It has been a long while since my last post.  With having started a new job June 4, I've not been actively creative.  A bit of a dry funk I guess you could say.  Not selling anything on either site I am on, and though I have had my things featured a few times on Luulla.com, I am just not being productive.  Though it is my fault for not listing my 100 items, that is a lot of work.  Which some or all would say that I am just not interested in selling if I have not done that, which maybe is true.  I may find another site to post on, or just go back to Etsy, not sure, something to think about. 

So with this photo, this is what I have enjoyed over the summer, animal watching.  This is a baby that was born around June, and is getting quite big.  The other day he was learning how to make fence posts squeek if he pushed on them with his back side.  He's pretty cute, I was surprised at the lack of babies this year around these parts.

Has anyone heard of ParkLane?  I went to a little country fair and a gal was setting up her Park Lane jewelry displays.  They have very nice things at reasonable prices. Just curious.

Can you believe it is already July?  June has ran by me, as I have started a new job, and have just focused on that during June.  So far I have no  complaints, it pays the bills.  However, the never ending dream of having my own shop gets further and further away as the years pass.  I visited a local tourist mountian town today, and had a great time.  Again it made me dream more of how sweet it would be to have my own little rustic store.  Though I know there are issues there as well, when running your own business. 

With July now here, I am going to try to get back to a design schedule.  I may even dabble in other gift items that are not jewelry, we will see.  For some that are already thinking of Christmas, now is a great time to start shopping.

This photo I attached is a pair of little wacky wire earrings, made with fire polish beads.  Something fun to wear, that have a little sparkle.

With our world now moving with technology of Kindle, Sony, Nook, & many others.  Sometimes you may get a itch to pick up an actual book.  To feel the tangible product, turn the paper pages, and see real ink.  While on vacation in central California I picked up a few little bookmarks.  After adding a little bling to each one and setting a reasonable price of only $6, I figure it is something that at some point will need.  It does not matter if you use this for church on Sundays, for your favorite magazine, or even a novel or journal.  Good old fashioned bookmarks will never go away.

In addition to bookmarks, I also threw up some of my gypsy bracelets, which are pretty kewl.  They are random glass beads in a variety of colors strung on memory wire.  These are fun to wear, especially casually.  You can check them out in my store www.happigirljewelry.luulla.com

I'm Back!  What a fun week, we left last Thursday May 24th  to go visit family in Central California.  On our way we had to go through the Sierra Nevada range, which is the top picture, many pretty places to see there.  Then we drove to the San Francisco Bay on Saturday May 26th.  Yes it was crazy busy, but that is to be expected due to the holiday weekend.  It was so kewl to see everything.  I had never been over a bridge like that, and it wasn't to scary at all.  The Warf is where we visitied, and it must have taken near 45 mintues just to drive through and find a parking space.  After parking we sent to eat at a nice resteraunt for some fresh seafood.  After this, we went to the dock and found an old ship to tour, as well as take photos of the places on the bay, such as Alcatraz in the bottom picture.  This was the first time I had seen cargo ships...........  they are huge!  The day was windy, but we did tour the little Aquarium, which was fun as well.  Pricing was not as I had expected, and I look forward to spending time in the city within the next year...........  but will skip the holiday weekend.

With this experience, it was interesting to see the different colors on the coastal areas.  Water, though merky, can still be a pretty color to incorporate.  I did visit a small bead shop in the town of Modesto, pricing was a bit high, and customer service was not great, not sure if I'll be back.  Also didn't have a good selection.  With being so close to the Bay, where imports can be less expensive, I was hoping to get reasonable pricing.  O'well, they need to make a living right! 

I am posting a few new items today, on happigirljewelry.luulla.com .  Check them out, pretty copper and crystals.

So, I now have a new store I want to invite you all to check out.  www.happigirljewelry.luulla.com .  I am very excited to be apart of this new Handmade ONLY seller site.  Etsy, appears to have some very opinionated sellers, which if you open the door to that, you can only blame yourself. 

I am speaking of a thread on Etsy I started, and all in all the majority were very helpful and nice.  I even managed to get private help from a seasoned seller, so I am grateful.  Anyway, there are some who are just not good communicators, and come across wrong in my opinion.  Some of the feedback I recieved.........that I did not want to take in at first, has actually been good for me.  I have started updating good photos, and I've gotten help with writing better descriptions.

I will be making regular updates to my new site, and I am not sure at this point if I will relist with Etsy once my items expire.  I would love to just use luulla, but we will see.

Update for my second auction on Tophatter.com.  I did my second auction, and though I could not log onto the site during my auction, I did sell............again, at a substantial discount.  So, it appears that I need to try less pricey items..........  may try some steampunk since it's crazy popular, and ALWAYS brings good returns.  I have another auction planned for May 14, at the 5pm auction, which will be for some pretty copper and glass bead earrings.  We'll see if anyone bites........  I do love the auction energy.  Outbid has potential to do well, but there is absolutely NO advertising done my the site owners.  They are using us as the sellers to do that for them......... 

This picture above is a new items listed at www.happigirlgifts.etsy.com .  It's genuine Agate and Turquoise.  Beautiful Agate, loved this color combination.  This measures the average 7.5", and is sure to get attention. 

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So last night I tried Tophatter for the first time.  I ended up selling this set for a substantial discount...........but it sold!  So I scheduled another auction for May 9, 9am auction, which means it could take over 3 hrs for my item to come up, but it's all fun.  What was exciting is that it sold to someone in Rochester, NY.  Though I love my local clientele I'm building, it was neat to sell to someone on the other side of the country.

Today I have an order to fill so will be completing that, as well as whatever else stirs my motivation.  I did buy a peice of board today from Lowes so I can work on a pyrography sign for Mothers Day.  Getting ready for a busy week, we'll see what I have to say come next weekend.  As always you can catch me on Tophatter this wed morning selling a beautiful Jasper and wire bracelet......