tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87011875479483490842024-09-08T07:52:14.887-04:00Welcome! This blog is for product reviews and store announcements such as sales and new items, as well little bits and pieces of my personal life. So be warned, there's some gay stuff in here, and if you can't deal with that, I would prefer you didn't read. :)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger39125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8701187547948349084.post-68645947930641167532011-10-22T02:40:00.000-04:002011-10-22T02:40:46.123-04:00

It's been a fun run here, I suppose, but I've been experimenting with other blogging platforms, and I'll be moving the blog over to tumblr this weekend. The reason for this is because I'm already obsessively checking my dashboard all the time anyway, so I'll be able to update the blog more conveniently without having to log out of my personal gmail account or anything like that. The other reason

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I went to Colossal Con last weekend to sell my stuff in the Artist Alley they have there. For you non-Otaku, that's an area where artists sell their work without having to have a vendor's license. Most of the weekend was pretty okay, but I have a couple of small, short stories to share with you. We had several really great customers (like the guy who offered to strip for a cookie), but these

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I only have another of these and two in another color to go. I've been going at this for an hour and a half so far. Making things for Colossal Con is painful.

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I'd like to preface this by saying that having to take accounting classes is by far the worst thing to ever happen to my ability to blog. It eats up all my time, it's hard, it makes me cry. Thus, this review is long-over due and I am going to post it even though I am stuck on the design! The theme this time was all about winter, and so I decided I would try a multi-strand necklace for it. For

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Sometimes life gets in the way of blogging. I estimate that it does this to me about 99% more often than it does to other bloggers. I'd like be more active with posting, but I have so many reasons not to. In the last few months I have: -Been told I might have a brain tumor -Been sick 4 times -Been helping my spouse with her possibly torn ligament but we don't really know because all the doctors

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A good friend of mine discovered Artfire, and then I discovered all their awesome coupon features, so I'm leaving Etsy. Here are some coupons you can use there (that Etsy doesn't allow you to do!): For Free Shipping, enter "SHIPFREE". For 20% off, this month's code is still "20OFFJANUARY". The best: For $5 off of your purchase of $35 or more, enter "5FOR35".

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Yup. I decided to give flavors.me a try. I really like it so far; it's a great way to keep all (or almost all) your links in one place. Mine is flavors.me/eclipsical. I will have photos to post soon. It takes ages for me to wake up lately, it seems, so I'll post them this evening with any luck.

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I have a new Clearance section! This jewelry is marked down and ready to go to a good home! There are lots of great bargains for the jewelry lovers on your gift list! Plus, you can use any discount coupons you have up to 50% off. :) Don't have a coupon? No problem. Send me a message and I will give you one! C L E A R A N C E H O L I D A Y   C L E A R A N C E Please

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Today I've uploaded lots of new jewelry. I'll post a few pictures below. I'm also trying a new thing with the store. At the bottom of each item's listing, I'm adding a "Why we love it" section, I guess to try to get across what I see in each piece. Maybe it'll work, maybe not, but I need to come up with some way to get my products selling. :/ By the way, you can use coupon code "BLOGDEC15" to

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Well, I've been trying to find a chance to get this up for about a month now, but when school wasn't getting in the way, Thanksgiving was. Excuses, excuses! Yeah, I know! I haven't been able to fully finish playing around with all the beads - partly because the two separate projects I had planned didn't work and I ended up combining them. Let's start with what I didn't use, shall we? I'm a big,

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I am terribly indecisive tonight. Do I post in my blog? Do I work on jewelry commissions? Do I sit and read or work on homework? Of course, as soon as I go to do something, I immediately change my mind about it. :/ Irritating. Speaking of jewelry, I re-listed some old items that I have the ability to remake. :) You can check them out by clicking on the title of this entry. I'm also definitely

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Well, yes and no. Admittedly, school does make it pretty hard to get anything accomplished and a girl has to have her priorities. I feel like none of my designs for Blogging for Beads are working out correctly this time around, but that's okay. :3 I have a couple of pearl necklaces I'm working on instead. Why force creativity, right? It'll come to me in time. Instead I've been focusing on

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1. SALE! I haven't had one in ages, so I guess there's no time like the present! Take 20% off Winter Holiday items and 15% off regular items! Sale lasts until October 31! Limit four discounts per order. 2. After a long week (I had five tests this week. FIVE. What the hell, college?!) I finally got a paycheck worth celebrating (in that it was more than $7, for the first time since June) and so I

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Step one: Wedge up a small ball of clay, but do it badly. Step two: Don't realize this until it's on the wheel already. Get up, re-wedge it. Step three: Put it back on the wheel and take ages to get it centered. Step four: Spend about half an hour trying to get some height out of it once the floor is made. Step five: Give up at just shy of the six inches you need to get for class, because it's a

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So I haven't even looked at this thing in forever, and I'm thinking of using it to post about more than just jewelry, otherwise it won't get used. Just a quick life update will do for now, I suppose, as I'm waiting for Chloe to get out of her Horror Lit. class. My German class (and therefore test) was canceled for today. \o/ Well, here's what's been going on: school: got a B (somehow) on my

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FYI, the shop will be closed from June 24th until probably the end of August and all stock is coming with me to the conventions. If there is anything in the store you really want, I recommend getting it before then.

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Before I forget, let me tell you about this, and our first ever contest! Half-off sale! Buy any item and get half off of any other item of equal or lesser value. See site for details. Tell me how you've spread the word about the sale in comments, and two lucky people (chosen at random) will receive a $5 off coupon or free earrings (winners' choice). To see the items, just click the title of

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Do you know what really bothers me? Though I consider myself to be a well-educated woman, knowledgeable about many topics, I, for the life of me, cannot learn anything about cars or car repair. It's not that I haven't tried; I have, really. My Uncle Wayne and all of his boys are geniuses with car repair, and everyone considers them to be the family mechanics. My cousin Kevin is usually the one

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I think I've finally hit the lowest point of boredom physically possible. Right now I'm sitting in my BIS class. It's called Intro to Word, Excel, and Power Point. We're learning how to highlight text. Yeah... I've been able to do that since PCs first came out. Tempted to sit back here and work on friendship bracelets from Otakon. How are you guys?

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School's out well, until tomorrow, the bees are buzzing, the leaves are back on the trees, and the cardinal that likes to sit outside my bedroom window and tweet loudly at 6am is back: summer must be close!  This time around I'm all about earthy tones and using materials and colors that reflect my mood for the season. Example: Exhibit AThis bracelet was made using copper chain and jump

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The sale is ending Have you gotten your good deal? I hope you will buy It ends tomorrow, ladies and gents! You'll save a lot with this one, especially because I marked down a lot of the stuff in the Lucky 13 category. Photos will happen probably next Friday. I had planned for this Friday but it turns out I have to do grocery shopping after work then run all the way to my mom's house and then

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You may have noticed that I've taken the word "Jewelry" out of the title, and the reason for this is that when I blog about my jewelry during the school year, there's just too much going on for me to actually post. However, if I have a place where I can write about my life as well, then that means I'll likely update a little more often. Likely. We'll see, right? This weekend has been a crafty

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Yesterday while I was out with my future wife, we stopped in at Jo-Ann Fabrics because there is a super store conveniently placed behind our favorite restaurant. Since we're going to Otakon this summer, I was really excited to find some Asian-style charms and findings on clearance. Today I made a mountain of cell phone charms out of them.It totally made my day. :D

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Not so much. The blog isn't dead; its owner is just buried under a pile of schoolwork.We'll return you to your regularly scheduled jewelry postings after this degree is earned.@_@Yeah, school's killing me. I did make a couple new items, and I want to post them, but my brain keeps trying to revert into Spanish or into business terminology when I write. It's killing my creativity, ladies.

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Hello, readers! I hope everybody enjoyed their weekend. I have some new items to show off today, though none of them are as of yet available in the store. These items were all created as part of a challenge to show my interpretation of Spring. This item was created using swarovski crystal beads in the shape of butterflies. I absolutely adore these beads. They are only 6mm, so the charm is kept

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