Orange Road Set

I have a sweet sister, Jan who always help me promoting my Etsy. It's already the third order from her colleagues and this time it's a special custom order. I was requested to design a necklace to match with my Orange Road Earring that had been listed in Etsy for months.

I tried very hard to think about the necklace and was worried that I could not find the same materials that make the two become one set. I started to read lots of books for inspiration. Sometimes, I even dreamed about making the necklace. The image finally come to my head and the whole set is ready to go to it's new home tomorrow. Hope that it's new master like it as I do.

My life as "Meego"

"Meego" has been started for almost six months. It means that I am no more a newbie but a kid in Etsy, lol.

I am so happy that I had decided to join Etsy. It is a wonderful place where I can find friendship, help, encouragement and satisfaction. In Etsy, I met many nice people and I had been featured in serval blog during this six months. And there are 3 things made me very exciting!

First of all, I had my first sale in April. Yeahhhhhhhhhhhhh!! Diane is my first customer. She is a nice lady who always provide advise to us, who has no / low sales. Thank you very much, Diane. She hosts a thread in Etsy and is the owner of eclecticasia and she purchased my "Blue Flower in my heart Necklace".

Blue Flower in my heart

Secondly, in early May, I was featured by SaladforBreakfast with a giveaway of my "Blue Box Necklace". I obtained much encouragement from the giveaway which let me knew that I am in the right direction. The giveaway has finished yesterday and the winner is Bunny B. Congratulations, Bunny B.

Blue Box

The last one is that my "Blue Ocean Necklace" is in the treasury made by barefootweaver! The treasury is "Summer Hues". This is the first time my piece is included in a Treasury. Hurrah!!

I feel that I am full of energy again and certainly will have more nice pieces in the coming month!

Giveaway and featured

Today, I am very happy because my shop is being featured in Saladforbreakfast with a giveaway for a week.

This is the third time I am being featured where I have sent my "My Fair Lady" for a product review. It is nice to know that this bracelet gain a good feedback from Saladforbreakfast. This feedback really an encouragement to me to "think" of more styles on jewelry making for my customers.

Let's wait for a while, I will have some new design listed in my shop.

Mama's birthday present

This month end is mama's birthday. As I said days before, I wanted to make a jewelry for her and I finish it! It's a necklace made of pearl in two strings.

When thinking about the style of the necklace, I wanted to make it simple. A simple one string pearl necklace. However, as she is a strong women, a too simple one might not fit her. Thus, I decided to add some more details. I found some interesting and shinning pendents that would definately let the necklace look more bright. Moreover, mama sometimes wear suit to the office, this two strings necklace would still be shinning since the pendants were positioned at the front and won't be covered by a shirt.

So, what do you think? And remember, don't tell her yet.

It's a secret!

Mom went to a party with my Japan plastic pearl bracelet few days before.

What a pity. The bracelet was broken suddenly when she wore it to a party last night. I definately will re-do this bracelet. And I will make her another one because this month end is her birthday. In the past, I used to buy her accessories, comatics, handbag and etc. This year, I will make one with pearl by myself.

Remember, don't tell her about that, ok? It's a secret!

Month to give presents

January is the month for me to send presents to my friends.

Beside the "re-make" of the necklace for my colleague, Joem. I made three more necklaces this month as presents to my friends. The one with golden brown ribbon was made for Shy and the jade one belonged to Peggy. The black shinning one will be the gift for SoSo.

Indeed, the golden brown and jade were made for Shy. I sent both of the necklaces to her and asked her to choose one of it as her belated birthday gift. As she loves ribbon very much, she chose the one with golden brown ribbon. When I shown Peggy the one that had not been choosen, she told me that she loved it and would like to have it. I was so happy that that heavy jade necklace found her owner.

I am sure that my handmade jewelry will become my first choice gift to my female friends; and definately it will be in different kinds of style and pattern!

Gift to Shy
Owned by Peggy Will send to SoSo

A Speical Task

Joem, my colleague told us that the necklace that her husband bought her had been torn into pieces. The necklace was a piece of jewelry from Nepal. Peggy and I tried to fixed it for her. The necklace was in two layers and was made of stones in green, white & red/organe and metal beads.

[The stones and beads from the torn necklace]

Some of the metal pieces were found rust. Thus, we don't have enough materials to re-do it. I asked Joem to let me bring it home and try my best to make a new one for her.

Finally, I completed this task and made two necklaces for her, one in white and green and the other one is the red/orange one. Today, she wore the red/orange one.

My favour

The New Year is coming. My friend, Annabel asked me to make a set of jewelry for her to attend New Year party. It's not a easy task for me because she is the kind of girl that love simple but elegant accessories.

As to fit for her use of the set, I decided to use Swarovski crystal and golden colour as theme of the set. The finished set looked very shiny that I hesitate to let her have this and would love to keep it for myself. But...how can I do like that? I cannot keep every piece of my work as my own collection! Maybe it's time for me to learn about let go.

When I sent her the set, I could feel that she was attracted by the bright colour. I was so happy that she loves my works. It's not the matter of having sale but the satisfaction from finishing a project.