Coming Soon: Fall 2009 Products

I've got many new products in the works, just in time for the Fall/Winter 2009 season. Above and below are previews of products that will be introduced in the coming weeks. I'm also working on a fabulous collaboration with a fabulous Etsy seller- but for now I'm keeping it a secret until the product is ready to launch. So lots of exciting new things headed your way, and I'm enjoying the flood of creativity urging me to create new things for the holiday shoppers.

Also- my loyal blog readers will be in for a treat very soon. I will be offering special coupon codes as well as hosting another giveaway, so stay tuned! :)

Baby Panda Salad Recipe.

Since I recently found out that I am expecting again, I have been trying to eat a lot healthier for the sake of the little growing baby panda. I'm also always starving, so I eat much more often during the day and need stuff that I can make quickly (otherwise I turn into an evil monster somewhat resembling the Incredible Hulk). So I decided to start incoorporating more salads into my meal plans. I have no idea if this salad is an actual recipe already- nor do I care. I call it my Baby Panda Salad Recipe, because it was so good and I was proud of myself for throwing it together.

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{ what you need } *feel free to substitute stuff*

- white vinegar

- olive oil

- 1 small tomato

- 1 large red radish

- 1/4 cup of green olives

- Half of 1 small onion

- 2 tbsp feta cheese

- 1 cup fresh spinach leaves

- 1/4 cucumber

- salt

- pepper
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{ instructions }

1. Chop up all the veggies

2. In a salad bowl, mix your olive oil and vinegar, adding salt + pepper to taste. (taste it, if it's too tart for you, simply add a dash more olive oil)

3. Drop everything into your salad bowl and stir until it's nice and covered in the dressing.

4. Grab a fruit and a drink, Enjoy!
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Easy. Peasy. Yummy.

A Giveaway!

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Enter to win this Sugar Panda bookmark!
win:

To help launch my new line of bookmarks, I'm having a giveaway! Enter to win this Sugar Panda bookmark!

many ways to enter:

- Leave a comment on this blog post with your name and email address!

- Share: tweet about it and leave your name, email address, and twitter address in a comment to this post.

- Blog about it! Just blog about this giveaway with a link to my blog, come back and give me your name, email address, and blog address!

You can enter up to three times if you do all three!

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giveaway ends Monday night!!

Buy 2 Get 1 Free sale!

For a limited time enjoy a Buy 2 Get 1 free special in my shop!

• -Buy 2 pendants, get 1 of equal or lesser value FREE!
• -This special only applies to scrabble and wood tile pendants
• -REMEMBER: Tell me which pendant you would like for free in "message to seller" during checkout! :)
  

Spring Fling Sale!

As a very proud member of the Jewelry on Etsy Team, I am happy to announce that Sugar Panda is participating in the Spring Fling Promotion with our very own sale! For super low prices on select Spring related items in my shop, click here!

You can also win FREE jewelry by entering our giveaway all weekend in our Spring Fling promotion thread! For details on how to win free jewelry visit our team blog by clicking here.

Spring Fling Sale

click the banner for more info

Just in time for the first day of Spring, the Jewelry On Etsy team is having a huge promotion. I will be offering 20% off specially marked pendants in my shop. You can find all the sale items in the "Spring Fling" section of my shop. Prices will be adjusted on Friday.

I am also offering buy one get one 50% off in my accessory shop, Palomina.

DIY Lightbox

My finished lightbox...raggedy looking? Yep. Ghetto? Probably. Does it work? YES.

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Recently, I stumbled upon an interesting tutorial for a DIY light tent. It seemed simple enough and the material costs were sooo cheap that I just had to try it. I got so sick of having to rely on a perfect day to take pictures of my pendants and even more tired of having to adjust so much using my photo editing software. I figured it wouldn't hurt to try to build one, especially for rainy days.

I got to work on it, and my hubby helped me out a little as well. Although I made some slight adjustments to my lightbox, I pretty much did what the tutorial said and my box yields some pretty good pictures! It does take some fiddling around with your camera's white balance settings to find what works best for what you're photographing. Best of all, it only took 2 hours to make!

Flowery

New product! These gorgeous 100% silk flower pins are available on my website. Cut, singed, and sewn by hand.

They're the perfect accessory to so many things! Blouses, jackets, purses, canvas totes, scarves, gloves, bookbags, etc. I'm working on hairpins and haircombs as well, which will be a must-have for brides and bridesmaids!

Happy New Year!!

Happy 2009 everyone!!

Yay! I'm super excited to ring in the new year. Out with the old, in with the new. I'm probably going to have a clearance sale soon in my etsy shop of discontinued designs. I will also be introducing many new products and designs in the coming weeks.

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I learned a lot in 2008 about e-commerce and what it takes to run a successful business. I've definetely learned (late and the hard way, lol) that I need to utilize the paypal shipping features. So, as part of my new year's resolutions, I will be doing so beginning today.

Wishing you a very happy, healthy, and successful 2009!

xoxo

Ready for some change...

Golden Flower Field - Earrings, $12.oo

I listed 4 new fashion jewelry pieces in my Etsy shop. I wanted to test the waters and see how they do in there. The fashion jewelry does very well on the website, so I figured I would list some exclusive pieces on Etsy.

Now that the worst of the holiday rush is over, I'm bracing myself for January. We're getting ready to move into a larger home on base. I'll finally have my own office/workspace! Also, I'm working on making new designs to debut in the new year.

Giveaways!

Click the banner above to enter to win a bunch of stuff over at OhHelloFriend's blog! I am one of the sponsors and gave an adorable bird magnet set (not even available in my shop yet!) and a signed 8x8 fine art print from my other shop. - And if that's not enough blog giveaway goodness for ya, there's more!! I am also participating in the HUGE (you could win over $2,000 worth of prizes!) Modish blog giveaway! You enter to win here.

Yay! It's up!

http://www.sugarpanda.net/

Woohoo! My website is finally up! I added a ton of products to it, some old, some new, some very new! I'm expanding my jewelry line to include fashion jewelry and more gift ideas for the people you love. It is absolutely beautiful, thanks to the uber-talented Robin, the Owner & Designer of http://www.boutiquemama.com/!

So take a look around and be sure to sign my guestbook while you're there!

Sneek Peek....

Good news! I'm feverishly working on a website for Sugar Panda. It will be an online boutique. The web design is scheduled to be completed sometime next week, and hopefully I can launch the new site on Nov. 1st! I am terribly excited about this, and you should be, too! Because although I will still retain my little space on Etsy and Dawanda, there will be products exclusive to the website.

Here's a sneek peek of one of the limited edition collectible pieces (it's unfinished in this above pic) that will be available exclusively on my new shiny website beginning Nov. 1st!

Rush Rush Rush

I'm gearing up for the Holiday rush. I have craft shows to attend, I've been making pendants like crazy, have inventory to do, and SO so SO much to prepare! BUT, I'm super excited...although winter is definetely not my favorite time of year, it has it's up-sides. I love Halloween, Thanksgiving, my birthday (December 1st), and of course Christmas and New Year...but I hate the cold!

I actually had my thyroid removed a few years ago, and I can't tolerate cold climates. Being cold is almost painful to me, because I'm hyper-sensitive to it. So I'd rather be celebrating these holidays in the Bahamas.

Check out my shop often, I've got LOTS of holiday goodies coming your way!

Happy Thursday!

Introducing a New Line...

I am introducing a new line of magnets to my shop. I'm very proud of them, and they are SO much fun to make. I added my first magnet listing today in my shop!

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=10602779

Vacation Time!

I'm on vacation!

Well...sort of. I'm still working- just from my Mom's house in South Carolina instead of my place in California. My trip here was an absolute nightmare! I am NEVER flying with Northwest airlines again. Period. I was supposed to arrive in Charlotte, NC on a Friday and didn't get there until Saturday at around 1:30 PM. My luggage was left somewhere in Minneapolis so by the time we got that all figured out we left the airport at 2:00 PM.

My babyshower was at 3 PM in Columbia, SC. Yeah, we had JUST enough time to get to the shower straight from the airport. I was wearing the same stinky clothes I had from Friday morning, same makeup, everything thanks to getting stuck in Minneapolis. It sucked. So I looked and felt like crap after no sleep and no shower.

Out of the 35 people invited to my shower 7 showed up. It hurt my feelings a lot, but I still had a lot of fun. The guests that DID show up were lots of fun and very generous. I got tons of wonderful gifts from everyone.

I also started listing some of my pastel artwork in my Etsy shop. Sales are sluggish at best. I'm just waiting for the day that I can buy all my materials to begin making my pendants, magnets, and containers. Save, save, save. Hopefully things will fall into place soon!