Songs of the Season

I don't know about you but I kinda love listening to the music of the season. What is your favorite Christmas Album, CD, itune hah? Mine is The Carpenters.
I won't be making to much jewelry this month. But the few pieces that I will make will be named with some of my favorite Christmas songs.


E120901 Joy to the World



N120902 Noel


N120903 It came upon a Midnight clear I'll be wearing this necklace to my office Christmas Party. Yes I only wear my jewelry!


E120904 Ava Maria This pair of earrings are similiar to the ones that I will be giving away on Friday.

How can you win the pair? Become a fan on facebook.

Peace

I'm giving away this pair of earrings on Friday at 6:00pm pacific time.



Peace E120901 $12.00
They are light weight round clear quartz crystals, crystal rondelles hanging from sterling silver ear wires. They can be worn dressy or for just running out to get a cup of coffee. I know if you're like me, I can't go anywhere without earrings on. They drop about 1 1/4" length and 3/4" wide. I love the way they catch the light too.



I am naming them Peace. May you always have 1st Peace in your heart, 2nd Peace in your home, 3rd Peace in your World.


I'm giving them away to one of my fans, from my heart to yours.

To become a fan click on this link, http://www.facebook.com/pages/House-of-Raquel/67711488390

I love my fans.

111 Fans

I hit 111 fans on my Facebook fan page today. Thanks to all of you for being a fan. http://www.facebook.com/pages/House-of-Raquel/67711488390
and I want to give away a necklace to show my appreciation to you. I will choose the winner randomly from the comments you write. Let me know that you're interested in winning. Also if you are the only one that leaves a comment then you win.
I will choose the winner on Sunday at 1:11pm pacific time.

N060916 $56.00




Turquoise and Lave stones, Sterling silver chain and clasp.
15 1/2" extends to 19" length.

Please leave a comment. Must be a fan of the House of Raquel in order to win.

Also all items on my website are 25% off in the month of December. Voucher code - LOVE (ALL CAPS)

In the month of December

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House of Raquel is offering a 25% discount on all items on my website with no shipping cost within the continental USA. At checkout use voucher code LOVE (CAPITAL LETTERS).

Sunday creations

I'm doing my best to create, shoot a photo and post the photo to my website a few at a time, instead of ten and twenty pieces at a time. It is so much more manageable this way.

But, really it gives me new jewelry to wear everyday. Hah! the real reason why I am passionate about making jewelry. Even though I may wear the same clothes weekly my jewelry wardrobe is HUGE! How is your jewelry wardrobe?

E110929 Make your dreams.
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B110928 Oui Oui

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E110926 Sophie

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These are the creations that comes from the wire, findings, chain, swarovski crystals and stones laying in their trays around me, turn out to become. I love that about creating jewelry.

Saturday Afternoon

E110924 Emmanuelle


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After being so far behind for so long in taking photos of my designs, today I can say here is my Saturday afternoon design. It's my Emmanuelle set, Oui Oui. Find yourself outside sitting at a little cafe on the Champs Elysees feeling carefree with your best beau. Romance is in the air and you're so ready for a little love affair in the city of lights.

Flirty little amethyst crystal earrings with vintaj ear wire. A long vintaj necklace with a amethyst crystal wrapped in vintaj wire. Oh yes and a two strand vintaj chain large clasp with amethyst crystal.

Peace, Love and Soul N100212 This necklace is a fav of mine. It was inspired by a trip I took to the Omega Institute in NY a few years back. It is on my website NOW!




Angel Baby N100211G Now posted on my website.




Gyspy Child N100210 Available today on my website.






I love having a website but I'm it. I maintain it. Add the photos and descriptions, prices etc. One of the hardest parts is coming up with naming the piece. I kinda have cheated in the past by using titles of songs. Not these pieces today, the names of these pieces came to me.

I have to apologize however, I'm back-peddling to catch up. I still need to add sizes to many of my pieces. Please shoot me an email if you would like to know about a piece. I'd be more than happy to let you know.

Reshot designs

I was about to add my new designs to my website www.houseofraquel.com when I saw the photos on my website. OH NO! I must do something about these awful photos. I can't post my new photos when the photos on there were UGLY.

So yesterday I worked on reshooting and uploading the new photos to my website. OK I like it alot better.

I shoot the jewelry. I usually take about 3 to 4 photos of each design. I upload them to my computer using the mac can program iphoto. I edit the ones I want to use for my website in a square size for my website. Then I upload each one to photoshop to reduce the pixel size from 3000 to 400. Next step I reduce the jpeg size to under 100kb for my website. While in photoshop I will also remove any visible fish wire. I love photoshop. Then I save the photo with the item number that I assigned it.
E040916 (56kb)

E040924 (98.24kb)


E040928 (96kb)


E040943 (82kb)


E040938 (87kb)


E040940 (79kb)


E040935 (79kb)


E040945 (79kb)


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There is still more to reshoot so I'll be doing that today too.

Ok so I go into my website admin site and one by one bring up the item and edit the photo with the new picture. I used Solutions Cart, its easy to add product and change products from earrings to sale page etc. I accept paypal, visa, mastercard also.

What's next...

If you would love to host a House of Raquel jewelry show my calendar is open. Hostess gift is 10% of the net sales.
Here are some photos of the trunk show at Angie's beautiful Color me Mine store.




My sister assists me with the jewelry shows. She's been helping me from the beginning.


Bye bye bracelet.

Until my next show. I'm loading photos on my website. www.houseofraquel.com

I'm also going to create earring stands. I can't wait to show you. ;)