Final Day of Sale And Giveaway

Just a reminder that all of the Clay items in my Etsy shop are marked down 20% off for the rest of today.

And for every item you purchase, you get a chance at winning a $50 Marsha Neal Studio Etsy shop gift certificate.

Check out some of the items recently listed in my shop:

Good luck with the gift certificate drawing!!!

Thanks for your continued support...

Final Day of Sale And Giveaway

Just a reminder that all of the Clay items in my Etsy shop are marked down 20% off for the rest of today.

And for every item you purchase, you get a chance at winning a $50 Marsha Neal Studio Etsy shop gift certificate.

Check out some of the items recently listed in my shop:

Good luck with the gift certificate drawing!!!

Thanks for your continued support...

Saturday Night Special On Etsy

I've just heard about this Etsy Team: 

The Original Saturday Night Specials Team.

It is such a cool concept - join the team and run a special sale from 5pm EST on Saturday through 6am EST on Sunday. 

You list your shop on the discussion board with your shop, a brief description, your special, and list an item.

So hurry up!

You've got just under 7 hours from the time of this post to go check out all the shops running specials.

I will do what I can to have some kind of special running every Saturday!

Ok - going over to shop stuff myself now!

Have fun!!!

Saturday Night Special On Etsy

I've just heard about this Etsy Team: 

The Original Saturday Night Specials Team.

It is such a cool concept - join the team and run a special sale from 5pm EST on Saturday through 6am EST on Sunday. 

You list your shop on the discussion board with your shop, a brief description, your special, and list an item.

So hurry up!

You've got just under 7 hours from the time of this post to go check out all the shops running specials.

I will do what I can to have some kind of special running every Saturday!

Ok - going over to shop stuff myself now!

Have fun!!!

First Friday and Treasuries...

As some of you might know, I've taken over the roll of Captain of the Delaware Etsy Street Team as of February 2011. It is great getting to know a bunch of artists that live in the same general area as you.

Downtown Wilmington on May 5, 2011. Photo by Marsha Neal Studio.

One of the things I have been doing for the DEST is coming up with team blog events for everyone to be able to participate in. We have a First Friday Delaware Style event on the first friday of every month. It is a collaboration between the AWEteam (Art Walk Team) event: FirstFridayArtWalk and the local Art Loop scene. I have pipe dreams of getting some DEST artist shows at local galleries and shops in the next year pulled together…

Beautiful Mom Treasury By Marsha Neal Studio

Another team blog event that is open to anyone that makes a treasury that includes an item from a DEST member (tags to search for items are: deteam or delawareteam) or is created by a DEST member is Treasury Tuesday. Send me a link to your treasury (I am a DEST member by the way, so if you include one of my pieces - that counts!) and I'll try to get it up on the blog. You are also welcome to add a link to the DEST member included treasury to our weekly blog post via the inlinkz gadget at the end of the post: Treasury Tuesday blog post.

Delaware Street Team Spring Garden Party by Marsha Neal Studio

And can I tell you that creating treasuries really makes you look at your own shop photographs and pushes you to take better photographs and think outside the "good enough to just get it listed" photos. Especially when you want to create a team treasury (such as the one above) where location is the only thing in common overall. I like a good challenge - as long as I have the time!

Once my Master Gardener training is complete at the end of May, I'll have a lot more time back for my studio work and refocus on the direction of Marsha Neal Studio.

Thanks for taking the time to stop by!

Make sure to hop on over to the DEST Blog to check out our events and artists...

First Friday and Treasuries...

As some of you might know, I've taken over the roll of Captain of the Delaware Etsy Street Team as of February 2011. It is great getting to know a bunch of artists that live in the same general area as you.

Downtown Wilmington on May 5, 2011. Photo by Marsha Neal Studio.

One of the things I have been doing for the DEST is coming up with team blog events for everyone to be able to participate in. We have a First Friday Delaware Style event on the first friday of every month. It is a collaboration between the AWEteam (Art Walk Team) event: FirstFridayArtWalk and the local Art Loop scene. I have pipe dreams of getting some DEST artist shows at local galleries and shops in the next year pulled together…

Beautiful Mom Treasury By Marsha Neal Studio

Another team blog event that is open to anyone that makes a treasury that includes an item from a DEST member (tags to search for items are: deteam or delawareteam) or is created by a DEST member is Treasury Tuesday. Send me a link to your treasury (I am a DEST member by the way, so if you include one of my pieces - that counts!) and I'll try to get it up on the blog. You are also welcome to add a link to the DEST member included treasury to our weekly blog post via the inlinkz gadget at the end of the post: Treasury Tuesday blog post.

Delaware Street Team Spring Garden Party by Marsha Neal Studio

And can I tell you that creating treasuries really makes you look at your own shop photographs and pushes you to take better photographs and think outside the "good enough to just get it listed" photos. Especially when you want to create a team treasury (such as the one above) where location is the only thing in common overall. I like a good challenge - as long as I have the time!

Once my Master Gardener training is complete at the end of May, I'll have a lot more time back for my studio work and refocus on the direction of Marsha Neal Studio.

Thanks for taking the time to stop by!

Make sure to hop on over to the DEST Blog to check out our events and artists...

Butterflies and Flowers...

Here is a quick photo of a bunch of pieces that are in the mail to Darlene of D7 Studio.

Darlene picked up selling for me at bead shows when I stopped a few years ago to have a couple of babies…  

Don't forget that if you can't make it to a bead show,

you can also find these in my Etsy shop...

Butterflies and Flowers...

Here is a quick photo of a bunch of pieces that are in the mail to Darlene of D7 Studio.

Darlene picked up selling for me at bead shows when I stopped a few years ago to have a couple of babies…  

Don't forget that if you can't make it to a bead show,

you can also find these in my Etsy shop...

YAY! Jewelry Time Coming Up...

I am working on getting some new photos of jewelry uploaded to the Marsha Neal Studio Etsy Shop in the next couple of days including this new listing for these

Porcelain Hymenoptera Imitation Pupa Earrings

These Porcelain Shards will be going up soon too.

You can pick any of these type of shard sets in my shop and I can make them into earrings for you...

This picture below I've got to work on a bit…

These are going to be my entry into Vintaj's Woodland Blush contest.

More on that later...

I had a much better day today with photography (although Chloe is home sick with a fever and went with me to my MG training this morning - Ibuprofen does wonders - she's a champ!). I think I will be re-photographing most of my pieces in my shop. I can't stand how dark and somewhat blurry they are...

YAY! Jewelry Time Coming Up...

I am working on getting some new photos of jewelry uploaded to the Marsha Neal Studio Etsy Shop in the next couple of days including this new listing for these

Porcelain Hymenoptera Imitation Pupa Earrings

These Porcelain Shards will be going up soon too.

You can pick any of these type of shard sets in my shop and I can make them into earrings for you...

This picture below I've got to work on a bit…

These are going to be my entry into Vintaj's Woodland Blush contest.

More on that later...

I had a much better day today with photography (although Chloe is home sick with a fever and went with me to my MG training this morning - Ibuprofen does wonders - she's a champ!). I think I will be re-photographing most of my pieces in my shop. I can't stand how dark and somewhat blurry they are...

Emergence...

I have started to list the new Porcelain Lepidoptera Butterfly Pendants up in my Etsy shop…

Today is "Treasury Tuesday" over at our Delaware Etsy Street Team Blog, where we are trying to help promote our team members as well as the arts in Delaware through team activities…

One of our members, Rebecca Harkin of ChirpAndBloom, created this Treasury
Warmth and Patina:

Which features one of my listings for my new Crusty Porcelain Tiny Pendants…
And right now it is on page 2 of the Treasuries…
Wonder how far it will go? I think front page!!!

Click on over and check it out.

And by the way, if you want to do a treasury and it has anything to do with Delaware (Um - I live in Delaware… just throwing that out there ;). You can add your link to our DEST Weekly Treasury Tuesday Blog Post.

I'm hoping to get a couple of treasuries made tomorrow - one for DEST and one for Beads of Clay…
They are addictive…

Here is a link (DEST themed, but you can make it your own) to help you make one and get a photo of it.

Emergence...

I have started to list the new Porcelain Lepidoptera Butterfly Pendants up in my Etsy shop…

Today is "Treasury Tuesday" over at our Delaware Etsy Street Team Blog, where we are trying to help promote our team members as well as the arts in Delaware through team activities…

One of our members, Rebecca Harkin of ChirpAndBloom, created this Treasury
Warmth and Patina:

Which features one of my listings for my new Crusty Porcelain Tiny Pendants…
And right now it is on page 2 of the Treasuries…
Wonder how far it will go? I think front page!!!

Click on over and check it out.

And by the way, if you want to do a treasury and it has anything to do with Delaware (Um - I live in Delaware… just throwing that out there ;). You can add your link to our DEST Weekly Treasury Tuesday Blog Post.

I'm hoping to get a couple of treasuries made tomorrow - one for DEST and one for Beads of Clay…
They are addictive…

Here is a link (DEST themed, but you can make it your own) to help you make one and get a photo of it.

Silk Descriptions on Etsy…

Ok, real quick because I have to pull a couple of small orders and make it to the post office before 4:30 & get the kids…

I attended most of the Etsy Online Symposium yesterday (awesome!).

It was a lot of stuff you should know if you are at all a seller of your product. It was like a big reminder kick in the rear to get you pumped up and have some order to renovating your shop to market it to "your ideal customer". Which in essence - is yourself - if you make your art because you LOVE it.

So I thought, hmmm. I've been selling a lot of silk strands through my Etsy shop (Thank God! And yes that is a link to my sold items. I'm nosey too and look at what you've sold - see what is hot in the market) in knot bundles. I need to romance my listing more.

Today I updated one listing, and will spend tonight or tomorrow night most likely copying and pasting, for hours I'm sure, to update the rest.

I also saw a link to Lindsay Whimsies Shop shop that listed multiple custom items, and she commented shared how she did it. And I thought. Hmmm that could work for my custom color palette silk knot bundle listings too… They were also updated and romanced a bit too.

Darn… Got Valentine's Day on the brain I guess. I'm "romancing everything". Maybe just the thought of the milk chocolates (focus: tight jeans, pancake belly, uncomfortable feeling). Ok I'm over it now…

Leave me a comment back her on this post about:
1. What you think of the new "romance description". Be honest really...
2. What your favorite color palette is and why from my Silks Etsy Shop Section

And I'll pick a random winner on Saturday. Will ship you your favorite palette out to you on Monday (if it happens to be one of the OOAK, I'll pull something similar for you).

*This kind of interactive Etsy to Blog to Etsy Giveaway was also talked about in the Etsy Symposium.

Silk Descriptions on Etsy…

Ok, real quick because I have to pull a couple of small orders and make it to the post office before 4:30 & get the kids…

I attended most of the Etsy Online Symposium yesterday (awesome!).

It was a lot of stuff you should know if you are at all a seller of your product. It was like a big reminder kick in the rear to get you pumped up and have some order to renovating your shop to market it to "your ideal customer". Which in essence - is yourself - if you make your art because you LOVE it.

So I thought, hmmm. I've been selling a lot of silk strands through my Etsy shop (Thank God! And yes that is a link to my sold items. I'm nosey too and look at what you've sold - see what is hot in the market) in knot bundles. I need to romance my listing more.

Today I updated one listing, and will spend tonight or tomorrow night most likely copying and pasting, for hours I'm sure, to update the rest.

I also saw a link to Lindsay Whimsies Shop shop that listed multiple custom items, and she commented shared how she did it. And I thought. Hmmm that could work for my custom color palette silk knot bundle listings too… They were also updated and romanced a bit too.

Darn… Got Valentine's Day on the brain I guess. I'm "romancing everything". Maybe just the thought of the milk chocolates (focus: tight jeans, pancake belly, uncomfortable feeling). Ok I'm over it now…

Leave me a comment back her on this post about:
1. What you think of the new "romance description". Be honest really...
2. What your favorite color palette is and why from my Silks Etsy Shop Section

And I'll pick a random winner on Saturday. Will ship you your favorite palette out to you on Monday (if it happens to be one of the OOAK, I'll pull something similar for you).

*This kind of interactive Etsy to Blog to Etsy Giveaway was also talked about in the Etsy Symposium.

1/11/11 Etsy Sale

In celebration of 1/11/11 Marsha Neal Studio Etsy shop is in day 2 of the 33% off with coupon (MNS333) sale…

There is something about numbers - one I always see is around 3.

Yesterday when I filled up my gas tank the total was $33.33.

I reset the trip mileage and it said my range until empty was 333 miles.

So it just seemed fun to do a 1/11/11 sale for 33% off…

Shop the Marsha Neal Studio Etsy shop and use coupon code "MNS 333" before checking out and your order will be 33% off. It's that easy. The sale is running for three days 1/11 to 1/13.

Oh yeah, and don't forget… Any purchase with monies being spent being over $25 will get you automatically entered into the "What MNS items did you buy this month" giveaway over on my specials blog… Then you can make stuff and post pictures and win more stuff (and if you don't win, you will be entered in the end of the year "I entered, but didn't win anything giveaway…). 

I like to give stuff away - can you tell?

1/11/11 Etsy Sale

In celebration of 1/11/11 Marsha Neal Studio Etsy shop is in day 2 of the 33% off with coupon (MNS333) sale…

There is something about numbers - one I always see is around 3.

Yesterday when I filled up my gas tank the total was $33.33.

I reset the trip mileage and it said my range until empty was 333 miles.

So it just seemed fun to do a 1/11/11 sale for 33% off…

Shop the Marsha Neal Studio Etsy shop and use coupon code "MNS 333" before checking out and your order will be 33% off. It's that easy. The sale is running for three days 1/11 to 1/13.

Oh yeah, and don't forget… Any purchase with monies being spent being over $25 will get you automatically entered into the "What MNS items did you buy this month" giveaway over on my specials blog… Then you can make stuff and post pictures and win more stuff (and if you don't win, you will be entered in the end of the year "I entered, but didn't win anything giveaway…). 

I like to give stuff away - can you tell?

Sale Details and Self Portrait

Tomorrow is the Beads-of-Clay Blog Open Studio from 2-5pm EST.

There will be giveaways during the event but you can start shopping now and get 30% off of items in my Marsha Neal Studio Etsy Shop and my Marsha Neal Studio Website (see below for details)

I have been working for the last couple weeks making new pieces for orders, restock for D7 Studio, and my Etsy shop. 

New items for my Etsy Shop

All day yesterday I worked on trying to take pictures (very frustrating still - I can't seem to get the lighting situation fixed - grumble, grumble…) and ended up taking a bunch of quick pictures with my iPhone. I have spent this morning cropping and now have to upload a bunch of things to my Etsy shop for tomorrow's event.

Dave has been away teaching for a few days and is now back - so I hope to work on stuff most of today, but it really depends on the kids. I don't want to spend all day here on the computer and miss out on doing things with them.

Like last night, I had the Chloe & Riley to myself. My sister called and wanted to hang out. She picked up our 8 year old niece on her way here and then saw my sister-in-law and borrowed her 4 year old daughter (her brothers were all going to be playing baseball in the almost freezing cold) and we all headed up to Longwood Gardens for their Friday night October Smell & Taste Halloween event...

Longwood Gardens Conservatory water garden area...

I LOVE my family garden pass from Dave and the kids for Mother's Day! I love being able to grab some of the other kids (under 4 years old are free) and head up there… My sister took the three girls (after drying them off from the kids indoor water garden) to a second round of "smell" and taste events (halloween candy - YUM!) and I gave Riley his nighttime bottle then took a moment for myself (oops, missed my Friday self portrait post). I love it up there… it's magical!

Ok - so for the Beads-of-Clay Bloggers Open Studio Event I am offering 30% off of all purchases from today (10/23/10) until midnight Monday (10/25/10) on my Marsha Neal Studio Etsy shop and my Marsha Neal Studio Website Shopping cart for this special Open Studio Event.

HERE IS HOW TO GET THE 30% OFF either of my shops:

1. Put Code: "OpenStudio30" into the message.

2. For the Marsha Neal Etsy Shop, select "OTHER" as type of payment, and I will adjust your item prices and will send you an updated invoice through paypal by 10/26/10. If you send me a payment through paypal before I adjust it, you will have to be responsible for the fees that they charge for refunding monies if any. Please select "other" to make it easier for us all ;)

3. For the Marsha Neal Studio Website, go ahead and enter your cc info. I have to manually enter it all anyway, so I will recalculate your invoice before charging your cc (or send you an invoice via paypal - whatever you prefer).

If you are buying multiple items from both shops at different times as I list new things, make sure that your email address and shipping address are the same so I can look at the orders and know to combine them and adjust the prices and shipping so everything can ship together.

Shipping will all be sent out via USPS Priority Mail Flat Rate $5 boxes. So no matter how many pieces you buy, they should all fit into one of these boxes, so I'll adjust your shipping to $5 total. So shop away, as often as you want until midnight Monday...

**If you happen to purchase any of my porcelain pendants at retail cost through a bead shop, online bead store, D7 Studio bead show table OR even an artist that has made a piece of jewelry with one of my pieces in that particular piece, and you have a copy of the receipt (must indicate Marsha Neal Studio pendant with the dates 10/23/10 to 10/25/10 and price paid), I will calculate 30% of what you spent and will give you that much towards your Marsha Neal Studio website or Etsy shop purchase to be used by 10/31/10. This offer has "no cash value" meaning I will not be giving you money back, but you can get more items. Email me if you are confused or have any questions.

Sale Details and Self Portrait

Tomorrow is the Beads-of-Clay Blog Open Studio from 2-5pm EST.

There will be giveaways during the event but you can start shopping now and get 30% off of items in my Marsha Neal Studio Etsy Shop and my Marsha Neal Studio Website (see below for details)

I have been working for the last couple weeks making new pieces for orders, restock for D7 Studio, and my Etsy shop. 

New items for my Etsy Shop

All day yesterday I worked on trying to take pictures (very frustrating still - I can't seem to get the lighting situation fixed - grumble, grumble…) and ended up taking a bunch of quick pictures with my iPhone. I have spent this morning cropping and now have to upload a bunch of things to my Etsy shop for tomorrow's event.

Dave has been away teaching for a few days and is now back - so I hope to work on stuff most of today, but it really depends on the kids. I don't want to spend all day here on the computer and miss out on doing things with them.

Like last night, I had the Chloe & Riley to myself. My sister called and wanted to hang out. She picked up our 8 year old niece on her way here and then saw my sister-in-law and borrowed her 4 year old daughter (her brothers were all going to be playing baseball in the almost freezing cold) and we all headed up to Longwood Gardens for their Friday night October Smell & Taste Halloween event...

Longwood Gardens Conservatory water garden area...

I LOVE my family garden pass from Dave and the kids for Mother's Day! I love being able to grab some of the other kids (under 4 years old are free) and head up there… My sister took the three girls (after drying them off from the kids indoor water garden) to a second round of "smell" and taste events (halloween candy - YUM!) and I gave Riley his nighttime bottle then took a moment for myself (oops, missed my Friday self portrait post). I love it up there… it's magical!

Ok - so for the Beads-of-Clay Bloggers Open Studio Event I am offering 30% off of all purchases from today (10/23/10) until midnight Monday (10/25/10) on my Marsha Neal Studio Etsy shop and my Marsha Neal Studio Website Shopping cart for this special Open Studio Event.

HERE IS HOW TO GET THE 30% OFF either of my shops:

1. Put Code: "OpenStudio30" into the message.

2. For the Marsha Neal Etsy Shop, select "OTHER" as type of payment, and I will adjust your item prices and will send you an updated invoice through paypal by 10/26/10. If you send me a payment through paypal before I adjust it, you will have to be responsible for the fees that they charge for refunding monies if any. Please select "other" to make it easier for us all ;)

3. For the Marsha Neal Studio Website, go ahead and enter your cc info. I have to manually enter it all anyway, so I will recalculate your invoice before charging your cc (or send you an invoice via paypal - whatever you prefer).

If you are buying multiple items from both shops at different times as I list new things, make sure that your email address and shipping address are the same so I can look at the orders and know to combine them and adjust the prices and shipping so everything can ship together.

Shipping will all be sent out via USPS Priority Mail Flat Rate $5 boxes. So no matter how many pieces you buy, they should all fit into one of these boxes, so I'll adjust your shipping to $5 total. So shop away, as often as you want until midnight Monday...

**If you happen to purchase any of my porcelain pendants at retail cost through a bead shop, online bead store, D7 Studio bead show table OR even an artist that has made a piece of jewelry with one of my pieces in that particular piece, and you have a copy of the receipt (must indicate Marsha Neal Studio pendant with the dates 10/23/10 to 10/25/10 and price paid), I will calculate 30% of what you spent and will give you that much towards your Marsha Neal Studio website or Etsy shop purchase to be used by 10/31/10. This offer has "no cash value" meaning I will not be giving you money back, but you can get more items. Email me if you are confused or have any questions.

Day 4: Flurry of Events

I swear I am SO all over the place, yet concentrated at times…

Today my Marsha Neal Studio FaceBook Fan page hit 200 fans - so I am doing a special sale for that cool event from now through Sunday on my Marsha Neal Studio Etsy Shop and my Marsha Neal Studio website. If you want in on it (20% off your order), sign up as a fan & use the code!

Keep in mind that your purchases will count towards the Honoring September Event going on until the end of the month too…

I just uploaded some of my new Art Nouveau Porcelain Decal pieces to my Etsy Shop Porcelain Decals Section. You can also request the other sizes listed. I just haven't had the time to list them all yet, and won't have the time today...

Then there is the October 24, 2010 Beads-of-Clay Bloggers Open Studio event (got all those things done - all the detail background stuff - pshew!)

And now off to shower, get Chloe and head to Longwood Gardens for a bit of mother daughter fun times! What a day...

Day 4: Flurry of Events

I swear I am SO all over the place, yet concentrated at times…

Today my Marsha Neal Studio FaceBook Fan page hit 200 fans - so I am doing a special sale for that cool event from now through Sunday on my Marsha Neal Studio Etsy Shop and my Marsha Neal Studio website. If you want in on it (20% off your order), sign up as a fan & use the code!

Keep in mind that your purchases will count towards the Honoring September Event going on until the end of the month too…

I just uploaded some of my new Art Nouveau Porcelain Decal pieces to my Etsy Shop Porcelain Decals Section. You can also request the other sizes listed. I just haven't had the time to list them all yet, and won't have the time today...

Then there is the October 24, 2010 Beads-of-Clay Bloggers Open Studio event (got all those things done - all the detail background stuff - pshew!)

And now off to shower, get Chloe and head to Longwood Gardens for a bit of mother daughter fun times! What a day...