Laura Hunter Jewelry - Jewelry for your Everyday Sparkle✩

FRIDAY, NOV 19 Help Raise Money for the Prevention and Treatment of Child Abuse at ChildHelp's 24th Annual Holiday Fantasia. A shopping Boutique will be held at the PARK HYATT, 7100 Four Seasons Point in Carlsbad. It's open to the Public. Shop for your Holiday Gifts and raise m oney for this wonderful organization. Childhelp.org SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 21 is the TALMADGE ART SHOW with over 50 artists attending - it's a great opportunity to shop for unique and meaningful holiday gifts. Talmadge Art Show

The Lariat Necklace - The Dazzler Lariat isn't as long as the Galaxy Lariat in the previous post, however, there are still many ways this lariat can be worn. These are just a few ideas. If you have any additional ideas please post them here. You can simply tie it any place you like and let the pendants fall where they please you most. Or you can just lasso the black garnet though the hoop.

B lue Druzy Necklace - Azurite Lariat - Gold Dipped Leaf Lariat - Galaxy Lariat Extra long lariat made from 14k gold filled flat cable chain can be worn as many ways as your imagination wonders. So far, I've found four great looks. All are posted below. Yes, the sparkling Azurite pendant is really that blue. Bright electric blue with natural sparkle. It's amazing. I just can't stop staring at. The leaf is an extra long natural (real) leaf with a 24k gold heavy overlay. The leaf and azurite are attached with 14k gold filled wire and a sparkling gold tundra sapphire. The two interlocking links are handcrafted from 14k gold fill. The chain measures 37 1/2 inches (approx 95 cm) The Azurite is 27 x 19mm The leaf is 87 mm long Total length is 43.5 " long (approx 111 cm) Two Ways to Wear as a medium length necklace: Top Photo: Wrap twice around neck. Slightly uneven so that the links and azurite rest higher than the leaf. Thread leaf though lin...

Making a wire coil quickly using a wire as the mandrel.... ON THE CHEAP. If you are like me you have probably been making your coils by hand - wrapping one wire around another. After a day, your hands become stiff and tired. I would like to keep using my hands for a long time, so I started to look for new methods. The first thing I came across was the coiling gizmo deluxe . It's $200 and quite large. I then browsed the other coiling gizmo products, but they didn't do what I needed them to do. I wanted a wire to be the mandrel - the "rod" another wire is wrapped around. In these kits you use an actual rod/mandrel to wrap the wire around. (hang in there with me) All this research and price tags got me thinking about ways to make a coil using a plain old drill. I am sure I am not the first person to make this discovery but there isn't a lot of information out there on how to do this. For this particular project I used 12" of 24 gauge wire and 10" o...

I am so excited to show off my new banner (Look Up) and logo designs! I worked with a former colleague and friend, Sami Wallingford , to come up with the design concept. We used to work together in the publishing industry - I was sales, she was graphic design. I think it's wonderful to work with former co-workers who have branched out on our own. Let me know what you think of the new look!

On Sunday morning I realized that I had the most traffic - EVER- to my Etsy shop. Thank you ChristiaLP for the awesome exposure. She spent time looking for artists with nice products and great photography AND had never been on the front page of Etsy. Consider me tickled pink.

My earrings - Top Row Far Right My latest reading topic is about SEO - Search Engine Optimization. It took me a long - long - long time to start connecting the dots about how all of this works. (And I still have many dots to go) What I really want to do is make jewelry - however - if no one sees it, no one buys it - and then I get featured on TLC's Buried Alive. Shudder. Well, I read tidbits from all over. I read on the Esty Forums, Blogs, web sites... any advice that was easy to follow. I slowly began making tweaks to help my odds of being searchable. One of the biggest and best tweaks I've started making is changing the titles of my jewelry. For example, I like to give names to my jewelry like Hot Hoops , Breathless and Glitz because that they way them make me feel. After I began connecting the dots better, I found out this is not how to name items when selling them on-line. I found out one has to name their items how one searches for them. My task of rena...