I just won a giveaway!!!

It doesn't happen often! I won a giveaway by a wonderful artist and a jewelry maker Anastasia celebrating her 1 year anniversary with ETSY!!! Take a look at her beautiful store L'accent nou

I particularly adore her ceramic and pebble jewelry. It looks so natural and organic!
I wish Anastasia all the best!

Lucky charms and soap

Today my featured seller is Anna Pereira, who owns a lovely etsy store. I met Anna on twitter. After I retwitted some of her tweets she sent me free samples of her wonderful soaps AND bought my Lucky Penny necklace. She said that she could use some luck! As a token of my appreciation I included one of Anna's wonderful soaps in my treasury. Amazingly that treasury was chosen on Etsy front page the same day! Being on the front page gave Anna tremendous exposure, and she sold a large number of her soaps that day. The windfall continued later on!

I don't know if this was the lucky charm or her hard work finally paid off. But I wish Anna all the luck with her store!

Itsy-bitsy spider

The summer is near, and as usual we get hundreds of spiders in the basement. Some of them are small, but some get pretty big. I am not afraid of the spiders, but my daughter has a serious case of arachnophobia... Every time she sees one, she starts screaming for us to come down and get the thing out of the house.
The spiders inspired me to make this sterling silver spider web pendant. I saw the design online a while ago, now i decided to try it.

I searched etsy for more spidery designs and found some high-end spider-themed jewelry creations by juliakaytaylor and by Master68UK.

Some spiders that I saw in the etsy shops are surprisingly cute, like these crochet creations by CrochetandCrafts and by tisana

Some spiders were made of recycled materials, like this ecologically-sound critter made by ecohead

Well, spiders are not just for Halloween!
Have a great day!