Are You Still Shopping For Wonderful Gifts For All Those You Adore?
Enjoy 25% Off This Weekend Over at the
Use Coupon Code Winter25 Upon Check Out!
Have a Great Weekend Everyone!
Until Next Time,
Peace, Love and Fantastic Savings!
Cheers,
~Shel~
And The Winner Is,...
Patty Wins - Yeah!!
(I've already emailed her to give her the fun news!)
So, there you have it folks! I hope you enjoyed visiting all the great, unique and fun shops during the Holiday Shop Hop this past weekend!
Keep in mind that from now until January 15th, 2012, the button at the top of my blog that says "Holiday Shop Hop 2011" will have all the shops that participated in the Holiday Shop Hop along with a few more that have been added to the list so you can enjoy browsing their shops, websites and/or blogs during the entire Winter Break.
Many of the shops are running promotions, sales and have all sorts of fun things going on this whole month - so please stop back by and check out their shops and see what's new!
Until Next Time,
Peace, Love and Holiday Cheer!
Cheers,
~Shel~
100!!
I told you back here, in this original post, that I'd be doing a give-a-way once I reached 100 followers and so today's the day!
Congratulations to the following winners!
Saun, of the blog "Live by the Sun, Love by the Moon" won this lovely set!
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| Romantic Rose Set Won by Saun! |
Carlynne, of Hershberger and Huff Studios won my "Follow Your Heart" necklace!
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| Follow Your Heart Necklace won by Carlynne! |
And, Mariter, won the "Butterscotch" Bracelet!
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| Butterscotch Bracelet won by Mariter! |
Way to go everyone! Email me at Shel@asicj.com so I can get your addresses from you and send you your goodies!!
Thanks so much to everyone who follows. I appreciate you joining me and I love to hear your comments!
Plus, join me tomorrow as I give away this cute set!
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| Who will win this tomorrow?! |
The people who commented on my "Holiday Shop Hop" post from Saturday and Sunday are all in the running - good luck!!
Until Next Time,
Peace, Love and Fun Give-A-Ways!
Cheers,
Holiday Shop Hop 2011
Welcome to the Holiday Shop Hop 2011
Saturday, December 3rd and Sunday, December 4th
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| Carved Wooden Snowman Ornament by Gordon W. Baldock Photo by Michelle Buettner Graphic Enhancement by Mary Anne Flesch of Handcrafted Serenity Jewelry |
We all know it's pretty easy to hop around and shop all over Etsy, Artfire and many other super wonderful arts and craft sites, but sometimes it's a bit daunting and so this was developed (with some generous help from some very wonderful people, I might add!) to be a fun and enjoyable way to shop handmade and support the arts and crafts sector of the small business world during this very busy gift giving season!
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| "Winter in Nutrioso" Photo by Michelle Buettner |
Listed below are some pretty cool places to find unique handmade items such as Jewelry (I love buying other jewelry artist's designs - they're so gorgeous!!) and Jewelry related items, such as Beads and Supplies (I can never have enough of these!). There's also handcrafted Toys, Wearable Goods, Bath and Body Products, Candles and items we use everyday such as Pens, but these are handcrafted with some really cool flair!
Some of the participants below have listed their online shops for you to browse through while others have listed their blogs, website or Facebook page which is where you will find information on the wonderful items they create and offer for sale. (The MiShel Designs Etsy shop is listed in the link list below with everyone else's and there's a clickable link over here on the right side of my blog. I've got a coupon code for 20% off posted in my shop announcements for shoppers as well.)
Each participant has created their own unique shopping experience for you and you'll want to be on the look out for a few that are offering specials, discount codes or coupons and even a possible give-a-way or two!
To start things off, I'm going to be giving away a necklace and earring set here on the MiShel Designs Blog. Everyone who leaves a comment at the bottom of this post either today or tomorrow will be entered in the drawing and the participant will be chosen by random.org and announced here on my blog on Tuesday, December 6th, 2011.
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| Necklace and Earring Set by Michelle Buettner of MiShel Designs |
So please, browse through the list below and enjoy the
Holiday Shop Hop!
Enjoy!!
We Hope You Have Enjoyed The Holiday Shop Hop!
Although Most Of The Specials and/or Give-A-Ways These Shops Are Having May Only Be
Valid During Certain Times,
The "Holiday Shop Hop" Button
at the Top of This Blog
Will Have These Shops Listed
Until January 15, 2012
So That You May Browse
Through Their Shops During
Your Entire Winter Break!
Enjoy!!
Cheers,
~Shel~
Peace, Love and Happy Handmade Holiday!
Cheers,
~Shel~
With Much Gratitude
It was brought to my attention that I hadn't properly thanked all the wonderful people who helped me with the Holiday Shop Hop that's taking place here on my blog tomorrow and Sunday, so I wanted to take this opportunity to do so!
First and foremost, to everyone who’s blindly jumped in to participate and make this little shop hop a fun event this weekend. Thank you so VERY much!
You’ve tweeted, you’ve facebooked, you’ve blogged, and talked, and emailed and shared the information for the Holiday Shop Hop with so many people and it will be thanks to all of your brilliant efforts when it’s a success!
You’ve tweeted, you’ve facebooked, you’ve blogged, and talked, and emailed and shared the information for the Holiday Shop Hop with so many people and it will be thanks to all of your brilliant efforts when it’s a success!
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Next I’ve got a little “private list” of peeps that have listened to my long, drawn out and rambling emails (You know who you are!!) and who’ve also offered countless suggestions and were there when this was just an inkling and I had no idea what the heck I even wanted to do to help get traffic to people's shops and to help get people to shop handmade, small business and “local” (in their jammies, in their own house!) this gift giving season! Thank you!!
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I want to give a big shout out to these wonderful women as well:
Lori Anderson – Lori’s listened to many of my rambling emails, gave suggestions and offered help despite her own very cool and successful Virtual Craft Fair she’s got going on this entire week over on her blog, Pretty Things! Thank you so much Lori, your suggestions, offers of help and ear for listening are greatly appreciated and deeply valued!
Lisa Crone: Lisa got blind-sided as I asked a ton of her one night via email. She had such a full schedule and still said to me “As soon as I’m free, I’ll help out”. So, when she finished, I said “Oh, thanks, but I’ve got it under control”. How rude of me – not on purpose, but still - rude of me none-the-less! And, being the gracious one she is, she still helped out! What a class act! Thank you so much for your support and help!
Mary Anne Flesch: Mary Anne jumped in for the Shop Hop and then she took my little “Snowman Button” and “fixed” him! Yep, she took the yellow out and made him look all pretty and white like a snowman should! Yeah!! And then, of course, I messed it up again,….what’s new?!! L But, Thank You Mary Anne! You took your time and effort to help me and I appreciate it so much!! And, if I do this next year,…I’ll make sure I use the Snowman you fixed!!
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| Mary Anne's nice white Snowman! :) |
And not the one that looks like it was made with snow that Santa’s Reindeer peed on! J
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| Shelly's 'yellow-ish' Snowman |
THANK YOU everyone! I really am grateful.
Cheers,
~Shel~
This or That,...and Some Other Stuff
I'm being reflective today and thinking back on my Thanksgiving Weekend in the Mountains with my family.
We took some walks and gazed at things around us.
We had a lovely Thanksgiving Day and the day after,
It snowed!
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| The Fireplace at Grandma Emma's - after the Wallow Fire this summer |
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| Fireplace Stone work my Sister and Brother-in-Law did |
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| Fireplace Handle after the Wallow Fire This Summer |
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| Snowy Branch |
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| The Treehouse my hubby built w/our son after his heart attack in 2007. It was barely started in 2007 and 2 days after Thanksgiving that year Mike had a massive heart attack. He said all he could think about while laying in ICU was that he needed to finish the treehouse with Logan before he passed away. He keeps adding on to it every chance we get to go up to the mountains. It's kind of symbolic now I guess! I love this place! |
(as always, click on the photos to make them bigger!)
Until Next Time,
Peace, Love and Pausing,....
Cheers,
~Shel~
Linking up today with This or That Thursday over on Deb Duty's Blog - won't you join in?
BTW,.....
Hey, BTW,...it's Bead Table Wednesday today!
Hop on over to the Flickr Group and
see what's cooking today, won't you?
My unfinished work this Wednesday!
I've got a link list on my bead table and I'm emailing people with it today and I've got a bunch of unfinished jewelry designs waiting patiently for me to finish, photograph and get into my shop for this weekend's Holiday Shop Hop.
What's on your Bead Table Today??
Until Next Time,
Peace, Love and BTW!!
Cheers,
~Shel~
Almost There,....
Happy Tuesday! Did you survive Cyber Monday? I hope so!
I also hope you're ready for more fun and great deals this weekend as I host the Holiday Shop Hop 2011 this Saturday and Sunday, December 3rd and 4th, right here on my blog.
A big shout out to Rena Klingenberg for so graciously mentioning the Holiday Shop Hop in the "Neat Jewelry Website" section of her Jewelry Business Success Newsletter that's out today! Thanks so much Rena!!
There will be some great shops/blogs filled with handmade items and creative art for you to browse through at your leisure during the Holiday Shop Hop and up there on the top of my blog, where all the links are,...well, the Holiday Shop Hop button will have the list of all the shops/blogs that will be participating this weekend and it will have all those links for you to click away at from this weekend on through until at least January 15th, 2012. This way everyone who's on Winter Break can enjoy shopping great handmade items even after the Gift Giving Holiday's are over!
Now, on to some other things today. I don't know if you know this about me but I LOVE making earrings. Yes, I know you know that I love to make jewelry but Earrings are, by far, my FAVORITE to design and create!
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| Handcrafted Earrings by Michelle Buettner of MiShel Designs "Snakeskin Components" by Kristi Bowman Handcrafted earring wires by Shel of Shel's Jewelry Supplies |
Anyhoo,....what I'm getting at is a few things. 1st, nothing destroys a great pair of handmade earrings (in my outspoken opinion, anyway!) than a pair of ugly, not-suited-for-the-earrings, pair of widely manufactured earring wires! (Gosh, I cannot believe I actually said this out loud - I'm sure I'm gonna get eaten alive for this one!)
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| Sleeping Beauty Nugget Earrings and Handcrafted Earring Wires by Michelle Buettner of MiShel Deisgns |
But anyway, my point is here is this,....I love to make handcrafted earring wires and several of my jewelry friends (and all of my clients) told me how much they LOVED my earring wires, so I started making them for other designers and opened another Etsy shop last year called Shel's Jewelry Supplies. It's been going quite well, so much so that I actually blew out my poor elbow in February of this year and had to stop production for quite a while.
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| "Sexy Norm" Style Earring Wires in Sterling Silver by Shel of Shel's Jewelry Supplies |
Well, silly me, with the Holiday Shop Hop coming up, I've been less than productive in the 'supplies' category and have basicially, completely 'SOLD OUT' of my earring wires on my Etsy Site! (Bad, bad Girl!) So, I'm kicking myself in the booty and I'm gonna try to get a few things listed and back up.
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| "Elegant" Style Handcrafted Earring Wires in 14K Gold Filled by Shel of Shel's Jewelry Supplies |
BUT - in the meantime, here's the point I was trying to make in the beginning (yep, got a little side-tracked as usual!!)
There's the neatest blog out there that's dedicated to Earrings! How cool is this?! I mean, really - I'm in heaven!
The brainchild of Heather Powers . She, and some other very creative designers who are contributors, have this wonderful site with some awesome designs, so if you're as crazy about earrings as I am - you gotta go check this out. It's called Earrings Everyday - Inspiration and Adoration (Yes, that's what I'm talking about!) It's got tons of inspiration and places to get fabulous beads and fun items for your earrings too - you'll definitely want to check this out!
And, another favorite of mine, is the book Handcrafted Wire Findings, techniques and designs for custom jewelry components by Denise Peck and Jane Dickerson.
Oh,...this is loaded with all kinds of wire findings you can make yourself and that will have your jewelry designs popping with personality (way more personality than mass produced findings if you ask me!) .
Anyway, one of the earring designs they have published in this book, on page 21 to be exact, is their pair of "flattened ear wires". I Love Them!!
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| "Signature" Syle Earring Wires in Sterling Silver by Shel of Shel's Jewelry Supplies |
And, they're very similar to my "Signature" pair of earring wires that I've been making for over 15 years now (that my metalsmith teacher, Carol, told me were fabulous, by the way!) and so you just have to check out this book, if you haven't already done so, because the findings you will learn to create and be able to expand upon are wonderful!
It just gets your creative juices flowing and your mind racing! Well, it did mine, anyway, and so I just had to share it with you!
So, as you're preparing your handcrafted items for sale this season (and any season for that matter) check out these two very lovely voices of inspiration and education!
And, don't forget to hop back on over here this weekend and check out all the really cool handmade shops that will be featured on the Holiday Shop Hop. There's handmade toys, soaps, candles, scarves and jewelry and jewelry related items, of course! Yummy, Yummy!
Until Next Time,
Peace, Love and Living Creatively!
Peace, Love and Living Creatively!
Cheers,
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