Constance Pelkey Designs Bi-Monthly Newsletter

Constance Pelkey Designs Bi-Monthly Newsletter

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My ETSY storefront. My ARTFIRE storefront.

• FREE SHIPPING in BOTH venues until Thursday, April 30th, 2009 !
• New items added weekly!!
  
• Lots of fun items up for grabs! Check it out!!
  

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• Check out the ARTFIRE Guild I recently created, the Maine Made Creative Arts Guild on ARTFIRE! If you make and sell stuff in Maine you MUST check us out and join in! It's great fun to connect to other creative Mainers!!
  

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Proud member of these guilds!

• ETSY MAINE TEAM
• MAINE MADE CREATIVE ARTS GUILD ON ARTFIRE
• POLYMER CLAY ARTISTS GUILD of ETSY
• POLYMER CLAY SMOOSHERS ON ARTFIRE

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Buy Local Buy Maine!

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Connie

.·:*¨¨*:·Constance Pelkey Designs.·:*¨¨*:·.
Polymer Clay, Fine Silver, Fiber Arts
Jewelry & Accessories - Art for you and your home!
Augusta, Maine - 207.333.1145
My Blog: constancepelkeydesigns.blogspot.com
My Art Fire Store! http://constancepelkeydesigns.artfire.com
My Etsy Store! http://conniesclay.etsy.com

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Connie

Create Change!!

Today and tomorrow I'll be celebrating the inauguration of our new president!!

Editing and uploading photos of my work and filling up my ETSY and ARTFIRE stores!

BTW, I'll be offering free shipping for the first 100 days of President Obama's first term of office!

Check me out at both my stores!

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Copyright © 2008 by Constance Pelkey.

This bloggy feed is for personal, non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this content in a news reader or on a website related to Constance Pelkey, then where you are reading it from is in violation of copyright!
Thanks!! Connie

Constance Pelkey Designs Bi-Monthly Newsletter

Constance Pelkey Designs Bi-Monthly Newsletter


Please feel free to pass this newsletter along to anyone who might be interested!

In honor of the United States Presidential Inauguration Day, I'm having a Grand Re-Opening sale in my Etsy Store Front, and a Grand Opening Sale in my new ArtFire Store Front!!

All day on Tuesday, January 20TH, 2009 while I sit here in front of the TV and watch history being made, I will be uploading new items to both my ETSY and ARTFIRE stores!! I'll also be offering FREE SHIPPING to all sales during the first 100 days (Thursday, April 30th, 2009) that President Obama is in office!

• To subscribe to this newsletter please email conniepelkey@gmail.com and place "ADD ME!" in the subject line!!

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Copyright © 2008 by Constance Pelkey.

This bloggy feed is for personal, non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this content in a news reader or on a website related to Constance Pelkey, then where you are reading it from is in violation of copyright!
Thanks!! Connie

New Year, Old Health Issues and New Business Commitments

I'm not big on new years resolutions.

However,

This new year I am committing to make a strong "go" at my little business, Constance Pelkey Designs.

Over the last couple years I have had both my shoulders done. I had TWO torn rotator cuffs. My right arm needed my bicep reattached too! It was bad! It took many, many months of rehab to get them both back in shape... unfortunately that meant I could do very little in the way of creativity. I was however, able to crochet. Now, don't get me wrong, I like crocheting, but that being my only outlet was somewhat limiting!

I'm so glad that I can play with my polymer clay and precious metal clay, and bead, and sew, AND crochet again! YAY!

In the meantime.

I've had a "gut" issue for the last couple months that involved emergency surgery for a bowel blockage early in November, on voting day in fact, and the ensuing severe pain in a knot of scar tissue and nerves along my waist next to my belly button that's the ultimate result of this and a few other abdominal surgeries. Because of severe pain in this area I was hospitalized again for a couple days the week before Christmas. This issue isn't resolved yet. I have an appointment to see the original surgeon who cleared the blockage and I'm awaiting a second opinion appointment with another surgeon, hopefully that will happen next week.

I need to get THIS issue resolved - SOON - because I was scheduled for total knee replacement surgery on January 6th.

AK!!!!!!!

That's been postponed until the gut issue is resolved!

*shaking head and rolling eyes*

*sigh*

I've been out of work and in limbo, essentially since the beginning of November.

Best thoughts and wishes will be greatly appreciated during this whole process of resolving the gut issue - SOON - so I can go ahead and deal with the knee issue!

At any rate.

During the time, I continue to be laid up with all this health stuff, my "resolution" is to concentrate on my business. I have an ETSY store and I also recently opened an ARTFIRE storefront as well. I've joined a couple of "teams" on ETSY, I also joined Facebook and still belong to the Polymer Clay Central message boards. I've been taking good pictures of all my inventory (finally!). I plan on continuing to photo edit and will be listing new items on a weekly basis to both stores. I'll be trying some different marketing techniques, too. I'll also be creating new items and I hope to join my sister in law in attending one or two larger crafty type selling venues this summer and joining a couple Maine based craft and art associations.

Keep your eyes pealed here at this blog to be updated and PLEASE, pass on my URL http://ConstancePelkeyDesigns.blogspot.com to ANYONE who might be interested in my "stuff"!

Happy New Year to all and best of luck to me in sales this new year of 2009!!

Copyright © 2008 by Constance Pelkey.

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Thanks!! Connie

Art Fire, Etsy and My Shop Policies

• Payment

I accept PayPal, credit cards through PayPal and eChecks through PayPal. Payment is due at the time of purchase. If you know there will be a lapse between purchase and payment arriving, such as for an eCheck, please let me know. Items NOT paid or arranged for will be relisted and the sale canceled.

If payment isn't made, the first day I will send a reminder convo or email. The second day I will email. The third I will cancel the transaction and relist the item. If there's a reason for a delay, convo me and we can work it out!

• Refunds and Exchanges, Other problems:

First, please contact me so we can work out a solution - every problem is unique! If you are unsatisfied with your purchase, please convo or email me. I will refund or exchange errors I make. I will exchange any item once I've received it back in saleable condition. Return shipping is the responsibility of the buyer.

Since all situations are unique, please give me a convo or email and we'll work it out!

• Shipping:

I ship Monday to Friday, as needed U.S. Mail, First Class Post. To the Continental U.S. and overseas destinations this takes about 1-2 weeks to arrive. Customs or other fees incurred are the responsibility of the buyer - I cannot legally mark commercial shipments as gifts to avoid those.

Over all, return shipping is the responsibility of the buyer. If your product is not something you love for ANY reason, please send it back (after emailing me) within 2 weeks of receipt so that I can make it right for you!

• The Other Stuff:

I'm open to discussing custom, designs, and /or wholesale arrangements.

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Lot's done today!

I worked upstairs in the newly set up photo studio from 8:30AM to 11:45, then after lunch I was back up there at 1:30 and stayed until 3:00PM! In the last shot down below is a sample of the photo's I took today... I have over 150 still to edit and probably another 50 to 75 pictures to take. I plan on editing these over the next few weeks so that when I'm laid up from my knee surgery, I'll have new items all ready to upload to my ETSY shop. While I'm taking these photos - I'm going through old stock, reassessing and reevaluating my pieces, some are being unceremoniously tossed, while others are being looked at in a whole new light! It's been over two years since I've looked at most of this stuff! Wow! I'm so glad to be over the shoulder surgeries!! I feel alive and creative again! I missed it so much! Pretty much all I could do for two years was crochet! Now, I LIKE to crochet, but I also like to bead, and work with polymer clay, and precious metal clay, and wire wrap, sew a little and string beads and I even like to sculpt a bit... I'll tell ya, crocheting got old fast! I have lots to show for what I crocheted, but I have yet to take good pics of those items... all in due time!

That's the items waiting to be shot in the right pictures and yes, that's the laptop with my iTunes blaring!

During lunch I did laundry, worked on my wire and bead crochet pouch I started last night, and now, I've been photo editing since 5PM. Oh! I also had a tubby time in the late afternoon too! Yummy!

I can't believe that I can so easily walk from the basement, where the washer and dryer are - to the first floor kitchen (to check on the fish chowder in the crock pot) - then up again to the 3rd floor attic where I was shooting pictures - without even being winded!!! When we first moved in to this house I LITERALLY did not FIT down the cellar stairs! Wow! Loosing 270 lbs has sooooo changed my life!!

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Copyright © 2008 by Constance Pelkey.

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Thanks!! Conni

Grand Reopening of Constance Pelkey Designs - ETSY

I'm VERY excited to announce the Grand Reopening of my ETSY store!!!

After a long hiatus due to TWO torn rotator cuff surgeries that placed me on the sidelines for nearly two years, I'm proudly announcing the GRAND REOPENING of my "Constance Pelkey Designs" ETSY (ConniesClay) storefront!!

From now until the first day of the New Year I'll be offering FREE SHIPPING ANYWHERE!!!

Uniquely Handmade. Poly Clay, Fine Silver, Fiber Arts.!

These mixed media items were created primarily from artist-grade polymer clay, Fine Silver and Fiber Arts.

My Etsy, ConniesClay.etsy.com

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Grand opening!!

Grand opening!!

Come shop "on the moon" at my new eCrater store (ConstancePelkeyDesigns.ecrater.com) !! Free shipping to the US Mainland!!

I'm also celebrating the opening of my new eCrater store at my Etsy store (ConniesClay.etsy.com) by offering free shipping ANYWHERE until June 7th!!

Just a few examples of what you'll find at my stores!

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Connie

.·:*¨¨*:· Constance Pelkey Designs ·:*¨¨*:·.

Polymer Clay, Fine Silver, Fiber Arts Jewelry & Accessories - Art for you and your home!

My Blogspot

Constance Pelkey Designs - Etsy

Constance Pelkey Designs - shopping on The Moon!

New pics - shoulder PT

I have been working on setting and resetting my stores, PayPal, Etsy and eCrater. I made a Flickr badge with the new pics and I'll be adding all the items to my store, eventually.

I have PT on my shoulder today and I'm really pleased at how well it's been feeling! Anxious to get rid of the sling, but that won't happen for another 3 weeks! Ak! *smile*

www.flickr.com

Connie

~ Life's too short to use cheap beads! ~

New Pictures

Well, this afternoon I plan on bringing all my finished salable items out onto the loverly, warm and sunny back deck (of Ice Out fame). Then I'll take brand new pictures of them all with the new camera we got for Xmas, I've been diligently working on getting better and better at taking pictures with it! I'll soon be in the process of resetting my Etsy store and my PayPal store (in the sidebar) and setting up my new eCrater store, which happens to be powered by Google!

So... yay for bright sunny days!

Connie

~ Life's too short to use cheap beads! ~

OOps! Bought one book too many!

Making Polymer Clay Beads - by Carol Blackburn is now in my ETSY store! Great savings!! My mistake in ordering two of the same books is your savings!!

Only $15.00 with my "no shipping cost" special going on from now until Xmas eve!

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Connie ~
~ Life's too short to use cheap beads! ~