Cool Pendants

I was browsing through Etsy this morning, as I usually do, when I found this store with really cool pendants!

ZephyrWood

I love the cool wooden pendants.  Especially "Hoot".  I think I might get that one for myself.

Inspirations

So, I've been trying to think of something that I love to inspire a piece of jewelry.  I'd like to make something with some kind of wire-wrapping and a semi-precious stone.  However, it needs to be different.  Something that makes you think.  Something that carries a message.  Isn't that what Art is supposed to do? 

Perhaps if I make a list of questions, it would help:

• What image does my situation in life bring to mind right now?
• What color do I feel?
• Do I feel fluid or solid?
• Do I feel free or bound?

Now it's time to get out the sketch book and think...

Jewelry Making - HowTo's

I found a blog on jewelry making thats name, coincidentally, Jewelry Making.  It appears that the authors stopped their jewelry making business in 2008 and also stopped updating the blog, but they do have quite a few HowTo articles on the sidebar of their blog.  I've only had a chance to browse through one of them, but it looks pretty well done, if I do say so myself.

I'm definitely taking the time to browse through them all.

Fan Page on Facebook

If you've never been on Facebook, you should definitely try it out!  It's a wonderful social networking site.  I've just created a Fan page for KelleyAccents on Facebook.  If nothing else, you should join Facebook just to become a KA fan.

Here's the fan page:  Link

Tutorials?

I've been thinking about how to drive more traffic to this blog and the store over the past couple days.  I read some tips on Etsy and they say that it's beneficial to make tutorials and other things that are interesting and that people want.  I wonder if that would work?

What kind of tutorials should we make?  Simple things, like, putting a clasp on a bracelet?  Crimping the end of a necklace?  Or, should we design pieces of jewelry and put up a tutorial to make the entire piece?  It bears thinking on.

I know that when Karla and I first started, tutorials helped a LOT!  Now that we're (a little) more experienced, maybe we should help pass on our knowledge...

Late Nite Munchies

Karla and I are both sitting in front of our respective computers, trying to get some more work done for the Etsy site.  *yawn*  Man, I'm sleepy!  It's hard to stay awake this late at night anymore (it's 10pm... Really!?) since our little boy runs us ragged during the day.

The worst part is that we're HUNGRY!  And we can't figure out what we want to eat.  Grrrr....

Karla learned how to make toilet seat covers during her recent stay in Mexico!  Over the next few days, we'll get some of the covers that she made posted up in the store for sale.  It'll be fun!  No... really it will! 

Item of the Day

Karla's had a promotion going for a while, called the 'Item of the Day'.  With this, she (or I) picks an item from the store, and that item is 25% off the listed price for that day only!

Today's item is this:

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=18798124