Messy Monday

Dining room tables are for cats....

Not for jewelry inventory and school backpacks...

Sheesh. When will beans learn.

While I Was Sleeping...

After I had 35 naps, 10 meals and 8 play sessions, I discovered that Mommy finished three "No-No" bracelets! Can you tell how shocked I was!

Who knew she could get so much done in 20 hours? Since she's a slow poke learning, each bracelet took about 7 hours to make which is way too long for a cat to stay awake. Eventually they should take 2-3 hours which means two cat naps. She finished her own bracelet first. It's more sparkly and pretty in purrson...

Then this one with purple (surprise!) hearts on it...

And finally this one...

Hey, wait a minute, there's a bracelet in this bunch that doesn't look like the others...

She must have snuck that one in although I'm not surprised it's purple...

She got a whole bunch more little bitty beads for us to play with to make more bracelets so it looks like a cat's work is never done.

If you have color suggestions please let us know since it seems like Mommy keeps gravitating towards purple. If you'd like a bracelet custom made for you in the colors of your choice, email us at beadedtail at yahoo dot com for more information.

We hope you have a great day!

Isabella

PeeS: We may be slow in commenting today because Mommy is at some boring tax update class and we aren't allowed to use the computer when she's gone. She's a party pooper.

Snoopervising

Last week Mommy learned how to make new jewelry that uses things I love like little bitty beads and thread. I think it's called a "No, no!" bracelet since that's what she says when I come around to snoopervise....

I'd love to get a closer look so let me try something...

Hey Mommy, there's a big ol' hairy thingamajig sneaking up behind you over there!

Well, I got a quick sniff before she caught on to what was happening. As you can tell from the photo, she moved pretty fast once she realized I was getting close to the "No, no!" bracelet and all the beads, thread and needle...

I'm not going to give up though, it's too tempting. I mean, just look at all those little bitty beads!

Even Isabella was mesmorized by all the fun looking things...

Once Mommy gets better at making these bracelets she hopes to make more and eventually sell them in her shop and you can bet I'll be snoopervising each one!

Hope you have a great Monday!

Angel

Thankful Thursday!

Recently we received a package all the way from PatchFirstShop in Thailand! Mommy had won a prize from Patch so we were furry excited to check it out and put it through the cat test. Her prize came in a cute little bag that Patch made herself.

Not only was the bag cute but inside was a beautiful Pink Heart Pendant.

Wow, it's really purrty Mommy!

Angel really likes it too.

I feel like Royalty wearing this pendant but it might be a little big for me.

It fits my big sisfur Sadie better so even though it shows up better on my furs, we'll let her think she's the Queen for the day.

Thanks for the purrty Pink Heart Pendant Patch! We all really like it! Be sure to check out Patch's blog for her special 1st Anniversary giveaway. She's giving away gift certificates so you could get something fit for a Queen too!

Friday Features

Today is the Black Friday edition of Friday Features! I'm running a sale in my Etsy shop through November 30th to celebrate the holiday shopping season. Everything is 20% off! Discount will be refunded to your PayPal account after payment is received. I will be out of town from Nov. 28-Dec. 2 so anything purchased between those dates will be mailed out on Dec. 3-4.

Because of my sale, today's features are some of my latest creations! I have to apologize for some of the photos though as it rained all day on Thanksgiving so I tried to take photos with a light box last night. Well, let's just say I need to work on that. I'm hoping for sun today and will re-take photos. *UPDATE* The sun came out today so I re-took pictures. Follow the links to the shop to see better photos!

Click on the links above the photos for further information on the items.

Ginger - Orange Ceramic Kitty Cat and Faceted Crystal Beaded Gold Filled Earrings
Isabella - Bronzite and Crystal Gold Filled Earrnings
Winter Nights - Black Onyx and Charcoal Gray Glass Beaded Sterling Silver Earrings
Franklin - Black Onyx and Gray Ceramic Kitty Cat Beaded Sterling Silver Earrings
Scarlett - Gold Toned Kitty Cat Face and Red Coral Beaded Gold Filled Earrings
Noel - Green Polymer Clay and Red Swarovski Crystal Beaded Christmas Earrings
Rocket - Black Onyx and Deep Red Ceramic Saucer Beaded Antiqued Bronze Earrings

The Smell of Success!

From the smell of it, Mommy had a good show yesterday! She appreciated all the wishes of luck from our blog furiends!

It was her very first "on her own" show since she shared a little space with a friend at a show in September but nothing like yesterday's show.

The dogs on the end are modeling ruffled dog collars that our Grandma made. The collars (and the dogs) were a big hit and lots of dogs and one cat in town (not us!) are sporting ruffles today!

Quite a few people are decked out in new jewelry too - or will be after Christmas.

Since Mommy is happy that her first show went so well, we're happy too and hopefully we can all rest today now that the commotion is over.

Hope you have a restful Sunday too!

Angel

Weekend Wrap-up

Our mommy is taking over the blog today to tell us about her craft show this weekend but be sure to tune in tomorrow for a Tortie Telling Tuesday and we'll fill you in on what happened at home while mommy was gone. She doesn't know about it yet and we really don't want her to know but we'll tell you tomorrow! Anyway, we'll turn the blog over to mommy for today only...

I participated in my very first craft show this weekend at Village Green Gardens in Cottage Grove, OR. I think I slept about 4 hours Friday night in anticipation of the show and woke up to this sight from my home office (I don't usually see sunrises as I prefer to be sleeping at that time of day)!

Anyway, I was asked to be in this show by a fellow Etsyian, Michelle from SissySoap. She and her sister Maranda were there with their soap and had extra space so let me show my BeadedTail jewelry there. Here's my display:

Here's all the wonderful soapy/body care goodies from SissySoap:

Saturday was overcast and rainy but Sunday was sunny, 70 degrees and gorgeous! We had a great time, had a lot of lookers, several buyers and tons of compliments! In addition to selling, I also took an opportunity to check out the gardens and other sights, which were gorgeous.

The flowers were beautiful!

And the dogs were adorable!

I also did a little shopping and I also found this bag that I tried really, really hard to resist but I just couldn't. It is just so cute that I HAD to have it! Sadie checked it over to see if it moo'd.

Angel asked "Got milk?".

We had a great weekend and now I've caught the craft show bug! I learned a lot this weekend and hope to do more shows this fall. Thanks so much to Michelle and Maranda for letting me "tail" along! I appreciate it!

I Etsy for the Animals!

The current EtsyBloggers Blog Carnival by StormyDesigns is a choice between the following:

1) Etsy. What made you open a shop on Etsy? What do you like about being a seller on Etsy? What don't you like?
- OR -
2) What item from another sellers shop do you secretly wish you had thought of first?

In the summer of 2007, my mom and I were beading jewelry when we realized that we were making so many bracelets that we would either have to wear them from our wrists to our elbows or we needed to find an outlet to sell some of our creations. A look around my blog shows that I'm a huge animal lover and my mom is too so we quickly decided that we wanted to sell our jewelry and donate the proceeds to animal charities. At the time we didn't know how to go about doing this or where to even begin but a search for animal beads online took me to an Etsy shop for the very first time and after checking it out further we realized Etsy was where we wanted to set up shop. My mom lives in Las Vegas and I live in Oregon so it was difficult coordinating everything at first but we soon figured it out and BeadedTail opened the end of December 2007.

I like selling on Etsy because of the low fees and ease of use. Also, I'm a member of several teams and I really enjoy the support and friendship I get from my team members. The bad points of Etsy include that there are so many sellers that it's easy to get lost in their search features so advertising outside of Etsy is extremely important.

After a little over a year on Etsy, we have sold 40 items and donated over $450 to charity! We hope 2009 is an even better year and we both have plans of learning new things so look forward to our expanding product line in the coming months! We're making tails wag one bead at a time!

EtsyBlogger of the Month - Rose Works Jewelry!

The Etsyblogger of the month is Ruthie from Rose Works Jewelry! Ruthie is a talented jewelry designer who creates jewelry using beads, hemp, and she can even make handwoven treasures. She is a wonderful person too and someone that I am hoping to meet sometime since she lives just a couple of hours away from me!

In addition to her jewelry, Ruthie keeps herself busy by managing three blogs: Rose Works Jewelry, Rose Works Treasury and A Jedi's Musings. I don't know how she does it all!

Here is a sample of the lovely items in her Etsy shop. Be sure to check out her blogs as well as her shop and you won't be disappointed!

Home Again!

It was great to get away but it's always great coming home to the furbabies too! I tried to get a video of Sadie doing her Elvis impression when we came home but she was too excited and moving too fast so it'll have to wait until another time. Angel and Isabella were happy to see us too even though we didn't bring home anything with feathers for them!

I took my beading supplies to the beach and actually was pretty productive even with the ocean outside calling my name!

Here are some of the earrings I made while at the coast:
Lady - Ceramic Dog and Black Onyx Bead Sterling Silver Earrings

Midnight Copper - Dark Blue and Copper Moonstone Beaded Earrings

Puppy Dog Eyes - Yellow Eared Ceramic Dog and Black Onyx Bead Sterling Silver Earrings

Black Magic - Kitty Cat Glass Lampwork and Onyx Beaded Sterling Silver Earrings

Natural Puppy - Ceramic Dog and Wood Beaded Sterling Silver Earrings

Can you tell I had pets on my mind?

Tortie Tuesday!

Isabella says today is Tortie Tuesday! In other words, all kitties are an honorary tortie today so get to display an extraordinary amount of Catitude!

In addition, I want to give a shout out to DancingMooney! She is a talented jewelry artisan as well as a wonderful soap maker on Etsy whom I had the pleasure of meeting last Friday at a local craft show. She is one of the first Etsyians that I met when we opened shop last December and she happens to live in a town not far from me. I have been keeping tabs on her through her blog and also checking out new additions to her shop. Since she mentioned she was going to be at the craft show not far from here, I had to take that opportunity to go meet her in person and I'm sure glad I did! She is such a sweetie and if you read her blog you just can't help but like her. Being the handmade soap addict that I am, I bought some of her soap - it's smells as fantastic as it looks in the picture!

If you haven't already met DancingMooney, be sure to visit her blog and her Etsy shop! You'll be glad you did!