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Earth and Blood

That post title sounds like the name of a horror movie :)

Here's my latest Etsy shop update!

These are Blood, Sweat: in Tears, the hoop earrings. They come as a pair and ship for free if bought with something else. And they're only $7! Can be packaged individually as two gifts or two stocking stuffers (start your Christmas shopping now! And from home!)

And this is Mar y Tierra, the necklace. This name was given because of the wonderful mix of colors that the Chrysocolla stone has. It looks like a flat version of our Mother Earth. This one is $27.

The stocking stuffer idea was given to me by one of the blogs I follow. I thought it was great and very doable when it comes to small earrings. Any girl will love getting "grown up" earrings inside her stocking! (And why not, your neighbor or coworker will love them too). Click here for the complete checklist made by Linda at IndieCEO.

Feeling reddish

These are my last four listings on my Etsy shop this week. Notice something unusual?

For some reason I was feeling inspired by my red bead drawer. Out of all five of them (I have one for reds and pinks, one for oranges, yellows and whites, one for greens and browns, one for blues and one for purples and blacks), the red bead drawer was calling my name, and I answered! :)

I promised myself the next items will have a more diverse color palette. But don't they look nice all together?

First sale, and it's a double!

Today I decided to give Etsy, the Heartomatic, Plurk, Twitter, and all related to selling jewelry a break. I found it really hard not to get near the computer, tried to convince myself I had to search something online (there is always the Yellow Pages...!), you know, the works.

After getting pizza for dinner, and an ice cream for dessert - ohhhh the guilty pleasures of life! - I come home and couldn't help but look. And, to my big surprise, I made a sale! A double sale!

Now I understand all the excitement that comes with a sale: butterflies in my stomach, smiles all over the place, thinking how I'm going to make that package perfect as I would like to receive it myself.

Here's what sold today, yay!





Now, back to making that the best package ever!

2009, baby steps to my future

Well, the year has officially begun. As of now, I am posting these beautiful earrings on Etsy...


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And for other stuff... is there anything like Winter Cleaning? That's exactly what I will be doing all afternoon... Old, expired cans, out. Go through the fridge.... leftovers, out. Dusting, wiping, mopping, vaccuming, the works. Sounds like fun, eh? The only leftovers I'm keeping is chocolate cake, my reward!

Happy New Year people!

No need to explain this post... I wish everyone a Happy New Year, may 2009 bring you health, love and happiness!

And to top that off, my newest post on Etsy!


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So...

I posted this earlier today on my Etsy shop... and had no time to blog about it! These are the inverted version of one of my most popular designs... that I have no beads left over to make again :( Here you go!


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Ending with the right foot... or is it starting off?

Well, last days of 2008 are ahead of us. I decided to post at least 5 items before the end of the year, and I already started doing it!
These are my Damsels in Distress, check them out and leave a comment if you like!


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And these are the Jolly Ranchers in the earring world!


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Color inspiration - Leaves/Soothing blues earrings

I started a new project for myself that I refer to Color inspiration... I basically take any picture (nature, architecture, etc) and extract the main colors, then I take out the composition and then I create!

First picture I used was from iStockphoto, I searched for green and nature and I got this:




So, after a little Adobe help, I extracted these colors:



And the result were these beautiful green earrings!


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Also, I made a similar version in blue... couldn't help it!


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Starting up...

Well, I finally decided to start everything at the same time... Etsy shop (dropofsunshine.etsy.com Click here!), blog, married life. I also opened a new email account for all this craziness dropofsunshinedesign@gmail.com, so drop me a line to show your support. I just hope I have time in my day to get it all done! It's been hectic trying to make up my mind what to do (jewelry, of course), when to start (ASAP), how to do a little bit for everyone... one drop at a time!


Thanks to everyone who has supported me through thick and thin: parents, brother, my hubby :), my good friends back home (they who know who they are). I could have never done anything without you!