Craft show at the Topa Center, Honolulu

Two days of a craft show in Honolulu!  Met lots of great, fun people and I am waiting on supplies to make the custom orders!

I thought this was going to be my last show of the season but another vendor, who wouldn't be able to attend, sold me her booth and I managed a 3rd on Sunday!  Phew!

I will be posting everything I have on my ETSY shop (www.aquashella.etsy.com) this week!!!

I am busy taking new photographs of things and the camera battery pooped out so it's charging.  go figure, right?

Tomorrow is another day and I will resume with a fully charged camera battery and sally forth.

Hickam Craft Fair!!

OK, I am beat but I am so psyched that I had to write this real quick before I go to totally veg out.  Today was the Hickam Craft Fair and I was signed up and totaly looking forward to it.  Sat 9-3.  But Friday night it was pouring..  It was still pouring when I went to bed a little after midnight too!  I woke up at around 5:30am to the sound of heavy rain...  Still?  Seriously?  I peeked out the window and it was soaked and getting soakererered.  Crap! 

 Will the Craft fair even happen?  SO, I laid in bed and made a deal with God.  If he could give us a rain-free day I would donate 5% of my sales to a cause I had in mind.  If I went over a higher amount I would give 10% to this cause.  I made coffee and got ready and by 6:30am it had stopped raining...  No kidding...  It was hot and humid all day but no rain and sales were GREAT!  I knew he heard me!  At 3pm when the show ended and we were all packing up it started pouring again!  Like a timer went off when the show ended!   

I totaled up sales and I am happy to say that I have a hefty check to offer a family that wants to take their sick child to Disney World.  I think the best part of the day was knowing I am able to give more than double what I originally expected.  I am really  thankful that the rain stopped and I am really blown away that I really think GOD was listening!

Thank you everyone who helped me reach a great goal today, my customers are the best.  NO one knew what my goal was today.  Just me and God.  Thanks God!

Heres what new!

I have had the opportunity to have large chunks of time to my disposal lately as my 3 kids are ALL in school.  This is the first time since 1991 that I have had this kind of 6 hour time slot to fill with my own time!  You can't even imagine how nice it is to get the torch out and completely take over the kitchen with all the flammable liquids, solder, MAPP gas and metal and really get some good things done with no interruption!  

IT has really opened me up to doing more time consuming projects and really coming up with some good ideas...ahhhhh  I will show the things I am currently working on here soon!

Here are a few of the things that I have ready for sale...

Aquashella Handcrafted Jewelry is....

Gearing up for a lot of Craft Fairs in the coming months!  

I have announced on my  ETSY site (www.aquashella.etsy.com) that I am listing pictures of most of my One Of  A Kind jewelry pieces here on my BLOG for you to see and find what you'd like to purchase or have me make for you.  

I am doing this because my jewelry has been !selling out! at craft fairs and shows and I cannot afford (timewise) to keep it listed on ETSY to then take it off each weekend for a show, so, Take a look here, find something that you would like to purchase and email me at aquashella@earthlink.net and I will then post the items(s) on my ETSY site for you to purchase there.  I have already taken orders and I am making special order pieces and I am loving it!

If you have any questions regarding shipping, packaging (you'll receive each piece beautifully wrapped ready for gift giving, or as a treat to yourself!) please look at my ETSY site and it is all there under policies.

Thank you and Have fun browsing thru Aquashella Jewlery,

Jane

Aquashella- Handcrafed Jewelry. New Designs!!! I am so excited!!!

I can hardly wait to post them!  I do not have much on my ETSY site right now because of moving and also I have so many shows coming up that I have to make enough supply.  I thought I'd put a lot of my stock up on this blog-website instead of listing it on ETSY.  That way, if any of you would like something I will make it for you on request, just email me and we'll work it out.  I do this for a lot of people so please, feel free to contact me.  It's never a bother and I am never too busy to make something when a piece of jewelry "finds you".  

I love to make things in my new little studio.  Lately I have been listening to the Beatles; Abby Road, Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band and another greatest hits type album put out by The Beatles..  I kind of go on jags of music listening when I am in "the zone"  I guess it's mostly by circumstance because rather than change the CD I will just push the Play button again and repeat whatever is in.  I have gone thru Neil Diamond and Martin Zellar who is lead singer for the defunct Gear Daddies- Sad sigh.... go on, Google em!  Gear Daddies.  You can't not like them!!  Especially the song "I want to drive the Zamboni"  Yeah, no, the Zamboni is the truck that resurfaces the ice skating rink.  My spellcheck keeps highlighting Zamboni?  Ughh...  So if you though driving the Zamboni was something  dirty your out of luck...  

Here are a bunch of new designs I have been making.  Please leave comments!  I appreciate your input.

Here They are! 

**Click on each picture to see an enlarged view***

quick pics of my life...

My hubby, my boys, my girl, my nieces and nephew...  and a pile of mango's I need to peel and make jam with...  Why are the mango's with family pics?  I don't know, but I am going with it!

New Jewelry!

These three are just a few of what's to come.  I am really loving making the "double" strand necklaces.  Although they are time consuming to make because I wire-wrap each stone and connect them individually.  They are incredibly strong and the chain I use is also soldered links so that adds to the strength.  

Ringo Starr is singing Octopus's Garden in my head each time I start one of the fab Octo-necklaces.  I love these guys and was glad when I could find the guys in brass with Sterling silver plate.  What a great combo!

The 3rd is a vintage inspired necklace with lava stone, brass wire and a classy brass pendant.

I have so much to put on ETSY but I am having a tough time mustering up the patience to wait for the pics to upload!!!  If they upload at all!  It can take up to 15 minutes just to post ONE piece of jewelry!  If anyone alse has any advice on how to make it go quicker please email me!!  Aquashella@earthlink.net

I have tried making the pics square b4 uploading...  Sometimes its quick, sometimes its like turtle slow..I am talking a one-legged turtle.a one legged SEA-turtle..On LAND!