Black Friday Sale!

Happy Holidays shoppers! :)

As you head out the door early to catch the best Black Friday shopping deals - don't forget about handmade gifts! Etsy.com features artists from all over the world who have lovingly created items for anyone on your gift list!

Many Etsy shops will be featuring Black Friday deals and Cyber Monday deals.

9. bottles jewelry is excited to announce that our Etsy shop will be offering 15% off each purchase and free shipping all day Black Friday. See our shop announcement / banner for your discount code!


And don't forget to shop local art fairs and craft shows this holiday season for unique gifts! Come see us at Market Days December 4-5th at the Tallahassee Fairgrounds in Building 9!
Shop early for $25 - get your ticket now for the first preview on Saturday! Early Bird - Tickets On Sale Now at My Favorite Things!
Saturday 8:00 a.m to 10:00 a.m.

Our first big craft show - Market Days 2010 in Tallahassee, Florida!!

I am very excited to announce that 9. bottles jewelry was accepted as a vendor into one of the top juried art events in the South - Market Days! :)

This is especially exciting since I have been attending the show since I was a child and it is one of my favorite events of the year!

Recently, The Southeast Tourism Society, covering 13 states, named Market Days a "Top 20" event for December. This is great recognition from a renowned tourism organization, elevating Market Days to even higher heights and boding well for an outstanding show in 2010!


Market Days is a major fund-raiser for the Tallahassee Museum, the capital city’s oldest museum, promoting conservation of regional history, culture and wildlife for over 50 years.

Market Days 2010 will be held on the first weekend of December––Saturday and Sunday, December 4 and 5––from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the North Florida Fairgrounds, 441 Paul Russell Road in Tallahassee.

The show draws an enthusiastic crowd of 15,000 on average, including thousands who return year after year.

Filling six of the large fairgrounds' buildings, as well as outdoor plazas and medians, Market Days offers a wonderful array of works in various price ranges, from breathtaking fine art to charming stocking stuffers. The works include fine arts, ceramics, country furniture, stained glass, woodwork, glasswork, dolls, clocks, pottery, jewelry, sculpture, metalwork, clothing, photography and calligraphy.The event also dishes up a wide selection of mouth-watering foods and refreshments. Market Days offers great values on original gifts to meet all holiday shopping needs. The exceptional quality of the arts and crafts is ensured through a jury process that selects approximately 320 applicants from over 500 applications received nationwide.

Turquoise and Yellow - my favorite summer color combo !

Check out some of my favorite yellow and turquoise finds - handcrafted from Etsy!

http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4c1e270bbd2f8eef7e0f2a68/fun-in-the-summer-sun

Pictured here is a new necklace with graduated yellow honey barrel jade beads and a large oval turquoise pendant, with Hill Tribe Sterling silver clasp. Yum!

9. bottles necklace featured in "Give to the Gulf Coast" Treasury on Etsy

Thanks to Rachel at "el ch ra designs" (http://www.elchra.etsy.com) for including our necklace in her Save the Gulf Treasury on Etsy! Get out there and buy something - it's for a great cause!!


Check it out here:
http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4c23f9e836a46d9123fe9e3c/give-to-the-gulf-coast

Donation made to the Save our Seabirds Foundation!

I am very excited to say that 9.bottles jewelry has been able to donate funds to the devastated wildlife due to the BP Oil Spill!

Thank you to Jill Glasgow for her purchase of the Seafoam Starfish necklace posted on our Etsy site. A contribution of $65.00 has been donated to the Save Our Seabirds foundation. Please check them out at http://saveourseabirds.com/

Also, if you need information on how to help or volunteer, a great resource is CNN news:
http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/04/30/impact.oil.spill/index.html

Look for another donation item in the near future - I'll keep you posted!

BP Oil Spill Disaster - Donations

** Help our animals from the BP oil spill disaster! All monies from this purchase will be given to
Sea Birds Sanctuary in Indian Rocks Beach, FL for supplies to aid in this disaster! Tampa-based Suncoast Seabird Sanctuary is the largest wild bird hospital in the United States. **

http://www.seabirdsanctuary.com/

See attached link above to purchase and donate.


A fabulous glass starfish, with bronze sparkle and green glass body is the focal point of this necklace. Swarovski crystals, semiprecious stones, pearls, and glass beads form three intertwined strands of sparkling gems on which the starfish pendant floats.

Makes a stunning centerpiece for your neckline!


** Length: 15 1/4" - a shorter, choker style necklace
** Starfish dimensions: 2 1/2" x 2 1/2"
** Sterling Toggle clasp
** green oval glass beads, clear Swaroski crystals, rectangular opalite clear tube beads, white freshwater pearls, teardrop shaped aquamarine, and round amazonite.


Details:
All items come specially packaged.
Shipping includes insurance to protect your items!
Please review my shop policies before purchasing:
http://www.etsy.com/shop_policy.php?user_id=7209850
If you have never purchased on Etsy - here is a "how to" instruction list from Etsy.com :) It's easy!!
http://help.etsy.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/245/c/7%2C21/r_id/162

LOVE is in the street....

An urban expression of LOVE.



Instead of cute flying cupids and idealistic big red hearts, I took a spin on that good old holiday that we either hate or LOVE - Valentine's Day.

The new collection is inspired by street art, super graphics, & faded textures reminiscent of life in the city - buildings, sidewalks, concrete.

Check out some of the new pieces such as the LOVE STAMP necklace... Inspired from Robert Indiana's iconic sculpture LOVE in Love Park, Philadelphia.

*LOVE Park is mixed-use urban space and a celebrated venue for Street Skateboarding, a popular form of the sport that uses natural urban features, rather than manufactured ramps.


LOVE was first created for a Christmas card for the Museum of Modern Art in 1964 and later was included on an eight-cent United States Postal Service postage stamp in 1973, the first of their regular series of "love stamps." Sculptural versions of the image have been installed at numerous American and international locations. In 1977 he created a Hebrew version with the four letter word Ahava (אהבה "love" in Hebrew) using Cor-ten steel, for the Israel Museum Art Garden in Jerusalem, Israel.

Brass base plate with hand stamped letters. Oxidized sterling silver chain.