A New Design, For A New Start

Since I've been getting back in the swing of all things etsy, I've decided a new design was in order.

I've created a new shop banner, new blog banner and changed up my blog colors. The black and pick was getting a tad bit boring, so I opted for brown and teal instead. A facelift to freshen things up a bit every now and again is definitely more then welcomed in my book.

I've also signed up to re-join the Etsy Bloggers Street Team. I always enjoyed this team, now I just have to be patient and wait to hear back from them. Hopefully the wait won't be too long, I always enjoyed this team.

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.

Quick Update

I just wanted to take some time out to post a quick update. I have been quite busy lately with work and life in general as of late. My shop has taken the biggest hit as I just don't have the extra time to focus on creating things and blogging like I had before.


Things should hopefully pick up again sometime early next year. However until then, don't expect to see much from me. In the meantime you can stop by and visit my etsy finds blog @ alwaysetsy.blogspot.com.