Memorial Day Sale

Hey friends! It’s time for another flash sale… As you know, I am currently moving my Shoppe from the Artfire platform over to Etsy. During this process I am doing some flash sales on the items still remaining on my Artfire page.

This weekend, in honor of Memorial Day, I am offering all the red, white, and blue items in my shoppe at 50% off. When they are gone, they are gone (although, as always, I am open to doing custom work if something you really love has sold!).

There is a nice assortment of items, including some of my most popular necklace and earring designs. See all the sale items on my Facebook photo album here.

Here’s the link to my Etsy site, which is still under construction but will soon have my entire stock available for sale.

And you can also browse on my website.

 Old Glory Hair Comb

Red Autumn Flower Necklace 

Red, White, and Blue Patriotic Earrings                                                 Red Leaf Earrings

Blue St. Therese Good Deed Beads                                                   Red St. Therese Good Deed Beads

Red Guitar String Ring with Freshwater Pearl, size 6

Byzantine Chainmaille Earrings in blue and sterling silver                                      Classic Earrings

{Summer is Coming}

Updates, and a tour of my dorm room.

I actually made this video a couple of days ago... FINALS ARE OVER, but I'm going back to school for a one-week intersession class, so the real summer doesn't even start until this weekend.

After that, wonderfulness.

Queen Fastrada Jewelry + Raffle

This spring I had the honor of designing some jewelry for Fine Linen Drama's performances of Pippin (an absolutely brilliant show as they performed it!). These pieces were made for Queen Fastrada, a rather magnificent, fabulous, and twisted queen.

The set is available through Fine Linen Drama's raffle-- chances are just $1 and there are many other beautiful costume pieces made by hand by other local artisans.

The three pictures below are courtesy of Alyssa Jean Studios, and the "in-action" pictures are from Fine Linen Drama's website and facebook page, which you should check out if you would like to see the other costumes!

Queen Fastrada's Circlet by Shealynn's Faerie Shoppe, photographed by Alyssa Jean Studios

 The circlet is crafted out of non-tarnish sterling silver plated wire, glass beads, and crystals. It was a challenging piece-- I have some in-progress pictures near the end of this post that prove that I had no idea what I was doing when I was crafting this! Interestingly, the circlet also looks really cool (and eccentric) if worn upside down.

Queen Fastrada's Necklace and Earrings by Shealynn's Faerie Shoppe, photographed by Alyssa Jean Studios

The necklace-- oh the necklace! This piece was so fun. I was sitting at the table in my dorm with a cup of tea, a show on Netflix, a bunch of silver wire and blue beads, and time to bend and hammer and design. I really do love wireworking!

I could honestly spend an entire post raving
 about the play and all of the actors, but
since I'm writing about Queen Fastrada,
I'm only sharing pictures of Lesley in
costume! Check out finelinendrama.com
for others. :)

Seeing some of my jewelry on stage was a huge honor. :)

I snapped some pictures of my own before the pieces found their way to the theater:

Here's the promised work-in-progress shots:

Tonight I went to see Pippin for the second time and got a picture with Queen Fastrada!

(If you are interested in pieces like these, check out Fine Linen's raffle, or contact me so I can make and customize one for you!)

Out For Lunch

Halloween in the dorm room-- this picture was taken by my amazing roomate who not only puts up  with my eccentricism but has become one of my closest friends!

The microwave is humming in the background as I eagerly await a cup of hot herbal tea. I am back at home, and most of my family is asleep already. I've adapted too well to a midnight bedtime.

Today my grandparents visited and told me that I needed to put some sort of "Out For Lunch" post up on my blog so that people wouldn't think I simply abandoned it. That's when I realized that I haven't written a proper post since September! Here it is, February, and I have so much to write about and so many pictures to share that every time the thought of blogging crosses my mind, I shut down the thought so that I don't overwhelm my brain.

To be fair, I am very busy. This entire freshman year I am taking on a nice hefty class load which will only increase over time. This semester I am in class for 24 hours a week, and have homework, the Shoppe, family, friends, church, and activities to keep up with. It's rare that I have even half an hour of the day to simply sit down and read a book or just zone out! It's a big change of pace from my homeschooling days (and I thought I was

I'm really loving college, though! I've made so many wonderful friends and can't even begin to describe how much my life has been changing, and in so many great and wonderful ways!

This is the first weekend in over a month that I have been home, and it is SO NICE. My family and I are really close, I've missed all my siblings, and ohmygosh I completely forgot to ever blog about the birth of my baby sister.

(See what I mean about having so much to write about that I just don't do it at all?)

Here's a picture of Baby "Josie"-- and sometime in the hopefully very-near future you will be subjected to an entire post in which I "ooooh" and "ahhhh" over her!

Well, consider this my "Out For Lunch" post! As I can fit time in between homework and work, I'll start getting this blog back into shape. :) Pip pip toodle-dee-do for now!

P.S. I have a new website! www.shaylynnann.com It's still in the works (and always will be!) but for now it's a nice little hub for all of my online artistic-ness.

Cyber Monday (Through Wednesday!)

Now that everyone has finished their Black Friday shopping... it's time to take a step back from the craziness of clipping coupons and waiting in lines. Today is Cyber Monday, and if you would like to purchase some handmade fairytale-inspired jewelry online, it is the perfect time! From now until Wednesday, December 4th, I am offering free shipping on all orders, and a free adjustable ring!

Just enter CYBERMONDAY2013 at checkout at either my Artfire or Etsy shops!

Please note that I am offering free international shipping. However, this excludes boxes that circlets and other large items are shipped in. If you would like to purchase one of these, please let me know at shealynnsfaerieshoppe@gmail.com and I will manually discount the shipping for you. Also, Artfire may or may not be glitchy with international shipping. Let me know straight away if you are having a problem! 
(This offer does not apply to custom orders-- only already made items that are listed on my website.)

Here are some pictures of a few brand-new items that I've uploaded in the past two weeks: