New pieces on my Etsy store

STILL ON SALE ON MY ETSY SHOP!

Hi there!

I've been working a lot these days in between making of the pieces, taking photos, mantaining the etsy site and the blog... It takes a lot more time then i thought...

But i manage to even up-grade a little bit on my blog... i think you've noticed... I added a slide-show and a ready-made etsy mini photo panel....

I also bought an ad from google to my blog... let's see how it works out...

The pair of earrings shown above are made from that set of buttons i bought in the Naviglio Grande antiques market... i started already to work on those pieces... i already sold a pair to a friend!! She saw it on my Etsy store and ask me to send them to her to Barcelona.

As you might i've noticed i'm trying new backgrounds for my phtotos because i thought the all black one (althought it's very classy) to be a little bit dull, fundamentally for the Etsy photos...

Still trying but hope you enjoy....

See some other pieces of these "new" kind.....

STILL ON SALE ON MY ETSY SHOP!

This button was found in this old-stuff shop in Barcelona where i discovered thes lady that had all the stock left from and old button factory, that had closed down!!!!

What a button-lovers dream!

STILL ON SALE ON MY ETSY SHOP!

This lovely pair of earrings is a success with all my friends.... I've used a 70's bakelite leaf-shaped button that the owner from Fiori nel tempo here in Milan gave me...I finished up the composition with a blue crystal bead and real swarosky crystals.

I really like the result...

Job interview

Today i had a job interview here in Milan...to work in a landscape architecture studio (that's my conventional profession, if you didn't knew already)...

I really don't know how it went by...i think it went ok...but they told me they can guarantee anything and that, althought they have lots of work these days (there's not even space for anyone else or any computers left!!) maybe we'll take a tryout period...i don't know...

I don't have the willing to work again in a studio 8 hours a day, lots of time over-time and get very badly paid...they started the conversation by saying "we pay very badly in this place"....

It's a very important landscape studio so it would be good for my resume...but will see...

I would like so much to lealive from my jewellery and accessories...that would be just great..

finally i found something i'm really good at...

yesterday i had some new ideas to start making another kind of accessories!!! be sure to get the news when something arises...

Today i'm posting a little bit more pictures because yesterday i couldn't do it...hope today everything is ok...

Bye hope to see you all tomorrow!

THIS ITEM IS STILL FOR SALE ON MY ETSY SHOP!!!!

This necklace is a composition of three diferent shaped sea-green buttons. I got these buttons from the lady owner of that shop in Milan i told you before- Fiori nel tempo. She had some old buttons and when she saw my work she asked if i could do something with them....so i tryed and she even bought some of the pieces to the store...

In fact this happens quite a lot...people who have an old piece at home.... a special button, a buckle...and never imagined possible to do something wearable with them....they then see my work and ask to try....i just love the experience because it's allways something new...

I'll post other photos from that lot of buttons ok?

Hope you enjoy

THIS ITEM IS STILL FOR SALE ON MY ETSY STORE!!!
THIS ITEM IS STILL FOR SALE BUT NOT YET LISTED ON MY ETSY SHOP - ARRIVING SOON!!!!

THIS ITEM IS STILL FOR SALE BUT NOT YET LISTED ON MY ETSY SHOP - ARRIVING SOON!!!!

and then the winter came....

for this last couple of days i've been at home...it started to rain and the cold as arrived here in Milan...The winter is very hard here...it rains all the time and it's very very cold........
For me it's very difficult since i come from Lisbon, and after that i've lived in Barcelona, where's it's almost never cold and it never rains...
I need to get used to this kind of winter...northern style...

I don't like cold or rain for that matter...So i've been at home which is very very cosy, and this days me and Daniel have been in such a good mood...he always makes me laugh a lot....

So i've been searching a lot through the web universe to getting to know where i can meet people who have similar interest in crafts and in blogs and i made some new friends- instantly!!!!
that was a good experience....i now await ansiously my first sale on etsy...
hope it comes soonnnnnnnnnnn

Now for a little bit more of my pieces....




This is one of my all time favourites - it's a old-gold choker made out of a Very, very beautiful 1900's handmade buckle...It has little stones...

The greatest part of this necklace to me it's that it closes and opens through the buckle!!!

I'm very proud of this one even because it was a little hard to set up this way...
THIS ONE IS FOR SALE ON MY ETSY SHOP!!!! JUST CLICK ON THE ASIDE LINK ON MY BLOG TO SEE THIS AN OTHER OF MY PIECES!!!!


there's something wrong with blogger!!! can't add any more images!!!!
promise to uodate more photos tomorrow!!!!


bye...........a presto

Trip to Rome!!

Hello AGAIN...

this weekend we went to Rome!

My boyfriend is a musician and he and his band wan an award of best "new thing of 2008" so we went there to the party and to visit....By the way their name is Selton and their amazing!!!!

You should check out their myspace at - www.myspace.com/seltonselton.

We return yesterday morning and i still had some time to catch the antiques monthly market at the Naviglio Grande here in Milan, where i found some new amazing material for my jewels!!!

Be sure to expect some new great stuff...

I also have my pieces in a store there and yesterday i found out i have sold another two pairs of hearings...it's slow but it's going...

I'll put some of my already made pieces since i want to make this blog a kind of a all-time catalog...

This ones we're sold to a store here in Milan and the buttons also came from that amazing antiquary shop in Barcelona i told you about last time....this ones look particulary old...like a true finding...

This is one of the first pieces i've made....its made with and old buckle that i found in this flee market in Barcelona - Glories - and i had a cute conversation with the pakistanese man who was selling it, because he wanted to charge 3 euros and i told him it's was all broken....He asked me if i was going to fix it, and i told me that i was but at that point it was all broken and if he could sell it at 1 euro!!! at he end he did...

Now my mothers is the proud owner of this necklage and even bought a pair of shoes to match it!!! It's a success with her friends...

This is a bracelet...it's the first i post here but not the first i've made...

it took me a lot of time and work to do because i had to do all the little parts and them ensemble them...this button is also another one from that lot of Barcelona's antique shop....

IT'S CURRENTLY STILL ON SALE!!!! so check out my etsy store by clicking the etsy item on my blog....

Hope you enjoy it....