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I moved my blog over to my site

Today I moved this blog over to my website so that everything is all in one spot.

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Cheers,

Nathalie

 

Change of plans Shop update on Wednesday

I know, I know… I said I would load up these goodies to my online shops today, BUT, I had a good excuse:

Artfire allowed the Mavens (I’m a Maven) this afternoon to test-drive the new Collection Engine, and man oh man, I HAD A TON OF FUN!!!!!!

Here’s one of the collections I made today while testing the new gadget:

(click on the image to  get to this collection)

Here’s the other 3 collections I made:

Luscious Purples - Hot Trend for Fall-Winter 2010-2011
Fall for it...
Hungry yet? (grab a glass of milk first...)

I have to say that it is easier to make a collection on Artfire than making a treasury on Etsy (I gave up making treasuries on Etsy because I find the process is clunky when you gotta copy-paste all those item numbers, and I’m happy to have the new much more intuitive Artfire Collection tool to play with instead! Yay!!!)

So, I will start making Collections and sharing them here with you all once a week on my old "Wordless Wednesdays" that I used to do (before giving up on making treasuries on Etsy).

Anyway, I’m beat, I gotta pack a few orders and it’s nearly 10PM.

Tomorrow, I’ll be at the Cancer Center all day for mom’s chemo and I won’t have time to upload new items online, so I’m looking at Wednesday at this point…

Thanks for your patience!

Rogers TV Ad for Mobile Internet

There is this ad on TV in Canada about a woman doing all sorts of activities (walk around, carrying one of those Netbooks from Rogers), she sits on a park bench and opens that netbook and starts typing about the fact that she’s sitting in the park, and you see her in various outdoors shots/places, and she’s busy typing on her Netbook keyboard about being in all those places… and the voice-over narration (her voice supposedly)  tells the viewers that she has to connect to the web to tell everybody what she is doing, everywhere. That she can’t go through her day without it.

That ad is for this product here from Rogers, and actually, you see that woman from the TV ad sitting on the park bench on that page (give it a second to load, it’s an interactive page, you see her  hands typing away on the Netbook keyboard).

This ad REALLY BOTHERS ME!!!!

What is wrong with that picture, people?

Are people today SO tied up to their computers and the web that, hey, they gotta take them everywhere and instead of enjoying their surroundings, interacting with people, they have their nose to their keyboard and are telling the ‘web’ folks what they are doing… which, really, is typing on a keyboard outside and not enjoying a real life disconnected from the web at all.

Instead of enjoying the beautiful park, admiring the trees, listening to the birds chirping, looking at the sun in the sky, looking at the water and the boats passing by, looking at other human beings all around her… She’s got her nose glued to her Netbook screen, and fingers to keyboard, typing away.

I think that it is becoming an illness of this century.

Why do our fingers have to keep on touching some kind of keyboard or keypad all the time?

I really don’t care for what this ad from Rogers is telling people to do…

It is NOT healthy to be connected to the web or to some kind of communication device 24/7… Heck, it’s not healthy to be connected for half that time, even.

This is starting to look more and more like The Matrix… that movie, in my humble opinion, isn’t far off from the future we’re walking towards.

I really can’t stand that TV ad. It’s sending out a dangerous message. Big time.

New Work Shop Update Monday

Loads of new goodies coming up ladies! One of a kind Bangle Bracelets and Fine Silver rings will be loaded up in my NGOriginals Artfire Studio and Etsy shop on Monday…

Here’s a sneak peak…

I love the focal lampwork bead on this large sterling silver bangle, it looks like hot melted glass draping over the main part of the bead, just  stunning in person:

This copper bangle reminds me of juicy mangoes and hot summer days:

I love the combo of dark teal and purple in this copper bangle – Purple is the Hot-coming color for this Fall/Winter season btw:

This one of a kind bracelet here is made with Hill Tribe Silver curved tubes and some really cool blue artisan made lampwork beads (it’s a ‘blue jeans’ kind of  shade) with a belt of silver over top… strung on 49 strand professional jewelry wire:

And here’s a few rings that I made with Precious Metal Clay 3 (PMC3), some are one of a kind, some I can repeat:

 

4mm Champagne Cubic Zirconia (CZ):     Moonstone:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

6mm Clear/Diamond CZ on both of these rings:

All fine silver constructions (unisex ring for men and women):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I’ll update my Shops on Monday… see you then!

Cheers,

Nathalie