that offers a large selection of elegant and whimsical
jewelry for everyday life.
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The Frosted Button:
What prompted you to sell handmade?
jFrancesDesign:
I started selling my jewelry a few months after I relocated to Iowa. I had been making jewelry for almost ten years, and my friends encouraged me to start an Etsy store. Learning how to run a handmade business has been both a fun and frustrating process. I'm continuously trying to learn more about it.
The Frosted Button:
What is your favorite thing to make?
jFancesDesigns:
y favorite items to make are hand-forged silver and/or copper necklaces that incorporated semi-precious stones. I also really like working with brides on creating custom pieces for them and their bridesmaids.
The Frosted Button:
What inspires your designs?
I am constantly inspired by everything around me, and I think that's the best part of being a designer (I'm also studying interior design). Most of the time, I buy my materials without knowing how I intend to use them. When I see all of the beads together, I'm often inspired as to how to combine them. Right now, I'm really enjoying using vintage beads in rustic sterling and copper bracelets and earrings. I like the rich, old glass combined with hammered, slightly imperfect links and clasps. It's a little different than simply using vintage beads in vintage style designs, which is something I also enjoy doing.
The Frosted Button:
How long have you been crafting?
jFrancesDesign:
I've been crafting for as long as I can remember, literally. I was blessed to have a very creative babysitter during my pre-school years, and she introduced me to many different crafts that she herself did, like needlepoint and painting on porcelain, and that she made us for me and her daughter to do. When I was in grade school, I loved weaving scarves on a plastic loom and making pinch pots out of clay. I also took weekly lessons in water color and oil painting throughout middle school and high school.
Thank you so much for sharing your shop with us!
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to give away a $50 gift certificate to one of my readers!!
There are so many beautiful designs in this shop that I am sure
you will have a tough time choosing your favorites!
Here's how to enter:
{Mandatory First Entry}
back here and tell me what items you would
like to have if you win.
( 1 entry)
Please complete this entry before doing any others!!
{Extra Entries}
( 2 entries)
2. Add jFrancesDesigns to your Etsy Cricle
(2 entries)
3. Blog, Tweet, or Facebook about this giveaway
( 2 entries for each thing you do)
4. Follow this blog
(2 entries)
If you already follow, let me know.
5.Purchase any item from jFrancesDesigns
( 20 entries)
Make sure to tell me what you purchased in your comment!
These comment can take a really long time to post,
so feel free to copy and paste your comment 20 times
( just make sure to put "comment 1, 2," etc.)
( 2 entries)
7. Become a friend of jFrancesDesign's
Facebook Page
(2 entries)
8. Follow jFrancesDesign's
Blog
( 2 entries)
9. You may have noticed that for this feature I did a little "interview" with the seller.
Do you prefer this kind of feature, or pictures only ( like I've done previously)?
( 1 entry)
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This giveaway is open Worldwide!!
Please do each comment separately
and leave a way for me to contact you if you win.
Your e-mail or Etsy username is best.
If you don't feel comfortable leaving your e-mail,
just drop me a separate comment with your e-mail and let me know
not to publish it. It will only be used to contact you if you win, and will be
deleted once the giveaway is over.
This giveaway ends March 5 at noon Central Time.
The winner will be picked later that day using Random.org.
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You may have noticed that for this feature I did a little "interview" with the seller.
Do you prefer this kind of feature, or pictures only?
( 1 entry)
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