Buster and boo Earring Giveaway!

In honor of the Fall season, I'm offering a pair of Harvest earrings for my latest giveaway!

Beautiful Soft Pink 7-8mm Fresh Water Cultured Pearls are paired with rich and sparkling swarovski amber crystals. Wirewrapped in sterling silver and hanging from sterling silver earwires. Glorious for the fall harvest! Value $18.00

To qualify for the giveaway:

1) Please visit my online boutique, http://busterandboo.etsy.com/. Come back here and leave a post with your favorite item from my shop.

2) Or --- you may also visit my other shop, http://woolies.etsy.com/. Again, come back here and leave a post with your favorite item from that shop.

3) If you visit both shops, you will be entered twice.

4) If you become a follower of my blog (button to the right), you'll be entered again!

5) If you blog about this giveaway, you'll be entered yet again!!

6) If you tweet about this giveaway - another entry!!

So - lots of chances to win! Giveaway will end one week from today - Thursday, 10-29-09, at midnight.

Thank you - and good luck!!

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Earrings made from paper hand-made beads!

So tell me why these aren't selling? They're unique, well-made, different and fun! Are they priced right? Are they cute? Are my pictures not compelling enough??

I should probably go into Critiques in Etsy forums and ask, but thought I'd try here first......

What do you think? Be honest!!!!

You can find them in my Buster and boo shop here:

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=20464096 and

here:

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=19866055

Thanks for your help!!

Decisions..............

So, if you are an Etsy aficionado, then you know that there are about 80 bazillion scrabble tile pendant shops. My shop, Buster and boo, has been offering them since about February. I've sold over 170 of them. I also have some around the US on consignment, and wholesale.

Etsy is getting more and more crowded. It is more and more difficult to get your work seen. So, I am debating.

My other shop, Woolies, is my true love. I also have some Woolies wholesale accounts. Woolies take much longer to make than pendants. It's a MUCH bigger investment of time.

So, I'm in a dilemma. I am considering slowly closing my pendant shop, and just concentrating on Woolies.

I'll probably leave Buster and boo open through the holidays, and see what happens. The good news is that my pendants were accepted at LollipopShops, which will be opening in December.

And Woolies was accepted at HandmadeFusion.

Because Etsy is a bit of a train-wreck.

What would you do? I love both, but Woolies is my true love. Is it worth it to continue making pendants? Do a search for 'scrabble tile pendants', on Etsy's search. There's over 10,000 of them!

So ----

Apple? (that's the newest dolly)

or

Pendant?

Poll over on the right - please go let me know what you think!!!!

Thanks!!

Purse Prize!

What woman doesn't love purses? You've got to carry all this STUFF around, you've gotta have something pretty to carry it in!

Come visit Sids in Stitches - purse-maker extraordinaire. You can win this super-cool purse!

The detail is fabulous. The pattern is adorable - here's some details:

Relive those days when you loved paper dolls with this roomy shoulder bag.
Little girls (from the 1960s? 1950s?) pose with their paper dresses in colors of yellow, green, rose, and tan on a creamy golden background.
Lined with a rosy/maroon floral, this purse also has a floral pocket and pockets under the flap! The inside has a pocket and pen pocket of the same fabric.
The strap is long enough to be worn messenger style. Gold-toned magnetic closure.Accessories not included.
The Sheila Purse is the perfect bag for every day – it will carry everything but your shoes!
It has an inside pocket, two pockets under the flap, and two outside pockets on each end (perfect for my cell phone!). The smaller pocket under the flap is my "Sweet and Low" pocket.
100% cotton
Dimensions:39" strap (99 cm)10" wide (25 cm), 3-3/4" deep (9.5 cm), 7" high (18 cm)
Inside Pocket – 5½" wide (14 cm) by 4½" high (11.5 cm)
Inside Pen Holder PocketOutside End Pockets – 3½" wide (9 cm) by 4½" high (11.5 cm)Outside Pockets Under Flap – 6¼" wide (16 cm) x 4½" high (11.5 cm) AND 3½" (9 cm) x 4½" high (11.5 cm)
Sid's In Stitches Bags-Handmade in USA in smoke-free and pet-free studio-
Heavily interfaced for long usage-Machine Washable and Dryable (may need a warm iron touch-up








CONTEST RULES:
1. Please VISIT Sids in Stitches.

2. Pick your favorite item.


3. Come back to my Woolies blog and leave a comment with your favorite item.

4. NEW RULE: you must leave your email address, or blog address. If you do not want to post it here, you can contact me privately at either of my shops - here are the links to them:Buster and boo, or Woolies.Just because you have registered with blogger does not make your email address visible. If I cannot reach you, you cannot win.


5. Contest will end one week from today, September 8th at 12 midnight.

NOTE: We Have A Winner! It is #47, chosen by random number generator - judybrittle. Please contact me with your address! Thanks to all who have entered!! Check back soon for another giveaway!



Good Luck, and thank you for visiting my blog!