Halloween Pendant Blog Sale

I have a few Halloween pendants left and I need to make room for Christmas and winter pendants so I'm having a first come, first serve blog sale. Normally I sell these for $22-$30 + shipping but I am offering them for $15 + $1 postage!
If you are interested in one, please email me as soon as possible with the number of the pendant you want and I will send you a Paypal invoice. I will mail your pendant when I receive payment. I can't guarantee you will get it before Halloween. Pendants are all hand painted with glass bead accents. Black satin cord and toggle clasp. Click on picture for a larger image. Thank you! email: jmacneill@hotmail.com



Pendant #1, #8, #10 and #7 are sold. Sale on #6, #9 & #2 is pending. Palomino witch is sold too.

I also have 2 horse Halloween pendants left. Special sale price on these are $19 + $1 postage. If you're interested, let me know if you want the palomino or paint horse.

Gypsy Mare Studios Halloween Giveaway!

In appreciation of all my wonderful blog followers, friends and customers, I've decided to have a giveaway this week for a Halloween pendant from my Etsy Shop. That's right, the winner may choose any Halloween themed, hand painted pendant from my shop!

So many ways to enter. Please leave a separate comment for each entry. Winner will be chosen at 9PM Eastern Time - Sunday, October 18th by a random number generator.

1 entry for leaving a comment on this post.
1 entry for tweeting about this giveaway with a link to this blog post.
1 entry for being or becoming a follower of this blog.
1 entry for following me on twitter. User name: GypsyMareArt
1 entry for becoming a Gypsy Mare Studios fan on Facebook (see right sidebar).
1 entry for telling me your favorite song on my playlist (see sidebar).
3 entries for blogging about my giveaway on your blog (you may use the graphic above on your blog post)!

As an added bonus, I'll throw in 3 of my Headless Horseman postcards just in from the printers!
Thank you so much for visiting my blog and entering the giveaway!




PS. If I get more than 200 comments, I will add a 2nd place prize, a Halloween pendant of my choice.
PPS. If there are more than 250 comments I will have a 3rd prize of 5 Headless Horseman postcards!
PPPS. If you are a dude and do not have the need for a Halloween pendant, I can turn one into an ornament for your Halloween tree should you win!

Thank you to everyone who has left a comment! The response so far is humbling:)

Monarch

Most of the really flashy looking butterflies in my garden are also very skittish so I was super excited yesterday when this gorgeous Monarch let me take his photo. If you click on the photos you can really appreciate all the delicate details in her wing structure. I am amazed by nature every day and could sit for hours waiting to take the perfect photo. Hmm, maybe I should have been a field scientist or something. When I was a kid I thought the greatest job would be to work for National Geographic. Even got to see Jane Goodall lecture when I was in high school.



I'm so excited, today I finally have enough tomatoes from my garden to make a small pot of sauce. It's funny how so many giant tomatoes cook down to just a few servings...



And I also finished 3 small pendants over the weekend that I'm currently adding to my Etsy shop: an Arabian, a bunny inspired by the Unicorn Tapestries and a whimsical Palomino horse (my favorite of the 3). Still working on the harvest welcome sign. Hope to start working on my Halloween horse series this week too!




Happy Monday!

Brand spanking new!

I managed to finish several projects recently and list them on Etsy and Ebay despite waking up with an incredibly painful neck. Don't you just hate it when you sleep wrong?!

Here's a little sample of my new pendants. Some horsey and some Halloween.
One of the biggest tips on Etsy for selling your work is to have great photos. My photos always seem a bit on the blah side so I decided to photograph this new batch out in the garden.





Also finally finished my EHAG July Challenge piece (better late than never, right?). Our theme was The Brothers Grimm. I had this witch house from Hansel and Gretel started over a year ago but just wasn't feeling it. I switched the colors around and added some more candy and 2 days of work and am now very happy with the way it turned out!

When you get the chance pop over to the EHAG blog. Lucky me - I'm the newest spotlight artist!

48 HOUR ETSY SALE!

January 4th was my one year anniversary on Etsy. To celebrate I thought I would run a 2 day buy one get one half off sale in my Shop.

Here's the deal...

If items have a different price, the lower priced item is half off.

If you just want to buy one thing the discount you will receive will be 20%.

Since Etsy doesn't offer an easy way to run a sale, you will have to purchase the items and wait for me to send you a revised invoice with the discount.

Sale starts now 1/6/09 and runs for 48 hours.

When you purchase an item(s), please write "SALE" in the message to seller box.

More Beautiful Things

I snagged two more treasuries today. Here are some screenshots below. Click on the links to view the treasuries. If you would like to do me a huge favor, leave a comment on each treasury and click on each picture. Come on, it just takes a sec. :)

My Winter Fantasy Treasury

Animal Magnetism Treasury




I finished 4 pendants for Etsy today but have yet to string them up. Check back tomorrow for a lovely buckskin horse on purple, a raven with a full blue moon, a wacky voodoo doll (perfect for a special valentine maybe) and a blue crescent moon and stars.

Gypsy Mare & Night Mare

Two new pendants for Etsy!

I won't be painting anything else for Ebay until after Christmas but I do plan on making some things for Etsy, maybe even an oil painting soon!

The kid and I managed to make a snowlady yesterday. Isn't she sweet?
She has hydrangea hair, an oak leaf necklace, ivy belt and pine bough skirt.

Drumroll please...

I had a record 56 entries in my giveaway this week (I left one comment which was not counted)! So I wrote down the numbers 1-56, cut them out and put them in a stocking.
Next I wrestled my daughter down, drug her in front of the tree and made her pull an number. She wanted to take the number and run but I was able to grab her hand and snap a quick, if not blurry, photo of number 48. So the 48th comment (not including mine - gee I hope I counted right) was...

Ireland Rose Studios!

Thank you so much to EVERYONE who entered. I really wish I could have given everyone a prize. I had so much fun reading all the favorite ornament comments.

I'm thinking I may have to do another giveaway soon so please check back.









I have mananged to paint a few more pendants for Etsy this week. I haven't strung them up with beads yet but here is a sneak peek...

What the heck?!+*&%$!

How is it that a tiny little kid can make a grown adult so sick and so often?
I was just sick 3 weeks ago and I'm sick again with another head cold. I was hoping to blog today about all the wonderful new pieces I've created but instead I'm just on here to complain! I even had Tuesday all to myself when Zoe went to her Gram's house but I got very little done. I sketched out a lovely new winter witch sleigh design but I have yet to paint it. Today I tried to paint a pendant but my head is in a fog and my hands are shaky.
Well, hopefully tomorrow will be better. I want to go the Landis Valley Museum for A Pennsylvania Dutch Christmas and bonfire. On Saturday is the Christmas open house at the Mount Hope Winery & Estate. The mansion will be all decked out for the holiday and Father Christmas will be there to meet the children. It is definitely not the time of year to be moping around with a head cold!


Father Christmas & Zoe 2007



On a happy note, Danielle has created another gorgeous treasury and added my polar bear pendant. Here is a screen shot but you have to follow this link to see the treasury. It only lasts a few days so hurry on over there!

O Christmas Tree & GIVEAWAY TIME!

We finally got our tree today. I found a place just down the road. Literally, 1/2 mile down our street that sells them cut or you can cut one yourself. I am a stickler for freshness and my husband was still in his work clothes and didn't want to get dirty so I cut our tree. I am very happy with our choice this year. It's so full and smells wonderful. I think it's a Douglas fir.
Most of our ornaments are old. Some we've had since we were kids. Some are antiques. Some I even made. There is nothing more fun that hanging each special ornament on the tree and remembering when you got it and Christmases past.
Since I can never find a topper that I like, I just hang a large ornament up there. Last year my husband's step mom gave me this cute one with kittens riding a rocking horse. My two favorite animals, how perfect! So I'm going to make you look at my tree pictures before I get to what you probably came here for, the giveaway:)






Okay, time for the giveaway!
I just painted this fun winter windswept tree pendant. I love bonsai and that is what it reminds me of (I had one once and I killed it -very sad). I added glass beads in white and cobalt blue and it has a silver plated toggle clasp. Here's the deal, to be eligible to win this pendant you have to leave a comment on this post. Not just any old comment, mind you. You must tell me what your favorite ornament is on your tree at home. If you don't celebrate Christmas please let me know what your favorite winter time activity is.
Contest will last ONE week. I will have my little Zoe draw a name on Friday, December 12th around noon. I will try to contact you through blogger. If I don't contact you I will leave a post and ask you contact me with your shipping info.
So good luck everyone. Thanks for stopping by!

Oh, if you don't win the pendant and still want one, I have one in my etsy shop.

Lucky Day!

I am so excited I can barely type, I am so lucky lately. I won Kathleen Coy's blog giveaway today. You have got to check out her website and her blog. She is an amazing artist and super nice person to boot. I am currently in love with one of her cat painting because it looks like my kitty, Zazu. The print is for sale on her Etsy shop.

Also my prints arrived from Danielle barlow and they are even more beautiful in person. you have to check out her Etsy shop too. Today is the last day of her sale so hurry on in there!

Thank you so much Kathleen and Danielle!

In the studio I have finished 4 more pendants and am working on an Appaloosa holiday sign. I have 3 more pendants started that are a slightly larger size than what I normally paint. Here is my favorite of the newest peices...

Christmas in Lancaster

We went to Lancaster tonight for the mayor's tree lighting ceremony. My favorite thing to do is check out all the pretty store window displays. Thought I would share a few since I had my camera with me. What's the deal with the upside down tree? I will have to google that. I saw it in a few shops. Most of the shops are pretty upscale so I just ooooo and ahhh over everything I want and can not afford.
Don't you love the black and white tree? It's so chic!






I painted several pendants today. I know, I know, I promised some new christmas signs. I just haven't been in the mood for something that takes that long. I have them started. Hopefully I will get to them this week. I also snagged my first etsy treasury today. A treasury is very hard to get because Etsy only allows for a few hundred on at a time. In honor of my studio name I called my treasury Gypsy Spirit. Please check it out if you have the chance. It will only be up for a day or two and then it expires. I already have some ideas for the next treasuries!

While the cats away...

My husband took our daughter and left for the day so I can get lots done. I'm sitting here listening to the new Killers album (makes me want to dance) and figuring out what I'm going to paint. I have three signs started, just getting the backgrounds painted. I think I will paint a unicorn, a Paint horse and maybe an Appaloosa. I also have five more pendants started which are going to be a zebra, elephant, giraffe, grey horse & a Paint horse.
I added three new pendants to Etsy yesterday: a cardinal for Christmas and a buckskin and a bay. Big thanks to everyone who has purchased something from my Etsy store. I like it so much better than Ebay. The fees are a lot lower. Be careful with Etsy though, you can get addicted. And what a great place to go Christmas shopping, you don't have to even change out of your pajamas. Your money is going to help artists and not to some huge billion dollar corporation like Walmart - bleck!




Almost forgot to write about what a great time I had at the Rasputina concert on Sunday. It took me all of Monday to recouperate!
If you're a fan of the cello and alternative rock, I've made a playlist of some of their songs. The lead singer, Melora, was so nice. She even came out to say hello at the end and I got my picture taken with her. I'd share it with you but I can't stand photos of myself! The club owner, Bam Margera (from Jackass & MTV fame) was also surprisingly nice and allowed us to take some pictures.

More Goodies

I finished 6, yeah 6, pendants today! Yipee!
Here they are. I'm in the process of putting them on Etsy. I think my favorite is the white Arabian. The last ones flew out of my store. I think people are finally getting into Christmas shopping and these pendants make great gifts for any animal lover.
Jen

New Items for Etsy & Cafepress

Just added to ,Cafepress, many new items with my fairy foal artwork and also my gothic raven. If you are a fantasy lover, these items are not to be missed!






I just finished 6 new hand painted pendants and added them to Etsy today. There is a widget on the right side of this page that shows some of them.
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Thank you!
Jen