{ Personal } Huey

That's Huey! My brother Josh & Blink (my SIL)'s new puppy. It is a JRT. How adorable! The rest of my siblings are totally excited. However, I can't say the same for my parents. They do prefer grandchildren to dogs. :p

{ New } You are TAGGED!

You are TAGGED!
Just received my custom-made jewelry tags for my shop! Now all my necklaces will be tagged with my shop name. Very cool! These tags are specially made for my shop by a wonderful Etsy seller, emilydeweesjewelry.

{ NEW } Freshly Done Today

Left to Right :

a. Chinoise Flower with Black Crystal Earrings
b. Gold Lace with Pearls Earrings
c. Gold Flower Lace with Pearl Necklace
d. Red Hot Air Balloon Glass Necklace
e. My Little Rudolph Earrings

Some have just been listed in my Etsy Shop, the rest will be listed through the week.

April : Cherry Blossom Season : Meet the Princesses

Have you met my Cherry Blossoms princesses? You might have as I featured them in my April newsletter. Click here to subscribe.

April is a season of Cherry Blossoms especially so in Japan. It is a such a big festival that people often take long lunches just to enjoy the beautiful view at the park under the Cherry Blossom trees.

In view of this beautiful and significant festive, I have created 3 beautiful necklaces of these princesses.

Who do you think is the fairest of them all?

Lollipops

It's been a long time since I suck on a lollipop. I remembered that it was always a treat to buy a Chupa Chups from the lollipop stand near the cashiers. The lollipops were wrapped with brightly yellow & red colors.

So you can imagine how thrilled I was when I found these charms! They are so brightly colored and adorably cute! They are Chupa Chups licensed merchandise charms (not some cheap fake goods). I only managed to grab 8 and I am keeping 1 (or maybe 2) for myself!

Available in yellow, orange, blue, purple, clear & pink colors. I will list them progressively.. Do check them out!

NEW Collection - RAINBOW DROPS

Here's a sneak peak into my new collection for October... It's called RAINBOW DROPS. The collection features a series of earrings made from acrylic flower beads with Swarovski pearls available in black, clear and rainbow colors. Watch out for the necklaces in the next feature.

Missed featuring it in the last newsletter as I was waiting for the full set of supplies to arrival.. Nevertheless, here they are.. Hope you'll love them..

Ps : The results from my Newsletter (see Mailchimp) was ENCOURAGING! About 2/5 of recipients opened the newsletter. However I got 2 SALES from my previous customers which was great 'cos it implies that they have read the newsletter and purchase from me again!

Ok... back to the new collection.

What's In Your Shopping Bag? (August 09)

I was introduced this little cute thing from my friends recently. They are the most brilliant invention to date.

Do you always have the problem of keeping your fringe / hair out of your face when washing it or putting on makeup? What do you use? Headband? or Just tie your hair up?

Now... Try this... Dariya Hair Magic Sheets. It is a little sheet with micro hooks (looks like Velcro) that sticks to your hair and prevents them from falling! How cool is that! Every pack comes in 2 pieces and there are 3 colors to choose from. There are pink, black & blue. I was really tempted to buy the black ones bute my friends discourage me from it cos they have experienced where they walk out of the house with those patches on without knowing!.. lol! :)

It's $7.00 from my local shop. If you would like to try and cannot get any near where you are.. Convo me :)

Chinese (Lunar) New Year

It's CNY Day 2 and I will be having some friends over today to play mahjong... (not gambling!)

Personally I feel that as I grow older and being married, Chinese New Year does not seem as much fun as I was younger. Maybe because I do not get red packets anymore (I got married!). Chinese New Year becomes another public holiday in my calendar and I get 2 days off work in a row. *Yippee*.

On the upside, during the festive season, we will take this chance to get together, hang out and catch up with old friends that we have not met for a long time..

What did you do on Your Chinese New Year holiday?

Etsy : My Item was included on the Etsy Handmade Blog!

I was so thrilled to find my item got included as related items on the Etsy blog!
http://www.etsy.com/storque/handmade-life/lunar-new-year-year-of-the-ox-3312/#comment-63897

It's the 3rd one on the first row... Did you see them? :D I wrote about them some time back when I first listed them! *Yoohoo!* Made my day!

By the way, Happy Chinese (Lunar) New Year everyone!

Geeky Discovery - Web Analytics (Google Analytics)

When I was working on my Etsy shop yesterday night, I found this new feature called Web Analytics under my Shop Setup. Being the curious me, I decided to check it out.. I STUCK GOLD! I was directed to Google Analytics which I signed up and add the tracking id to my shop.. I was trying work out all the features and goals stuff.... but nothing appeared on the reports..

The next day (which is this morning), I logged on to my Google Analytics again to see if there were any information on my reports and there were!! This is what I found out the following and more! I was really happy that I stumble upon this feature and it's ABSOLUTELY FREE. I hope they don start charging once this feature gets more popular.

• 31 unique visitors to my shop that day
  
• Most of them are from the States
• 4.32 average pages viewed in my shop
• Most of them were from direct traffic

I strongly encourage everyone to check it out!

You can check out the videos on Youtube on how to use this feature.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHeKRvo6OhI

Chinese New Year Inspiration

Chinese New Year is early this year... It's will be on the 26 & 27 Jan.. Here in Singapore, we get 2 days of holiday *yippee!* Although, this year I will have to give out red packets to my single / unmarried relatives *sulk :( * Yes.. it is a tradition for the married folks to give out red packets (with money of cos!) to the single / unmarried relatives.. I think I will just limit to children only (as long as they are still studying).. haha :)

Chinese New Year or the Spring Festival is the most important of the traditional Chinese holidays.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_New_Year

In celebration of the coming Chinese New Year, I am inspired to gift wrap all the orders made in my Etsy shop in Red Packets! How fun is that! :) This is only valid for those orders made in the month of January!

I have also made this new pair of earrings. Hopefully it will bring out Chinese New Year festive mood in my Etsy shop. What do you think? :)

New Collection - Blush

Want to introduce my new collection for the new year. It's call Blush. Basically, it revisited my old love for cluster earrings and decided to do a longer one this time as I get custom orders to do longer ones. In this collection, all the clusters are also designed in a V shape so that they look like a bunch of grapes with more on the top :) So far, I have made 2 of them and I intend to do more. Hopefully the response for them will turn out well. What do you think?

New Name Cards !

I managed to collect my name cards before Christmas. Here they are! The aqua green one is my current stack.. Green is my favorite color. To welcome the coming Valentine's Day, I decided to do up my name cards (I was also running down on them) in PINK! :) Just a little sweetness for the coming love months. I will be distributing them to my customers in the month of Jan - Feb. I have also made some in Lilac (just to spice up my name cards).. can't decide which is the best looking one.. What do you think? :)

Here are some zoom-ins for a clearer look!

New Namecards

I am so excited, I just placed an order for new name cards. I am halfway through my last box. With the name cards, I changed the colors a little to add a nice touch for the coming Valentine's Day. I can't wait to give them out! Will be collecting them tomorrow.. can't wait :D

Got some new design for the coming Valentine's Day too.. I know it's a bit early, but I am trying to motivate myself to come up with a new ideas for a collection in the new year.

Lazy Saturday.....

It's been quite a tiring and long week due to the market activities, I decided to take it SLOW this weekend. My hubby is off to his game today and I had the whole day to myself.. I had it all planned.
1. Mail my items at the Post Office
2. Go to the shop to exchange my boxes (they gave me the wrong sizes)
3. Check out the charm & bead shops

At the charm & bead shops, I shopped like crazy! Haha.. had to control myself a little just to make sure that I do not overspent. I love charms.. I hope that's reflected in my works.

After the long day running around, I manage to get home, made some new jewelry (can't wait to take photos & list them) and take a nap.

Although, I managed to list one... I love this charm and the concept of making it into a necklace! What do you think of it?