My Wish List on My Handmade Registry!

I just posted my etsy wishlist on my myhandmaderegistry.com page. I have been eyeing some of these items for a while and others I have just found. I hope to make some purchases soon (soon as I get some spendin cash that is).

I Was Included In a Front Page Wish List!

I received a convo. message through etsy today letting me know that one of my items was included on the front page of myhandmaderegistry.com. The item listed was a pair of orange shell earrings and the wish list was created by Maryum K. who has a beautiful etsy shop full of lovely knitted and crocheted items (www.yarncoture.etsy.com). I was and still am very happy to be included and I also joined myhandmaderegistry and will be sure to share my favorites soon. Thanks again Maryum.

Two Down-Five To Go

I had my two trunk shows over the weekend at Bloomingdales at Old Orchard in Skokie,IL. Now I have one more this week (Thursday 23) and two in May(9th and 23rd) and July(3rd and 25th) . I had plenty of people stop by and browse and I had a few sales (some is better than none). Plus I gave out plenty of cards so hopefully people are gonna come calling for some of my pieces!

Upcoming Trunk Shows

I have three trunk shows coming up within the next 10 day so I am crazy busy. I am making new one of a kind pieces and a few pieces that have done well in the past. I have plenty items in stock but I am making more in hopes of selling lots. All three shows will take place at Bloomingdales in Skokie, IL (Old Orchard Shopping Center,4963 Old Orchard Center,Skokie, IL 60077).The dates and times for the shows are 4/17, 4/18 and 4/23 from 11am to 4pm. Here is the link to the event from the Bloomingdales website:
http://www1.bloomingdales.com/store/event/index.ognc?action=search&storeId=50012&Go=Go
I have also seen my shows listed on some around town sites!YaY!
http://boutiqueville.com/style-events/

http://www.stylechicago.com/Invite.asp?ID=6705&PID=7054

Check Out This Cool Etsy Shop!

I came across a very cool Etsy shop on another online craft community ( Mycraft.com). This shop, blaisedenvy.etsy.com, is filled with beautiful, handmade earrings, necklaces, and bracelets made with semi-precious stones, precious metal, feathers, ribbon,etc... There are so many great pieces in this shop and I especially love the ribbon bangle bracelets which are cute, colorful, and VERY reasonably priced-so you can buy more than one. Here are just a few of my favorite ribbon bangle bracelets from this shop- visit the shop to see the others:

Argyle Ribbon Bracelet


Gold Bracelet


Flowers


Multi


Brown


Sripes

Yummy Food Blog!

I have been drooling over the pics on this food blog lately(http://vanillakitchen.blogspot.com/). There is one post in particular that has really got my sweet tooth tingling-dark chocolate peanut butter cups. These cups look so divine. Mmmm!

They Had Me Fooled!

I was checking out the seriouseats blog when I came across a post about squeeze bacon. Yes, you read right-squeeze bacon in bottle. This product is called Squeez Bacon and you can get it from ThinkGeek.com. It is supposedly 100% real cooked bacon that has been processed into a paste by some special blending process. All while I was reading this I was thinking this sounds pretty gross and it can't be real- but there are so many unbelievable products on the market right now so maybe it is real. Then I clicked the add to cart link (just out of curiosity of course) and surely there was a big Gotcha April Fool message . And somehow I am really glad this was a joke.