Sunday Sensations - ColtPixy!

My second buying experience from among my Plurk Buds was with ColtPixy. There simply aren't enough good words in the dictionary to sum up this woman - she's a wonderful artist, she's a great business person, she's a delightful friend and she is also the Super Ultra Amazing Guildmaster for my guild, the Polymer Clay Smooshers.

My Mom is the most amazing lady around, and she loves jewelry. She's usually seen wearing one striking piece, sometimes a strand of beads, sometimes a single focal. She loves color, and she always looks gorgeous. I fell in love with ColtPixy's Pixy Stones, and got one for my Mother for Christmas.

Mom was just blown away by how lovely it is, and immediately modeled for me. She loves it, and wears it often!

ColtPixy then started doing something that is so cute and so adorable it's not even funny... the Bunny Butts (as we Plurky folks affectionately call them). Her Lucky Bunny Charms are done with an amazing technique (one of my favorites) called Mica Shift. The bunny looks raised, but the piece is completely smooth to the touch. It's hard work, and ColtPixy pulls it off beautifully. I found an orange one in her shop and it had to be mine.

An example of ColtPixy's wonderful business ethic is that, when mine didn't show up way past the time it should have, she immediately shipped me another one. When the first one arrived almost immediately after, she refused to let me pay her for both. I now have two gorgeous bunny butts and am percolating ideas to create a piece of jewelry I can wear often to showcase them both.
Her items always arrive beautifully packaged. It's a joy to do business with this lady, and I'm incredibly glad (and lucky!) that she's both my friend and my guildmaster. You can find her online at her shop, on Facebook with the Smooshers, and at the Smoosher's blog. I highly recommend checking out all three!

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Sunday Sensations!

One of my favorite things to do is help support my fellow artists. I do this often by passing their links on as often as possible in Plurk, Facebook and Twitter... but every once in a while I splurge a little and buy something from their stores. I'm going to start a regular Sunday feature that will showcase or review my friends' stores and it starts today with a review of a purchase I made last year.


My Plurk Buddy MzzThang is awesome. She's Fo-Shizzle Designs where you can see all sorts of fabulous things like book thongs, recycled eyeglass necklaces, hair accessories and some really cool chainmail. She is also Earth Wind and Artfire destash shop, which is where I made my purchase. Actually a bunch of really fabulous purchases, including some amazing wild magnetic pink beads that I'm making a necklace for myself from, curved flat connectors that I've made some awesome earrings from and another couple lovely bits that you'll probably see in my shop soon. Everything was gorgeous, just as advertised, shipped fast and packaged beautifully. I love it when I find excellent people to do business with.

Giveaways

One thing I'm going to try to do from time to time is highlight cool events elsewhere on the net. I hope to start blogging about giveaways my friends do, as well as stuff I run across in craft blogs. Feel free to email me if you have something coming up you want me to mention!

You all might not know that I'm a closet greeting card maker. After I get my studio re-fabbed I plan to start bringing some of my cards to my shop. I love everything that has to do with paper crafts, including (of course) rubber stamps. Over at FaveCrafts I found a contest you can enter by blogging (like me!) or tweeting. It's for a really nifty gadget that lets you put your rubber stamps into a scene and stamp them altogether. It's called the Stamp Factory by Fiskars. I know I want one!

SALE! SALE! SALE!

There's March Madness in the air at my shop. Everything in the shop is 25% off. My workspace is crowded with items, all ready to be finished and listed so I thought it would be nice to clear out a little cyber-space before I start. ;-) So, through April Fool's Day, everything is on sale!

And remember, if you buy more than one item, everything ships together for the same price!