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We use them every day of our lives, but now we can adorn ourselves with them: the humble alphabet. How would we do the crossword? Texting? All great uses for letters. Until now.
Wooden Letter Blocks Ring by Glamour Twinkles Jewelry
Wooden Letter Blocks Ring: created with the idea of children’s letter blocks. I know they’re only small letters and don’t exactly bring toy blocks to mind but that was my thinking as soon as I saw the bag of beads sitting in the bead shop.
Alphabet Necklace by Glamour Twinkles Jewelry
Alphabet Rainbow Necklace: I so badly wanted to call these Sesame Street Necklaces. But I didn’t want the wrath of CBS or NBC or whoever brings us the letter T and the number 5. A few years ago a school painted an old toilet block, to brighten it up. They used a terrible looking reproduction of Donald Duck. SOmehow Disney found out and demanded the remove it. Donald has gone. I don’t want Glamour Twinkles to go out like Donald Duck did.
Pink Purple Green ABC Alphabet Earrings by Glamour Twinkles Jewelry
These are my ABC Earrings. They’re bright and colourful and lightweight. I just didn’t have enough ABC’s to make a big bunch of earrings so I started doing EFG earrings as well.
With Alphabet Jewelry you will never be lost for words.
Blue Green Pink EFG Alphabet Earrings by Glamour Twinkles Jewelry
My Gothic Pagoda Earrings by Glamour Twinkles
What a feeling! I have had the most unboring, go-go gettum week. I diligently stuck to my routine and oh boy, does it feel GOOD! It makes me wish I’d done this much sooner.
My B&W Feather Earrings by Glamour Twinkles
Highlights of my business week:
Media Monday: Had me actually reading the Handmadeology blog posts and discovered the joy of Hootsuite. You probably all know about this incredible system where you can have all your Twitter lists, WordPress, Tumblr, Flickr and Facebook all in front of you at the same time. Incredibly I’ve only just now experienced this. Love…
Trade Me Tuesday: Listings ahoy. I’ve some new items to my listings, and paying more attention to the categories I’m using on our little Kiwi auction site – where you can auction off your pesky Kiwi’s (hardy-har-har)
Etsy Wednesday: With my new skills in Hootsuite I now have a buttload of scheduled Tweets extoling the virtures of buying Glamour Twinkles Jewelry on Etsy. You know the routine…
Attack of the Thursday: Actually, this didn”t work out so well but it wasn’t through any fault of mine. It was the slow downloading Internet service that had me frustrated and resulted in me …. switching off my Netbook (shakes, cold sweats, turkey cold). It was a very odd night. I ended up doing a form of “market research” by reading old tattoo magazines … for researching where I could feasibly advertise Glamour Twinkles Jewelry (and get a new tattoo…..)
Photo Friday: Hello Internet, how I missed you my darling. Lets never fight again. Now this was a bit of a cheat. I’m supposed to be updating Flickr and Facebook photo albums but after Thursday I wanted to catch up on the work I couldn’t do so I finally finished editing the 20 new pairs of Tattoo Earrings I’d shot months ago and never got around to finishing, Plus darling Picnik is closing in April so I’m using that as a handy excuse for not strictly following my own new rules. Hey, I’m a rebel, man. Business or not!
Edit Saturday: This is a pretty vague day. I mean editing? Edit what? Well, whatever I want. It was the earrings photos… again… I have so many of those digital fiends. But I’m glad I’ve finally finished editing them. The next step was sticking them into Etsy listings, as well as editing said listings to add to my scheduled Tweets so it all meshes together quite nicely.
Blogging Sunday: Well, you’re reading it. I’m also spending the day prepping draft Behind The Twinkle blog posts so I can “activate” them while I am work on Wednesday morning through my iPhone. Man, how did the caveman ever manage without the unstoppable mobile phone? And we were worried about Skynet. Tisk tisk humanity. Ironically enough I’ve deleted virtually all of my iPhone reminders because having my Little Red Business Book at home and Little Black Business Book at work has been far more effective. Sorry iPhone.
Strangely enough my new attitude is carrying over into my 9-5 corporate job (well 8.30-5.20pm actually). I’m pretty busy there as well and achieving mucho taskology. Added that so you’d know it’s still me writing these posts. I mean I’m still me. Just a more efficient me.
I'm Going to Miss Picnik
My, how we’ve changed. I used to devour actual magazines with gusto. Not so much now I’m afraid. Well, apart from tattoo magazines but that’s not what this blog is about. No, I’ve been working on my marketing e-course and purchasing the first mags I’ve got in, I don’t remember how long. Sadly, I’ve changed.
To market a product one must know their audience. One should also know a little something about possible promotional options. Thusly, magazines were purchased to that effect. Little hint, I’m not sure what my market is so I decided to purchase only NZ and Australian magazines. I figure if and when I have to send samples out the postage won’t cost the earth. So I went out and purchased:
NOT the magazine for me. Full of very expensive glossy clothes and high-end hair styling products. Weird, I thought it was a fashion mag. Purchased because it’s cover told me it held a “what to wear guide”. Didn’t really gel with this little reader.
The cover of this tome told me it had “summer’s hit list” and it also had a couple of articles on stylists which I’ll probably read later. Much later. Sorry, another no go from me.
(embarrassingly) Cosmopolitan
Cry, sniff, I used to love this magazine. The cover told me it had “fierce fashion, super glam looks….” ‘fraid not. I knew it was full of relationship BS but it used to have great editorials and fashion spreads. I used to find great pics that I would cut out and keep in little scrap books. And I’ve got plenty of these little style books - that’s what I call them. Sadly, this mag had nothing to write home about. Ciao.
See above. Cover had “look lush for less”. Very unlush to me.
My point is that I couldn’t see myself pitching an editorial storyline for any of these magazines to feature my jewelry – well, I mean for them to just look at my jewelry – and I was beginning to despair until I remembered one last magazine that I had forked out for:
At last. Exclamation points abound! Love this magazine. I’ve folded the corners on so may pages and articles that I may even be back next month for my magazine fill. Hurrah!
White Skull - Voodoo Earrings by Glamour Twinkles - available soon
I’m now back at my Girl Friday job in the big city and this past week has been rather distracting with new Twitter followers beeping my phone, blogs to read and pesky office work interrupting my dreams of featuring in print. But then, my job keeps me in the lifestyle I am accustomed to so I’m getting my head back in the work game. And as such I’ll really need to come up with a work plan if I want to keep up with all the Glamour Twinkly things I need to do to get my “bling” out there. Quite unlikely if I ever again refer to my jewelry line as “bling” argh!
This weekend has seen me in full photo shoot mode with the new items I’ve made these last two weeks (too many sunny days do not a good photo shoot make). Oh, and last night I got the shocking email from Picnik telling me they were closing. You know that moment when you read something so unbelievable that you must read it a couple of time before it sinks in? That was me last night as I prepped my dindins. I read the email and (being the habitual paranormal/hoax footage skeptic I am) I was waiting for the punch line. No, Picnik will be gone and Google+ will “take over many of their awesome features”. It all happens on 19 April 2012. As you can probably tell I really love using Picnik. It is an awesome photo editing system. But the show must go on. Thank goodness I always saved my edits to my PC and not on their servers. There must be some frantic saving going on in cyber space right now. So that’s been my past week.
Orange Bear French Fries - Cutie Pie Milkshake bracelet - photoshoot results
Alphabet Earrings by Glamour Twinkles.
You’ll need gold plated earring hooks
Medium size black jumprings
Large gold plated jumprings
Coloured plastic letters
Attach the hook to the black jumpring
Attach three colourful letters to the large gold plated jumpring
Attach the large jumpring to the black jumpring with the hook and now you now have a pair of snazzy new earrings.
Or you could buy some from my Glamour Twinkles Etsy shop. Whatever, it’s up to you.
I am in the middle of a couple of days off. I went a-spending on Friday and purchased myself a bunch of sparkly goodies. Below are the before… stick around for the after. So below is the weekend in pictures, Glamour Twinkles Style!
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- My corpserffic new Skeleton King Three Finger Ring – Thank you Diva
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- Black necklace just ripe for the pulling apart – thank you Diva
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- Golden icon necklaces before I pull them apart – thank you Equip
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- Giant artificial crystals bracelet before I pulled it apart – thank you Equip
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- Golden glitter letters on my sparkly business card holder for Thorndon Fair – thank you The Warehouse
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- Boring cup before the glittering…
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- Twinkles – a glittery accompaniment to my new business card cup – thanks The Warehouse
With Sis in Australia for the next year, she has convinced me to go back to Facebook for our IRL communications (kinda). It’s actually a good real-time communication option while Sis awaits Internet connections etc. I’ve never really “got” Facebook. I mean, people seem to love it but I’ve always found it somewhat cold and rigid. I want to pretty up my page. I want the kind of zing and pizzazz that I get with Twitter.
App-A-Licious
After downloading the FB app and checking out the bee features it has I could declare myself somewhat turned around on Face-ing but time will tell.
Still, could eventually become another outlet for jewelry selling but it will mainly be for Siscomm (new word invention, you can say you were at the threshold.)
The fabulous earrings I’m wearing are available at Glamour Twinkles on Etsy.
As soon as I saw these velvet hearts at Spotlight I had visions of rows and rows of Velvet Heart Earrings dangling on my Thorndon Fair display stand:
I’ve already got the name: “Twilight” Earrings. Trying to ca$h in on all the vampire hoopla. I’ve never actually seen those movies, I’m more of an Anne Rice Vampire Lestat kinda gal. The only problem I could see was whether to have earrings with a plain tassel at the bottom:
Twilight Variation 1
or a bead and tassel dangling from the bottom:
Twilight Variation 2
Decisions, decisions … which lead me to create these, the ultimate “Twilight” Earrings, using the long loop earring hooks I bought along with the hearts.
Twilight Earrings
Happy Biting young Vampires. Long live Lestat!
Faux Gold Earring, Bolt Hole Heart worn 19 October 2010
The earrings I’m wearing today have an interesting back story.
My mother told me that she was digging in the garden one sunny day and she uncovered two pairs of very faux gold earrings. Once she cleaned the crud off them she gave them to me. I gave them a toothpaste-shine* and replaced some of the missing “gemstones” and filed off the rusted pieces and voila! A shiny pair of earrings for Miss Twinkles.
The necklace is a heart with screws around it, it reminds me if something a pirate might “squander” – oooo argh! Ironically the heart is empty so the bolts are redundant – bit of arty-farty English usage there.
The rings are from my favorite shop eQUIP
*Toothpaste (the white paste kind, not the colored gel kind) can be used to clean COSTUME jewelry. I don’t advise using it to shine genuine gold, silver and/or diamonds as it is very abrasive. However in desperate situations it does wonders on dull jewels.
Scarlet Hair with Redrum Ring worn 18 October 2010
I finally got my haircut on Thursday. I’ve been going to Jam for years. The place where I buy my hair colour is Calico Jacks and its across the road from the salon so I always stock up.
Monday’s jewels are my newly made Newsprint Earrings and Puffy Heart Key Necklace that I made this weekend.
Newprint Earrings and Puffy Heart Necklace made this weekend and debut on 18 October 2010
Directions Colours - Poppy Red and Apricot
I’m digging my new hair colour. Somehow it’s more “natural” than the pinky-purple. I was looking for what I refer to as “Linda Evangelist red” and thought Directions Pillarbox Red would be the right colour but it turned my bleached hair a bright shade of fushcia. I was thinking Cyndi Lauper/Ziggy Stardust … not Pink Panther! But Poppy Red has turned out to be the exact shade I was after. It is perfect!
I went to heaven on Saturday – heaven in the form of Village Beads in Petone, Wellington.
Newsprint Baubles
I found these ingenious beads with newspaper inside them. Such a simple but clever idea. They would be better if the newspaper wasn’t so dark but I imagine that there isn’t a lot you can do to stop the newsprint becoming dark as they scrunch it up to place in the resin. Naturally two beads equals a new pair of earrings for moi.
Ding-Bell Piggies
I also found these little dingle-bell piggies. I want to make them into earrings but the bell sound would drive me around the bend! I managed to maneuver the little bits out of each piggy and they are now a funky pair of earrings.
Tattoo Skull - Femo
I liked the tattoo-like look of this Femo skull. Again, I wanted earrings but I couldn’t find another skull that matched closely enough. One day soon it will make a funky necklace for me.
Sometimes I write tweets with the sole objective of gaining more followers – how sad is THAT! For example yesterday I wrote a tweet mentioning the word “medal” just to see how many Twitter searches will follow me based of that word. You know, with the Commonwealth Games going on. But having said that I don’t even follow the games nor do I even care about sports. Anyhoo, I got a new Twitter follower overnight. But I don’t think it was based on my medal tweet. This fabulous blogger @superficialgirl started followed me today and she has a great blog called Superficial Girls . So judging by her funky blog I think she may have responded to the hair colour blog I posted yesterday. Proof that my new hair colour is getting me noticed.
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- Jubilee Silver Necklace and Bead and Pearl Ring worn 12 October 2010
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- Jubilee Silver Necklace and Bead and Pearl Ring worn 12 October 2010
In keeping with my “What Jewelry I Wore Today” theme, today I’m wearing my Silver Jubilee Necklace. I’ve had these chains a while and I couldn’t come up with any idea of how to use them so they sat in my “chains drawer” for about a year. Then one sunny day my sister came over with necklace she got at Diva. Since it was on sale she gave it to me to pull apart and lo and behold I created Silver Jubilee Necklace. I love the dove and crown on this piece. It’s definitely a one-off. And it’s all mine.
