Love Birds

I had a bit of time to play with my Precious Metal clay this week.

These little cuties will be up in my shop once I finish the necklace.

We can't change the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

Vote for me Pretty Please :o)

I participated in one of Etsy Forums on Shop make overs. Now they are having a poll to vote for your favorite item for all those that participated.

Soooooo. If you have a moment hop over here and vote for my Capture Life Necklace... Oh Pretty Please :o)

The winner will make it into the Gift Guides section on etsy's home page!

looking through old photos

I was cleaning out some of our overly full photo files and I came across these so I thought I would share......Plus somewhere in a time long ago my friend Gioncarla "tagged me" to find the 6th photo in the 6 th file, or something like that. Here it is, My handsome honey and I (and unborn Nathaniel) in DC.
I love this one it looks like she saying "brothers are too much!"

Thomas at Grandma and Papa's

My Happy boy, He always smiles.

My adventurer....this one is responsible for most of my grey hair :o)

Happy Day!

Canela

Getting noticed :o)

I was thrilled last week to find my bracelet on Etsy's front page!



I also stumbled across this necklace in two of etsy's shopping guides.

And this necklace was featured in two treasuries and on this blog's Saturday shopping guide :O)

YAY! Thank you to the esty admins who chose my items. Thank you to the gals who featured my in the treasuries, and thanks Sophie for featuring me on your lovely blog.

Seeing Pink!

So, I'm a total Girlie Girl when it comes to Valentines Day. Not for all the Romantic notions that go along with it (even though I am a total romantic at heart). I'm not even sure if my Husband and I have ever gone out on Valentines.

I love it for the excuse of lavishly decorating the house in Pinks and Creams. Lots of Hearts and Roses, and vintage lace.

I love to dress my girls in pink heart adorned outfits, and gussy them up in lots of mommy made jewels.

Well that said I have decided to have a Pink sale in my shop! I have several designs I have been working on for the last couple of months, that I finally had a chance to finish. They are all ready made. I took pictures of them on Bright Pink Paper so they will be easy to spot. Everything on Pink paper will be 10% off, and just because I love all my customers :o) I will have free shipping on everything during the sale.

The sale will start on January 14th and end on Febuary 14th. Enjoy!!!

Here is a peek at a few of the pieces...

Whoo Hooo!! I made it to Etsy's Front page today!

I was featured on Etsy's Home page today! Before I had a chance to copy the treasury to my blog the Bracelet sold.

(Hey if anyone know's how to copy the treasury to a blog could you let me know...please!)

Happy Day!
Canela

Catching back up on life!

Whew! It seems like everything since Thanksgiving has been a blur. Between Christmas orders, and Christmas events, and family visits, and the inevitable illnesses.
My crew still has one more week of Christmas vacation so I plan to enjoy it :o)

On a slightly business note...For any of my daily giveaway winners, if you did not receive your surprise please email me jewelrybycanela@yahoo.com

The post office decided to play hide and seek with some of my holiday packages. I think I managed to track down all of the ones through etsy but I know a couple of the giveaway packages are still missing and I want to be sure I didn't over look anyone else. I promise they will get to you one way or another.

That said I have to ask....does anyone else have issues with their post office? This Christmas was a bit of a nightmare for my packages! I only made one address error (sorry again Jen!) But still had about 10 packages go who knows where before finally arriving to their destination. Some 1st class packages took almost 2 weeks, some Priority packages took almost that long too, and the one Express mail package I sent took 5 days!!!
I'm giving serious thought to using UPS, but I would hate to raise my shipping costs that high.

Oh well I'm done griping for the day :o)

I'm back at my work bench a bit this week so keep an eye out for some of my 2009 collection plus a fun Valentines collection!

Happy day to everyone!!!
Canela

Yum!

My little guy is almost 8 months now!!
It's been tough finding foods he can eat but he loves Sweet Potato, and his little tummy seems to agree too.
I snapped these after dinner yesterday :o)

Happy New Year!

Just thought I would check in quickly to wish everyone a very

Happy New Year!

Christmas has been Wonderful. My sister is visiting from Oklahoma with her Family.


It has been Blessed Chaos with 10 kiddies running about. (7 of them under the age of 4!)

Here is a Christmas morning photo....

I am still on "Vacation" but I will be back visiting soon :o)