Handmade Joy Exchange

I recently took part in a swap organized by Anne of My Giant Strawberry. It was a "handmade joy exchange" where everyone made something for someone else. I had so much fun putting together my package for Judy of Harfelt Fabric Art,

and loved opening my sparkly package from Vixie of Matin Lapin!

I also love that name - morning rabbit - so sweet!

I made Judy's earrings with vintage silver bows I'd just bought and peach aventurine faceted semi-precious stone beads. I also sent her a peachy flower petal button I'd made and enjoyed making her package beautiful with a big bloom on the front, cute notepaper etc :) You can read more about the exchange and see photos of other handmade joy pieces and packages on Anne's blog here! Thanks Anne and everyone else, this was great fun!

Shop Update

Just wanted to let you know I've been listing a bunch of items from this winter that I didn't have the chance to get online before. These two pairs of earrings are some of my favourites! There's more to come too, keep an eye out. Shop here, as always.

Things I'm Loving Lately

These earrings I made recently. A bit hard to see in the photo, but they're made with sterling silver bubbly connectors and labradorite beads. So pretty! I'm trying to decide if I should order supplies to make more. They would retail for about $42. I suppose you'd need a better photo of them to give an opinion?

view treasury here

This gorgeous treasury featuring my new dino necklaces!

Sunrise Life Coaching 

I don't have an image for this one. I went to high school with the lovely Ashley. She is now a fantastic life coach, ready to help you kick-start things! I did an intro session with her a couple months ago before being set back by the arthritis flare-up. She was great at helping me figure out what was blocking my progress on things I wanted to do and helped me make a list of things to do to get started. What's really fabulous is that she does her coaching online and by phone, so you can benefit from her services no matter where you are in this wide, wondrous world. Check out her website here. Follow her on Facebook and/or Twitter for inspirational tidbits.

That's it for now!

XO.

New Items

I have two posts that are half-way finished (and they're not even big posts) but I can't seem to finish them. So, in the meantime, I'll share these photos that I took yesterday. The lighting and the backdrop I put together made the photos amazing! I think they're the best I've taken of jewelry yet (I'm really psyched about the ones for new listings). The ones here are the three I sent in with my applications to Got Craft and the River Market. I hadn't applied to any markets since I wasn't sure what was going on with my joints so I wasn't sure how jewelry making (and other things) would go. I'd LOVE to be part of Got Craft, but I'd be happy to be part of either, so wish me luck! The other photos I took were for new listings - I plan on putting some up tomorrow. Keep your eyes peeled!

Little Treasures

These are the earrings I made this weekend. Aren't they sweet? I'm moving towards making most of my earrings from fine metals rather than the base metal filigree pieces I was using before. These earrings are made with sterling silver earwires (as always), Bali sterling silver and vermeil (24k gold over sterling silver) connectors and sterling silver headpins, decked out with crystals, freshwater pearls and glass flower beads. I think my favourites are the gold vermeil & freshwater pearl pair. What pair is your fave?

Giveaway Alert!

Interested in winning this gorgeous pair of honeywild earrings? Hop on over to Alicia's blog to enter the giveaway! Good luck!

New Items

These are a few of my favourite things. I love the brushed silver rings in these earrings and have a bit of an obsession with gold-tinted Swarovski crystals like these fabulous ones.

sterling silver and Swarovski crystal earrings available here

This is my favourite of this style of bracelet that I've made so far. It's like strawberries & cream ice cream and ice. It's feminine without being too girly or in your face.

leather and faceted glass bead woven bracelet available here

Facebook Giveaway

earrings available here

Are you a fan of honeywild on Facebook? Once the page hits 100 fans I'm doing a giveaway! We're 24 people away from that goal. Join us! Maybe you will win a fabulous new piece of jewelry.

I hope you also caught the sale notice in my last post. Many of the items currently in the shop have been discounted. All items on sale are marked with "SUMMER SALE" and the details of the discount (which has already been taken off) are in each individual listing. Grab something new and shiny to brighten up your summer outfits!

Update - a sale and broken hands

So, I haven't updated you on my hands! Sorry. I had a few posts scheduled and I took the weekend off from the computer. Mostly because using them makes my hands want to die! Pretty lame. The x-ray and blood test (oh yay, love those!) results came back with nothing, so it's probably just nasty tendonitis! Friday I had been busy editing photos and listing items and other things online and by the evening the saddle joints (thumbs) were BURNING. So I iced my hands for the rest of the night, and have been off and on since then. I am now because just fixing a few photos and listing a few items is bothering them. It's really frustrating. Other than taking advil and icing my hands all I can do is try not to use my hands too much to do things like text, use my laptop and other fine handwork, like make jewelry. So, you know, just refrain from doing the things which generally take up most of my time. I didn't know what to do with myself all weekend! Haha. I did make some jewelry, trying not to do anything that aggravated my hands. If I get photos taken there should be a gorgeous sparkly new bracelet in the shop soon.

Ok, onto better topics! Like a sale! Who doesn't love a sale? Many of the items in my shop have been discounted. The details are in each individual listing, and sale items are marked with "SUMMER SALE" in the title. Pretty simple! Go wild!


earrings available here

New items

I've started experimenting with making dog collar charms although they would also make a cute addition to a keychain or something like that as well. I think the one above is the first one I did. I'm going to be at the Richmond International Film & Media Arts Festival (I posted the info here) so I think I'll bring them there, unless I get a request for one before that.

I've also added new earrings and bracelets to the shop, as well as two necklaces, if you missed those. Here are a few of the new additions:


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available here and here

There's more in the shop, check it out!

Dream a little dream

These necklaces and many others, accompanied by lots of earrings, are now for sale in Dream (311 West Cordova st.) and Little Dream (Net Loft, Granville Island)! I first "found" Dream years ago during high school when I used to hang out downtown a lot more with one of my best friends. We would hit A&B Sound (RIP) and our favourite 99¢ pizza place, then wander up Granville. We'd often go to Sacred Heart for a new piercing or new jewelry (or a new bead - I changed mine obsessively for awhile, never feeling happy with the colour I chose).

Anyhow, I'd often go to Dream after getting off the seabus. It was (is) this amazing place with awesome clothing and accessories like nothing I'd really seen before, and it was by local designers! How cool can a store be?? I dreamed of one day making something and selling it there, but it was a far away, daydream-y sort of dream. It didn't seem like something that would really happen. But, I kept a card from the shop with info on the back about selling your creations there. It sat around for years and when I finally set up a real desk to make my jewelry at it lived there in a business card holder. I've been talking about approaching stores about carrying my jewelry for months now, probably about a year really. I kept putting it off for various reasons, which really all boiled down to being chicken about it. It was Sarah who finally nudged me into doing it: she's had her jewelry there for awhile and told me that the owner, Wendy, is really great to work with. So, I am grateful for the nudge, and she was totally right! Wendy is awesome. I am so excited to finally have my jewelry for sale in a real live store, haha. If you've never been to Dream I really encourage you to check it out! There's always something new to see and they have great taste in music. I first heard Belle & Sebastien in Dream years ago on a gorgeous sunny day, and the last time I was there they were listening to She & Him. If you don't live locally, I promise to take you there if you come to visit :)

I also made some earring cards for the first time for this adventure (pictured below): what do you think? I picked up the beautiful washi tape at Paper Ya! in the Net Loft on Granville Island. The Net Loft is my candy store. With Paper Ya!, the bead store, the postcard store and Little Dream, I can easily spend a small fortune without having to go far at all! It's kind of a problem. Anyhow! I'm getting a little rambly so I'll leave off here.
xo.

Concordia

I'm not sure if I told you about the Concordia pop-up shop. It will be in the On Que building at 196 Kingsway (and Broadway) in Vancouver during the month of June. Some honeywild sterling silver charm necklaces and chandelier and filigree earrings will be there for your shopping delight! A few of the earrings are shown here, and most of the necklaces can be seen in my Etsy shop and have been marked for Concordia. I can't wait to see it next week! Hope you get a chance to check it out if you live in the Vancouver area, it should be stocked with lots of locally made goodies :)

Giveaway earrings are on their way home!

I sent out the earrings from the giveaway I did with the blog Pro-Soup Propaganda yesterday! They are going to a great new home with Miss M :)

Get yourself some earrings!

A pair of honeywild earrings are being given away over at my friend Brittany's blog!
If you are interested in winning a pair of earrings like these


[for sale here]

then run on over to Pro-Soup Propaganda and enter! It's super easy!

XO.

Treasured

A pair of my earrings are featured in a treasury list by the lovely Emily of Five Dog House!



See more here! Be sure to check out her other treasuries while you're there, they are lovely.

Recycle your jewels!

You might have noticed that there's a new tab at the top of the site. I invite you to recycle your unwanted jewelry! I've had a few friends donate some of their old jewelry after doing some spring cleaning: some pieces have already been taken apart and beads and charms are making their way into new jewelry! If you have things gathering dust and taking up space in your jewelry box and you don't know what to do with them, I encourage you to send them to me! You'll receive a coupon for honeywild jewelry in return. Leave a comment here or e-mail me for more information.

I also thought I'd share some photos with you of pieces currently available but not yet in the shop (time has been escaping me so I haven't listed much lately, my apologies). I took them on Monday morning and the light was PERFECT! These are the three photos I'm using for my application the the spring Got Craft market. If you have any questions or are interested in any of the pieces, leave a comment or e-mail me!

Keep up with honeywild news!

I'm starting a mailing list for honeywild! I will only send e-mails out when I have something awesome to share, which will mostly be about markets I'll be at, sales and promotions. If you want to be in the loop, you can sign up in the box in the right hand column or do so at this link http://eepurl.com/58Bk .
Thanks as always for your support :)
Stay fabulous.


The earrings pictured (Cinderella!) will be listed in the Etsy shop soon, but if you're interested in them feel free to comment here or e-mail me :)

J's wedding gift

I attended a friend's wedding recently. It was purple-themed, so I made her these earrings...