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March’s Jewelry Showcase

March 16, 2011 10 Comments

At the beginning of the year I had planned to do a jewelry showcase on the first Wednesday of each month, but I had to do a little rearranging for March because I wanted to share my St. Patty’s wreath at the beginning of the month, and to be honest, I wanted to share new spring items this month, and I never got the chance to make them in February. So here we are!

For this month’s showcase, I’m sharing my 3 newest pieces. These are actually a set, but I’ve listed them separately in my shop. Each piece features glass cat’s eye beads and pewter charms which are shaped like little branches with leaves and resemble bamboo. And if you like earthy tones for spring, than you’ll love these!

Also, I just added a new coupon code for my readers. Just enter: LOVESPRING15 at checkout to get 15% off your purchases!

I’m going to start today with the last piece that I made in the set- the earrings. I actually had no intention of making earrings to match the necklace, but after I had the necklace and bracelet done, I thought I might as well use some of the charms I had left over to make some earrings. And I’m glad I did, because I actually kind of like the earrings the best!

I just started making earrings in this style, and I really love them. I usually wear smaller earrings myself, so these are little bigger than what I’m used too without being too big or heavy, if you know what I mean. And they dangle about an inch and half from the ear.

Next we have the bracelet. I just love making bracelets, and after making the necklace, I simply had to make the matching bracelet. It’s a little more simple than the necklace and earrings, but just as cute. And it measures 7 inches in length, but I can add an extender chain to it for anyone that wants a bigger size, and I’ll add it free of charge.

And finally we have the necklace. I was so thrilled with how this turned out. The necklace measures 20 inches around and will go up to 22 inches with the extender change, and then the cluster of beads and charms in 3 inches long.

My only regret is that the photos just don’t do the piece justice. I tried of variety of angles and positions, but I just wasn’t 100% happy with anything. But hopefully people will see the beauty. What do you think?

Please visit Simply Sweet Creations to see more of my spring items.

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February’s Jewelry Showcase

February 3, 2011 5 Comments

I’m happy to report that every Valentine’s Day item that I featured last month has been sold, except for the Colors of My Heart Necklace (which is now on sale). For this month’s jewelry showcase, I’m sharing some of the Valentine’s Day items that I have left and a couple of my Pink & Chic items.

If anyone would like to place an order for Valentine’s Day, please note that it takes 3-4 days for items to arrive once they are shipped (not including any weather delays). As such, if you want to order something for Valentine’s Day, you need to place the order by next Tuesday, in order for me to ship it out Wednesday, Feb 9th, for Valentine’s Day delivery.

Also, I’ve reduced the prices on my all my Valentine’s Day Bracelets featured here, and I’ve also placed all my Petite Earrings, jewelry sets, and some other items on sale. So please check out my shop for details.

Hope you enjoy this month’s showcase!

Ruby Red Valentine Bracelet w/ Silver Hearts

Pink, Peridot, and Silver Braclet

Blue Heart Valentine Bracelet

Pink & Chic Pearl Bracelet

Colors of My Heart Necklace

Pink & Chic 3-Strand Necklace

Thanks for looking! I’m linking up this week to these parties.

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January’s Jewelry Showcase

January 5, 2011 11 Comments

As one year ends and another begins, I always find myself coming up with new goals that I want to achieve and tasks that I want to take on in blogging and other areas in my life. One thing that I want to do this year is come up with new ways to promote the jewelry that I make.

The etsy shop always takes a back seat to the work I do for Simply Sweet Home and other things that I have to take on in “real life,” so for this year, I’ve decided that I’m going to regularly promote the shop on this blog with a monthly showcase.

This January I’m adding some items for winter and Valentine’s Day. I still have several to add, but here are a few things that I already have for sale.

Also, I’m still offering a 15% savings for my readers in honor of the New Year. Just enter the coupon code “HAPPYNEWYEAR” at checkout. This code will be up through Jan 21st, so please take advantage of it while you can!

I call this beauty Colors of My Heart. It started out as a bracelet and I decided to make it into a necklace instead. But I can easily make it back into a bracelet for anyone that prefers that.

This is my first time to make a necklace in this style, and I’m very proud of how it turned out. Hopefully I can make a lot more necklaces this year!

I think this is the quintessential Valentine’s bracelet. It’s called the Dangle My Heart Bracelet. It offers a lot of elegance and is perfect for people that love silver jewelry. And the 3 red charms offer just enough contrast and give it a fun Valentine’s Day feel.

This is my Valentine Red Heart Bracelet. This one is actually in the typical style which I would buy or make for myself. I love bracelets that feature one solid color surrounded by silver and just a few charms so that it’s kind of simple but very cute and perfect to wear with dress clothes.

This is one of my winter items. This is my Black & Pewter Elegance Bracelet. I actually made a bracelet like this for my mom. It’s right up her alley because she wears black and silver jewelry all the time, and she seemed to really like it. There’s also a matching pair of earrings in the shop.

If you have an etsy shop and you’d like to discuss exchanging buttons or working out some other type of cross-promotion, please contact me!

I’m linking up at these parties.

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Simply Sweet Creations Sale & A Giveaway Winner!

November 29, 2010 Leave a Comment

Hey guys! I wanted to take a minute today to announce the Christmas Sale at my shop.

From now until New Year’s you can get 10-15% off select items in my shop.

No coupon codes needed! And all sale prices will already appear in the shop.

Also, I’ll be changing up the sale items throughout the month of December and adding new items too, so keep checking back to see what’s new!

Giveaway Winner

I wanted to take a minute to thank Summer from Sumo’s Sweet Stuff for hosting a great giveaway for my shop a week or so ago. And if you went over there and entered, thank you for supporting me! And of course, I have to congratulate Maloree, who was the winner of the giveaway. She received a $15 gift certificate to my shop, and here are items she selected:

Little Black Dress Bracelet

Chocolate & Strawberry Cupcake Necklace

Thank you for supporting Simply Sweet Creations!

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Simply Sweet Creations Jewelry Giveaway

October 28, 2010 Leave a Comment

Since opening my shop this year, I’ve done very little to promote it, but since the holidays are coming up I’ve decided to do some blog promotions. And it just so happened that Staci over at Just Sew Sassy was looking for sponsors to celebrate her half year of blogging, so I’m happy to announce that I’m sponsoring my first jewelry giveaway over at her blog this week!

For the prize, I’ve giving away a pair of my Petite Earrings. These are made with surgical steel earwire and findings, which makes them perfect for sensitive ears, and they feature Czech Glass beads with a lovely sparkle. The winner will get to choose the color of the pair they recieve. The colors I currently offer are as follows:

Black
Clear
Red
Green
Olive Green
Blue
Blue-Violet (Purple)
Cobalt Blue

If you’d like to enter the giveaway, please head on over to Staci’s blog. The giveaway will be open through next Thursday, Nov 4. And if you are a twitter or facebook follower of mine, you can also get extra giveaway entries!

Thanks so much to Staci for having me over at her blog. And as I said, I am actually considering doing a couple of promotions for the holiday season, so if you have a blog, and you’d like me to sponsor a giveaway, please send me a email. My advertising budget is very small right now, so I have to be very selective of the promotions I do, but I’d be willing to give any and all blogs a look, at the very least.

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September Jewelry Special

September 1, 2010 1 Comment

I work on my etsy shop on a “very part time” basis. I simply don’t have a lot of time or money to promote it, so I’ve decided the easiest thing to do is promote it here every now then. (And I’d be honored and thrilled if you would check it out!)

So today I’m posting about the September Special I just added.

This month all items in my shopped that are priced $5 and under are Buy One Get One Half Off OR Buy 2, Get One Free.

Right now the number of stock items in my shop is down, but I will be adding more this month. And some of them will be in the $5 range, so keep checking back!

I also relisted the Little Black Dress Bracelet. It’s just $10. And if you’d like to order it and the matching earrings, I will sell the earrings to you for just $2. (They are marked $5 in my shop.)

To take advantage of these deals, please only order the full priced items. (Do not add the discounted item to your cart!) Just make a note in the comments or send me a convo, letting me know which discounted item you would like. And I’ll take it from there!

If you’d like to check it out, here’s my SSC shop url: http://jhrivers.etsy.com/

And if you like jewelry and handmade items, you can also follow me at my other blog Simply Sweet Creations.

Also, if you have a shop or blog that you’d like to promote here on Simply Sweet Home, I’d be happy to work out a button swap! Email me if you are interested!

-Jerri

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Spring Earrings at Simply Sweet Creations

March 3, 2010 11 Comments

Today I’m showing off some of the latest earrings I’ve made. I spend of lot of time doing Simply Sweet Home and doing all my husband’s bookkeeping and other office stuff for his business, leaving me very little time to craft, let alone try to run a “successful” craft/jewelry shop, but I’m trying. It’s definitely a work in progress and a crazy balancing act which I’m still trying to figure out. Anyway, these are some of my latest earrings which will be on sale in my shop. Some of them are already listed and others will be listed this week or next. They’re all perfect for spring and I hope you’ll come by and take a look: http://jhrivers.etsy.com/

The first pair (above) are the Peachy Pearl Earrings.

These are the Creamy Dangle Earrings.

These are My Lucky Day Dangle Earrings.

These are the Pretty Princess Earrings.

These are the Spring Butterfly Earrings.

These are the Petite Blue Earrings.

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Make it for Monday hosted by Cottage Instincts
Made it Mondays hosted by The Persimmon Perch
Making the World Cuter Monday hosted by Making the World Cuter
Make Your Monday hosted by Twice Remembered
Metamorphosis Monday hosted by Between Naps on the Porch
DIY Day at A Soft Place to Land
Market Yourself Monday is hosted by Sumos Sweet Stuff
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What Your Working with Wednesday is hosted by Me and My Bucket
Tip Me Tuesday is hosted by Tip Junkie
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New Shop & Blog Launch

January 13, 2010 2 Comments

While hubby’s been out of town as at a training conference, I’ve been a busy bee!

The new Simply Sweet Creations blog and shop have now been launched! Yay! The shop only has a few listings but you have to start somewhere. Right? And I promise there will be much more to come.

The new shop URLs are http://jhrivers.etsy.com/ or http://www.etsy.com/shop/jhrivers

You can also access the new jewelry blog here: http://simplysweetcreationsblog.blogspot.com/

New Newsletter:

If you’re interested, I’ve added a new newsletter to go along with the new blog. I’m not sure if I noted previously when I added the business blog or not, but in case I didn’t, I should note: Each of the three blogs has it’s own separate newsletter. So if you’re subscribed at Simply Sweet Home, you will only get Simply Sweet Home Updates. If you want be subscribed to 2 or all three of them, you will need to subscribe separately at each blog.

The Simply Sweet Creations newsletter will only come out once a month (unlike the SSH newsletter which comes out once a week). And it will include the latest post updates, new products, and sales. Also, if you subscribe to the newsletter, I’ll occasionally send out special coupon codes and subscriber-only sales. (If Hubby were here he’d say, “Oooh! How exclusive!”) And since Simply Sweet Home is my main blog, sometimes I’ll send out similar offers to the SSH subscribers as well.

New Button: Also, I was asked if there would be a new button for the shop. The answer is yes. You can find the new button code right beneath my Simply Sweet Home Button, or you can get it from the new SSC blog. Thanks to everyone who decides to display any of my buttons on your page. I really appreciate the promo!

Sneak Peak at Future Listings: I’m planning to add new listings gradually over the next few weeks. Here’s a sneak peak of some of the things I’ll be adding in the near future.

-Jerri

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Preview of Simply Sweet Creations Shop & Blog

January 8, 2010 4 Comments

Hello everyone! If you’ve looked at my profile in the last several months, you probably noticed that I have a blog listed under my profile, in addition to this one titled, “Coming Soon.”

Well, the blog that’s “Coming Soon” is going to be a blog where I’ll be sharing jewelry I’ve made and other craft projects I’m working on. The name of the blog is…..you guessed it: Simply Sweet Creations. I’m also opening my own shop on etsy where I’ll be selling jewelry and other items. I’ve been planning to launch this for months, but things just kept coming up. But now I’m ready to take the plunge and add some items to the shop.

The shop is going to start out small. I have a ton of stuff that I’ve made, but I know it will take a while to get traffic, so I’m planning to add more stuff gradually. I also have a ton of ideas for new things to make in the future, but I’m on a tight budget right now, so I have to be a little selective of the materials and things that I buy.

I hope to open the new blog and shop up to the public in the few days. When I have it launched, I’ll be sure to post the links here so that you can come take a look at my items, and I look forward to reading your comments. Please wish me luck in this new endeavor, and don’t forget to tell your friends about it!

Today I’m giving you a small preview of my items. As I look through my stock, I see huge variety of colors and styles…I’m not even sure what to feature! So please bare in mind this is just a small preview!