Cyber Monday Sale

-------Thank you everyone who participated in this sale - it is now over, Happy Holidays! :) -------

That's right! I'm having a Cyber Monday Sale!!! Here's the juicy details:

Buy any 2 items, receive your 3rd item FREE! (Free item must be of equal or lesser value; and original paintings are not included as free items). Please state your chosen free item in the notes to seller during check out.

You can combine items from both my jellybeans.etsy.com store and my artbyangie.etsy.com store.

Happy Cyber Monday shopping!

Little things

Sometimes little things make days better. Today wasn't a bad day, but this preventing anything bad from bothering me:

This was what my Timmies cup looked like when I got it this morning - I didn't even notice until I came home. It's cute...poor guy, I didn't acknowledge it because I didn't even know until later. Even then, my hunny is cuter than a coffee smiley face. The coffee kid has skills though ahaha.

It was cute...just thought I would share :).

And The Winner Is....

(I know this announcement is long over due...)

Blogger Diana Dang is the lucky winner of the Poppy pendent collaboration piece that I did with Fanisong.

I used a random number generator, and she was lucky number! The original entry can be seen here.

Another contest will be announced after the holidays. I think this contest, for it being my first, went pretty smoothly. If you would like to keep updated, please join my mailing list where contest, discounts, new items and more are announced. The newsletter goes out to your e-mail no more than twice a month. Either leave a comment with your e-mail address, or sent me an e-mail: angievanden@gmail.com

Pretty Dresses

I wish I had fancy Christmas parties to go during the holidays, then I could splurge on this beautiful dress:

The Marilyn Dress - by Ureshii

As a side note: school's been crazy, so my blogging habits may slow down for a while. I've also been getting lots of commissions too (yippie, and I can definitely take more - *wink wink*), so that is also keeping me from my online blogging.

But it's definitely that time of year - increase school work because the semester is ending and they're trying to stuff in whatever subject material that they have to teach because they spent too much time on one thing or another, and increase retail because of the holly happy holidays! :) I'd much rather have 3 times the increase in retail and drop the increase in schoolwork...but I'm sure that's what everyone would want :)

Let it snow, Let it snow...

It really snowed today...the not going to melt until spring-sort of snow (hopefully, fingers crossed). I love the little snowflakes, and I knew I'd find some lovely snowflake-themed pieces on Etsy, so on I searched and this is what I found and loved!



These Schneeflocke Crystal and Sterling Earrings, by StoneyMistDesigns are so sparkly and pretty.





These precious Snowflake Soaps by anniepoo, are scented in a refreshing 'Fresh Snow' scent. Mmm, nothing smells better than snowfall.









These Antique Snowflake letterpressed greeting cards by subtleglances are sure to make an impression on their recipients. The design of this card is simply beautiful, not to mention the texture.









This lovely piece of art, Snow Covered Roof, by thecyclingartist is exactly how it will look when I look outside tomorrow morning (I'm in an apartment, so I see a lot of roofs).




Hopefully it's going to be a frosty, snowy morning tomorrow!

The Blower's Daughter

Not only do I love the movie, Closer; but I also love the soundtrack. My shuffle on my mp3 list pleasantly surprised me with the song, and I remembered how much I had loved it. I just had to share this love with you.

Kitty Khristmas

This would be perfect for Oreo this holiday season. It would look so lovely with his black and white fur :)

Winter Wonderland Cat Collar - missmoutache

If you're looking...

For those who know me enough to "gift" me for Christmas....who just happen to read my blog (you know who you are). I may be fancying this lovely locket by ButtonEnvy on Etsy, and I may have my fingers crossed that it will be under my Christmas tree this year Hint Hint

Love Birds Locket by ButtonEnvy

For those who read my blog, but don't personally know me - I still love sharing this beautiful find with you :)

Ps. I honestly don't know who of my family and close friends read my blog, so this is defiantly a long shot hehe.

2009 Jellybeans Wall Calendar Revisited

So, as I mentioned in a previous blog post, I had wanted to retake my pictures for my 2009 Wall Calendar, so the listing is a bit more attractive. And here is one of them!

2009 Jellybeans Wall Calendar

The shots are more interesting than before - and I had a more sunny day today to get some natural light into them. The puppy in the picture is my dog Belle, who passed away two summers ago. I thought, Oreo was having so much of the spotlight, Belle still deserved some!

If you want to see the rest of the shots, you'll just have to see my listing!

On an update: Oreo appears to be okay after his ribbon eating accident. I'm still watching over him just in case.

Journaling

I decided - on a whim, of course - that I was going to get back into journaling. I have books filled from high school and from my early university years. I love going back and reading what silly things I did and thought. I had been looking for a journal for awhile. I had it narrowed down to a moleskine style of journal. They're nice and thin (easy to throw in a bag somewhere), stylish and I could either decorate my own or purchase a decorated one.

Since I had a good week on Etsy, I thought my first one I would 'splurge' a little, and get a predesigned moleskine as a treat to myself. I had seen shoofly's moleskines before and really liked them...now it was just choosing a size, design and paper type (they come in blank, lined and graph)

I was also swamped in tests and assignments this week (hence my absence from my blog) so this is a good reward for all my hard work.

Etched Magnolias Large Cahier Notebook, Plain

I really liked the design of this notebook, it's really cute. I choose the large size mostly just because the extra large was too big, and the small was too small. Plain paper of course so that I can doodle...my other journals were always lined, I think I'm going to like not having that restriction. Although, I was tempted to try the graph paper moleskines - they would be interesting to work in!

Now, I just have to wait....wait....wait for the postman to bring me my journal :)