Novice Invitational success!

After a less than stellar ending to last year, it felt good to have a successful booth at Novice Invitational this year.  It's always a pretty good event for me - I think that by March, people have paid off their holiday bills and are looking forward to buying something new for the spring.  In addition to what sold over the weekend, I also had a couple of people wanting custom orders or wondering if a specific set was still available. 

My booth!  Sorry for the bad lighting!  I did a smaller set up than normal since my usual partner was not there.  Kept it very manageable for me.

My favorite pair of earrings that I made for the weekend - was snatched up on the last day!  Swarovski twisted cylinders, with swarovski accent beads, sterling silver chain and earring posts.

This one got a lot of interest and I am So very tempted to keep it for myself - or at least convince myself I need to make another one.  Dusty purple crystals and freshwater pearls with silver bead caps on sterling silver chain.

My favorite set of the weekend - I tried something different with the colors.  I usually tend to stick to a more monochromatic color scheme but blues and greens are supposed to be on trend for the spring and summer.  My favorite kind of necklace to make because I can use pretty much any kind of beads that suit my fancy: pearls, crystals, semi precious stones, acrylic, silver, etc etc.  This was snatched up pretty early in the weekend!

I'm hoping to get more pictures taken and loaded later this week.  Until then!

Finally!

Slowly but surely getting all organized in our new home - complete with new jewelry space!

So it's already got stuff all over it since this picture was taken.  Plus my awesome hubby built me a bunch of shelves in the closet to store all kinds of supplies and displays.

Which means I finally made some things.  YAY!  Well a couple of things but that's a good start, right?

Both of these were custom orders.
First a chain maille mens bracelet in aluminum and copper.  Or as one of my friends calls it - a "MAN-celet".  Heh.

This one is a memory wire bracelet in shades of purple and black.  I used crystal, glass, pewter, hematite - really whatever caught my fancy but fit in the color scheme.  My favorite beads are the goldstone-like ones - up close they look like little galaxies!  Hope she likes it!

As always, click on the picture for a bigger image.

Hopefully now that I've gotten started again, I can keep up the momentum.  My next vendor booth will be at Novice Invitational 2011  and I hope it goes well!