PIF item (3) on Etsy

I have sold my third PIF item on Etsy. I changed the listing of a set of Christmas wine charms to a pair of earrings - Celtic Sweetheart. I made the Celtic knots myself and added pink cateyes and little puffy hearts. They were sold to a buyer in US within five hours! :-)

PIF item (2) on Etsy

I received a call today with happy news, so I decided to forward my luck to someone by listing another PIF item. "Pinky Eyes" is a pair of silver plated earrings made with pink cateyes (glass) and Czech glass.

PIF item (1) on Etsy

I have bought a Pay It Forward (PIF) item on Etsy. It was a package of three graphic logotypes design. I am so excited. Looking forward to see the logotypes!

So what is a PIF? A PIF is free for the buyer and often the item shipped without additional cost to the buyer. The only thing the buyer has to do is to list a PIF item on Etsy.

I sold a PIF item at midnight (Swedish time) to a Canadian girl. She bought the earrings for her mom! So sweet! :-) It was a pair of earrings from the collection “Dancing crystals”. They are made with Cosmic crystals, German seed beads and silver plated findings.

Wire works in papercraft magazine

I bought the latest issue of Papercraft Essentials today. The issue contains inspiration ideas for wire works like decorations and tiaras. Perfect for wedding and party!

Exhibition about jewelleries

Today, my boyfriend and I visited the Hallwyl Museum in the city. They have an exhibition “Silver & smycken – till fest och vardag”about jewelleries and sterling silver utility items during 10th February – 23rd April 2006. It is free entrance to the exhibition. Well, to be honest, it was too much utility articles and too little jewelleries. ;-) The exhibition showed jewelleries made in sterling and gold and different kind of gemstones e.g. Amethyst and Topaz.

Bargain shopping

I was at the craft shop Panduro, Barkaby (north of Stockholm) on Friday. It was sale and everything in the shop was 50 % off! I bought over 600 glass beads, mother of pearls pendants, funky plastic beads, findings, satin ribbon and waxed linen thread.

European bead swap

We have an European bead swap at the Beads & Button's/BeadStyle's forum . I received the bead package from Kristina in Sweden today. I picked some shell beads, lampworks and glass beads and replaced them with crystals, lampworks and glass beads. Tomorrow the package will be post to Kylee in France.

The beads that Kylee will receive look like this:


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