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I just started selling on Artfire after a few false starts. Sometimes computer programs just elude me and pictures on Artfire were beyond my abilities. Turns out it was my computer and nothing wrong with Artfire. Once I figured out the problem (actually it was my computer guru) it was simple and fast to list and Artfire looks wonderful.

In fact, I’m quite impressed with Artfire. Even had my first sale today. Thank you Cindy. Thank you Artfire.

Visit my Artfire at A Beaded Affair.

Gahooletree Designs

While writing a post about my favorite stores on Esty I ran across a post on The Jewelry Report , an online blog about current trends in jewelry. Spring always brings color, sun and a re-newed outlook on life and this year is no exception. Big, bold, fabulous gemstones are the focus this year and appropriately The Jewelry Report featured Gahooletree Designs and this incredible confection. Visit Etsy, haven for everything handmade and stop by Anna Lee’s shop Gahooletree Designs for your perfect spring purchase.

Do you design your own jewelry? While at Etsy visit A Beaded Affair for hand sellected and individually photographed bead strands. Bead store quality at gem show prices. Findings and copper wire too.

Well, actually we have 3 winners.

Random.org is fun…just put the numbers in and it provides random integers. With over 300 comments I promised a 3rd place winner too. No pictures yet but I will post a picture shortly.

During the last couple of weeks I visited every single blog in OWOH and enjoyed getting to see all the creative talent that’s out there. I commented on many of them and had a blast traveling all over the world. Thanks to all who entered and made this such a wonderful experience.

Now to our winners:

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First Prize goes to #133 Kathy  - Visit Kathy’s blog at http://kathymcelroy.typepad.com/

2nd Prize goes to #17 and you can visit her blog at http://steintranquility.blogspot.com/

Finally, 3rd Prize goes to #37 Anne - Visit Anne’s blog at http://www.creativesharing.blogspot.com

I’ll be emailing my winners as soon as I post this and get their earrings out Monday.

The One World One Heart list will remain up for a while after the contest closes and give you all time to visit all the blogs again and I know I will be going back to many that I visited. Hope you will too and that you will come back and visit me again. Thank you to all the participants and particularly those that left me comments. This has been a wonderful experience that I hope to participate in again next year.

Happy Valentines day to one and all!

Update - 2/16/2008

Haven’t heard from our 3rd prize winner yet. Perhaps I can tempt her to respond with a picture of the earrings she won. Solid copper, chrysocolla and lava stone. Hope you like them.

2009 - One World One Heart - Leave a Comment to WinIn 2007 Lisa Swifka of A Whimsical Bohemian, (I love that name), created what has become an annual blogging event known as One World One Heart. Now in it’s 3rd year, at this writing, there are over 790 blogs listed with still 2 days to the entry cut off date for bloggers to participate by listing a blog such as I am doing here. On February 12th when it’s all over each blogger will award a prize to the winning comment on their own blog. More than being about blog give aways, Lisa sees One World One Heart as a way to connect bloggers from around the world, new bloggers, old bloggers finding each other, making friends and connecting in a way we might never have without One World One Heart. I think Lisa has certainly achieved her goal this year.

Thanks so much Lisa for the chance to participate this year.

2/2 - With so many visitors and comments, I have decided to add some more earrings to the prize and give out several pairs on February 12th. I’ll post some pics shortly.

2/8 - Second Prize Earrings……if I hit 300 comments I will add a third pair.

Yellow Tourmaline and Copper

 

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary defines elegance as that “state or quality of being elegant; beauty… resulting from choice qualities…; grace given by art or practice; fine polish; refinement; — said of manners, language, style, form, architecture, etc.”… and might I add jewelry? Grace, polish and refinement are the hallmarks of Jewelry Elegance by Jill .

I consider myself fortunate to have met Jill a few months ago when we both joined the Esmarts Team on Etsy, the number one online marketing venue for hand crafted art. Esmarts Team members are dedicated to promoting our shops and each other through social marketing. Jill is a strong member and brings style and grace to the team.

Eclectic…

Creative….

Delicate….

Dedicated to perfection…

At Jewelry Elegance by Jill you will find only the finest in gems, swarovski crystal, czech glass, sterling silver and natural copper

A California transplant in Georgia, it’s easy to see West Coast freedom mixed with Southern Charm in all Jill’s work. A quick trip through her blog, Jewelry Elegance by Jill , reveals a little about her life and loves. Devoted wife and mother of 3, who apparently aren’t reading her blog, shame on you guys, Jill is also Momma to fur and feather babies that she adores. You must read Meet the Talker about Nika, an African Gray that keeps the family, apparently including the fur babies, entertained on a regular basis.

It has been my disticnt privilege to introduce you Jewelry Elegance by Jill and I hope you will stop by her shop and have a look around at her extraordinary offerings. You can also find Jill’s work at Jewelry Elegance at 1000 Markets and This, This and That also at 1000 Markets.

Interested in selling on Etsy and learning the skills to sell successfully through Social Marketing? Visit the Esmarts Team Blog or Esmarts Team Profile to find out more.

While at Etsy, take a stroll through my shop, A Beaded Affair for top of the line, hand selected beads, findings and copper wire in hard to find 1/2 round and square.

Courtesy of www.Random.org (my very smart daughter told me ’bout this one) we have a winner. Your entries were time dated and entered into the list and Random.org selected our winner, Lizzie. See list as generated by Random below.

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There were 13 items in your list. Here they are in random order:

Lizzie
Eileen
BobbiannCook
Lindsay
Kim Ries
Lindsay E
Annette Piper
Gemlover
Dreamshadow Designs
LaSara
Jessica
Mod Farm Girl
Adagio Bead Crafters
Timestamp: 2009-01-11 04:33:11 UTC

So, Lizzie, I will be sending you an email momentarily and Twittering that you are the winner. Thanks to all who played with Esmarts Team.

A special thanks to all the members of Esmarts Team. This special group donated fabulous items to our shop and then worked throughout the day to help promote the event. This is truely a special and unique group and I consider myself very fortunate to be associated with them. Please check here Etsy for all the team shops when you get a chance.

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The Esmarts Team Shop at Etsy was created in the spirit of “PAYING IT FORWARD”. The Team has jumped on board and loaded it with scrumptious new listings for you to peruse. In that spirit we’d like to give a bit back to all of our readers and buyers by running a contest on Twitter and our blogs. All you have to do to enter the contest is leave a comment mentioning the contest here on A Beaded Affair, the Esmarts Team Blog or Direct Message @abeadedaffair on Twitter and you might win the $10.00 Gift Certificate in the drawing on Saturday which you can use in the Esmarts Team Shop . Gift Cert donated by A Beaded Affair at Etsy. Take a chance, have some fun, enter our contest and win $10.00.Just a few of the new items donated by the talented members of EsmartsContest runs from Noon Friday January 9 (that’s tomorrow folks) til Midnight.On Saturday we will announce the winner here!!!This weeks donations by Creations by Jae, dgdesignstx, SandTCreations, The World of Wezz, Chic Hats and More, Gahooletree, Studio618 and Wilma’s Whimseys. Visit these Etsy shops for more exciting hand crafted goodies.

When you snooze you lose. If you didn’t check out the Esmarts Team Store on Tuesday you missed donations by M5 Creative Corners  which sold right away.

One more note, Coastal Artist has reduced the price on 3 of his prints to $20.00 just for the contest. Don’t wait, leave a comment and check out all the fabulous items at Esmarts Team Store and win the Gift Certificate.

Are you on Twitter? Share the love and Tweet about the contest for us. The more the merrier.

Cheers

I love to be creative. At one time or another I’ve knitted and crocheted, some painting (not very well), crewell, needlepoint, rugs and many other crafts over the years. I’ve definintely found my passion in jewelry. The one craft I always wanted to master, and never have, was sewing. Oh I can thread a needle and run a straight seam and I’ve even made wearable clothing on occaision. Just ask my Dad.

My Nana, at the age of 87 was in the process of making a robe for Christmas for Dad when she suddenly took ill and passed shortly after. I swore I would finish the robe for her and I did. I think Dad was touched and he wore the robe for years. Maybe I should get the sewing machine out again and try to make a new one for him. Not this year though. Sorry Dad.

So I am in awe of people who sew beautifully and make it look so easy. Recently I received a gorgeous wallet like the pink one in the above picture from the wonderfully creative and oh so generous Tina of M5 creative corners. I was astounded to just discover today that there was also a dollar inside the wallet for good luck. Thank you Tina. I fell in love with this wallet the day I received it and wanted to protect it from being overloaded. I tend to grossly overstuff my wallet so I can just grab it and go without my pocket book when I want to. But this was so beautiful I just slid in my cash and three cards, no change and a check book and never noticed my extra little gift. I suspect thoughfulness, care and meticulous attention to detail goes into every M5 creation.

Along with my wallet I received 10 of Tina’s Mini Purses to sell at the Glenside Farmers Market Holiday Craft Show and I would love to show you a picture of one of them in person but guess what, they all sold.  Certainly that is no surprise. These bright, colorful and very usable Mini Purses attracted so much attention at my booth and people gobbled them up for stocking stuffers and themselves.

Tina’s creativity only begins at your pocketbook. Take a look at some of her other items from her Etsy Shop M5 creative corners.

A plastic bag holder to keep all those grocery bags neat and tidy, Why not give this one to a little girl to keep some toys tidy and off the floor. It’s so cute I’d almost hate to put the bags in it.

Or cover a book with sweet little book covers. This one’s my favorite. Just love those cats.

I could pick out more of Tina’s pieces to show you but you really should check them out for yourself and see the fine quality, amazing colors and details. Tina’s shop is here at M5 creative corners an Etsy shop and take the Hand Made Pledge today to buy handmade for the Holidays. You can’t go wrong with gifts from M5 creative corners.

Tina is a member of the Etsy Team Esmarts. Check out all of Tina’s team members through her Favorite Sellers and don’t forget to visit the Esmarts Team shop for more gift giving ideas. Proceeds from the Esmarts Team store go to worthy causes and represent  a wide variety of our teams talents.

Thanks for reading and Happy Holidays to all!

For those of you who are unfamiliar with Esty it is without a doubt the best place on the web for creative crafters to market their wares and that is just what they do. Everything from Wooden Apples to Stuffed Zebra’s can be found in the thousands of stores you can shop in. But what makes Etsy truly amazing is the people.

Through one of the myriad of groups I belong to on the web I met Marichris Guadagna, the creative artist who sells on Etsy as Golden Flower Creations. On her blog Zen Ventures yesterday she offered fellow shop owners the opportunity to advertise with her in a creative blog post called Siesta Saturday. Check out her blog and her shop here. Etsy really is all about the people.

Zen Ventures: Siesta Saturday - Nothing but Etsy#comments

And in that light, being all about the people, don’t forget to stop by my team’s store Esmarts where we donate fine art to help someone less fortunate. Newly listed today, two new items from Jill at Jewelry Elegance.

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