Eventful Week

Ok, guys. I promise I'm going to get better at this whole blogging thing. I plan for Sundays to be my week in review day. It worked for my former principal, so I'm going to make it work for me too!

On Monday,I started a new group on facebook for handmade jewelry makers. I got tired seeing jewelry groups that promoted their own shops and called promoting your own shop "spam". So I created a facebook group for handmade jewelry makers to give and get support. Jewelry makers I hope you will stop in and join!

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000571881349&v=wall#!/group.php?gid=141065885909389&ref=ts

On Wednesday, Larry and I celebrated our 20 year wedding anniversary. We had promised each other no working on the jewelry business, but it didn't work out as planned. So we celebrated for another few days for good measure.

On Thursday, I finished my second in the transformation series painting and took photographs and listed them on Etsy. One is called Guidance and the other is called Guardian.

Guidance is the picture on the right. Click here to see Guidance on Etsy: http://www.etsy.com/listing/51532374/original-painting-transformation-series

Guardian is on the left and I love how it turned out. As an artist, this is my first time painting in a series. I've been doing a lot of reading on how to improve my paintings and I'm discovering ideas I never thought of before. I'll write more on my paintings soon.

Click here to see the Guardian listing on Etsy: http://www.etsy.com/listing/51687860/original-painting-transformation-series

Friday and Saturday, We're giving Etsy our best shot. Tried the showcase to see if it works for us. Spent most the week redoing pictures and descriptions, and backlinking our items.

Added new earrings to our website. See them here: http://www.formedbyfire.com/Handmade-Earrings-Page-1.php

Alright, now I'm going to work out with my kettlebells, which is food for another blog.

Until next time,

Kim

The Jacaranda Necklace And The Hope for Spring

I've been out off school for a week due to snow days. I've taken advantage of the snow days to work on jewelry and add them to our web page. We have added the Jacaranda Glass Necklace to our website http://www.formedbyfire.com/

Jacaranda is a purple flowering tree. In some parts of the world, the blooming of the Jacaranda tree is welcomed as a sign of spring. Spring is very welcome right now, but seems a long way off. Looking at this beautiful Jacaranda tree, makes me eager for spring. I think the necklace is well named.