EmBound is Having an Anniversary!!!

April will be one year since I opened my first Etsy store EmBound. I am celebrating this month by doing a great givaway featuring some of my favorite Etsy artists.

So here are the details, each purchase over $5 from my shop will qualify as an entry in the draing for a gift bag full of goodies. If you look at my items sold per month on average you'll see your chances probably aren't too bad of winning.

So, what do you get?

By OleBagLady:

Small Flannel gift bag with tag

By EmBound:

Blank note card made from my art

3 stickers of my art

.999 fine silver leaf charm

By LaurenAlexander:

3.5x5.5" signed art print
1 sticker of her art

Pin of her art

By Sinami1:

Strawberry lip balm

Milk, Honey & Oatmeal soap (nice sample size)

Lychee Red Tea bath bomb (sample size)

Business card refrigerator magnet

By MeAndMomsCrafts:

Crocheted facial scrubie

By PureMineralsSource:

Niceraguan Lemon body polish (sample size)

So there you have it! Special thanks to my featured shops for providing excellent products and service.

Ready for Spring?

I sure am! Spring is by far my favorite season and I'm taking advantage of the new leaves on the trees and bushes. I've been super busy capturing nature and creating some unique pieces using precious silver clay (99.9% pure silver) from PMC and Art Clay. I not only have some cool leaves made from the ones in my back yard, but some adorable ID bracelets featuring genuine gems of sapphires and one with an alexandrite set in the middle of a flower, butterfly or dragonfly.

My PMC and Art Clay pieces are all made by hand. They are formed by hand, sanded, "hand" fired, hand burnished, and polished.

I'll be spending the next day or so listing most of these pieces in my shop at http://Embound.Etsy.com/.

Labradorite and Other Colorful Gems

I've finished more labradorite pendants. I got a boulder opal one listed. I'm really enjoying using stones with flashes of colors. They tend to be great conversation pieces and bring many compliments. Higher end labradorite, boulder opal and my favorite, ammolite! I have multiple listings for all of these in my store. But here are my latest.

Coming Soon... PENDANTS!

Yes, while I'm not ready to post photos, I've acquired some really cool boulder Opals and Spectrolite/Labradorites. I even picked up a Larimar cab too.

I'm still running my clearance sale until these items are listed. I plan on going through all my current listings, tweaking some of the pendants (cleaning them up) and rephotographing them. They will then be relisted at their original price.

Thank you for your support and to those of you who left positive heartfelt feedback. I so appreciate you.

http://Embound.Etsy.com

New Paintings Coming Soon!

I haven't gotten any of these listed because my scanner isn't yet hooked up. We've been doing some reorganizing of our den. I may list just photographed images of my paintings in the mean time.

Some of these paintins were done back in November. The very first image were the first paintings of 2010.

I'll be listing more jewelry probably in February. Right now I am focusing on clearancing my current inventory.

STOREWIDE CLEARANCE SALE

This is by far the biggest sale I've done so please take a minute to browse my store at www.Embound.etsy.com. UP TO 50% OFF!!

I've been very slack in blogging, however, I do have some announcements:

I have some new paintings I hope to have listed within the next couple weeks. I haven't had time with the holiday to scan and photograph the images.

I am considering letting my gem store fade out. Some of the exotics I have are becoming harder to come by or replace so those may be pulled first.

I hope to add to my jewelry store soon. As with painting, wire wrapping takes more time than I've had lately. I have purchased some supplies and plan to get moving soon.

My Brother in Law is Gone.

For anyone whose followed my blog in regard to my brother in law Scott (this is my husband's sister's husband) with ALS, his life was released at 12:30 this afternoon. I pray he's at peace. He will be missed.

I thank you all for your prayers and ask you'd keep our family in your prayers.