Perfect Reasons to Give Personalize Jewelry
Believe it or not, personalized jewelry is almost always an appropriate gift. It doesn’t matter what the occassion is, jewelry customized with a name will be well received. A gift of jewelry might be declined if the person had ill feelings toward the gifter. Over the last 20 years or so personalized jewelry has become a gifting favorite. You can have just about anything personalized for your gift recipient. For many years personalized jewelry was expensive but not anymore. And here’s the proof of some great times to give this kind of gift. Occasionally, people just need to fee better. A really good way to do this is to give them a thrifty gift. It does not need to be enormous-a small token of appreciation is usually all that is desired. This can be done effortlessly with a nice bit of personalize jewelry. The gift doesn’t need to be extensive or expensive. It can be as effortless as stringing together some alphabet beads into a bracelet. The thought is the same:
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Jim Himes Would Sorta Like People to Forget He Worked on Wall Street
Himes also “wears a blue woven bead bracelet given to him by a Zen master.” “[M]y whole being is about having a fairly cool conversation about what’s happening,” he explains to the Times. So now instead of telegraphing a “preppy rich guy” vibe, Himes is telegraphing a “preppy rich guy interpreting what it means to be slightly alternative” vibe. This almost always involves woven jewelry. Wall Street Ties Bring Peril for Democratic Lawmaker [Dealbook/NYT
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Holiday Obsession! Vanessa Mooney’s Affordable Jewels
Holiday Obsession! Vanessa Mooney’s Affordable Jewels By: Kate Mulling Whether you like delicate bracelets, sturdy statement rings, or bold and bright necklaces, Vanessa Mooney has you covered this Holiday season. This L.A.-based designer is responsible for some of our favorite fashionable jewels, including gorgeously bright breastplate-like necklaces and handfuls of stackable beaded bracelets that will elevate any Holiday outfit into a true work of art. We’re obsessed with her styles not just because they are as playful as they are beautifully crafted, but also because the prices��starting at just $20��can’t be beat. So if you’re looking for the perfect gift for your brand new sister-in-law or trying to figure out how to wow your best friend who has everything, we swear, Vanessa Mooney is an indispensible gift resource��and don’t forget to treat yourself, too! Vanessa Mooney Jewels, available at American Rag Cie , 150 South La Brea Avenue (at 2nd Street); 323-935-3154.
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Birthday Fishes
Here’s my project for the current Paper Smooches SPARKS challenge. The challenge was to create a project inspired by this pretty beaded bracelet. I took my inspiration from the colors and the idea of something strung on a cord to create this fun birthday card using images from the Birthday Buddies set. I used my new Edgeabilities dies to cut two blue scallop edged strips that I layered along the bottom of the light aqua card base to make a watery backdrop. The set’s fish image is stamped on white cardstock, colored with Copic markers, and cut out. After lightly misting it with some shimmer spray and adding a little Glossy Accents to the eye, I attached it to the cardfront with a dimensional dot. I made a small banner in the open upper left corner of the cardfront. A trio of rounded edge pennants, cut from patterned paper scraps, is attached to a cream string. I threaded beads on the string to mimic the feel of the beaded bracelet before securing the banner in place.
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Simply Sweet Creations Giveaway
I’m very excited to be sponsoring a giveaway this week over at Sumo’s Sweet Stuff For this giveaway, one person will win a $15 gift certificate for my etsy shop, Simply Sweet Creations Giveaway will start on Wednesday, November 17 and will be open for one week. And contestants qualify for extra entries if you are a follower of Simply Sweet Home or if you follow me on Twitter or Facebook. So if you’re not a follower yet, please check out the links in my sidebar and follow me! Then head over to Sumo’s Sweet Stuff and enter! Use this gift certificate to purchase one of my beaded bracelets, some fun dangle earrings, a cute necklace, or one of my wreaths for you home! When the post is up, I’ll update you with the URL. I just wanted to make sure I got this up early so that the information could go out to my email subscribers. this week
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My One Year Blog Anniversary!
I can’t believe it has been a whole year already! My main reason for starting my blog was prompted by my younger son going off to College. I also wanted to share my interests and passions. What started off mainly as a place to share my lampwork beads, jewelry, and doll making quickly evolved to add photography, digital graphics and scrapbooking. The more I blogged, the more fun things I discovered in the digital world. Now I just blog about whatever takes my fancy. Today, I am again doing what I did exactly one year ago: helping my younger son move back to school; this time for his second year in college. I also wanted to thank everyone that have visited my blog and left kind comments by giving away a couple of my lampwork creations. I will have a random draw a week from today, on September 25, 2011. For those interested, just leave me a comment on this post. And here are my two creations; a lampwork vessel pendant, and lampwork beads bracelet.
Wall Street Ties Bring Peril for Democratic Lawmaker
Mr. Himes, who wears a blue woven bead bracelet given to him by a Zen master, has been trying to calm the furor surrounding Wall Street by staking out middle ground in many of the financial issues facing legislators. He favors regulating some kinds of derivatives, the exotic instruments that Mr. Buffett once called ��financial weapons of mass destruction,�� while leaving others intact, like crop futures used by farmers to hedge against price swings. He also has a tempered view on the issue of carried interest, the type of income earned by some hedge fund and private equity managers that is taxed at lower rates than ordinary income. Mr. Himes favors a blended rate that would tax carried interest above the lower capital gains rate but below the rate paid on ordinary income, to accommodate the different kinds of risk taken on by investors. ��The good news is, I can talk about alternate swap-execution facilities,�� Mr. Himes said of his approach to legislating.
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Swan Hill 27th Sept
Ice cream Sundae makingSWAN HILL 27th Sept After such a big day yesterday we decide to stay around the park today and relax a bit. We book the kids into a couple of the parks activities. Today they are having bead bracelet making classes which tickled Charlottes fancy and ice cream sundae creating which tickled all threes fancy. It was a good day for ice creams as the temp was to get to 30 degrees. By the end of the day the kids had made bracelets, created ice cream sundaes, pounded the jumping pillow, swam in the pool and did numerous laps of the caravan park on our bikes. Not so relaxing for the kids, but very relaxing for the folks. With the kids taken care of with all the goings on in the caravan park, we sat around under the sun with a few drinks watching the ‘nomad’ world go by. Prado with 20ft dual axle luxury caravan arrives. Wife gets out to start arm movements which only her hubby understands as he reverse parks the van.
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Tinkerbell Tea Party
We recently celebrated Kaylee’s birthday by having a Tinkerbell Tea Party/Luncheon with 7 of her closest little girlfriends. It was SO MUCH FUN! I think every little girl has to have a doll cake at least once and this was her year. It was my first time making one and I think it turned out pretty good. I used the same ruffle technique that I did on this cake to frost it quickly. I also added edible shimmery powder to the entire thing which made her sparkle. I couldn’t believe how hard it was to find a Tinkerbell doll that wasn’t too creepy. Why don’t they make any that look like Tinkerbell in Peter Pan? This was the closest I could find and she has had a great time playing with her now that she is out of the cake. For activities we decorated fairy wings (double thick poster board) with stickers and markers and used little clothes pins to attach them to the back of the girls’ shirts. We also make pipe cleaner beaded bracelets.
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Our super sweet Candy Land party and a giveaway!
Can you imagine.. Candy Land, cupcakes, face painting, pottery painting, bead bracelet craft, and hair-do’s.. all in an hour and a half? Oh my gosh I can’t tell you how exhausted I was around 12:30 today. I was pooped and ready for a nap, which is very unlike me. All for good reason though. Thanks to Hasbro and My Blog Spark, I hosted a Candy Land party for about 18 3-5 year old’s this morning. I was thrilled to have Desiree from BottlesToBritches.com , Stacie from TheDivineMissMommy.com , and Amanda from OhAmanda.com at the party. Check out their blogs! You’ll love them. Candy Land was recently redesigned, bringing the excitement that is Candy Land back to our kitchen table. Forget the dinner, let’s play Candy Land! My daughter is 4 and Candy Land is the ��go to�� board game when she has friends over. Don’t even try to offer another game.. Candy Land is ��IT!�� and that’s the way it is.
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