Carved Bone Bracelet Hits Etsy's Front Page

My Wire Wrapped,Carved Bone Bracelet featured in a Treasury created by LishasWorkshop made it to the front pate on Etsy! A Treasury is a selected group of items the author pulls as favorites offered by various Etsy sellers. As viewers to the Etsy site see the Treasuries and click on the items and comment on the treasury, the treasury rises up higher in the ranks of the Treasuries posted. The more clicks and comments, the higher it goes. My bracelet made it to page one. Pretty exciting stuff in the world of Etsy features. Thanks so much to LishasWorkshop!
View the Treasury here:

New Etsy Fireman Treasury

My Etsy CharmsBowl site was in it's first Treasury featuring my sterling silver fire engine/ fire truck. Very cool.
http://www.etsy.com/treasury_list_west.php?room_id=57864

I won a Design Contest based in England!

I am so excited! I entered a contest for the first time, happened to be one sponsored by a company in England and won first place! I had a custom order for my Millefiori Bead Bouquet in pink and this company was the only one I could find that sold pink millefiori beads. I saw that they were running a contest to see what people were making with products that they sold and was delighted by their notice today. I am celebrating!

They did mess my last name up pretty badly, but I have asked them to fix it.Oh well.

http://www.epbeads.co.uk/ShowArticle.aspx?ID=26

Show in April --I Heart Rummage

My next show is at Chop Suey
1325 E Madison, Seattle, WA 98122
12 -4 pm
Sunday April 5
Sponsored by: I Heart Rummage
You are invited!

New Etsy Bird Treasury

I am featured on an Etsy Bird Treasury for the dove earrings. Click away!
Many thanks.
http://www.etsy.com/treasury_list.php?room_id=47851

My work is featured in Etsy Treasury

http://www.etsy.com/treasury_list.php?room_id=47086

Upcoming Show

Indie Banditas Bazaar coming up June 5th and 6th from 10-4pm at the Eagle Harbor Congregational Church on Bainbridge Island. Welcoming over 40 artists from Seattle, Kitsap County and as far away as Portland. Join me there!

Indie Banditas Bazaar Blog Features HalinaB Designs

Indie Banditas Bazaar Features HalinaB Designs on their current Blog at:
http://www.indiebanditasbazaar.blogspot.com/
Thanks for all the great pics of my jewelry!

Run Your Hands Through a Bowl Full of Charms

I have been adding inventory on a regular basis to my newer Charms supply site at http://www.CharmsBowl.etsy.com for the past few months. It takes a lot of time to photo, price, describe, tag and list every new item and it can be a time vacuum. Fortunately the charms seem to appeal to the jewelry makers and collectors out there. It is a lot of fun to source charms for special requests, and to look for the most unusual charms I can find. My favorites are the retro charms which are packed with nostalgia and travel charms. I have been trying to offer them at the lowest prices possible and am amazed at what high prices other sites charge for their sterling silver charms. It is funny because I source some of my charms from abroad and then turn around and sell them internationally,sometimes to the very country I bought them from!
Come and visit, see what I am talking about. Run your hands through a bowl full of charms.
Ok I get some flack on that, it is hard to do long distance, but that is one of my favorite tactile experiences, to let beads or beans, or charms flow through my hands. yumm.

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