Milestone Giveaway and Celebration Discount!

Who knew that when I opened my Etsy shop back in July 2007 that I would still be there in May 2013 and receiving my 2000th sale! To celebrate this milestone I’m giving away this gorgeous collection of glass eye cabochons to one lucky winner! Each cabochon is 20mm in diameter (¾”) and altogether the prize consists of six cabs: a pair of grey, two different green/orange and two different dragon cabs. As with all my cabs, they’re great for beadweaving, bead embroidery, wirework, polymer clay work or simply gluing into a setting.

All you need to do to enter my giveaway is comment on this post, making sure that you leave a way for me to contact you. I’ll choose the winner at random using the list generator at Random.org on May 31st. Giveaway is open to all residents of planet earth!

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As a bonus, I’m also offering a 25% discount off everything in my Crimson Moon Etsy shop during the Bank Holiday weekend! From right now up until midnight (UK time) on Monday 27th of May, enter the code BH2000 into the Coupon Code box on the Checkout page to receive your discount.

 

Craft Britannia Shop of The Week #50, AislingDezines

If you love handmade then do check out the Craft Britannia blog! Each week a team member is chosen and their Etsy shop featured, this week it’s the turn of Aisling Designs. Click here to read the full post… Craft Britannia Shop of The Week #50, AislingDezines.

Happy Beltane :)

Image by Flood

Crystal Pyramid Ring Tutorial

Isn’t it funny how you can begin creating one thing, only for it to evolve into something completely different at the end? The exact thing happened with my new tutorial. It started life as an idea – I wonder if I can combine crystals and pearls with some seed beads to make a chunky beaded bead that would be self supporting? It was going great, but by the time I reached what would have been the halfway mark of the bead I realised that it was going to be too squishy and wouldn’t support itself. So I abandoned that idea and put the half made bead away.

Fast forward a long while. I came across that half made bead recently and something made me balance it on my finger…and I had my eureka moment! So out came the pearls, crystals and seed beads and I set to work. A few adjustments here and there and my new Crystal Pyramid ring was born. While it would have been squishy as a beaded bead, it sits perfectly sturdy when worn as a ring. You can find the tutorial here in my Etsy shop :)

New Tree Cabochons!

The trees are here! I couldn’t resist these gorgeous images of different styles of trees in scrumptious colours. As always, you can find them in my Etsy shop :)

New Eyes in Stock!

I had a mega eye-making session this week so there are lots of eyes available in my Etsy shop right now. I’ve also introduced five new colours, from top to bottom: Apollo, Aphrodite, Athena, Atlantis and Vintage. Wow, I didn’t realise that I’d named nearly all of these beginning with A, it wasn’t intentional!

 

New Instant Downloads!

Great news – all of the tutorials in my Etsy shop are now available as instant downloads! So no more waiting for me to email them to you, you can purchase and download them straight away and get on with your beading…instant beady gratification!

Here are just a few of the tutorials that you can find in my shop…