And the winner is...

I'm pleased to announce the winner of my May/June competition to 'Find Monkey' is Nina who has chosen the amazonite briolette wire wrapped earrings as her prize. There were 12 entries - not a huge amount but quite encouraging for my first competition. Losers have been notified. Rather than picking a winner out of a hat I used a random number generator www.random.org/integers - this probably was a bit more sophisticated but I thought a fair way of choosing a winner. Been very busy lately with non-Etsy things but am planning a new competition soon. Commiserations to all who entered and didn't win but each entrant can have a $10 discount if they spend $30 or more in my Etsy shop. http://selador.etsy.com

May/June Competition-Find Monkey!

This is Monkey! All you have to do is to find Monkey (or a part of him) in one of my listings in my Etsy shop and you could win a pair of earrings of your choice in my shop up to a value of $20 - currently 9 pairs to choose from! You have until 30 June to register and I will draw a winner on the first of July. All entrants will be entitled to a $10 discount when they spend over $30 in my Etsy shop! http://www.selador.etsy.com/

Please note that your name/email address will not be passed to any third party, not now, not ever!
Click Here to Enter!

April Giveaway!

Anyone spending $30 or more until the end of April can choose a free encaustic ACEO worth $10. I have a new idea for a competition to run in May - at present it's a secret but watch this space.

Promoting Again and Facebook

Still busy promoting and listing - just signed up for Timothy Adam's Etsy Marketing Course that start's next week and is free! Also joined Facebook - didn't seem that easy to load up Etsy links but managed it in the end.

Helped by these:
http://www.handmadeology.biz/home/archives/523


http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=2388263529&b&ref=pd_r


http://www.etsy.com/storque/how-to/connect-with-us-on-facebook-1371/

Also going to add photos to Flickr today - here's hoping for sales!

Busy Promoting

As I'm on leave this week I've been busy promoting my Etsy shop and sorting out all my jewellery bits. This has made me feel much more organised and in turn has led to some more creations as for once (and it won't last!) I know where everything is. Checked Google Analytics this morning and I had 32 visits yesterday - this is much improved. As I've said before this is a laughable amount of visits for some people but think it's the most I've ever had in a day. Also registered with Timothy Adam's Handmadeology - I seem to be the only Etsy shop on there so don't know if I've done something wrong! New items:

Wire Wrapping Briolettes

I recently bought some gem stone briolettes and then realised I didn't know how to achieve a wire wrapping finish on them. Etsy offers some tutorials but these aren't free; a simple internet search found the following:

http://www.videojug.com/webvideo/how-to-wire-wrap-a-briolette-jewelry-making



A pdf version from a fellow Etsyian (this one's very clear):

http://madeinlowell.googlepages.com/Howtowirewrapabriolette.pdf



If you want me to find any jewellery techniques I'm a great Google searcher so let me know; this is the result of what I've learned:

I'm Very Fickle...

Ashamed I haven't posted anything on here for nearly two weeks. Reason being I had a germ of an idea to put together all those awful craft items we come across from time to time. So I've been working on this and woefully ignoring this blog. If you're a bit fed up with poor sales (things seem very slow at the moment) this may be a bit of light relief for you: http://crapcrafts.blogspot.com/

Have just joined Byhandme : https://www.byhand.me/ - saw this on an Etsy forum post; will let you know if any good results come from registering on here.