Pictures of Jewelry & Me (as a French Maid)!

Remember that jump ring necklace I posted pictures of the other day?? I finally took some good photographs of it (as well as the matching earrings) and put it up for sale on my online store. Less than a day later, it has already sold! I am very excited that somebody loved it enough to buy it so quickly, but I am sad too because now all the pretty pictures of it aren't on my website anymore! I figured I would still post pictures of both pieces here though, so somebody can appreciate them! This way, you can also get a much better idea of what the necklace looks like--the photos I posted the other day were pretty sketchy...

I just ordered 500 sterling silver jump rings on ebay today in different sizes, so I can make a version of this necklace in silver. It will be expensive--this copper and bronze version was $140 for the set, so the silver version I'm planning will probably be somewhere north of $200. But it's going to be gorgeous--I already know I won't want to sell it and just want to keep it for myself! I can't wait til the jump rings arrive next week so I can hurry up and get to work. I will most definitely be posting pictures here as soon as it is done!

I thought that today, I would also post a few pictures of me from 2001, back from the summer I was 17! I am the second from left in both pictures--yes, the french maid in the first picture, and the one with the braces, khaki shorts, and black Beatles T-shirt in the second! Too funny. I spent that summer at Governor's School in NC--Governor's School sounds boring, but it's actually a really amazing 6 week, away-from-home, government funded arts program that 16 and 17 year olds get nominated for in the state. I have had a few girlfriends from decades past who have happily popped back into my life recently, one of whom supplied these pictures! You know how they say that deaths always come in threes? I feel like it might be the same thing with old friends. I can't believe that within days of each other, I heard from three totally different, special people from different parts of my life! Life is amazing sometimes.

Have a great night everyone!!!

My First International Order!

Today was a fun milestone for my business--I shipped my first ever international order! I have offered international shipping on my website for awhile now, but my friend Cindy is the first person to take me up on it.

Cindy is a girl I knew back when we were about 14. We rode the same van together for a year--no, not the bus, it really was a van!--to our small Catholic high school back in North Carolina. Reconnecting with Cindy is the kind of thing that really makes me appreciate Facebook. A few months ago, she saw a post about my jewelry on Facebook, and we reconnected through that. She has since become a regular customer, which is an added bonus. Plus, I haven't seen her since we were 14 and now she's getting married!! Very cool. And so today, I filled out my customs form at the post office and shipped a necklace off to her in Spain. All thanks to Facebook too, I guess!

Hopefully this is just the first of many international orders to come :)
Also, thank you Cindy! I hope she likes it!