Holiday Season

With the holiday season already upon us, it is time to start or finish your holiday shopping.  Start your shopping with some great handmade items.

On artfire, you have a wide assortment of handmade items.  There are earrings, necklaces, cards, candles and a whole lot more.  You will be happy with the handmade gift items and so will the person you give them too.

Here are some great handmade Christmas finds.

These beautiful earrings are by DesertCreations.  They are an amethyst dangle earrings.  Just look at the colors shine and sparkle.

If you are like most people, you never have enough cards for the holidays.  This great winter themed card is by Laurascrafts.  It has a cute snowman on the front.  Nothing says winter or holidays better.

This golf towel is personalized with Dad on the front.  This is the perfect gift for any golfer.  It is in Polkadot Orchards shop.

Does anyone on your list need a new scarf?  The CrochetCubby has a great selection of nice handmade and warm scarves.  This is a lovely purple and white one.

Of course, you will need a table runner for when you have family over.  You want things to be perfect and this snowman s'mores table runner by PutnamLakeDesigns will definitely give your table the perfect look.

In addition to making your table look nice, you will need to give the bread basket a little extra too.  This handmade lilac gingham bread basket liner by UniquelyHandmade will definitely give a lot of extra.

Don't forget you will need something to sit all that deliciously hot food on something.  This hot pad, by Handmadegiftsbybarb, will definitely get some use.

These are just some of the wonderful handmade gift ideas available on artfire.  There are lots and lots more.  You will not be disappointed.   There is something for everyone.  Don't forget to get something for yourself this holiday season also.

Halloween items

Halloween is a few days away.  Artfire has a lot of ghosts, goblins, witches, and other ghoulish Halloween items.

There are earrings, tarts, necklaces, bracelets, candles, cards and a lot of other items.

Here  is a ghostly necklace from The Singing Beader.  This is sure to get a fright.  Would you be scared?

For people who would rather have a pair of earrings instead of a necklace, here are some scary skull earrings from Shadowdogdesigns.   Now all you need is the skeleton costume and you would be all set.

If you aren't interested in scaring anyone, how about a cute little pumpkin pin from Bluemorningexpressions?  Isn't this cute?

All these items are handmade with quality material.  None of it is mass produced.

For people who aren't into jewelry, there are a lot of other great items.  Here is a little stuffed ghost for the young ones.  This is made by Daisydoodleembrodery.   This is something the little ones would treasure for a long time.

You can't forget candles.  A nice pumpkin spiced candle will surely remind you of Halloween and holidays beyond.  This one is one of my candles.  (I had to get one of mine in the listing).

Don't forget the costume.  You can't go out on Halloween without one.  Here is a great little mask by Eirewolf.

Don't be afraid to buy any of these items.  They are all handmade and well worth having.

Ready for fall collection

Here is a beautiful collection of handmade fall items.

Ready for Fall

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Ready for Fall?

It's almost fall.  It won't be long before the leaves are falling and changing colors, the nip of cold is in the air and the holiday season will be upon us.

This is a listing for your fall items.  It can be anything fall related.  Please list as many as you want.  The more the better.  Please share this with others as well.

Artfire Jewelry Artists Part2

I tried writing this a few minutes ago, but my computer decided it didn't want to work and locked up on me.  Now I get to start from scratch.  I really need to get a new computer.

Since my last blog post about the wonderful jewelry artists on artfire, some people have asked if I could feature them on my blog.  Today, the artists are Metal_Artistry, DesertCreations and DianesDangles.   Each of these jewelry designers have beautiful pieces of jewelry.

Metal_Artistry makes wonderful jewelry out of metal.  The metal is shaped into some of the most beautiful pieces of jewelry you can imagine.  

The first piece is a mixed metal landscape pendant that features mountains, moon, snow and river.  When you look at this pendant, you can see the full moon shining down over the snow capped mountains and the river.  

Absolutely beautiful.  A perfect picture of nature for the perfect necklace.












Do you like rings?  Do you like sterling silver?  If so, this ring is for you.  This ring is made of sterling silver and has a mountain range forged on it.  Every time you look at this ring, you will feel as  though you are in the mountains.

Just look at how beautiful this ring is.  Very shiny and eloquent.  Bet you can't resist.














DesertCreations makes amazing jewelry using polymer clay, beads and wire.  I'm sure there is something for you.  Take a look.

This is one of the many pieces of handmade jewelry DesertCreations made.  It is a pair of copper glass on copper earring wires.  Aren't these earrings great?   These could be worn for any occasion.

Look at these earrings.  There are 3 different shades of copper.  The copper from the wires are a bright copper, the first bead is a little lighter color of copper and the last bead is a dark copper.  














Do you have a sweet tooth?  Take a look at this bracelet.  Nothing but sweet items.  What fun this bracelet is.

Popsicles, cupcakes and dougnuts.  What more could you ask for?  At least with these sweets, you don't have to worry about your weight or cavities.















DianesDangles has a wide variety of brilliant colors and jewelry pieces.  You will probably find your favorite color in her shop.  

For the people who love blue, here is a piece you will probably love.  It's a bright blue Swarovski Crystal with a silver bead cap.  

As you can see, the blue is very bright and is highlighted by the bead caps and the cute little swirl at the bottom.














Here is a piece of money for the people who like to wear money and unusual items.  You will get a lot of compliments when you wear this pendant.

You know you want it, just buy it.  How many people can say they wear money?


















If you are interested in any of these pieces, they can be seen on artfire.com or you can click on the images and be taken to the item.  

Be sure to support handmade.  These items are not mass produced.  They are made by hand and are unique.  You will not find anything in the commercial stores with the same quality as handmade.

What I have been up to

I have been working on some new items and trying to get them posted.  There seems to always be more and more that need posting.  I am also having problems describing some of the items.  If you have multiple colors, scents or very similar items, it gets hard to come up with new ways to describe them.

My husband has been working on the basement trying to get his music studio up and running.  In doing so, my work area has been cluttered with everything that came out of the main room of the basement.  So making candles for the time being is out.  A person cannot even make it to the table to where I make my candles.  I am hoping I will be able to get back to making some candles soon.

I have some new molds I am excited about trying out.  They are for votive candles.  I don't know how much they weigh or how tall they are yet.  I won't know until I make some and see what happens.  I can hardly wait.

I have also been making some jewelry with my daughter and listing on my artfire shop (shymouseecrafts.artfire.com).  I also have a supadupa shop (shymouseecrafts.mysupadupa.com) where I have been trying to list some of the items we work on.  It also has a lot of my candles listed also.

Here are some of the items I have listed on my supadupa shop.

Just take a look at these earrings.  Aren't they gorgeous?  They are memory wire hoop earrings with Swarovski crystals.

Here are some dice earrings.  They are made of black, white and red dice beads.  Perfect for someone who likes to play dice.

I also have some of the zipper pulls we created listed.  They are so cute.

Be sure to check out both of my shops.  You will be amazed at what you see.  Everything is handmade and beautiful.  Enjoy your shopping.

After Christmas Sales

A lot of people are probably having after Christmas sales to clear out some of their Christmas stock or just clear out stock for the upcoming seasons.  Please list your sales/items here.  I will then post it on facebook, twitter and pinterest.  

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