Happy New Year! 2014

Well we made it!

December was not so kind to me and my family, it was a month of illness (virus, stomach virus, colds). I am looking forward to the new year because it means moving into our permanent home and settling in. Then I can really focus on my jewelry business which I love so much.

Speaking about jewelry, I have decided that I love that I've dedicated myself to making strictly hand stamped metal jewelry. It's easier on me (in my state of living in a temporary home) and I can focus on it without having too many supplies to sift through.

I'm building up my alphabet metal stamp set collection so that always adds more choices and variety for my customers. I've even fixed my Etsy home page logo. That's been bothering me a lot! LOL - here's how it looks:

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I've also bought a new metal shape to work with:

This one is a metal rounded rectangle shape that I do love working with. Will be using this shape more.

This one is nothing new, just bigger in size. But ovals are pretty and this one can really hold more characters so that's always nice!

Anyway hope everyone had a wonderful 2013 and here's to 2014! Cheers!
Xoxo,
Yolanda

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