Share the Love, Fill the Stockings!

I have been spending a lot of time at Artfire.com lately. looking at all the wonderful handmade holiday gifts. I love the warm, fuzzy feelings surrounding me as I surf among the goodies. One can feel the love glowing behind each carefully crafted item. 

The Artisans are a friendly mix of gifted people with a multitude of crafting/art skills and an abundance of imagination and ideas. If you haven't visited Artfire.com yet, you are missing out on a must-have experience.

Follow this link. Artfire.com. Be prepared for an eye candy treat. The prices are very reasonable too. Fill up those empty stockings!

NOTE: I will be creating a link section here on my blog for reciprocal Artfire links, so if you are reading this and would like to swap links with me, drop me an email with your link and I'll send you mine.

Grand Winter Sale

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Indian Nations Trading Post is holding a Grand Winter Sale. 20% off store-wide in our Artfire store (see coupon top right of blog) and in our Bricks and Mortar store in Livingston, Montana (no coupon needed). An additional 15% off our wholesale sterling silver jewelry in the Livingston bricks and mortar store only. Sale ends 12/31/2009. Limited availability on some items and many one-of-a-kind items, don't miss out, buy now!

Beading Tips of the Week

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Prevent tarnishing: Keep your sterling silver and silver-plated beads, findings, and jewelry in a zip lock bag or in an airtight container to prevent tarnishing.

What to do with left-over head/eye pin wire:  This week I have been making a bunch of earrings and was wondering what to do with all the left over pieces of head and eye-pin wire. I hate to throw anything away and so I made up a bunch of single bead looped links and stored them away in a zip-lock bag. Some time in the future I will make them into a linked mult-colored necklace or bracelet.

Until next time, be good and if you can't be good, be careful!

Rhiannon
aka Lesley