I love leaves!

Yeah spring will be here soon, I can feel it. Other than the fact that I really need to go snowboarding a couple more times before the season ends I can't wait to feel the warm sun on my skin and see all of the greenery popping up from the ground and leaves on the trees!

I love incorporating leaves into my designs. They are so pretty and each one is always different so there is always that mysterious, natural, unrefined look to the jewellery when I am doing a leaf piece. By far my favourite jewellery to create is all of the pieces with leaves in them!

New Silver Designs Coming Soon

All these new designs will be listed in my etsy shop soon!

Vine Earrings

Orb Necklace

Pod Ring

Pod Stud Earrings

Melting Silver Necklace

A Fresh Taste Of Nature

New collection is
NOW AVAILABLE!

Introducing a whole new collection of goodies to choose from in my Etsy shop!

I have been playing around with some new techniques with metal like cutting, texturing, hammering and so on. It is a departure from my usual gemstones and wire wrapped pieces. I think it will be an exciting change of direction for the Sleepy Moon line.

The new pieces are best described as simple and polished, with elements of nature, both urban and wild. Many of the new pieces feature abstract leaves and geometric shapes paired with colourful gemstones.

And to celebrate this new collection I am having a buy one get one 30% off sale on anything in my shop. The sale will be on from August 28th to August 30th. Please enter the sale code "metal" in the message to seller section during check out. Go all the way through the purchase process but, DON'T PAY. I will send you a revised invoice with the proper sale price.

Where can you find this new collection?
:: My Etsy shop under the search term "new"
:: OhKuol on Granville at Broadway in Vancouver

In the near future I will be incorporating these new techniques and frankly the love I have discovered for metal into several new designs including a warm and earthy fall collection… So stay tuned for updates on the process of that!

New Retailor in London Ontario

Curiosities Gift Shoppe is a little shop full of great treasures located in London, Ontario (Canada). Sleepy Moon jewellery is now one of those great treasures that you can find there.

It is located on 174 1/2 Wortley Rd so if you are in London you should definitely check this shop out!

Also here is a little sneak peek of what Sleepy Moon jewellery you can find there.

Green Onyx Suspension Necklace Giveaway!

Make sure you check out the giveaway I am doing over at eNVe Designs blog to win one of my green onyx suspension necklaces. This style of necklace is super comfortable and easy to wear. It also comes in labradorite , aquamarine and alluminum.


Giveaway ends on June 30th so HURRY UP! Win your Sleepy Moon necklace today... or uh on June 30th. :)

Sleepy Moon Review and Giveaway

The Simply Stacie blog contacted me about a month ago and asked if I wanted to be part of spring bring over on her blog. Spring Bling is where she does a whole bunch of reviews and giveaways all about jewellery!!

Today my review and giveaway just went up and I want you to have the chance to enter. I am giving away the pink chalcedony necklace pictured above. Enter Now! You can also enter all the other giveaways she has up when you are done.

Over on the Simply Stacie blog she is also doing a review on this Labradorite Suspension Necklace pictured above.

The Process - Textured Sterling Dome Earrings

This is me making a pair of textured sterling silver dome earring.

A New Look, Oxidized Metals

I have really been into the look of oxidized sterling silver lately. It fits right in with the dreamy and mysterious style of Sleepy Moon jewellery. I have many plans for the close future using oxidized silver in mixed metal jewellery. Actually there is a couple designs already in my etsy shop.

At the last art and fashion market I did, a lady asked me what the black chain was. When I told her she said "Hey, that is cool! So I guess I can just stop polishing my silver jewellery?" Well in a perfect world maybe, but it wouldn't get that solid black look like it does when using the proper methods. Although when you buy oxidized sterling silver jewellery you get the same benefits of sterling silver with no polishing necessary!! That sounds just as good to me!

Actually when I oxidize the jewellery I make I don't have to go through the very long process of polishing all the silver before a art and fashion market or even every time I make a sale. Which makes me happy! :)

Sleepy Moon Design at Portobello West

I am very excited to say that I will be selling at the April 25th Portobello West market!! This will be my first time at this market so I am so curious to see how it turns out! I have been planning a new booth set up for about two months now. hehe So it better work out on the day.. right!? I am still trying to work out how I am getting there being carless and all... Excursions to crafts shows are usually quite funny. One time I had to bring my own table to a show on main st and the buses were not running because it was car free day. So I carried the table and all my display stuff from Kingsway and Main to I think it was 16th and main!! eek! Well I can say I am glad I am not bringing a table to Portobello on the 25th! :) Anyways I hope to see some of the Vancouverites that I know out at the show!! I will have plenty of new designs that are not listed on Etsy yet. So come down and check them out before anyone else steels them away!

Date:	Sunday, April 25, 2010
Time:	12:00pm - 6:00pm
Location:	Rocky Mountaineer Station
Street:	1755 Cottrell St
City/Town:	Vancouver, BC

See map!

Silver Dipped Leaf Jewelry

New designs are added to my Etsy shop every day and one of the newest collections are the silver dipped leaf necklaces. I loved these leaves as soon as I found them. Their details are so intricate and eye catching and the silver grey tone looks amazing with any and every colour imaginable! I knew they had to be part of my spring and summer collection.

See the whole collection here: Silver Dipped Leaf Collection

Mother's Day

I know it is a bit early to be thinking about this, but in order to receive your mother's day orders before Mother's Day, orders must be placed by April 30th. Here are some suggestions for mother's day gifts, but I am sure anything in my shop would be loved by a mother somewhere!

Etsy Finds: Early Bird or Night Owl?

I was doing my daily routine this Saturday, list some items on Etsy, make a new bracelet and renew a couple of things when I start to get a whole pile of sales!! I thought, well hey maybe everyone just got their tax returns. Cool! Then I happened to look at the who hearts this shop page and I see that I got over 100 new hearts today!!! That is when I found out that I was featured in ones of the Etsy Finds post on the Etsy Blog. And of course closely followed was a happy dance! :)

The feature was called "Early Bird or Night Owl?" there were early bird items on the left and night owl items on the right. My Midnight Moon necklace was one of the night owl items!!! It sold right away which is very exciting.

If I were to choose early bird or night owl I would have to choose night owl. I always seem to be way more creative and I love the peacefulness of the night. There is something about the cool crisp air on a summer night that is so energizing. Which one are you early bird or night owl?

NOTE: I am all out of this necklace, but I will be getting some more mystic quartz soon.

Useful Christmas Presents

When mailing my parcels I like to put my shop URL on the outside of the package. It's kind of like free advertising as it goes through the post office. Until now I was using individual letter stamps which ended up taking almost 10 minutes each parcel! So this Christmas my lovely mom got me a stamp with my logo on it and shop URL. I love it! It makes thing so much easier. What presents did you get this Christmas?

BLACK FRIDAY SALE

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BLACK FRIDAY:
November 27th
50% off for the first 5 items sold
30% off for the second 5 items sold
20% off for the next 5 items sold
Sale ends at 11:59pm CST
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Zero charge for shipping everywhere in the world!
Go to my etsy shop here.

Also search:
etsyfreeshipping
or
etsyholidaysale
to find even more shops offering sales!

Why Do You Love Handmade?

I believe that we should support handmade because it is a beautiful thing! All the wonderful designers put their hearts into their work because they are truly passionate about it, they also assure great quality and craftsmanship and are able to create something of meaning rather than a mass produced baby blanket from wal-mart or pair of earrings from the drug store. Buying handmade is a great way to keep the culture alive and the creativity flowing!

So... why do you love handmade? Please share your opinions! We would all love to know!

Fall's Beginnings

Here are some great items to celebrate the beginning of fall!

Yellow Citrine Cluster Earrings
Maple Leaf Necklace
Fall Leafs Wall art
Sweet Foliage
Pearl Acorn Drop Earrings
Copper Squirrelie

Goal Of The Day

My goal of the day...
My goal today is to improve the SEO of all the descriptions on my items in my Etsy shop.

Eggs

I oxidize all my jewellery with eggs... yes I said eggs!
I believe that this is a great way to oxidize because it is all natural, doesn't use any chemicals and is also pretty cheap! Read this article on how to do it...here.
If you are just starting out and do not know how to handle some of the chemicals used in oxidizing this is great for seeing if you like the oxidized effect! I don't see any reason to move on to other ways of doing it thought!

Oh yes... my jewellery does not smell like eggs after!!

New Necklace

New Necklace

Here is a new necklace I made recently... and now it is on Etsy! I love the greens in this piece! I think it is a perfect necklace for a fall day. Don't you?
click the picture to view the necklace