Inspired by Summer

There's something about summer that heightens my senses. The colors, sounds, smells, and textures make me long for it to last all year long. Summer inspires me like no other season.

Inspired by my trip to Cape May, NJ...I hand stamped "By the Sea" and added sea glass, starfish, and sea shell charms to an oxidized sterling ball chain.

My summer mood board, Beach Charm

Hand stamped brass cuff bracelet I made this weekend via Leo and Junie's studio

Wildwood, NJ in May 2012

BESTeam Tuesday feature : Just Peachy

I just love the name Just Peachy! This cute Etsy shop has adorable hair accessories and jewelry. The shop owner, Rachel, is new to the craft scene, but is already making lots of cute stuff from button earrings to crocheted necklaces to felt flowered headbands.

One of her recent treasuries made it to the front page! Nautical theme at its best:

Love it!!

Take a little walk through her shop....

Spice up a boring outfit with a colorful flowered headband

Felt Flower Headband  Bright Pink, Blue & Purple $15

Custom Felt Flowers Hairpiece $15

Necklace - Crocheted & Beaded $10

White Puca Shell Earrings $8

Just Peachy is having a sale through July 17th

FREE SHIPPING ON ORDERS $10 OR MORE

JUST PEACHY SHOP

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Visit her shop for some fun jewelry and accessories!

Have a great week!

It's a Terrific Tuesday featuring Lotus Mira

Happy Tuesday! After three straight days of rain, the sun made a brief appearance this morning. The clouds have rolled in again! It was refreshing to discover a new Etsy shop from beautiful Washington, DC, Lotus MiraGe Ephemera Handcrafted Jewelry. The shop owner, MiraGe, is a hard working Graduate student, wife, cat lover, and Boston native studying Law. How does she have time for creating?!? 

She has little pieces of art for your ears, neck, and wrists! Lotus Mira offers handcrafted jewelry and art, composed of found items, vintage artwork and images, and other ephemera. A girl after my own heart! She currently specializes in soldered art. Her future plans are to work with polymer clay and would love to learn lampworking!

I found a lot of information on the profile page of Lotus Mira about MiraGe and her future artistic journey. Something she quoted really stayed with me. "Many people think nothing of spending $100 on a dinner out, but wouldn't spend $100 on a piece of art that they could have forever. It's because they don't value it the same. It's not because they can't afford it."

(taken from http://www.thebeads.com/articles/pricing.phtml) This is so true! Next time you see a piece of art that you would love to own, think of this statement.

I hope you enjoyed learning about the fabulous shop, Lotus Mira. Take a little journey into her world...

Here are some of my favorites from her shop:

Vintage Faery Images One Inch Soldered Pendant (double sided) 

Alice in Wonderland Four Paneled Soldered Bracelet (double sided) 

 Vintage Malaysian Stamp Butterflies - World Postage Stamps Series - Soldered Pendant

 All of the pendants are made with lead-free solder.

GRAND OPENING SALE for Lotus Mira :: Be among the first to buy a four-paneled bracelet, join me on Facebook, or refer a friend -- you can get free items and/or to get up to 20% off! Check my Shop Policies to learn how!

Get to know Lotus Mira a little more and see her mini works of art through her links!

BLOG : http://LotusMira.blogspot.com/
TWITTER: http://twitter.com/LotusMira

ETSY SHOP: http://www.etsy.com/shop/lotusmira

FACEBOOK PAGE: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Lotus-MiraGe-Ephemera/330807772723

 Enjoy!!

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Leo and Junie
Jewelry Designs :: Nature & Vintage Inspired
By Christine Steckel

leoandjunie@yahoo.com

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Leo and Junie Celebrate Earth Day with Aquarian Bath

The Sunshine Award

Giving thanks to Paradise Purls for honoring me and my blog with The Sunshine Award!


The Sunshine Award is awarded to bloggers whose positivity & creativity inspires others in the blog world.
The rules for accepting this award are:-

Put the logo on your blog or within your post.
Pass the award onto 12 bloggers.
Link the nominees within your post.
Let the nominees know they have received this award by commenting on their blog.
Share the love and link to the person from whom you received this award. 


I happily nominate the following deserving blogs:

1. Aquarian Bath

2. Anticipation Cards

3. PrincessSamy

4. Sew Dandee 

5. Lightkeeping

6. Imeon Design

7. Nevita

8. Manoa Road

9, Off the Wall Expressions

10. Robin Maria Pedrero

11. Buffy is a Happie Stamper

12. Avalon Rose Design

All fantastic blogs!  Please click through and check them out, leave them a comment or a follow!  Thanks so much!

Leo and Junie
Jewelry Designs :: Nature & Vintage Inspired
By Christine Steckel

leoandjunie@yahoo.com

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Leo and Junie Featured BESTeam member, Darling Dande Designs

Who are Leo and Junie?

Someone recently asked me, who are Leo and Junie? Are they your kids' names or pets? No, to both! I love my kids' names and dogs' names, but they didn't sound good together. I guess I  originally was not too unique with my list of names for my new Etsy jewlery shop. Everytime I would come up with something clever, I would get knocked down, because it was taken already. There are a lot of good shop names out there.  I thought that naming my designs, Christine's jewelry designs was a little too plain and boring. I always liked stores that had names like Lisa Rinna's store in California, Belle Gray (google it) or Dave & Buster's (restaurants located all over the U.S.). Then a light bulb went off in my head (it does everyday, but if I don't write it down it disappears)! My closest lovies are born in August and are so true to their Leo sign. My beautiful daughter was born in June. I would call her my June-bug. One night I had a dream that I owned a little brick and mortar gift shop with handmade items. Leo and Junie was on the front window. There goes the light bulb! The birth of Leo and Junie arrived! I think they sound pretty good together. Don't you think?

Happy Valentine's weekend!

I was on Facebook last night and Barnes & Noble asked it's fans: Friday Face-off, Valentine's Edition: Chocolate or Flowers? I say jewelry! Here's my pitch:

Flowers will die. Chocolate will disappear ;) BUT Jewelry is forever!!

Anyway, here was my part of my Valentine's dinner

 my sushi dinner..yummy..octopus on the left!

I had to spend Valentine's Day will my honey a few days early, because he has to work this weekend. We ended up going to a Sushi place, Hana Sushi. The streets of Nazareth, PA were not totally plowed yet!! There was no parking so we had to walk to the restaurant. The payoff? We had the place all to ourselves! Our dinner was delicious and the staff was awesome!

Well, I hope you enjoy whatever you do this weekend.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Irish Eyes are Smiling

I'm so thrilled! My Irish Eyes earrings are featured on an Etsy Treasury, Shamrocks by PinkiesPalace

http://www.etsy.com/treasury_list_west.php?room_id=86470

FAIRY-Go-Round

Come visit my newest Etsy treasury right from Fairyland 

http://www.etsy.com/treasury_list.php?room_id=112486