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July 7th, 2009 | 
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Buy One Get One
The Belles are having a BOGO sale on Etsy!
Free earrings with any purchase all weekend long! Enter “weekend deals” in notes to seller during checkout.
Have fun shopping!
My Thrill of the Week
2BellesBeads is featured in one of Etsy’s gift guides! Soooo happy!
They picked my Initial Here – Hand Stamped Custom Font Letter Necklace.
This is a very good thing. So happy! Chocolate for all!
My Newest Obsession…
… little bitty glass flowers. Every-freaking-where.
What can I say? I guess I’m ready for spring.
Maybe I like them cause I can’t kill them.
Oh wait. I guess that’s not true. I did kill a few… apparently glass flowers do not like the 1400+ degree heat of a torch. They sort of explode. I don’t recommend trying that.
I do recommend wearing them, however, as they are just darling. Dontcha think?
The Dreamer – A Front Pager!
I happened to catch Mama Belle’s gorgeous copper heart earrings on the front page of Etsy a few minutes ago.
Go Belles… go Belles… go! Go! Go Belles!
*giggle* Sorry, we’re like a couple little school girls sometimes.
*grin*
Out with the old…
I’ve been dreading this day for a while. The day I go and decide to completely change up the style of our product photography. See, I’m more comfortable with my neutral gray, doing the same old thing every time. But that’s not what catches the eye of lots of people, at least not on Etsy. And since one of my marketing strategies this year is to tap better into Etsy, well, it was time to step out of my comfort zone.
I see lots of gorgeous artsy fartsy photos on Etsy and wonder to myself “hmm, could I do that?”. I wasn’t sure I could handle it. I mean, wow, SO much color… no gray? What? NO GRAY? A color theorist I am not. I mean, shoot… my couches have beige slip covers, my rug is beige, our chair and the accent walls are chocolate brown. (At least nothing is gray.)
A couple weeks ago Dustin and I ran around town, finding little things to use as props. We went to the used book store with the sole purpose of buying some hard cover books in pretty colors. I found the coolest old, old, OLD Winnie the Pooh book in a nice shade of red. I had to have it. I’ll actually read that one to our kids. Then I saw The Yearling in a lovely teal. A couple others that I’m not sure of the titles… but their covers were pretty in their chocolate brown and purple-ish. Score!
Next I found some white vases, perfect for displaying hanging earrings. Finally I raided my mom’s stash of scrapbook paper. People. The woman has a stash big enough to scrap for the entire state of Texas. Score!
I went home and got to work. I was afraid that I wouldn’t be able to do a good job. I’m not sure why, because I have a fabulous camera and an even fabulous-er macro lens… but I was afraid they would suck.
They don’t. In fact, I pretty much love them and am wondering why I was so afraid of color before. Hopefully you’ll love them too, and they’ll catch some spending eyes over at Etsy.
We’re also planning some pretty big website changes this year, so stay tuned to see how that all pans out. I’m excited!
Here are a few new things.. photographed with no gray! Yay!
Front Pager
I was doing some Etsy shop work and logged out of one shop so I could sign into the other, and when the front page loaded, tadaaaa! Our little sterling silver bloom ring was -BAM- right there on the front page! This is a big deal, people! Our first time on the front page of Etsy.
Congrats to us! *grin*
Font Problems
I need help picking a font for metal alphabet stamps. They will be for stamping jewelry pieces.
These are my top two choices. What do you think?
I really like Freehand, but some of the letters are a little different in size than others. Like compare the capitol “H” and “F”. If it weren’t for that, the decision would be made! I like Murray Hill Bold, but I think it might be a little fancy pants for me.
Unfortunately they don’t make one titled “Crystal’s Most Bestest Font EvAR”.
Do you Etsy?
No?! Well, you should!
Etsy is awesome. I Etsy. All my friends Etsy. You should Etsy too.
If you do, would you like to visit my treasury?
2 Belles & a Bead is also currently featured in a treasury made by one of my good jewelry buddies, Laurel!
At the time of this writing, both Rockin’ Robin & Sultry Sexy SILVER are on page three for hotness. I’d love for one or both to make it to page one! They both expire tomorrow afternoon, so there’s not much time left.
So how can you help? If you Etsy, I’d love for you to sign into your Etsy account (buyer or seller, it does not matter) and visit both treasuries. While being signed in, if you will click on each individual item featured it will help boost the treasuries further to the top. If you leave a comment on the bottom, that helps too. If you’re not comfortable leaving a comment but still want to help, the clicks alone would be great!
No pressure, no pressure. ;oP
But at the very least, you really should Etsy.
