Giveaway Winners Video and Dry Socket Drama!

What a crazy time of extreme highs and lows I am having right now!

I am currently going through the most awful dental pain I've ever experienced! My wisdom tooth got infected, which meant enduring 2 weeks of horrible antibiotics. The infection recurred and the dentist extracted the tooth,which was a traumatic procedure, and then the clot dislodged leaving the bone and nerves exposed!! It's a condition known as Dry Socket! Oh my, it is horrendous....so I am now on my third set of antibiotics and the whole sorry saga is entering it's fourth week, and the pain is worse than ever

Ideally, I would have closed the computer and shut the shop for the duration, but there were too many issues to deal with. First there was the sale of one of my favourite pieces in the shop, the beautiful Cognac Quartz Gemstone Circle Necklace (pictured above),went to a new owner a week or so ago, which felt wonderful! I also managed to list ALL the Holi Charm Necklaces this week. 19 luscious gemstone laden charm necklaces inspired by the Holi Hindu Festival celebrating colour. The complete collection can be seen here I am so proud of myself for enduring awful dental pain and managing to edit all the images, (which amounted to at least 100 high res photos)and proceed to list them in the shop! This time last year I would have avoided the task like the plague lol.

The other major development to have occured this week, is that the Art Nouveau Earrings Giveaway Contest has run it's course! My facebook page reached the target number of likes 1111,(a binary combination in honour of Big Bang Theory's Sheldon Cooper...my inner geek loved that!). The whole experience had been so much fun, and so many people had joined in and got into the spirit of things that I really did not want to let them down, so it meant having to procure a video showing the prize draw winners, again while unwell - but the adorable hubby lent a hand(literally lol) and helped me do the draw and edit the video. I am so pleased with the result having not really done anything like that before, and the reaction to the video and contest in general has been amazing. These are all things I wouldn't have wanted to miss inspite of the pain

Anyway, here's hoping that I recover in a timely fashion and get to have some fun in the studio soon!! Enjoy the video below






Samantha Braund

How To Change Your Privacy Setting For The Giveaway Post

The Giveaway is going well, so many likes and shares, yay! The only problem is the pesky privacy settings on peoples posts are preventing me from seeing who has shared the Giveaway post, which means that their names will not be entered into the pot for the prize draw

 So I thought I'd do a quick and easy to follow post about how to change the privacy setting just for the giveaway post - rest assured the rest of your page and contents will be private as usual, only this post will change

1.So here goes, as you can see from the image above, I have shared a post onto my personal page. Under my name the red arrow is pointing to the symbol regarding the privacy setting on the post. It is a symbol of "little people", which is the setting for friends only


2. Move your cursor and hover over the symbol, and a drop down menu should appear, as seen in the image below

 



3. Select the globe symbol from the drop down menu, that says "Public"

 



4.And voila! the post you have shared is now Public, and I will see it, and can enter your name into the draw

 


I hope this helps!!! Good luck to everyone xx






Samantha Braund

Mixed Blessings and Giveaways

Since I last blogged I managed to injure my hand slightly through being a little to cavalier with my metal files.The upshot was no jewellery making for a few days, which ended up being a bit of a blessing - I got to mess around with other media and work on my ideas for the second shop. The shop which has yet to be created on Etsy, will be different to the jewellery one, and will be full of altered art journals, polymer jewellery and mixed media art and paintings probably.

I have been doing experimentations in base metal clays, plaster and acrylic paints, and ended up purchasing way too many craft supplies - I suppose I got overexcited, but I always go by my instincts and this is how my wire and metal clay work got to be of a standard over the last few years. My experimentations always seem a little out there, and this stage seems never ending, until finally it all comes together and I refine my processes and the outcomes really start to take on a life of there own. Over time I am more accepting of my methods and enjoy the journey more...

Anyway the other thing I got around to finally is the Facebook Free  Giveaway. I have worked hard for all my incremental rises in popularity for my jewellery pieces, and had never felt inclined to do a giveaway before, but over time I had accumulated so much work, that I wouldn't even do anything with. Mostly it's because I think the work isn't good enough to put up for sale lol...and these earrings are a prime example of that. I have had them at home for ages, never worn and never listed in the shop. The reason is because I loathe trying to match earrings at the best of times - I am such a freeform artist that this degree of meticulousness is painful to me lol. So, after working on them for ages I realised I hadn't made them as mirror images, and they actually matched instead. I was livid, and put them away in a huff and left them there lol

The respite meant I a bit of spring cleaning and I found them again, polished them up, and thought why not put them up as a giveaway...well so far the reaction has been wonderful. I am getting new likes for my page and garnering a lot of positive feedback for my work in general. It makes me wonder why I had never done this before lol!

Anyway the giveaway is still ongoing, once my Samantha Braund jewellery page hits the magic number of 1111 likes, I will collect all the names of those who've shared the Giveaway post and will video Pete pulling the name out of a bowl or hat...it's all good fun and the earrings themselves are made from Sterling silver and rock crystal faceted briolettes...so it's a good prize too. If you are interested in participating then just hit the link HERE to my FB jewellery page and follow the instructions...

Well thats it for now, enjoy the photos of the earrings :)


 

 

 





Samantha Braund