iheartfaces - Babies

Here is my iheartfaces entry for this weeks theme, babies!

This adorable little man belongs to two great friends of mine, Daniel & Melissa.

They have two little guys that are just so cute!

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The Finished Product, and Etsy Stuff...

My Aunt's birthday party was great. We all had a blast... good food, great people, and a whole lot of laughter. Oh... and cake. You can't forget the cake! I had an idea for her cake, and this is how the idea actually turned out:

Aunt Paula loved it, and everyone ate a bunch of it, so it must have been good! :-)

This week, I will be crazy busy with wedding preparations for my friends Kelly. She is getting married on 6/19, which also happens to be my anniversary with my darling husband! It old him he got lucky this year... a pre-planned date with free food, drinks, and dancing! Lucky man! Anyways, I will be busy this week making her wedding cake, preparing her candy bar, finishing some other things here and there, and then acting as her coordinator on the day of. Should be fun, and I'm excited!

In other news... I have been selling on Etsy for about 2 months now, and I have already made 7 sales! This week, I joined a few teams on Etsy. Teams are basically smaller groups of Etsy members who network together, share skills, and promote each other. I joined 3 teams: Christian Artists Promoting Shops (CAPS), Christina Artists Street Team (CAST), and Christian Artists and Crafters (CAC). I am really excited about these teams, and I have been really enjoying looking through the items in my teammates shops! I just created my first treasury, which is a collection of items I like. The treasury shown here includes some of my favorite items from CAPS team members. Check it out here!

That's all for now. Have a good night all. :-)

~Amber

Cake

Today, I am busy working away on my Aunt's birthday cake. I have an idea of what I want the cake to look like, and I am just working on getting it to that point. This is a rough drawing of what I have in mind:

So far, I have just baked the cakes and started making the frosting... I still have a whole lot of work to do! Since I have to transport this cake 4+ hours, I decided I am just going to finish it at my destination. Tomorrow I will pack up all the pieces, frosting, tools, etc, and head down to Sacramento. The I will finish the cake Saturday morning. I am pretty excited about it... can't wait to see how it turns out. I'll be back Monday with plenty of pictures of the cake, and the party.

See ya then!

~Amber

New Creations

I have been working on a lot of new things lately.... jewelry, photography, items for my friends wedding, cakes, etc. I have been busy, busy, busy! In the next few weeks, the busyness will continue, and I love every minute of it! :-)

So, here is a peek at a few things I have been working on. I am will be posting a bunch of new stuff on Etsy soon, so be on the lookout!

Blue Three Strand Necklace. The Silver Three Strand necklace was so popular on my contest that I decided to a make some more in style. This is the first one:

This necklace I just threw together before a party to match my outfit. It is one of my favorite new pieces.

My old cork board was looking a little worn. So, I got some fun fabric yesterday and covered it! I added some ribbon around the edges and also at the bottom. I love the look of it now!

This weekend, we had a party for my cousin, Nila. She just graduated from Sonoma State University! I made these cupcakes for her graduation party. They were champagne cupcakes... YUM!

Little books...

And diplomas...

And grad hats with honor cords!

So that's what I've been up to. This week, I am making a cake for my Aunt Paula's 60th birthday, and then the following week I am making the cake for my friend Kelly's wedding. I will also be her official wedding coordinator for all the "day of" stuff. She also put me in charge of creating the candy bar, which I am super excited about!

Hope you all are having a good week so far.

~Amber

My First iheartfaces Entry

This week, I decided to start entering some of my photography on the website iheartfaces. iheartfaces hosts weekly photography challenges that any one, at any skill level can enter. I thought this would be a great way to stretch myself in my own photography, and hopefully receive feedback from others!

This week, the theme is "Play". You can check out other entries at the iheartfaces website, here. For my entry, I chose on of my favorite pictures of my husband, doing what he loves. Erik is a very talented musician. He sings and plays the guitar (acoustic, electric, and bass). I have always loved listening to him play, and I am constantly encouraging him to play more often! To me, this picture truly shows his heart. I hope you like it.

I am planning on entering the iheartfaces challenges every week. If you get a chance, check out some of the other entries. There are some crazy talented photographers out there!

Till next time,

~Amber

And The Winner Is.....

... Kristen from Yeh For Family!!

Kristen said...

I like the silver three strand necklace.

Congratulations Kristen. I will be emailing you to get your information so I can mail out your new necklace!

I used Random.org to draw the winner.

Thank you so much to everyone for entering! As a special thank you, if any of you would like to purchase the item you liked (or anything else), I am offering a 15% discount through the remainder of this week, if you reference this blog post. Just go to my Etsy site, here, commit to buy whatever it is you would like, and then send me a private message referencing my blog. Then, just wait to pay until you hear back from me! I will need to send you and updated invoice with the new amount before you pay.

If what you like is no longer available (like the three strand necklace), I will be posting new things every week. Now that know that was one of my more popular pieces, I will start on making some similar necklaces this week!

Thanks again, see you soon!

~Amber

Hello Again!

I've been MIA for a bit. Sorry about that! I'm back now. :-)

I'm going to spend some time over the next few days posting about a few different things, but I want to start with something new.... My first giveaway! As you probably already know, I just started my Etsy site a few months ago, and started selling my jewelry, photography, and other things. Well today, I want to give away something off of my Etsy site. To enter, just go to my Etsy page HERE and look through the items I have for sale. Come back here and leave a comment telling me what your favorite item is. You can also get extra entries by posting a link to this bog entry on your Facebook page or on your own blog! Just leave an extra comment for each of those items if you do. Whoever wins will get their favorite item!

Now, I am going to keep this open for a few days, because I am going to be adding a lot of new items to my Etsy site tomorrow, including new jewelry, photography, and even some ceramic pieces. I want to give you all time to look things over and find your favorite. The contest will be closed on the last day of the month, Monday May 31st, at midnight.

I am so excited to do my first giveaway, and I hope you enjoy looking through my Etsy page! :-)

Night!

~Amber