Small Business Saturday Sale

shealynnsfaerie.etsy.com

Today is Small Business Saturday! Now that everyone has had a fantastic Thanksgiving, and some have braved the blockbuster Black Friday sales, it's time to look to your local artisans and businesses for meaningful Christmas gifts that support individuals!

Both today (Saturday, November 29th 2014) and tomorrow (Sunday) I am offering 15% off your entire purchase. Just use the coupon code SBS2014 ! If you live in the US, combine that coupon with SBS2014freeship for free shipping!

(This excludes all "Made to Order" items and custom listings).

4th of July Sale

Today and tomorrow I am running a flash sale for 10% off your entire purchase-- but it's only good until 11:59 pm on July 5th! Here's the link to my shop, and here's the coupon code: HAPPY4TH201407

I'm writing this as we wait for some thirty or so relatives to arrive and celebrate the 4th! It's going to be great! 

These pictures are just a small sample of all the jewelry I've listed in the past week:

Enchanted Evenstar in Sapphire Blue

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Guitar String Bangles

Elvish Script Etched Copper Bracelet-- it reads "Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost" in Sindarin.

Wire tree pendant

I figured out how to make sterling silver wirewrapped rhinestone rings!

Etched copper small initial pendant

Fairytale flower ring in iridescent purple

detail of the beading on the Enchanted Evenstar

Illusion necklace

Flower hair clip in green

Ear cuff, earring combo

Braided wire circlet in enameled blue and sterling silver plate.

Fairytale flower pendant on a sterling silver plated chain, in iridescent purple.

Memorial Day Sale

Hey friends! It’s time for another flash sale… As you know, I am currently moving my Shoppe from the Artfire platform over to Etsy. During this process I am doing some flash sales on the items still remaining on my Artfire page.

This weekend, in honor of Memorial Day, I am offering all the red, white, and blue items in my shoppe at 50% off. When they are gone, they are gone (although, as always, I am open to doing custom work if something you really love has sold!).

There is a nice assortment of items, including some of my most popular necklace and earring designs. See all the sale items on my Facebook photo album here.

Here’s the link to my Etsy site, which is still under construction but will soon have my entire stock available for sale.

And you can also browse on my website.

 Old Glory Hair Comb

Red Autumn Flower Necklace 

Red, White, and Blue Patriotic Earrings                                                 Red Leaf Earrings

Blue St. Therese Good Deed Beads                                                   Red St. Therese Good Deed Beads

Red Guitar String Ring with Freshwater Pearl, size 6

Byzantine Chainmaille Earrings in blue and sterling silver                                      Classic Earrings

Cyber Monday (Through Wednesday!)

Now that everyone has finished their Black Friday shopping... it's time to take a step back from the craziness of clipping coupons and waiting in lines. Today is Cyber Monday, and if you would like to purchase some handmade fairytale-inspired jewelry online, it is the perfect time! From now until Wednesday, December 4th, I am offering free shipping on all orders, and a free adjustable ring!

Just enter CYBERMONDAY2013 at checkout at either my Artfire or Etsy shops!

Please note that I am offering free international shipping. However, this excludes boxes that circlets and other large items are shipped in. If you would like to purchase one of these, please let me know at shealynnsfaerieshoppe@gmail.com and I will manually discount the shipping for you. Also, Artfire may or may not be glitchy with international shipping. Let me know straight away if you are having a problem! 
(This offer does not apply to custom orders-- only already made items that are listed on my website.)

Here are some pictures of a few brand-new items that I've uploaded in the past two weeks:

Allons-y! It's my first Doctor Who jewelry set!

A couple days ago I purchased a metal stamping kit to create jewelry with awesome quotes and sayings. I've always admired this kind of jewelry, but it does take some investment to get the required tools! I finally broke down and now I'm having fun with a rustic metal look that I've never really incorporated into my jewelry pieces before.

It's probably not a surprise to you all that I am a Doctor Who fan. I have my online friend Elenatintil to blame for introducing me to the show, and several irl friends to blame for getting me completely addicted!

For those of you not familiar with Doctor Who... it's complete bonkers to explain. You always wind up sounding like an idiot, but believe me when I say the show's eccentricities make it epic. Basically it is a BBC show about an alien known only as the Doctor who goes around in a 1960's blue Police Box (which is actually a spaceship called the TARDIS) with various companions (typically a modern day London girl), traveling throughout all of time and space and having wacky, deep, usually-quite-intelligent, and hard-to-explain adventures. Oh, and the Doctor is played by several different actors.

This was an image which greatly inspired this jewelry set:

I don't know who made the compilation graphic with the quote on it, but the artwork featured in this picture was made by Alicexz on DeviantArt.

People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect,

but actually, from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint -

it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly... time-y wimey... stuff.

I love that "wibbly wobbly timey wimey" quote. It's handy to flourish when your brother is asking you to think about light cones and fourth dimensions. :) "It's all just wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff!"

One of my favorite things about Doctor Who is the pure wonder that the Doctor has bubbled up inside of him and how much beauty he sees in everything from the construction of a man-eating robot to a distant star to a single leaf on planet Earth.

This line, which he says when inviting a friend to join him on his adventures, is short and beautiful:

All of time and space; everywhere and anywhere; every star that ever was... Where do you want to start?

I handstamped the letters onto aluminum, cut out the metal and sanded the edges, punched in holes for the TARDIS blue eyelets, and strung everything onto darkened steel chain sprinkled with blue glass cats-eye beads.

If you are interested, the necklace and two bracelets are for sale as a set on my Shoppe.

Also, I LOVE my camera and its lenses. They were a graduation present and I've been having SO MUCH FUN playing with the settings. :)

Fellow Whovians... what is your favorite Doctor Who quote? And your favorite episode and companion and Doctor? Personally I love Don't Blink, Amy, Martha, and Clara (don't make me pick!) and my bug-eyed Doctor (lol-- it's a joke in my family-- I mean the talented David Tennant of course!).

As a bonus, here is the very first piece that I made with my stamping kit! "Inconceivable!" is, of course, from The Princess Bride, one of the most quotable movies of all time. This one has chainmaille details.

I do not think that word means what you think it means.

Ear Cuffs and Other Wares

Just a bit of peddling and some shameless self-promotion today, but it comes with a bunch of eye candy, so come along for the show! *starts humming a festive tune*

Firstly, don't forget that my summer clearance sale is only good through Monday, May 21st!

25% all items in the sale category!

Use code: SUMMERCLEARENCESALE42712 at checkout.

Here's a link to the sale category. (Everything with that orange sale tag).

I finally got around to perfecting my recipe for ear cuffs. Turns out all I needed was a dash of pixie dust and a sprinkle of aha! seasoning.

I've listed several ear cuffs in the Shoppe, including a pair of cuffs-- perfect for anyone looking for an alternative to earrings or clip-on earrings. Click through for more pictures, to see how they are worn.

Ear cuff set with interchangeable dangles, well over 10 ways to wear...

This one gets a touch of whimsical steampunkery.

This weekend one of my friends invited me to the Six Flags amusement park. I wore one of the tiny ear cuffs (like this one, only brown), and it stayed in all day, except for the times when I took it off so that other people could wear it. I had sooooo much fun.

In response to those who asked me here on Blogger or via my Twitter and Facebook: do I plan on making an ear cuff tutorial? Yes. Just not right now. Tutorials can take me up to five hours to make, and I still have several weeks of school left.

I also made some more copper hair forks! This is another thing that stays in all day when you wouldn't expect it to-- one hair fork will hold in a bun of my shoulder-blade length hair for hours.

Czech glass leaf beads are some of my favorites. You've seen me use them in the Evenstar Necklaces and Enchanted Forest Earrings, and now I'm weaving them into flowers galore. I recently uploaded three floral necklaces and two earrings!

Personally, I don't wear big, dangly earrings on an everyday basis. This might come as a surprise, considering that I love making big dangly earrings and would make them on a daily basis if I could. I don't have the supplies to make stud earrings, so I once again put those Czech glass beads to work. The pictured earrings are extra-delicate, made from miniature leaf beads that I recently discovered. :) I made pairs in six colors for myself,! One for every day of the week, with big earrings for dressing up on Sunday, lol!

There's tons more but I don't want to bore you-- and I'm off to study for a History test and finish up Ink and Fairydust and maybe find time for some more crafting. :)