Quick post to tell you of an awesome giveaway!

The wonderfully talented Pippa is giving away some of her gorgeous petal and flower capped beads!  If you haven't seen them yet, you have to check them out, so gorgeous!  Here is the link to the giveaway:

http://pipsjewellery.blogspot.com/2012/02/giveaway.html

And here are some of the lovelies!



Aren't they amazing?  And here's a link to her shop for a closer look at her work:

http://www.etsy.com/shop/pipsjewellery?ref=top_trail

Ok, I promise, a long post about me today or tomorrow :)  I have many exciting things including.... my amazing bead soup has arrived from the wonderful Kari Carrigan and I am so geeking out!  Cannot wait to show you!  Also I went to the best concert of my life... and have new things in the shop... and have to tell you about the awesome Lesley Watt... yes, long post coming!!!

~Jennifer

Giveaway Winners!

Happy Friday, everyone!  I hope you are having a wonderful week :)  I will start off by announcing my giveaway winners!  Firstly, for the pair of earrings:

Number 14 was Louise, when asked her hope for the new year, she said:

"I have been following your work for a while. I really love your eye for colour. This year I want to realise my own dream - to find my inner creativity and express myself through jewellery. It didn't happen last year so fingers firmly crossed."

Here's to finding your inner creativity, Louise!  You can do it!  

The winner of the bracelet was:

Number 8, Christine!  She said her hope for the year was: 

"Your earrings and bracelet are so pretty!! 

My biggest goal...I'm almost done setting up a torch-fire enamel area & would love to spend more time making jewelry!!"

I can't wait to see what torch fired goodies you come up with, Christine!

Congratulations to both!  Please contact me at:  mysoulsfire@hotmail.com  with your addresses so I can get those out to you!  And for all of you who didn't win...  I am having 20% off anything in my shop, even sale items!  Enter the coupon code:  HOPE20  at checkout!  :)

Now, I'd love to give you all a peek at the new things in my shop :)  I'm really excited about them, I've really enjoyed putting these together :)

Tangerine Sky Bracelet and Earrings:

Twilight in Paris, featuring a beautiful tile by the lovely Marie of Skye Jewels and delicious Fallen Angel Brass Co. brass:

And my favorite... the one I am having an especially hard time parting with... Red as a Fox.  Which features

the most perfect sleepy little fox from Rebekah Payne of Tree Wings Studio (paired with Fallen Angel Brass

Co. wire and lovely sari silk from Golden One Too on Etsy):

If you click on any of those images it will take you to the listing where you can see more pics :)  I felt so inspired with those, they truly make me happy.


Now, for some exciting news!  I made it into Lori Anderson's Bead Soup Blog Party!!!  This will be my second and I am over the moon excited!  My partner this time is the talented Kari Carrigan of Charmed Pennies!  I started following her blog after the last Soup and am so excited to have her as my partner this time!  I need to put her soup together this weekend, it has been swirling in my head and I think I know what I'm sending :)  So excited!  Check out her blog and shop!


http://www.weegemsdesigns.blogspot.com/

http://www.etsy.com/shop/CharmedPennies

Later this weekend or early next week I will have blog posts spotlighting the work of two wonderful ladies who last month I was lucky enough to receive pieces by!  Hope you all have a fantastic weekend!

~Jennifer

The Last Gift... and What I've Been Working On...

As any of you who caught my last post know, I was totally shocked and excited to find that I was one of the winners of the Artisan Group Giveaway.  If you missed my last post, please check it out :)  I met some amazing artisans!  The last of my goodies hadn't arrived when I wrote the post, but it arrived a couple of days later and oh!  It is so wonderful!  It is a positively stunning leather wrap bracelet by Julicia of Julicia's Creations!  I am in love :)  She makes them custom and it fits so so perfectly!  My kids are totally thrilled that I get to wear their names around for everyone to see LOL.

Isn't it fabulous?  I am so excited :)  So, check out the wonderful Julicia!  Here are her links:
http://www.etsy.com/shop/Juliciascreations  http://twitter.com/#!/JuliciaCreates
http://www.juliciascreations.com/    https://www.facebook.com/JuliciasCreations

Now, what have I been up to?  Trying to create a lot more beautiful pieces to go up into the store in preparation for the coming holidays!  That's right, they are cooooooooming!  I LOVE Christmas, so I am excited!  I made I think it was six? Pieces this last weekend? I was hoping to make more, but it was a bit nutty in my house.  (I blame the littles... always their fault ;) )  Here are the new pretties I put up this morning, featuring... Fallen Angel Brass!  Are you shocked? I'm sure you are *wink*.  The first up is my personal favorite earrings ever I think...  I call them "Gypsy Soul"

Next up are two winter-y pieces I am dubbing the Snow Princess collection :)  I love snowflakes, I think they are just amazing and beautiful:

And the wrap that features the most stunning silk ribbon from Mudhound Studios on Etsy... maybe my favorite ribbon ever!

What do you guys think?  I am pretty pleased :)  I love all the sparkle!  These three are up in the shop now!  Click on the pics to go see the listing with even more fabulous pics.  :D  I'll have even more fun and fabulous things up later this week!  I have another set of sparkly earrings and a new lariat ready to be photographed!

My beautiful eldest daughter just went on her very first field trip on Friday (my husband got to go!) they went to the pumpkin patch :)  They had an absolutely amazing time and she brought home a very cute pumpkin lol.  I'm hoping we'll be able to take the others to pick out pumpkins sometime this week!  (before Halloween would be optimal LOL)  What are you all up to this week?  Anything fun?  Hope it is a fantastic one!

~Jennifer

Artisan Giveaway... Oh my lucky me!

So... as some of you may know... I was one of the incredibly lucky people selected in the Artisan Group Huge 2000 Fan Giveaway!  Now, I have to tell you, I am one of those people who generally enters all sorts of contests and giveaways... and never wins a darn thing!  So when I saw that I had won THIS I about had a heart attack!  And then... then I was giddy.  I still am, actually!  I feel so special and fortunate and... yes!  Yay!  Ok, so rumour has it each of the winners is supposed to get six items.  So far I have received five of mine and the last is on its way today! :)  So I want to tell you about what I got so that I can introduce you to some very cool ladies and shops as a thank you to them and to the Artisan Group itself :)  First off... if you don't know about the Artisan Group, I encourage you to check out their blog, they are an amazing group that aims to get handcrafted goodies into the hands of celebrities (through swag bags and such).  Check them out!


Ok, now, several of these wonderful ladies were kind enough to drop me an email and let me know my happy prize was on its way.  The first of these was the lovely Shawna of Wags and Wiggles, and let me tell ya it is the cutest little lobster dog toy!  It is really well made and going to the dog of a good friend of mine, I'll try and get pics of the introduction between the two at a later date ;)
Here's the pic from the Artisan blog:

Isn't it cute?  Love!  You can check out Shawna's Etsy shop by clicking the store name above, she also has a FB page: http://www.facebook.com/wagsandwiggles


Next up is the gorgeous silver filigree cuff bracelet blank I received from LexiBeads, I still am debating... but I'm thinking maybe of adding some sari silk... we'll see.  If I do I will definitely post pictures :)  It is so pretty on its own that it is hard to decide LOL.  Here it is on my wrist as is :)

And Alexis is a total sweetheart, here are her links!  https://www.facebook.com/LexiBeads
http://twitter.com/#!/lexibeads   http://www.etsy.com/shop/LexiBeads
She also has a page for her jewelry, make sure you check that out too!  https://www.facebook.com/AlexisStudioDesign


Next up is Kathryn of Kathryn Designs, her pendant is so much lovelier in person, it absolutely shimmers!  Here is my attempt at taking a picture of it in the awful light in my house...  and yes, that is my daughter's head in the background LOL!  

Here's the pic from the Artisan Group blog, much better one lol:

Another totally sweet lady, I am so excited to meet all of these new artisans!  Here are her links:

Artfire shop:http://www.kathryndesigns.Artfire.com
Facebook page: 
http://www.facebook.com/Kathryndesigns
Twitter: 
http://www.twitter.com/Kathrynjewelry

The next goodies I received were some Boo Boo Balm and Soothing Lip Rescue Balm from Scentability :)  I haven't tried the Boo Boo Balm as of yet, but the lip balm  smells like cotton candy and is amazing!  Here are her links:

https://www.facebook.com/Scentability

http://twitter.com/#!/scentability

http://www.etsy.com/shop/Scentability

And lastly of the fabulous goodies I have been so blessed to receive is a set of gorgeous Thank You cards from Simply Paperie, here's the pic from the Artisan blog:

And her links!  

https://www.facebook.com/SimplyPaperie

http://twitter.com/#!/simplypaperie

http://www.etsy.com/shop/simplypaperie

So, thank you, thank you, to all of you who have sent me such wonderful things and to the Artisan Group for doing this amazing giveaway!!  I will blog about any other goodies I receive as I get them :)  And if you have a minute, you should totally check out some of these links!  These are some truly wonderful shops!

Have a fantastic day!

~Jennifer