I can't wait for the snow to be gone and all the trees to start growing their leaves.



You can view my treasury here!


Two new necklaces have also been added to my shop today, both of these are one of a kind designs. You can view these two necklaces and more at my shop, candycrack.etsy.com.



I was also informed by my first customer today that she has been getting tons of comments on her necklace, and is even now thinking about purchasing another!

THE FRIDAY FIVE: PENGUINS?

THIS WEEKS FRIDAY FIVE THEME: PENGUINS

While I was sitting at my desk thinking of what my very first friday five should be, in walks my cat meowing. He walks into the room, comes over to me and drops his little penguin toy we bought him for christmas right next to me. Then he proceeds to sit down and stare at me wanting to play. So as I picked up his toy to throw it I thought to myself. "Hmmm, penguins would make an interesting toy." Then as I throw the toy, Tigger remained sitting next to me and just glanced at where the toy was. That's a cat for you, although sometimes he will actually run after it and bring it back... However, those times are few and far between. Now on to this weeks Friday five...

THE FRIDAY FIVE

Set of 6 Penguin Greeting Cards PERSONALIZED for YOU ( A2 4.25 x 5.5 )
BY: mydeardarling.etsy.com


Print of my original folk art painting - Penguin Love - Valentine, heart
BY: DUDADAZE.etsy.com


Lovely Penguin Princess Leather Purse ( Yellow )
BY: leatherprince.etsy.com


Two Funny Penguins (small) - Wall Decal
BY: vinylwalldesign.etsy.com


PENSIVE PENGUIN -hand-pierced sterling silver pendant
BY: erinbowe

SHOP UPDATE
My shop was updated today with 5 new items, 4 necklaces & 1 pair of earings. You can view all the new updates at candycrack.etsy.com

In other shop news, I also had my first official sale today! I was so excited I packaged it up and shipped it out before going into work.