Thursday, November 17, 2011

THIS WEEKEND!!! Pawfect Match Rescue Howliday Shop!!!

Dear friends and fans,

This weekend is the big event!  Please join me and many other vendors at the Pawfect Match Rescue Howliday Shop.

Sometime tomorrow, most likely late at night, I'll be posting preview pictures of all the items I've made just for this event, which are not available in my Etsy shop (yet).

I'm looking forward to seeing some of you all there!

Check out this link for more detailed information.

Cheers,
Jameela

Thursday, November 10, 2011

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Gift Packaging

Gift Packaging...

Art is my first love and I love to draw freehand, so each piece that comes in a cotton-filled gift box will arrive in something like the following pictures.  

No two designs are a like.   They are all spontaneous and free hand.  If you are buying a gift for someone else, and you would like a design that has more flowers, more blue, more tendril-ly doodles, let me know and I will do my best to oblige!   

I will ship a gift to a recipient's address!  Just indicate her address as the Etsy shipping address and make sure you let me know in the "message to seller" field any special messages for your recipient! 

For the holidays, I'll be adding a USPS Priority Mail shipping option.  I'll let you know when it is available.


The gold looks beautiful as it picks up light in this more traditional floral based design.
This is a more bold, bohemian design.
This design is colorful and strikes a balance between bohemian and traditional.


 
An example of what items will arrive in if it is not indicated they will arrive in a cotton-filled box.


And, local folks, the Pawfect Match Rescue Howliday Shop is just a week and a half away!  Soon, I'll post preview pictures of items I'll be featuring next weekend.

Saturday, November 5, 2011

Now on Etsy: Tara Necklace

Tara

Closeup of pewter flower pendant

Río de Rosas: Custom Necklace

One more custom order to complete a full week!


Río de Rosas, or River of Roses, is a special one-of-a-kind custom necklace featuring 251 beads plus a beautifully faceted rose quartz briolette.  Well over half of the beads used in this necklace are 1X1mm or less, so stringing this necklace was an intense effort!

Perfectly symmetrical, each side of the necklace has 47 iridescent iris blue Delica® glass seed beads, 10 turquoise rounds, 20 blue turquoise and blue howlite chips, 20 rose quartz chips, 23 pieces of tiny hand-faceted Karen Hill Tribe silver beads (which are at least 97% pure silver), and four rose quartz rondelles.  Three tiny iris blue seed beads complete the rhodium-plated clasp and closure for an added personal touch.  Adding flourish and interest to the rose quartz briolette is a swag of turquoise beads on sterling silver hardware, upcycled from a pair of earrings I no longer wear.  I love how the colors interact in this little space and throughout the necklace, and I hope its future owner will love it too!

closeup of seed beads & Hill Tribe silver
Turquoise is a powerful healing stone that can help wearers with meditation, balance, and communication.  It is associated with Taurus and Aquarius.  Turquoise is a protective stone that enhances love, friendship, and loyalty.  Silver draws out negative energy and encourages non-judgement and self-approval.  Like turquoise, howlite is useful for communication and helps with memory, learning, facilitating awareness and emotional expression.  Linked with Gemini and the crown chakra, howlite helps alleviate stress while eliminating procrastination.

close up of rose quartz briolette and turquoise swag
 Associated with the heart chakra and the signs Aries, Taurus, Virgo, and Libra, rose quartz is a stone of "unconditional love."  It encourages all forms of love including self-love, self-confidence, and romantic love.  It also brings forgiveness and gentleness, tolerance and acceptance, and increased receptivity to colors, sounds, art, music, and poetry.  Rose quartz helps boost creativity and is calming, reducing stress, clears anger, resentment, guilt, fear, and jealously.  It is truly an amazing stone!

Thursday, November 3, 2011

New pieces! (Preview)


I'll have more detailed information about these one-of-a-kind pieces soon!  All of these items will be with me at the Pawfect Match Rescue Howliday Shop event on November 19 (as will the rest of my Bohemian Earth pieces). I plan to post at least one of the pieces below for sale on Etsy before the 19th.

Pele's Ocean Necklace - $41

Pewter, Turquoise, & Lava



Pele's Ocean Bracelet - $21

Turquoise, Faceted Silver Beads, Toggle Clasp, & Turquoise and Lava Dangle



Tara Necklace - $52 (To be posted on Etsy this week!)

Pewter, Mosaic Turquoise, Bone, Cinnabar, & Buddha Toggle Clasp


Save 7% on this necklace on Etsy and at the Pawfect Match Rescue Howliday 
Shop when you use or mention (in-person) the code 
HOLIDAY7--see this post

Latest Custom Pieces

Two custom pieces I completed today!

"Lauren" Earrings

 

When I finished these earrings, I said, "They are very Lauren!"  So, I named them after her (and hope she feels the same!). 

 

Faceted turquoise, lovely cut natural garnet, and silver-line chocolate Delica® seed beads compose these simple, yet dramatic, earrings.  Turquoise is a powerful healing stone that can help wearers with meditation, balance, and communication.  It is associated with Taurus and Aquarius.  Turquoise is a protective stone that enhances love, friendship, and loyalty.  Garnet is also a stone associated with healing and health and is believed to increase creative powers and encourage action.  It has been known as a stone of devotion and stimulates the base and crown Chakras, which helps energy flow positively.  Garnet is associated with Scorpio and Aquarius.


"Apolloneia" Earrings


These earrings make me think of the warmth of the sun.  So, I named them Apolloneia, which is a female variant of the Greek god Apollo's name.  Apollo is the god of the sun, music, poetry, and light and knowledge among other things. 


Wood beads from Indonesia, natural white coral, and gold textured wavy discs on top of ornate headpins compose these elegant earrings.  The wood beads, from Indonesia, are handcrafted, which means that each one is slightly different, but they all have a starry night-like patten.  Coral is known for its ability to bring internal peace, settle emotions, and aids intuition, visualization, and the circulatory and nervous systems. Coral is associated with the sun sign Libra.