PenelopeDesign's Page

Several of the members of EtsyCREST (Capital Region Etsy Team) are participating in a team sale during the week of October 27th. You can search for the tag "etsycrestsale" and find all the participating shops for a great selection of unique finds!

I am offering 10% off everything in my store from October 27th to November 3rd. Please come by and take a look!

I realized I haven't been on this site for quite a while now....my life has been extremely busy over the past several months. 2 teenage boys, 4 part time jobs, 1 doting and extremely patient husband, and 1 lively dog - all that plus my jewelry design business, which is doing very well!

I have started a very profitable side line with my jewelry business, which is to do jewelry making birthday parties for girls between the ages of 8 and 12. (I don't specify the ages, but that seems to be… Continue

Well, my obsession with wire continues... It is just the coolest thing I have ever done! I
started a few months ago, and now am hooked (pun intended...) I have several crocheted necklaces on my site and plan
to add a bunch more over the next few weeks. The one pictured here is
made of three strands of black wire crocheted with vintage jet beads
and crystals.

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Well, I FINALLY took some time to take a bunch of photos, edit and download
them (a lot more time than one thinks!) of my newest venture into
jewelry, which combines my love of beading and crocheting! I am now
making crocheted wire necklaces, in which I take either seed beads, or
crystals or combinations of other beads, and hand crochet them onto
different kinds of wire using a steel crochet hook. It is so much fun
to see how differently the pieces come out when you are finished with
them. When… Continue

After a long month of waiting, I finally got another sale on my Etsy site! It is really hard to differentiate myself among all the other amazing talent on Etsy, especially in the jewelry arena, and I am wondering if I should spin off a separate Etsy store just for the hats to get more traffic? Not sure if it is worth all the work though to reload pics, descriptions, tags, shipping, etc. In fact, I am just about talking myself out of it right now! Any thoughts anyone?