Street Smarts

Okay, so everything Etsy floats my boat, as you may have read before.

Let me introduce you to my latest love, Etsy Street Teams.

Street teams are groups of Etsy sellers who band together to promote their shops online and off.

Street teams that I belong to:

PCAGOE - Polymer Clay Artists Guild of Etsy. Search for PCAGOE to find what creations members are offering on Etsy.

JET - Jewelry on Etsy Team, use JETT to search for their items on etsy.

Etsy Bead - they have a weekly theme, if you search for EBWT you can see the items that everyone has for the theme and often they are on sale.

Each team has contests, creativity challenges, a flickr group and sales.

So let's talk about the sale. JET is having a Wild Weekend Sale. You can read what discounts members are offering here. I have 20% off my entire shop until the end of today. Check out my new beads and jewelry!

Bead Soup

Elaine Ray had written a great post on the ABS about Bead Soup and that reminded me that I had a heaping helping of Bead Soup to share with you from May!

For Bead Week, I had a few friends over for a Bead Soup Party. I told everyone to bring a strand of beads for the soup in teal, bronze or copper. They also brought focal beads, a clasp, spacers and beading materials to put together their bracelets.

We poured all the beads into a tray and took turns scooping out a spoonful until it was divided up. It was so much fun to see how each person handled the same beads.


(left to right) Juliet's 2 bracelets and my mom's design.


(right to left) Denise's, mine, Angela's bracelet, mom's & Juliet's are in the back.

I'm looking forward to the next bead party, now to just stop making beads long enough to schedule that!

Mermaid's Grotto

Isn't this incredible? This is a bracelet that my oh-so-talented Mom designed to teach on the Bead Cruise.

You can find the beads in my Etsy shop. Maybe you won't do something quite this fancy, but you could make a wonderful cuff bracelet using my Teal Branches 6-hole bead with teals, copper and bronze. Wouldn't that be lovely?

Mermaidy links to know about:

ABS's Mermaid Theme Contest - win over $100 in beads!

Mermaid's Grotto at my Etsy Shop.

The Bead Cruise - registration starts on the 20th.

*Write "free project" in the notes on your Etsy order and I'll include the instructions for my Cuff Bracelet.

New Beads!

I've been listing beads on Etsy like there is no tomorrow!

Van Gogh's Starry Night invaded the studio, they arrived in disks, lentils and focals.

Golden Branch Beads are now available in disks and cuffs. The Cuffs can now have 3 or 6 holes.

Lots of new beads are in the works for my Humblebeads site, in the meantime enjoy some of my experiments and sneak peeks.

My Etsy Shop

Treasuries Galore

Seriously, is there any thing more addicting than the treasuries on Etsy?
I seem to be in a quite a few of them today, so here is the list with my sincere thanks to those who picked me for their treasuries.

First, my Bead Cruise treasury. Filled with items that remind of the Bead Cruise. Speaking of which, registration opens in just a few weeks!

Treasuries that include humblebeads:

Beadaholics by GreenEnvyDesigns.

Do you ear me? by ADORNMENTSBYBJ.

Opps I did it again by JessicaSharrah.

Femininity Revisited by jemsbyjbandcompany.

Clay, Clay, Clay by JanZio.

Don't spend too much time on Etsy today!