Happy July

Well tomorrow is officially July. The Baroness and I just noticed that our 50% Friday coincides with the beginning of the July, and the 4th of July celebration. So we thought you all needed a little more fun from our weekly sale. A bit of a present....like Christmas in July.

Just for all you wonderful friends, and creative goddesses.....We are happy to put on our Christmas in July sale!
50% off everything in the FlightFancy, and BaronessBijoutery

Like this elegant piece...or maybe with something whimsical?

 something delightful?

colorful?

You can find these lovelies and many more to tickle your fancy all on sale! 

This fantastic sale starts tonight June 30th at midnight,and lasts through next Friday July 8th at midnight.

 Happy 4th everyone!

bright creative blessings, Theresa  

Tick Tock

It's countdown time. Tonight at midnight starts the 50% Friday special. There are some brand new gorgeous creations just waiting for you to take them home!

I decided since I've gotten so much fantastic feedback and traffic on this design, that these two pieces will be in 50% Friday sale. So if you were drooling uncontrollably over these beauties earlier (here's a napkin Dear)... now is the time to snag them up.

Fickle Fantasy Necklace

Amethyst Fantasy Necklace

That lovely Queen of creativity, and elegance.... Baroness Bijoutery is offering these gorgeous creations. Perfect accessories for your summer wardrobe.

Kyanite and Mother Of Pearl Icy Blue Necklace

Chalcedony and Fuchsia Agate Necklace

Finally from our new fantastic friend Flouncing Floozy a little pretty with a victorian flair....

Frau Straus Viennese Waltz Velvet Choker

Sale starts tonight at midnight and lasts all through Friday until midnight.  If I don't see you until then.....Have a grand and creative day!

50% Friday

It's Friday! YAY

It's time for 50% Friday. Your chance to get a great price on original, and one of a kind handcrafted items.
There are 4 shops participating this week. Be sure to check out the Friday Special section to find the sales.
Sale runs all day until midnight.

 FlightFancy

Pumpkin Blossoms Necklace

Green Shadows Goddess Necklace

BaronessBijoutery

Filligree Sunstone Butterfly

Gold Chains on the Go

Flouncing Floozy

Romance Rose Hair Pin

Lavender Sachet Bundle

BlockHead Production

Hand Turned Beaded Ring Caddy

Dandelion Flower Pot

Happy Shopping!

50 Percent Friday

Today is the day :) to scoop up some fantastic artistic bargains. It's 50%Friday. One item is featured at half off in each shop for Friday only! First come first served. This weeks feature sales are:

From Baroness Bijoutery This gorgeous one of kind tigers eye necklace:

From Flouncing Floozy this hand crocheted romantic rose hair pin:

From FlightFancy this one of a kind wire wrapped sunshine pendant:

Be sure to check out what other goodies catch your eye and bookmark them. Next week just might be one of your favorites!

Bright creative blessings, Theresa

Good Morning Beautiful!

Wakey, Wakey . Time to start the day. For some oddball reason, I feel completely energized to get busy. Creatively busy that is....chores can wait. The chores still be there next week! Besides the dust bunnies need time to prepare for Easter anyway.

 So I'm just quickly making myself accountable for the things I want to attempt to get done today. I need to retake pics for the new piece and get it listed online.

Start a project for a new tutorial, and get the step by step pics, and notes done. (remembering to write clearly....no chicken scratch)

Go through supplies for future order list. I'm seeing a future trip to Rings & Things on the horizon. I will have to tell 'Husband of Wonder' that it's a necessity for my (his) mental health!

Some online promotion.....I truly suck at this task :) promoting myself is about as easy as sucking Jello through a paper straw. Hmm on that note, I'm going to have to ask my one lovely, and elegant friend to look over my shop policies and such and help me add some eloquence to my writing.
 Well I believe that's a good start! Let us see where this day goes now :)

Creative Blessings, Theresa

One More Down

This weekend has been a grand adventure!

Friday Surprises:
(none of which I knew about ahead of time)
* Refurbished computer showed up in the mail from a sweet uber geek friend.
* Daughter called home....."hey Mom I got a tattoo".....um ok sweety
*Got an invitation email from an etsy team I thought I would never get into (WAY cool)
* Got filmed by a local news crew at the high school basketball game. It was Senior night, and all the seniors and parents got called down to mid court. My little Bear didn't tell Mom that was going to happen....Good thing I had makeup on!
* Hubby's relatives call 20 minutes before the game....we just drove across state to come see the game...we'll be right there. (OH SH*! Where's the vacuum?!) I lost an eye shadow down the drain in my haste....still there I'm afraid.

Little Bear Plays Drums for the Pep Band

Saturday Fun:
* Little Miss had her basketball game at 8;30am.....had to stay through the other 2 games to watch all the other monkeys we love play too.
* Had to set up the library for a meet the author program for a local gal.....hmm the publisher decided to bring 3 other authors too. This is a town of 600.....just how many folks did he think were going to show up?
*Finished my taxes, sons taxes, daughters taxes, and filed FASFA apps for 2 of my kiddos.
*Fell asleep sitting in my chair at the computer!

 Can you feel the love?....Goofy Monkeys!

Superbowl Sunday:
*Found that amber I was looking for and finished the Monarch piece.
*Made massive amounts of food...and slept through half of the game!

One more done....YAY!

All I can say is, Thank the powers that be that tomorrow is Monday!

Bright Blessings, Theresa

Delightful, Delectable, And Just A Bit Wicked

Just a drive by posting to share a treasury of truly delightful art!

Mini Giveaway

Good morning Beautiful! I have been super busy with studio work, and regular work here lately. (who hasn't?) Lots of new pieces up in the etsy shop, loading items in the new website, lots of picture taking!
I had to laugh at myself this week though, and it prompted me to have a mini giveaway.
All these pretty pieces, all these pictures.....but there is a glaring error in one of them I didn't see until I went to list it. I am sure all you keen eyed photographers will see it right off :) If you can find it, post a comment here....dont peek at the comments and cheat LOL. Monday night( 24th)I will draw a winner out of all the comments and send a surprise goodie envelope to the winner. No I don't know what I'm stuffing in the envelope yet...but who doesn't like surprises?! Rest assured everything will be handmade!

Fantastic Fridays Giveaway #5

Yay! It's my turn to host the Fantastic Fridays Giveaway #5. So my dear friends and readers You have 2 weeks to get your entries in for this Stacking the Odds Pearl necklace. This sweet little necklace features a graduated stack of stunning white freshwater pearls. Definitely not your gramma's pearls!. This pretty piece is also listed in my shop, FlightFancy.

I absolutely love doing these giveaways, and so enjoy reading everyone's comments! So if you would like to enter, all the usual rules apply :) Drawing will be held on May 15th, and is open to everyone. Be sure to leave me a way to contact you. :) Here we go!

Peek in my shop, and comment here if you find a favorite.

Become a follower of my humble blog.

link to this giveaway and post here to let me know.

any or all is worth a separate entry. Winner will be drawn randomly by random.org. Just to keep the fun rolling BaronessBijoutery will be hosting a another giveaway starting on the 15th after this drawing. Yep we're in cahoots, every other Friday we will be hosting a new giveaway.

Fantastic Friday Giveaway Winner!

Yay! it's time to announce the winner of the giveaway. Each entry was assigned a number right down the list. My young miss ran right out the door this morning, so I used random.org to pick the number for me. 

Drumroll please!  CLANK...CLANK... CLANK.... I said drumroll....NOT cowbell. 

and the winner is: #37

Grammatically Delicious Designs!

I will contact you to get your mailing address. Congratulations! Thank you so much everyone for entering!

The Baroness is hosting the next Fantastic Friday Giveaway, and I know she has picked out a truly exquisite piece for the prize! You can enter the next giveaway by visiting her blog and showing some love! The Baroness will have the new giveaway posted today, you're going to want to run over there.....it's too good to miss!

The usual suspects

Actually, you dear readers are definitely not 'usual'! I just wanted to post an  list of entries for the Fantastic Friday giveaway. So far here is the list I have. (if I have made any errors please let know!)

YouniquelyChic - 2

Anita Helena -2

Karen -2

Rose -2

KPlus -2

Vanessa -2

TheCraftbegins -1

Ashley -2

Aik-2

minishoes -2

glassidenities -3

Kristen -2

Ceridwen -2................Such a beautiful name!

bombshell -2

M Mashraqi -3

Hollyz Hobby -2

trh -2

Grammatically Delicious  -2

Jeanne Wray -1

Anna Shirron -1

Haru Dori -1

Beyond the nest -1

 I'm so tickled and tingly with anticipation! Drawing will be first thing in the morning! Is everyone waiting with baited breathe. Well hopefully the wait wont be too long. Dont forget once the winner is announced Friday morning to travel over to Baroness' Blog for the next Fantastic Friday Giveaway.

WooHoo a front page spot!

I'm so stoked! One of my necklaces made to the front page of Etsy. Yay!!!! That really helped sales in my shop. It was the best single day of sales since I opened.

The 'Cobalt Tower Necklace' was featured, and it sold right away. I really liked that piece, my son on the other hand was calling it the "Tower of Terror". Alas, I can't make another one as it was made with vintage beads, and that was the last of them.

Weird or Wonderful?

Today I got told once again...."you're weird!" It was all in fun, and a bit of wonder. My friends I believe have attached to me partially because of my sense of weird or absurd. Truth be told, I would rather be considered weird! If the folks around me stop thinking that, I would worry about my imaginative skills with my art, and crafting.
So how does being 'weird' play out from a business sense? I have noticed at least in my area (which is a very conservative demographic) that I watched a lot of the stroller pushing patrol walk right on by my booth. My designs at first glance dont look mainstream enough for the middle class mommy. So I decided to use my weird style, and most importantly my sense of humor to lure them in my booth. I listen to the comments they make as they are walking by.... example: Hubby makes a joke to the wife about one of my besoms. I walk right up and hand him a coupon for free riding riding lessons! It breaks the ice, and gets them to stop even for a moment to look around and see there is more in my booth that they originally assumed on first glance.
On the other hand the positive of weird style is it draws in the bold and the curious. I find that It's not just other artsy folks, what I think is cool is the bold and curious are older women! They ask more questions, and arent afraid to ask for what they want. So Im sticking with my weird self!