Simply Shiny Life

I’d trying to reach 1000 fans on my Facebook page. I know, it’s a big big number, but, when that threshold is reached, I’m going to hold a giveaway here on my blog for all those that have fanned me. YAY!

So what’s the prize?

The winner gets to pick any pair of earrings they would like from my shop. Any pair they’d like. You can see some of the ones you’ll get to choose that are listed today in my artfire shop (there are lots more. You can find them at shinyadornments.artfire.com:

So if you aren’t a fan, please become one. And I’d love it if you’d send your friends and neighbors my way too.

You can find me at www.facebook.com/shinyadornments :

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I’d trying to reach 1000 fans on my Facebook page. I know, it’s a big big number, but, when that threshold is reached, I’m going to hold a giveaway here on my blog.

So what’s the prize?

The winner gets to pick any pair of earrings they would like from my shop. Any pair they’d like. You can see some of the ones you’ll get to choose that are listed today in my artfire shop (there are lots more. You can find them at shinyadornments.artfire.com:

So if you aren’t a fan, please become one. And I’d love it if you’d send your friends and neighbors my way too.

You can find me at www.facebook.com/shinyadornments :

ShinyAdornments

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My creamy pearl earrings were part of @Artfire’s Collection of the Day. Thanks goes to the Potter’s Daughter for including me in this lovely collection.

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I’ve switched to a monthly giveaway linky. You can find June’s here:

http://shinyadornments.com/simplyshiny/2011/06/totally-giveaway-for-the-month-of-june/

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A wonderful fellow jewelry artisan is getting married soon. She’s got friends she’s made online all over the world, and accepts that a trip to the Midwest for her wedding is probably not within their budgets.

So instead, she’s asked her friends to help out a bit with the wedding preparations, as only fellow jewelry makers could do. Here is her love note to us (I’ve edited it a bit to protect the gorgeous bride to be):

“ While I would love to invite each and every one of you to my wedding, many of you simply wouldn’t be able to come due to various reasons. But your friendship and support has meant so much to me in my life that I can’t stand the thought of you not being there with me. Without each and every one of you, I wouldn’t be nearly as confident or, let’s face it, sane as I am. (Stop laughing, I am sane! )

So I have a request…

I’m in the process of planning my jewelry for that day. I also have some of my great-grandmother’s crystals to use. But how would my bridal jewelry set be complete without pearls? You know how much I love them, right?

What I would love, though, are pearls sent from you to include in my necklace and bracelet. I’m not asking for a full strand or even a half strand – Just a single pearl or a few orphans you have sitting around. They needn’t be perfect, because to me they’ll be perfect coming from you. They needn’t be any specific size or shape, because I want to be forever reminded of each and every one of you. They don’t necessarily even have to be a certain color, because each of you has such a unique vision within your art that it would seem almost odd to have a single color. In fact, they needn’t actually be pearls – I just want something of you with me. (Something old, something new, something borrowed, something of the amazing community I belong to?)

Since I plan on waltzing by myself down the aisle on the day I get married with no one giving me away, I guess this is almost like asking you to do it.. Would you please do this for me? I can’t even begin to express how much it would mean to me.

If you’re unable to do it, I understand. I will still think of you when I put on my necklace anyway, because I have learned so much about not only jewelry from each of you but more importantly about friendship and how a strong community of women can empower you no matter how far the distance!

I love you! Thank you!”

The relationships I’ve made online are quite incredible. In many ways, the kinships I’ve made via the interwebs have allowed me to be me in ways silly, simple and sometimes profound. This is just another perfect example of the wonderful women I am lucky enough to call friends.

And a pearly package is heading toward a wedding party this week.

Love and hugs

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Starting this month, I’m going to offer a list of internet giveaways. I got a late start in June, but starting in July, I’ll add a new blog post the first Tuesday of every month called  Totally Giveaway Tuesday.

I love giveaways, and I thought it might be nice to share some real estate for some blog-o-sphere giveaways with my readers. I’d like to profile Artfire and other artisan giveaways, but feel free to list any great giveaways you have to share. Each link will contain the name of the giveaway linked to the entry instruction page. Enter as many as you would like

Got a blog giveaway you’d like to advertise? Hosting an artisan jewelry giveaway? Have a handmade soap giveaway? Announcing a felted animal giveaway? Have a guild giveaway you’d like to list? Want to announce your team’s giveaway to the world? Please use the widget below to list your announcement. In the Your Name Field: enter the item you are giving away, and the date the giveaway expires In the Your URL Field: enter the website address of the page to find instructions about how to enter.

Giveaways for June 2011:

Note: I can’t be responsible for outcomes of giveaways hosted by anyone but me. Outcomes of giveaways hosted elsewhere are the responsibility of the giveaway owner. Please read each giveaway’s entry instructions carefully and only enter if it isn’t going to get you into any trouble in your location. GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!!

Visit again next Month for a whole new list!

and don’t forget to tweet and share with your friends using the widgets below

(For those of you receiving this via RSS, you have to visit my real live blog to see the list of shops with sales. Not sure why, but looks like the Readers eat the linky code. sorry. )

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It’s been an uneventful summer so far. Lovely. Busy. Nappable (is that a word?) Full of warm and funny visitors. No drama.

As you know, I work a corporate gig to pay the bills. Lots of hours. Much stress. Endless juggling . I do my best to leave the work at work and enjoy the un-eventfulness at home. Life is short, right? And while I need the day gig to pay bills and put a bit back for the Short Smith’s college, work isn’t all for me. I try to do my best to put it out of mind once I enter the doors of the homestead. So far so good this summer.

My shop and jewelry related creativity has been on the back burner for oh so long. And you know what? I don’t feel guilty a bit. I’ve been buying a bit more created by others and not been creating myself. I know my work space will be there waiting for me when I’m ready to hit it full throttle again.

I saw posts from school pals celebrating the fact we managed to graduate 27 years ago. 27 years! How did that happen? It doesn’t seem that long, although the crow’s feet by my eyes tell another story. LOL I don’t feel like I’ve wasted any of that time, and I certainly wouldn’t change anything, but it’s definitely one more reason to stop and smell the proverbial roses.

In the meantime, there are Angry Bird challenges to face with the Short Smith, yards that need new landscaping, new recipes from my in house, on staff chef of nearly 25 years, photos that need categorized and sent off to be digitized, curtains to finish and rooms that still need furnished. And more warm and funny moments to enjoy.

Please enjoy yours. I’ll bet you know where you can find some roses.

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