washi wall scrolls are here!

i am so excited to share with you my newest line: mini washi wall scrolls!

i thought of the idea for these many months ago, but it took time to find out exactly how i wanted to execute my plan and make this beauties as perfect as melissa-ly possible ;).

finally, i am proud to show these off to you!



3 styles will be listed today in my shop, with more to follow in the coming days.

a few details on these:

each wall scroll measures 12" x 9" when hanging, and is suspended by a little ribbon loop. the entire item was hand-sewn by me. the scrolls come lightly rolled inside these gorgeous silken gift boxes (some scrolls come with red, some green) :



a simple set of care instructions and a special gift come with the scrolls, as well. the complete gift comes well-packaged (as always!) and is mailed by priority mail (u.s. only for now - sorry international friends, you know i love you! it's a matter of shipping cost :( ).



this is the first wall scroll to be listed.

wow, i am delighted that these turned out so well... in fact, they are exactly as i envisioned before i started!

feel free to comment on these - i am excited to see what you think!

♥,
melissa

nine inch nails!

okay, so i've been really busy with finishing up this semester of college to tell you this, but i am soooo excited!

i got an email the other day from the nine inch nails website (i'm one of those suckers that paid $65 for an annual membership to 'the spiral', the fan-club type thing), saying that there will be a u.s. tour starting this summer! the last time mr. trent reznor did a u.s. tour was 2003-2004 for the 'with_teeth' release. i went to the concert in austin during his first round, but wasn't able to go when he came back around about a year later. so i went to my first nine inch nails concert in may of 2003, and was completely blown away. for those of you who don't know (and you probably wouldn't know it from looking at me), i am one of the biggest nin fans out there, so you can imagine my excitement at the prospect of going to another nine inch nails concert!

presale tickets went on sale tuesday at 5pm, just before i had to get ready to go take my literature final, but i managed to grab 2 tickets! this is quite an accomplishment: tickets sold out soon after that (my order went through at 5:02, haha). the concert is august 16 in houston, which is about 4 hours away from me, but it's on a saturday, so brandon and i are going to make a fun trip out of it. oh my god, i'm so hyped!

well anyway, in celebration, you know that print i have for sale in my shop of trent reznor? in celebration of my ticket-grabbing skillz, i am selling this print for just $1! i can hook you up if you want more than 1, no problem.

in other news: ugh, i am so glad this semester is over! i'm pretty sure i got all a's. so far, only my literature grade has been posted, and i got an a- in that, so that's good.

this summer is going to be so awesome! here's what's planned:

• june 7 - eddie izzard at the paramount theatre in austin


• trips to schlitterbahn (huge waterpark about an hour from where i am), six flags fiesta texas, and a trip to natural bridge caverns


• wedding stuff - buy my dress, book the catering, pick out a cake, get ahold of a ton of sparkling cider, have our picture taken as gifts for the guests, and have my bachelorette party!


• august 9 - brandon's birthday


• august 16 - NINE INCH NAILS!

i'm sure i forgot some stuff, but yeah, this summer is going to rock. then of course there's the wedding on october 9, and we got tickets to see jim gaffigan on december 6, as well :). it's a great year!

as far as my shop goes, i've got a lot of really cute ideas for new items planned, so be on the lookout for that! of course, you'll hear it first here, on the blog.

well, gotta run! now that school's taken care of, i have to make 40 pairs of earrings to fill my first wholesale order!

♥,
melissa

several blogs in one

a lot of things have been on my mind today.

thing 1. belfastbeachjewelry

my good etsy friend lara, owner of belfastbeachjewelry, deserves some attention! when i met her, i told her about my upcoming wedding, and she worked with me to create this gorgeous tiara:

this is the perfect headpiece for me; it matches the style of my dress, it incorporates my wedding colours, and it looks fabulous!

but the main reason i brag about lara today is because she's having a great sale right now! lara doesn't just make tiaras: necklaces, earrings, barrettes, and bracelets adorn her shop as well. right now, if you buy any necklace in her shop, you receive a FREE pair of goldtone cherry blossom earrings worth $10! her jewelry is as gorgeous as her tiaras. check it out :).

thing 2. eddie izzard

brandon and i are huge eddie izzard fans. actually, we love a lot of comedians (we saw jim gaffigan perform last year), but i would dare to say that mr. izzard is our favourite.

he's going to be performing 'stripped' at the paramount theatre in downtown austin june 6-8, and since we donate to the paramount, we got presale tickets for saturday, the 7th! we are extremely excited, as you might imagine. we got really good seats, too: almost right in the middle of the middle of the orchestra level :D.

i'll be sure to tell you how the izzard experience went, but unfortunately we'll all have to wait about 3 months to find out :p.

thing 3. my striped merchandise

how come my striped items aren't gettin' any lovins? i'm pretty disappointed in the number of views they've received (significantly less than most of my other items), and i don't think i'll be making any more pieces with that particular washi paper. for goodness sake, not even my 'two for the price of one and a half' is working with that paper! i'm in the process of cutting up my unused paper to be, hopefully, salvaged as 'destash' in my shop. maybe someone else will have more luck with it than i did!

thing 4. a poll

if you have a moment, please respond to the poll on the top right of this page. when i first opened my shop, i had a set of earrings (featuring japanese koi fish) for sale for $17. after a while, it sold. i then decided to only make earrings for my gift sets and not sell them separately. do you think that i should offer them separately as well as included in the gift sets? i would really appreciate some feedback! if you want to elaborate on your poll answer, feel free to leave a comment here.

well, that's what's been going through my mind lately! oh, and i added some new items to my shop in the last few days, including this cutie:

what do you think of her? :)

i hope everyone is having a wonderful wednesday!

<3,

melissa