My friday eve outfit

Autumn Dawn Stone-copper necklace by Fleurfatale.
The butterfly shirt by Gaiaconceptions 85$ , the wanderer skirt 72$
Mims Nap Sack/Shoulder Bag by Mimsmaine 89$
Verdigris cup ring by Mkaae

Hubby and I decided to hire a babysit at least one friday evening in the month,

Just to have some for the two of us!

Our Saturday is stuffed with driving the kids from one activity to the other: gym, music classes, Flamenco, clip dance... and sunday is mostly a lazy family day.

With 4 kids you have to watch out over your own free time,otherwise it goes up in all sorts of activites with the kids...

So why not reserve one friday eve in the month, just for the two of us: a dinner in a cool restaurant, a movie, concert or a theatre play.

It's not that we didn't do that, but why not make it a regular thingie?

And A friday night out claims a gorgeous outfit!

That's why I came up with the idea to make this 'Friday eve outfit'.

One of my jewels combined with some beautiful designs from other artists.

Inspired

Time to show some new earring-designs.
click on the pictures to see if they are already inmy shop!

Mumbai collection

Coffee and teapot collection

Washi paper collection

Touareg collection

I Love this job!

I love the colorshades Nathalie Engels uses in her new Fall collection!

And what makes me very happy is that she asked me again to design a collection of new accessories to go with her clothes! (I feel really honoured!)

I can't show you yet, but soon I will post the finished pieces!

As all the pieces are unique, they will only be available at her shop in Gent. Take a peep at her website to see what a talented lady she is!

Back to work!

The kids are off to school, ready for a fresh start!
And so am I!

It was about time, I just couldn't concentrate anymore with all those kids around, (not only the four of mine, but always some friends of them around, so really a bunch of kids!)

Finished with long sleeping, staying in pijamas till 12'oclock and having breakfast at noon.

Structure is back in our life, yeah!

I am not used to all this free 'me' time anymore!
Maybe I'll start with a little to do list to refresh my mind :-)
- sending out packages
- working on a new collection for Nathalie
- finishing a custom order

- listing lots of new stuff in my shop

- editing pictures
- cleaning my workroom
- grocery shopping (as the fridge looked very empty this morning)

-...

And these are some of my new designs, soon in my shop!

Autumn Dawn - Necklace

Lavender Fall - felted Necklace

Blue Berries - Earrings

1000!

1000 Sales!!

The goodie bags wooshed out of my shop, I'll ship them on monday and two lucky ones will find the gift certificate of 20 $ in their package!

I joined Etsy in April 2008 and since then things have gone sooo fast!

I met so much creative people that became my online friends. I am so grateful to all my Etsy friends who are helping to promote my shop and who give me advice and feedback! What would I be without them?

And what would I be without my lovely customers?

I am happy with every single sale I had and so thankful for this great support!

Right now I am working on new designs, for my Textile Jewelry Collection, but also some other accessories for autumn and winter!

995.................................1000

How to win a goodie bag with a 20 Dollar gift certificate!

Only 5 sales to go and I reach the magic 1000.
I decided to give a special treat to the ones who purchase one of the next 5 sales to go!
I made 5 goodie bags, in 2 of them is a gift certificate of 20 Dollar to use in my shop!
I'll ship the goodie bags together with your purchase!

check my shop regulary, I am adding lots of new designs for the upcoming season:

brooches, earrings, necklaces...

old barnwood in my creative place

Yesterday I got a beautiful package. I bought this Diptych 'old barnwood and recycled wood'.
Charles puts together some pieces from old barnwood with as result perfect stunning combinations!!!

Some of his work was already in my favorites. When I told some EST friends I bought these, the answered it would fit perfect in my jewlery pictures. In fact that was my first thought too!
as soon as there was enough light (I photograph with natural light) I started to take some pics: and i am really happy with the result! I think these Ditptych would be nice on my booth-table at fairs too!
but I they fit perfect in my interior too, I only still have to decide where hang them (I will let you know soon!).
You can find Charles artwork here: http://www.chalecco.etsy.com/
He offers free shipping till september 15th!

And look at all the nice presents Charles included in my package, too sweet.
Some gorgeous artwork of his wife Dana (who's work I admire since a long time) : she has two shops on Etsy:
http://www.leilaliloo.etsy.com/
http://www.danakomjaty.etsy.com/

Follow her blog here: http://www.leililaloo.blogspot.com/

find more creative places on Kootoyoo's blog.