Black Friday to Cyber Monday Sales

ArtFire is sponsoring a huge Black Friday 2010 deals promotion. I went to ArtFire to see what the Beaded Jewelry artists were doing. Typed "beaded jewelry" into the search box and got 1245 pages of deals, mostly stringing and wirework. Typed in "beadwoven jewelry" and got 10 pages.

That gave me a big clue as to niche key words for my ArtFire shop. All of mine have beaded, jewelry in the tags, but not all had beadwoven. I'm finding this SEO really hard to grasp, but occasionally I see the light here and there.

Speaking of Black Friday, BeadPatternsBoutique is having a huge buy 2 get one free sale on bead patterns Friday, November 26th through Monday, November 29th. Twelve designers are participating in this sale so you can find a wide variety of patterns. Read all the details in the BeadPatternsBoutique Shop Blog. This is definitely not a sale you want to pass up. We've had this type of sale occasionally, but this one has the largest participation among the designers.

I hope all my US friends are having a very happy, safe Thanksgiving Day, and to the rest of you I hope you're warm/cool (depending on your location) and safe for the weekend.

Happy New Year!

Well New Year's Day is winding down here in Texas. It has been a rather uneventful day for me, but I've enjoyed it tremendously. I hope all of you have had a wonderful New Year's Day and that the coming year brings even bigger and better things for you.

I'm still working on that RAW sculptured heart bracelet. I'm not very good at reading graphs even when I'm the one that made them, but I've finally got the hang of it and hopefully I'll have it finished by this time next week.

I'd like to share some of my favorite blogs with you today.


ArtBeads announced it's winners. Stop by and find out how to play and maybe win some fantastic goodies.

Bead Origami had a giveaway and a sale, which unfortunately, I didn't get posted here in time for you readers to take advantage of. Stop by her blog and Etsy shop to see all her fantastic beaded beads.

Juanita Carlos has a beautiful "Sweetheart bracelet" on her blog. I don't think she's finished the pattern yet, but hopefully she will have it up for sale soon at BeadPatternsBoutique.

And Jean sends New Year wishes and promises more goodies to come in the new year.