Treasury Thursday

It's that day of the week again. Thursdays have always been good to me I think that's why I picked this day to do my treasury post. I am pretty proud of the treasury I made this week, I've received a lot of compliments on it and I think it is Front page worthy even. I titled it Puzzled by a Dream, after some lyrics to a Belle And Sebastian song that I like.
After last weeks post I discovered two treasuries that I was included in. One is called Orange You Blue by IrisNorwood . Included in this treasury was my Asymmetrical Orange Crochet Flower and Blue Glass Necklace.


Another treasury I was included in is called Great Images from Etsy it was curated by Woodenjewelry and features my Lime Beaded Necklace.

Thanks to both of these talented Jewelry makers for including my items in your collections.

Now on to the treasure hunt....

The first Treasury on my list is called Proud as a Peacock I have always considered the peacock to be one of the most beautiful animals and so is this treasury by Clementinesjewelry .

This next one is so pure- it's almost not even there it was created by CheerstoJuly and the title of it says it all.

Celestial Blue Stellar Geometry was curated by editionbw and shown to me by suzedablooze whose beautiful bracelet was included in it.

VintageNowandThen curated it's a Mod Mod World Love the title. Flower Power!

A Summer Tea Party was made by elineof it has a real soft feminine presence, I absolutely adore this treasury.

Moddiapercakes has been very busy making treasuries with different color inspiration Gray and Yellow , an interesting color combination that works beautifully on these items. Green Apple is stunning I Love this and many of the items in it. Purple Love is probably my favorite because purple is my favorite color, and Scarlet Fever has a rich romantic yet almost sinister feel to it.

I hope you enjoy looking at my picks for this week, hope you'll come back and see what I've got for you next week, until then HAPPY TREASURE HUNTING!

This week...

This week has not been too particularly productive as far as my jewelry business goes. It was pretty productive in other ways though. I painted my kids bathroom all by myself and it's about time.. the dirty handprint, toothpaste smeared walls were becoming a bit on the disgusting side, now it is a pretty light blue color called arctic blue.

I even got the hubby to hang up this cute little shelf.

I also did a super clean in the kids bedrooms. All of their toys are in their respective buckets and I can see the floors again. Good will is gonna love me. The kids were actually pretty okay with getting rid of some old toys I was surprised at how well they did.


I did manage to get one new listing in today. I made this lovely necklace yesterday afternoon. (click on the picture to see the listing)


And I took some new photos of an old favorite. (click on the picture to see the listing.)


Here are some of the old photos. My photography skills are getting better.


these photos aren't too bad really but the new ones are much much brighter.

A Follow up from my Analytics Experiment My Bounce rate is now down to 47% It was at 57% when I started the experiment. It's hard to say what exactly factors into the rate dropping but I find it a little too coincidental that it has been constantly dropping since I made these changes. So that's looking pretty positive for me.

In the etsy forums today I came across this thread discussing mailing lists. Stichntyme was kind enough to show us how she made her mailing list and linked it to her profile section of her shop.
The site is called Mail Chimp and you can use it for free. I set up an account today to sign up for my newsletter click here. You can also fill out the form to the right.

Last Thursday I set up a sign up list on my face book page to advertise on this blog for free. The response to that has been great so far. I really hope that this trend will catch on the way that link love has. Rebecca from soapdeli was the first to take advantage give her some love and check out her shop before her week is up.

That is all for now it's almost time for me to make dinner. I'll be back tomorrow for Treasury Thursday!

I am not having much luck getting any jewelry work done this week past week. To be fair my kids were attending Jr. golf camp and that ate up a bunch of my time. This weekend my husband and I bought a gallon of paint with plans to paint the kids bathroom so I have given myself another chore to keep me away from jewelry making. I have all kinds of ideas of new things to create and I can't wait to bring them to life. Hopefully tomorrow I will be able to sit down for a while and go to work.

It's Treasury Thursday!

I really love etsy treasury. The more time I spend making them the more I enjoy doing it. You get to see a lot of different items and explore the many talented shops of etsy.
This week I didn't have much time to do this my boys are doing jr. golf so that eats up my mornings and then the afternoons have been spent doing what I would normally do in the mornings. I did manage to make one treasury It's called These Are a Few of My Favorite Things to make it I went through my favorite shops and chose items from those shops that I thought went well with the other items. This treasury also happens to feature 3 shops whose owners I went to high school with. Can you guess which ones they are?

The curator of the week award goes to ReenRose (disclaimor: there is no curator of the week award) who has shown me three of her lovely treasuries Get Your Game On #1 , Get Your Game On #2, and Bee Yourself . I really enjoyed looking at all of Reenrose's treasuries she has a real knack for putting them together, but Bee yourself was my favorite.

Flower Fairies.. was made by Gardenjewels who not only makes a wonderful fantasy treasury but also makes wonderful...you guessed it...garden jewels.

Ashley Devrieze at Stubborndog showed me these two beautiful summery treasuries. Collections and things and a Monday Collection. They are both very lovely.

This treasury curated by ElainaLouiseStudios reminds me of that Stevie Nicks song " bring to me your leather, take from me my lace..." Okay I'm really not that old I just appreciate the classics.

You may need to put on sunglasses for this last treasury I am going to post this week. It's called Pink Lemonade and it was made by pinklimed. I love how vibrant and bright everything is, it's so alive.

I hope everyone enjoys the treasuries I've posted this week. Happy Thursday and as always Happy Treasure hunting!!

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Is it Thursday again!

This past week just seemed like it flew by. It's treasury Thursday again. I had a lot of fun looking for items to choose for my treasury this week but I found so many items I had to make two.
The first one is called Orange You Glad and the second one is Orange You Glad Part Deux. I love orange can you tell?
I didn't have much time this week to look through the treasury lists this week but I did come across these two BNR treasuries which I am participating in. One is called Shop of the Day it's up to 7 sales already!!! and the other is 3-day 3-star BNR Both are really great treasuries!

The next treasury was curated by kelela4 who specializes in fine art photography, it's called Hot for Pink.
This one by vintagenowandthen is called D A N C E! I absolutely love this treasury you can almost feel the movement.
A Garden of Earthly Delights was made by Peaceableempire a fellow etsy jewelery maker this treasury makes me want to spend some time outside.

This darling treasury by kneatknitcreations makes me wish my boys were small again.

and the final treasury for this week will take you back to the 60's, it's called Flower Power and it was curated by LauraGourmet a very talented fellow etsian.

I hope everyone enjoys these treasuries as much as I have. Until next Thursday, Happy treasure hunting!

I Love To Shop

Just wanted to share my recent etsy purchases with you.
I bought these items last night from two wonderful BNR treasuries that I came across.
The first two photos are Items I purchased from BejeweledArts. This is a lovely shop with lots of supplies and creations all at really great prices. I love those etsy shops that I can actually afford to get supplies from without making my jewelry super expensive. I already have plans to make some really cool jewelry with all of these purchases.

The next two photos are items I purchased from Finethreads who makes these cute little crocheted butterflies and many other crocheted cuties and ornaments.

I can't wait to get these and start creating with them. Check out these two BNR treasuries where I found these wonderful shops. maybe you'll find something great too.
Shop of The Day and 3 day 3 star. Happy Shopping!