What? So I've been busy!

Yeah, so I haven't been around in a while. I have spent the summer learning how to use a photo editing system and designing graphics for web pages and custom business cards. MAN, is it fun! But I do have lots of super neat new jewelry to list up! So please, have a peek.

I'm learning how to make templates using the coading, which is super fun! And making all of my graphics, when I'm not using vintage. I use commercial use pieces that I arrange and color as they mostly come in white, gray and black.

Here is an example of a sample board that I make for some ones business cards, check out the cool party hats that she makes!

Have a super terrific Day!

~Madam

ETSY, it's where it's at!

I HEART ETSY!

I love making my jewelry and I LOVE to sell my jewelry. The coolest thing to me is that I list it in my Etsy shop and people from all over the world see my jewelry. I shipped out a package to Australia yesterday! I will probably never get to go to Australia, Germany or Spain, or many of the other countries I have sent my wearables too... my jewelry is sent there, thus a part of me is there. Another cool feature is that you can read Feedback for the makers items and look at the things that they have sold. As a buyer I love to order custom things. It feels really good to have someone make a special request. I like to share the love... "they like me they really like me"! I like to support the other Etsians. And of course spread the word about Etsy to BUYERS.

Well, here are some of my newest listings... What can I say, I LOVE Turquoise!

Have a super great day!

~Shelly

WHAT?

Soooo, I don't type all that often, I was busy and had laundry to do and papers to sort... all of that. No one ever reads it anyway, so I only blog for my own amusement.

I did do a fund raiser for my son's school. My necklace and earring set had a highest bid of $62! So that was cool... "they like me they really like me" But then I shoot myself in the foot by not having my business cards yet, they can several days late! All of those ladies swooning over my jewelry... Did I go up to them and talk to them? -you ask... NO because I'm a fraidy cat and wimp. It is so hard to sell your things when you are a wimp!

I well, wish I had taken a picture of that set... I fretted and fretted about it until the last minute . I should make another while it is still fresh in the mind.

Check out my cards I designed them! They aren't perfect, but I was proud, being a dummy and all.

A simple bit of whatnot?

So, I am here in my little space in bits n pieces. I have no garage, no storage, no attic and waiting on a never ending remodel so that I can get my long awaited studio (and 2 more bathrooms)... But it feels like never. I have 3 men to take care of, one bathroom to share and storage tubs everywhere.

But I do have my beading corner. I sit there and everything else becomes... blurry. I bead...

Howdy! My first blog!

So, it's been a long time a coming, that I have been striving to make an art into something that will help me stay at home with my boys and have fun. I am an artsy person, I can't help it. I have always done something. I sew, paint, draw, sing, dance (very badly) and decorate... But for the last 15 years or so I keep coming back to beading... I love all of it... I love to shop for the beads, talk to the venders and ask them questions (when they are agreeable) and I like organizing the beads, laying them out and unstinging them, I like to make wired color combinations and hammer my own head pins. I like to think of what others might like and I would wear. I like wire wrapping and stacking the beads... I just love beads... And I have alot of them, some I find hard to part with. BUT most of all I like to make people happy, and if my beads make them happy, they can have them, (if they treat them well and love them).

Anyway, I sold to shops (alot of driving) did private trunk shows, (alot of work!) and sold on the E@@@ monster. I've searched the internet for a place that crafters could sell their handmade pieces of mind and the big business hadn't taken over and to ruin everyones fun... And then I found Etsy! Etsy.com and set up shop. That is the creative shelter for me, weary traveler I was.

www.madambeadjunkie.etsy.com

I am a lady and an addict... of beads.