Give Away Scout

Give away scout is a good website to find out about different blogs and websites that are having a free give away! Who wouldn't want to know about that. Hope you take a look . Have a good week everyone. http://www.giveawayscout.com/

2nd Interview Featuring Hazel the Jewelry Designer

Here is the next interview with Hazel designer of My Gemstone Designs and Big and Beautiful Jewelry, enjoy.




Hello, my name is Hazel and I live in a small town in Wyoming with my husband, three dog's, Fay Fay, Katie and Alex and two fish Lovey and Dovey. I am retired from retail management and have the luxury of working at home doing what I love, designing jewelry. I also enjoy gardening and love growing roses.

Big and Beautiful is a new line of jewelry I started a few months ago for Plus Size women. I read an article about plus size women not being able to find jewelry to fit properly so I decided to create designs and open a shop catering to all those big and beautiful women out there. I hope to fulfill a need and bring some enjoyment to shopping for jewelry. I offer handmade one of a kind necklace's 18-24 inch, bracelet's 8-10 inch and earrings in a variety of styles and sizes. There will be lot's more to come as I have just opened this shop so check back to see new designs. Birthstone bracelet's are coming soon and special order's are alway's welcome.

In addition to Big and Beautiful I have a shop My Gemstone Designs that offer's handmade one of a kind gemstone, crystal and southwest design's. All my piece's are created using genuine gemstone's, swarovski crystal's, turquoise and coral, sterling silver and 14K gold filled bead's and finding's. I also have my design's featured in a local boutique here in town and am happy to say I do very well there.

The handmade jewelry business is a tough place to be these day's with all the competition so you need to work really hard to get yourself noticed. When I started two and a half year's ago I had no clue what I was doing so I learned along the way. One of the biggest thing's for me was learning about SEO. My advice is to read and learn, have quality product, good photo's, description's, tag's and promote, promote, promote to get your name out there. I promote through facebook and twitter and having sales doesn't hurt either. Having a blog is helpful also but I haven't done that yet. Maybe in the near future. Here are my link's if you would like to stop by.
http://www.zibbet.com/bigandbeautiful 15% off store wide thru July 31st.
http://www.zibbet.com/mygemstonedesigns 15% off store wide thru July 31st.
http://www.facebook.com/plussizedesigns
http://www.facebook.com/mygemstonedesigns
http://www.twitter.com/gemstonedesigns

Coffee Cups

I just worked on some fun coffee cups I had so much fun working on them and they are also scented in chocolate so whats there not to like? I hope you enjoy these little guys as much as I did making them :)

First Interview Featuring Princess Chibi

So here is my first feature that I hope to work on once a week with different artist. So here is Princess Chibi enjoy!





Tell us a bit about yourself:

Hello! I'm Shorty Hoshino, head-owner of Imperfect Kawaii/Princess Chibi(etsy). ^_^ I'm a Cali girl who loves making somewhat cute stuff for other people and hope to bring a smile upon their face ^.^!

So what is your shop, all about what do you offer?

Our shop is based on imperfect creations and creatures and things with those "kawaii" like expressions on their faces ^_^ Besides being the head-owner of IK, I'm also the charm maker who makes any creature that comes to mind or take in any request from customers ^.^ I'm also into the Hime-Gyaru (princess) fashion and love to decoden! So we offer variety deco goodies like rings and custom phone cases.

So, describe the process of creating your items: how, when, materials, etc.?

For charms, I sculpt their bodies, baked them, paint their personalities, and glaze them to life. Polymer clay ftw~!

got other hobbies that you love?

O_O I LOVE SHOPPING AND EATING!!! And spending time with my friends and boyfriend ^__^ also enjoy singing in the car x3

In your opinion, do you think there's a lot of competition in miniature food jewelry/accessories?

Hmmm,I'd say so. But hey, I really do look up to other clay artist, A LOT. They're one of the reasons I started out because they gave me an impression that anyone can do it too. The competition doesn't discourage me since I don't produce a lot of items and I mostly take in commissions from people that have seen my work (thankies fans!). I believe everyone has their own style to their work, be it clay or re-ments ^_^

Any advice for people starting out?

It's tough at first, but don't give up! It's all about good photos and promoting your shop!

what are the ways your promote yourself?

I upload some pieces on DeviantArt where all fellow artist and art lovers can browse through them ^__^ and also Twitter. Twitter is very helpful I believe when it comes to selling stuff.

Do you have any promotions going on now?

Teehee, not right now, but very very soon! So here's my bloggy to keep a look out ;] http://imperfectkawaii.blogspot.com

Awesome! Now, other than your etsy shop, what other shops do you like/love?

HAHA, I like/love soooo many!!! Every Etsy shop I've come across, I have loved it. Just love how all these Etsians load up their handmade items and it makes me appreciate it even more like crochet and soap making and candle making and much more ^__^ Etsy has really made me appreciate and long for handmade items.

Okay, last question, where do you see yourself in ten years?

Well, I better be a kickbutt Registered Nurse by then and married to the co-owner of IK :P and hopefully away from my parents. Also, hope to already have created a cure for my puppy to live forever. He's not sick, but I just want him to be immortal and carry on my legacy when I pass away.

Sushi Night

So Last week my boyfriend and I made sushi for dinner, it was a lot of fun. They took a little while to make and to understand what we had to do. But... I think we made too much anyone wanna help us? Its all you can eat! Since you had too much sushi we just freezer till another night. I also showed my boy friend Chris what Chobits was all about what a good anime hehe

Christmas in July at The Candy Shoppe

Come stop by for a big sale event to clear out some older stock. Help me clear it out! :) I hope you enjoy the event its going on till aug. 8th so take advantage of the sale while its here. I also have a lot of supplies that I am clearing out so if you are looking for some odds and ends of miniatures please stop by thank you.

New Jewelry Sneak Peek

Hi everyone, I hope you are having a really good week. I just wanted all my friends on blogger about a sneak peek of all of the new jewelry coming to my Etsy shop soon. Please enjoy and let me know what you think. There are a lot of resin work this time around too. Here is the link to my Flicker page.