Friday, September 7, 2012

Enter Our Giveaway to Win Some Great Prizes!

We are hosting our first blog giveaway. We just finished up doing a small giveaway on our Facebook page and are now going the blog route.

Use the Rafflecopter form below to enter easily starting September 10, 2012, and earn more entries! Here is what you can win:


Assortment of Handmade Jewelry and Accessories
3 Gem Magnets and 2 Greeting Cards
 
Close up of Beaded Bracelet with 3 charms.
 
 
 Close up of Beaded earrings
 
List of Prizes:
 
1 Beaded Bracelet with 3 Charms
 
1 Purple Hemp Beaded Adjustable Bracelet
 
1 Pair of Purple Hemp and Beads Earrings
 
1 Pair of Beaded Earrings
 
1 Brown Hemp Ring
 
1 Purple Hemp with Silver Spiral Beaded Keychain
 
1 Large Pony Bead Bracelet with Football
 
1 Small Child's Pony Bead Pink Heart Bracelet
 
3 Gem Magnets (1 pumpkin, 1 purple camo, 1 sunset)
 
2 Greeting Cards (1 Halloween, 1 Christmas)
 
Approximately $30 worth of prizes!!!!
 
Enter now for your chance to win and share with your friends!
 
We will be doing these types of giveaways often throughout the year!
 
 
 

 
 
 
a Rafflecopter giveaway

Saturday, September 1, 2012

Vintage Valentine Journal and Purple Hemp Necklace

More new items to share with you this week. I am also planning on posting our giveaway next weekend so keep an eye out for it and enter!

I spent this week working on another journal...

 
An older vintage looking valentine cover. I love this cover it has a bunch of super cute valentine sayings on it.
 
This is a close up of the cover.
 
... and I've been working on this new purple hemp necklace...
 
 
All of these items are or will be soon on our etsy store so don't forget to check it out!
 
 
 
 

Sunday, August 26, 2012

Busy Busy Bees

We have been busy this week working on some new items. I am using my creativity to make some journals/diaries, and some new jewelry!

This is my first attempt at making a cute journal:

 
 
This is a hemp choker and earring set. Choker has an antique skeleton key on it.
 
 
Hemp rings that I am working on. Eventually, I will sell these in sets, perhaps a ring and matching bracelet or maybe sets of 2 or 3 rings sold together. These are so easy to make and they are cute, too, in my opinion!
 
 

Friday, August 17, 2012

Our First Open House

Last Sunday afternoon, we held our first open house. We invited local friends to come, and enticed them into bringing a guest by offering a free gift if you brought a guest (a magnet). B made some delicious food and we held a drawing for a gift basket that was filled with various items from our shop.

The open house proved to be a success and we were quite surprised at how many sales we had, and I even got a few custom orders that I am really excited about doing. Here are a few photos from our open house.


The yummy food table that got rave reviews!


The "crowd" of shoppers.
Our table of cards. These were a big hit.



Our doggy table. One fleece dog toy that was left and some dog cards (even sympathy cards for the loss of a pet). We had 2 doggy gift baskets that sold almost immediately.


We were very happy with the turnout at our first open house and plan to do it again. We are now going to begin working on Fall and Winter/Christmas items and do a few holiday craft shows in the fall and winter. 

We have a lot of new items to show you soon and some fun things planned!

Friday, August 3, 2012

Dragonfly and Cat Bracelets

We have been busily preparing for our upcoming open house next Sunday. I've finally found a place to find some charms I've been looking for so I made a few new bracelets this week. Once the open house is over, we are going to have a giveaway for a gift basket filled with some of our merchandise. Actually, we will probably end up doing two in the future. We will do one first on Facebook to gain some new FB followers and then one on this blog. I have a few other blog friends that are going to work with me and help spread the word with the blog giveway, so subscribe to our email list so you can find out when the giveaways are up and running or go ahead and follow our Facebook Page B and D Novelties and Gifts

Here are the newest bracelets I have made:


This photo turned out kinda dark but I still think it's pretty!

A clearer photo.




We are beginning our first try at making a jean purse. Once we get it right, we will have all sorts of purses to choose from! I'm excited about these! Also, my next project is going to be small notebooks/journals. I have so many ideas!