Our Faves

We has such a crazy wonderful end of the year! We literally had photo pendants drying on every flat surface possible at one point. We wanted to share a few of our fun orders this past holiday season!

 

Thank you to all our wonderful customers!! We love transforming your photos into little pieces of love! Enjoy your new photo pendants!!

Leah 2011 - Fave things

I had to share my fave from a cute series of pendants we did last week. This little Leah cracks me up. It is harder to see in the pic, but the blue glasses gave off a blue hue that  made the whole pendant look dreamy. I love the slightly desaturated colors that let the cute goofy smile and smirky glasses show this cute girl's personality. Love it!

Have you ever heard of Pintrist?

A few months ago I started seeing some of my friends on facebook linking to something called Pintrist. Naturally I ignored it thinking it was another Farmville or MafiaWars facebook phenomenon. Then my real life every-day friends started talking about this Pintrist and all the cool ideas they had "pinned." What? Pinned?

They claimed that I really really need to get on Pintrist, that I would love it. That it is more addictive than facebook, but even better because it has all the most amazing crafts, decor, art, food, recipes, what ever that I could imagine. I resisted. I didn't need another addictive website in my life.

Now, months later I too have discovered Pintrist.. in all its glory.

For those who are unaware of this latest networking craze let me inform you.
Remember when you find a really neat tutorial on snowflakes, or a wonderful recipe for blue berry pie, or even when you find a beautiful photo, hilarious poster, amazing couch, pretty jewelry... and you would bookmark the page. And never be able to find that bookmark ever again. Pintrist is a virtual board where you can "pin" all those cool pictures and links you found, and be able to see them all at the same time.

Not only is is great for collecting all your faves as you surf the net, but you can see your friend's faves too! Let me tell you my friends have some good taste in decor and food (which is all I'm interest in, but they have tons of other categories.) Think of it as a pretty inspiring facebook, where all you see is what your friends like instead of status updates!

Here is a snippet of my "Holidays" board that I've amassed in 4 days.

So you should be my friend so I can see all your faves too. Chances are, you found it long before me and are already a Pintrist pro.

Never the less, we now have a pintrist button! see top left of our blog!

Fave Things - Fresh Farm Sign

This week I'm sharing this cool "how to" on this farm sign!
It comes from Connie at Sensible-Redesign and I just love it! I love it because she tells you exactly how she did it!! So I can use her tricky graphite paper trick some day.. I've got that one in my crafty idea bank now.

Check it out if you need a new project!

Fave Things - 100th Sale Celebration!!!

I'm a few days late on my Fave Things post, but for good reason...
We have broken 100 sales on Etsy!!!!! I wanted to celebrate by sharing some of my fave photo pendants we've done over the last few months!

This one is so sweet. Every time I see it I wish I had more "first days" photos of my own little guy.

I love the variety of photos we get! From every day snap shots, to professional photo shoots, we get all sorts of images and turn them into new, modern little pieces of jewelry. So fun.

These are my personal faves. I love that "buzz" pendant. That exact keychain is on my kitchen door key. So I see it every day. The one below it was a free one we did for a new mom. It is just so sweet. -clearly I love the baby pics we get-
Of course my all time fave is that silly photo of Bradley sticking his tongue out. But now I love to pair it with an experimental resin and silver bezel pendant! (We have some fun things coming your way in the future!!)
 

Fave Things - LDS Love

This week's faves are from Etsy! Each one is from an LDS seller/artist. I cannot believe how totally cute this little collection is! Link to actual page with links!

I'm completely enamored with the family tree from The Staker Store.

My great Grandma Jordan had a family tree on her wall when I was little. It was huge! At least in my childhood memory it took up nearly a whole wall. It had cut out ovals to put photos in, and places to write names. It was all filled out, and had extra photos glued on top rather than in the little ovals. I always looked for my own picture or my cousins or siblings even, but I think we were too far down the line. Let's face it, it was a Mormon pioneer family... there were 30 some grand kids I'm sure!

But this tree is so simple, and non sequential, and beautiful! I think anyone with photoshop or illustrator could make their own!

Fave Things

1. Nation LTD tee - Odessa Tee
2. My Little Sewing Room - Handmade Pillow
3. Garnet Girl Designs - Green Amethyst Ring

It is raining outside, what can I say. I'm missing my Oregon gray tones, they are so comforting. I may have expensive taste this week, that blouse is $90... I would never spend that much on a shirt... or a pillow... but I would on a ring!! Too bad this one is over double that...

*sigh* wishes.