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Handmade Jewelry New Unique Bracelets by Copper Reflections at Wholesale Jewelry Gift Shows

nobody@vox.com(HandmadeJewelry) — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 08:20:18 -0800

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New Handmade Jewelry , unique bracelets, handcrafted earrings and matching necklaces by Copper Reflections will be displayed at the wholesale jewelry gift shows in Canada and the United States. Copper Reflections has been providing unique handcrafted jewelry and handmade gifts for 25 years. They specialize in animal jewelry, wildlife jewelry, nature jewelry and Native American jewelry designs. These designs are available in many styles of unique jewelry and gifts.

Copper Reflections handmade jewelry and unique gift ideas are silver plated and individually diamond cut on copper jewelry and gifts. Each piece of handcrafted copper jewelry and unique gift idea has a protective acrylic coating to prevent tarnishing so no polishing is required. They have been designing and producing artisan handmade jewelry and unique gift ideas since 1985.

Gift shops, trading posts and Native American jewelry stores owners are welcome to see our unique jewelry addition. Copper Reflections artisans can also custom make your jewelry designs for you.rrings, handcrafted necklaces, or handmade rings. You know your market the best, you know what your customers want, hummingbird jewelry, horse jewelry, butterfly jewelry, dolphin jewelry and many other unique jewelry designs. We can work as a team with you. You can give us ideas for unique jewelry pieces and we can custom make them exclusively for you. This way, together with you, we will be able to create the unique jewelry that your market requires. This will ensure to come with the most unique handmade jewelry, handcrafted jewelry for his her gift store to suit their market.

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Sharon (newbie) to group and soapmaker

nobody@vox.com(Oasis Bath soaps) — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 20:18:08 -0800

Hello all

Gosh, where do I start? I am over in Texas and just had a birthday this month and loved it very much. I have several hobbies however my passion is soapmaking which I am definitely addicted to and have been for quite some times.

Glad I found this group and will pop my head in to see what is going on at times. Feel free to stop and shop oasisbath.etsy.com and my blog debut is oasisbath.blogspot.com

Happy Holidays to everyone!

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How To Increase Gift Shop Sales of Handmade Earrings Unique Bracelets

nobody@vox.com(HandmadeJewelry) — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 08:37:16 -0800

The best way of increasing the sales, thus the profits, is to find the most original handmade jewelry, handcrafted jewelry, handcrafted artisan jewelry and the most unique jewelry that can not be found in all the gift stores. Unique handmade jewelry, handcrafted jewelry will be the reason that your customers will keep coming back for. If your gift store is the only shop that is offering these unique handmade bracelets, handmade earrings, handcrafted necklaces, rings and brooches customers will have no other choice but coming back to you for birthday gifts, anniversary gifts, Christmas gifts as the handmade artisan jewelry will make the most unique gifts for her and unique gifts for men.

The most important reason for customers to come back to your gift shop is to find original handmade jewelry, handcrafted jewelry, unique jewelry because your store is the only store that offers these unique jewelry gifts. So it is a good idea to ask your handmade jewelry, handcrafted jewelry, wholesale jewelry suppliers to give you the exclusive rights for your area. This way you will make sure that your customers have a reason to keep on coming back to your gift shop to find many handmade gifts and unique jewelry, artisan jewelry that can not be found any where else in your area.

The other important reason that you will have steady customers that will be coming back to your store for every time when they need to buy birthday gifts, anniversary gifts, men’s gifts, women’s gifts or Christmas gifts is that you have reasonable priced handmade jewelry, unique jewelry. Especially Christmas time when people have to buy many gifts for their loved ones, your prices on handmade jewelry, handcrafted artisan jewelry, unique jewelry will play a big role. Once your gift shop is known in the area with the most original jewelry, unique handcrafted jewelry, handmade artisan jewelry and the reasonable prices, this will be the best advertisement for your gift store; customers telling to their friends about how wonderful your store is. You will be surprised to see people will be coming long distances to shop for unique artisan jewelry, handmade jewelry, handcrafted unique jewelry. Then your business becomes a success story.

At Copper Reflections, with our jewelry designs and our artisans’ crafted jewelry, we have been aware of the importance of high quality, reasonable wholesale jewelry prices and the most unique jewelry. You Would know that when all these conditions are realized in real life the business becomes success. This, of course, goes for all kinds of business, not only handmade jewelry, handcrafted jewelry, artisan handmade jewelry business. They should always give the exclusive rights to our wholesale jewelry customers for especially small town gift shops. This has always worked well for us, as handmade jewelry suppliers as well as the gift store owners.

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gluttony

nobody@vox.com(CubistLiterature) — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 21:55:22 -0800

Things are fine.
In Texas right now. Galveston Island to be exact, at the moment actually. Spending some time with my father.
Can't really find a decent internet connection anywhere.
And I hate the fact that Houston doesn't want you to walk anywhere.

The only thing I can think about right now is the fact that I was peer pressured (by Ben J.) into eating dog food. Trying it, tasting it. Not feasting on it.

It didn't really taste like anything. Just bad and bland.
Dogs should have more flavorful food, I think.

Here's a shot from the photo shoot we had for my winter 2009 look book:

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I'll show you more in time---that is, whenever I can sit down and be at one with my computer.
Haven't really been having any QT (quality time) with it since I got here.

Be good!
x
c

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Life on the homestead, projects and more...

nobody@vox.com(faerwear) — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 10:26:13 -0800

I have been reordering my vocabulary a bit to deal with winter - I used to think everything "died back" in the wintertime, at least my plants, flowers, etc... This used to make me sad, and I'd start feeling that way around fall, which made the impending winter come on with a complete sense of doom.

Now, we call this "dormancy" - I've had the opportunity to collect a lot of seeds and watch many things reseed themselves, and I constantly remind myself that the ground is sleeping, our sheet mulches are creating, and soon, I'll get to watch the joy of seedlings becoming plants that eventually produce foods and flowers all over again.

In the meantime, it's cold outside and I've joined Netflix (find me there as Dori.mondon if you'd like to be friends) and I'm doing a lot of knitting and baking and wondering why and how it is that I haven't already packed on the pounds.

Evie's Dream scarf

On that note, I've written a free pattern for a lace-stitch scarf. You can download it by clicking this link. It's a superquick, chunky knit on size 11 needles.

And, although I can't provide for any Christmas gifts, I'm now offering sets of two and sets of four handknit washcloths of my own pattern designs. These sets are available for purchase in my Etsy shop. And as I mentioned, while I can't provide for the holidays, these do make excellent gifts! I hope to team up with a neighbor who makes the best soap ever and start selling combined kits soon.

Baby bootees for Maya Laura

While I'm all talking about knitting, here's a pair of Saartje's Bootees that I whipped up for a friend - I was at her aunt's house the day before her surprise baby shower, but I had to leave that evening, so I left these behind for her to find. How cute are these things? My mothering thing is only now starting to kick in a bit, and, well, these are, ya know... Cute. and Inspiring. This little pattern is HUGELY popular - and many folks have come up with alternate ways to knit these. Do a google search!

Well, I guess that's really it for now - I have quite a huge bit of knitting to finish for the holidays, as well as a lot of sheet mulching to finish so that I have some good soil in new flower beds for the spring. We intend to rock the farmer's market really early this year, too, and have started our first greenhouse. Pictures next time I'm on the internet. And, you'll get to see pictures of our new dog, too. Our last male dog got really sick and died three months after we adopted him. it was heartbreaking, but we're the kinds of folks who communicate with "the dead" and we asked him to send us a new one - we need a good huntin' dog around our parts to keep the wildlife out of the crops. Sadly, our female, though she can run about twenty-five miles an hour (no joke) is useless when it comes to this. She'd much rather be trying to sleep in our bed. So, all of a sudden, here comes a woman with a half-heeler, half-australian shepherd she has to find a home for. Our home it is. We're looking forward to him moving in sometime in the next couple of weeks.

Have a happy holiday season and really, try not to stress about it too much - it's supposed to be fun, ya know? I'm sure I'm leaving out quite a bit since I'm not here that often, but so it goes. That's how it is when you live in a rural area without the internet at home... I hope that changes soon though, I really do!

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TRACE AMOUNTS

nobody@vox.com(CubistLiterature) — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:44:47 -0800

Nostalgic moments since Andrea G. said she's coming to visit in January:

Andrea and I (as NAZIRECTIONS) playing in Portland at Reed College.

nazirections at REED college

In retrospect, it really was just drunken noise.
Later that same night I remember falling on my face (not because I was drunk) because I jumped from the top of a staircase (because I was drunk) and waking up with a fat lip. I deserved it.

In other news, last night Ben and I were interviewed (videotaped) and photographed by these young local filmmakers wanting to talk to young designers (I think---it all happened so fast). There were all these cameras positioned around me and people looking at me while I worked. It wasn't unpleasant, just unusual.

Anyway, one of the questions they asked me was if I had any advice for someone just starting out (as if I'm not).

Well, first of all, I had all my words together and basically said that you need to have a plan and goals in mind. And that you need to stay focused and keep good records. You need to know where your money is going! OKAY.

And then I finished it off by messing up my words...
Instead of saying "you need to hang in there", I said: "You need to stick it in."
I guess I was trying to say, "You need to stick with it."
I don't know. But it keeps playing over and over in my head.
I'm not really embarrassed. I just keep thinking how dumb I was. Dumb!

In OTHER news, we shoot our look books on Sunday, which is cool.
We're both really (very) busy with getting samples ready for this AND getting holiday orders out. I leave for Texas on December 16th. So, the last day to order anything from Cubist Literature until 2010 is December 13th!

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SELF PORTRAIT THURSDAY!

nobody@vox.com(CubistLiterature) — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:54:50 -0800

SELF PORTRAIT THURSDAY!
12.10.09

SELF PORTRAIT THURSDAY! 12.10.09

1. Angora jacket with shoulder pads.
2. Paying others to do my laundry.
3. Waking up alone.
4. Wearing several pairs of thermal underwear, none of them my size.
5. "Creepshow" and "Heavenly Creatures".

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Elf plushies

nobody@vox.com(jelene) — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:24:50 -0800

Elf plushies, originally uploaded by jelene.

Available here- http://jelene.etsy.com

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old time submission

nobody@vox.com(CubistLiterature) — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 13:58:35 -0800

This weekend was devoted to the loft bed that has been sitting in pieces around the bedroom and apartment. We've been sleeping on a mattress on the floor in an unfinished loft bed frame for about two or more months now. Quite the eyesore. I thought we would have gotten around to fixing up our bed a lot sooner than we had, but when you work a lot, many things suffer. Beds, social life, hygiene, sleep schedule, etc.

The bed was a whole lot of drama we just didn't want to deal with, I guess.
It was given to us. It's from Ikea, but Ikea doesn't make this design anymore.
And as luck would have it, we lost some important hardware that Ikea ALSO doesn't make anymore.
(We found that out halfway through constructing the bed, which is why we were sleeping in a frame.)

Anyway, we figured out another way to make things work.

And here you go:

our 'new' loft bed

Loft beds scare me, though.
I don't like being up that high.

The plus side is that we will be making the space underneath a little lounge area, which will be good.

I'll let you know what it looks like in three months.

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Migraine headache painting

nobody@vox.com(jelene) — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:21:03 -0800

Migraine headache painting, originally uploaded by jelene.

Double 11"x14" canvas painting I finally finished.

..I have a bad habit of starting certain paintings and then finishing them a few months later :\

This painting will be listed for sale in my etsy shop - http://jelene.etsy.com

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