You're a Winner!

This morning I held the drawing for the give away. Highly technical names on paper tags (I've punched a gazillion to tag jewelry!) And used a little blue dish and had my boys draw out names.

Here is the list of winners.(Check out the typed list at the bottom as well, in case you can't read my writing. Also another winner's name was left out of the picture by accident.)
Email me at talaisa(at)gmail.com to claim your prize, discuss color choice and arrange delivery.

Kitchen sink style Necklace: NIC
Bracelet: Brooke
Earrings: Karlie, Kim, Hea, Diane, Megan(somehow the tag flew off the paper and I didn't notice until Caleb asked where his teacher's name was)

And now I have to finish tagging and inventory-ing 50 more pieces of jewelry.

It's kind of a Big deal

I've been a busy little beader lately. With no time to post, just bead, bead, bead. Oh and there has been paperwork to fill out and pricing and excitement of all kinds.

Why you ask? Well I'll tell ya. My jewelry is going public. That's right. No more relying on dealing out of my home office for sales. Although I will still continue to sell it out of my office, online through email and the blog and continue to do custom orders, it won't be my only means of selling my jewelry.

I know. Lots of words and still no clear answers. So here it is, in as few words as I can manage. Which is still plenty. I'm a talker, with a lot to say.

My jewelry is going to be sold in 3 THREE! boutiques here in Utah. Yep by next week (fingers crossed) my designs will be for sale in Pebbles in my Pocket stores. And soon after, their online store. Can you believe it?? Me either. How I got in is a long story. One I'll save for another day. But lets just say it took some nerves of steel, some guts and a little bit of naivety (had I known the person I was talking to was a manager, I probably wouldn't have been so quick to ask all those questions that got me in the door). And of course a little bit of trust in all those people who believed my stuff was worth a second look. That's many of you! So thank you!

In celebration of my new selling venture and as a thank you to the visitors of this blog I'm doing a give away. Yep. Three lucky folks who leave a comment on this post will be receiving a TaLaisa's Bead Drawer Original. I'm not exactly sure which pieces I'll be giving away. Most of them are on their way to Pebbles to be numbered and sold (fingers crossed!).

I'm sure that I'll be doing a pair of earrings, a bracelet and a necklace. In the comments please tell me what you'd like to win if chosen. Custom, semi-custom (previous design new colors, etc), or something you've already seen posted here or on facebook.

I'll be taking comments and counting them as entries until November 3rd. Tell your neighbors, tell your friends, but whatever you do don't forget to enter!

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

These rocks are seriously awesome! They are dark navy blue and have silver sparkles. Sparkly rocks! Who doesn't love that? It's a cool stone called goldstone, it comes in brown and navy. Love it.

The necklaces are really long, you can wrap one of them 3 times. It also looks amazing as a 6 or 7 wrap bracelet. The stones are faceted for extra sparkle.

The second necklace is a interchangeable charm on a long dark heavy chain. It looks so cute layered with a long strand of tiny freshwater pearls. On the charm hangs a mother of pearl carved rose, a large faceted slab of crystal quartz, some pewter charms and a giant south sea shell pearl.

What's new?

I have been busily beading and yet you'd hardly guess it to look at this blog, most of my newest designs have been showing up on my facebook page. It's time they make their debut over here as well.

Happy Valentines

I've been working on a few custom orders. These are a Valentine's gift order. They're for teenage girls. I hope it hasn't been so long since I was there, that I have forgotten what cute and stylish looks like.

Spring Fever

There was a ton of snow outside when I made this, yet something inside me insisted on making stuff that would go perfectly with spring and summery outfits. I'd be liable to fit it in with any outfit I wanted just because it's just that cute and fresh looking. There are more springy things in my camera waiting to be uploaded too.

A Heap of Baubles

This set of four pairs of earrings were created for a customer for her Christmas gift. Her husband told me that she had told him that she really wanted to be surprised, with earrings made by me. AND that whatever I made would be perfect. (I discussed with the wife previously the colors she wore most, there was also another pair made to match a sweater of hers. . . I never photographed them. oops)