Decorate your Outdoors with Handmade Pottery

I Love decorating my yard with unique pottery and here are just a few of my handmade favorites!!

And The Winner Is !!!!

The WINNER of my Perfectly Simple Earrings is non other than

http://grammyjanetsplace.blogspot.com/ Congratulations!!

May Blog Give Away!!

I'm giving away these Perfectly Simple Earrings in honor of all my jewelry being 30% off until the end of may!!

I used, Genuine Turquoise rondell stones with a little brown veining and White Coral, what a pair....The white coral is topped with a sterling bead cap, and the turquoise is topped with a sterling flower rondell. Nice Rounded sterling silver ear wires complete these earrings. These simple earrings are perfect for everyday or a night out. Apprx 1".

To win these earrings just visit my shop OBTP and let me know what your favorite item is, come back and leave a comment and don't forget to leave a way for me to contact you.

When your checking out your favorite item don't forget all my jewelry is 30% off until May 31st!!

I will announce the winner on May 31st. using http://random.org/integers/

Twitter Friends!!

I LOVE GOOD MORNING AMERICA!!

Fog

My London Fog Earrings are features in this wonderful treasury put together by http://twentysix7.etsy.com

My Amethyst cluster earrings made it into this gorgeous treasury put together by http://rougeriverbeads.etsy.com/

Temporarily Closing My Shop 30% off everything!!!!!!!!

I recently started a great new full time job and I'm finding it hard to keep up with making new jewelry, taking pictures and posting them, so I've decided to take a few months off. I will be closing my shop from Memorial day to Labor day so I can spend time with my family and be outdoors in my yard and garden during the nice weather.

That being said I am marking down all my items 30% I will be more than happy to send you a PayPal credit or email me prior to your purchase and I will mark it down then.

Here is a list of what the prices will be:
$55 = sale $38.50
$42 = sale $29.40
$40 = sale $28.00
$35 = sale $24.50
$30 = sale $21.00
$28 = sale $19.60
$25 = sale $17.50
$22 = sale $15.40
$20 = sale $14.00
$18 = sale $12.60
$15 = sale $10.50
Terri

http://obtp.etsy.com

Dew Drops and Daisies

My Morning Dew Earrings are featured in this beautiful Treasury by http://simplysuzula.etsy.com/

Endless Love Anklet

This beautiful anklet is an endless sterling silver flat oval chain with so much sparkle and is cut to order. You can choose from one of the listed swarovski crystals below or a freshwater pearl to dangle from the bottom of the chain.Please specify your desired length, I will then add an extra 3 links for the dangle. Swarovski colors listed in order: Coral, black, turquoise, light pink, light purple, dark purple, light blue, dark blue, satin, midnight, lime green, emerald.

A clear AB crystal is showing on the anklet. If your looking for a different color crystal please feel free to contact me as I have many other colored crystals available!

Teal and Reds....

My "Pop" bracelet made it in this beautiful Etsy Treasury put together by

http://mypatternedmind.etsy.com/ !

I Love to Walk.......Not

Every Sunday I visit my friend Kate's blog http://shiborigirl.blogspot.com/ for What's Cooking Sundays. Kate has some great recipe's on her blog with a nice picture and easy to follow directions.....



BUT NO MORE.... I swear I've gained 5 pounds since I started reading her Sunday blog.

Every time I look at her recipe's I go to my frig and get something to eat that's how great they are! The sad thing is I'm not even hungry!

I am now starting to walk as I usually don't do anything physical but get out of bed, get in my car only to go to work and then sit at a desk for 7 hours. But I figured if I walked on my two 15 minute breaks and then at least a half hour each day after work I can continue to read Kate's, What's Cooking Sundays. Now I'm not trying to win any marathon but eventually I'd like to look like this----------------------------------------------------------------->

Hey a girl can dream can't she

So I have my good friend Kate to thank for my motivation!!

You can find Kate at any of these locations

In her kitchen http://shiborigirl.blogspot.com/ on Sundays.

In her destash bead shop http://buybeads.etsy.com/

In her Jewelry Shop http://ktracton.etsy.com/

Or follow her on twitter http://twitter.com/KateTracton

Undecided ~ Possibilities

My new earrings~~~~~


A small cluster of Czech glass beads in blues and creams are attached to a sterling silver ear wire that can be worn alone or attached to a 1 1/4 in / 30mm round sterling silver ear wire that you can wear alone or add a light blue Czech teardrop or white Swarovski pearl.


So if I did the math right there are 5 possibilities!!




Total length with cluster and blue teardrop is 2 inch from bottom of ear wire.




Total length with cluster and white pearl is 1 3/4 inch from bottom of ear wire.

Earring Winner!!

AND THE WINNER OF THE EARRINGS BELOW IS TASHAI!! Please take a moment to visit her Etsy shop and her blog Ultraviolet Wind. Thanks to all that participated and check back often as I will be having another giveaway for May!!

Spring Earring Giveaway!!

This earring giveaway is just a little something to welcome in Spring!!

The winner will receive these beautiful yellow-green olive new "jade" serpentine with a speckle of black through out and a button shaped amazonite bead that are separated by intertwined sterling silver rings. They dangle a 1/2 long from bottom of sterling silver ear wires.. Feel free to visit my shop http://obtp.etsy.com for more spring jewelry

Now to enter all you have to do is leave a comment as to how I can contact you!!

The winner of these earrings will be picked Friday April 10th using
http://random.org/integers/.

WHITE

My Dew Drop Earrings are featured in this beautiful Treasury by bijouxdellostregatto.etsy.com

Social Media's are My New Best Selling Friends

OK, so as you can see by some of my past post and pictures and links I have a shop on Etsy and sell jewelry http://obtp.etsy.com/ (Originals by Terri Pezzullo). Well with the Internet being what it is I've taken a few steps in the direction of social media, as you can reach so many more people than just having an online shop and waiting for people to find you.

I first started with this blog about 4yrs ago. I posted once in a while, but really never promoted it much (ok not at all). To be honest I felt a little embarrassed and intimidated by the WWW to talk about myself to so many people out there so I just posted pictures of my jewelry with prices again sitting back hoping someone would find me. Then I started poking around at other blogs and got a feel for it. I deleted all my old post and pictures and started fresh. This is the first post i posted when I started fresh http://originals-by-terri.blogspot.com/2008/07/little-something-about-myself.html

It took me a while to get just the right look with a heading, color and fonts, but I love my blog now. I've had well over 5000 visits and some wonderful comments from my visitors. I love doing Featured Artist, and my own free earring blog giveaways. My blog has also brought many people to my Etsy shop. This is a picture of the first piece of jewelry I sold on Etsy and I have now sold 204 items to date. This is more than I ever thought I would!!

I signed up for Etsy in December of 2007 but didn't become a seller until February 2008. I started hanging out in the forums making friends, and let me tell you , some very nice friends!!

I learned a lot in the Etsy forums one thing was net working with a face book account http://www.facebook.com/pages/OBTP-Jewelry/100850840297. I have had face book since November of 2007 but never used it (another story for another time). Again a little uncomfortable talking about myself. Then my previous manager (Marjorie) found me on face book and friended me (so excited to have a friend), then my brother, some relatives and people I went to school with and so on and so on.... After only 2 weeks of Face Book I made 2 sales and a few more after that! You can have a personal and business Face Book.

I also have a Flickr account http://www.flickr.com/photos/obtp/ . This is a great place to upload your pics and join different groups to show them off, unfortunately you can't sell there but you can put a link to your shop, blog, face book or whatever social media you use.

Then I found Twitter!! https://twitter.com/OBTPJewelry The social network that only allows you up to 140 characters at a time to say what you want. I can follow people and they can follow me back. I can comment on there comments, post links to something I just listed in my shop but not to often as it's frowned upon, you don't want to spam everyone with your items. But I'm happy to say I have made some new friend there also and even a few sales!

I love GMA (Good Morning America) I have watched it just about everyday for the last 15 yrs or so. The other day I got a return tweet from no other than ..............

GMA's Tori Johnson work guru and GMA's weather man!!..........How cool is that!!..........It truly made my day!!..........Now go online and socialize!!..........

Feel free to click on any of my links and follow me..........

Oz Bush fire Appeals Shop

The http://OzBushfireAppeal.etsy.com shop has been set up in response to the Australian Bushfire Tragedy, they have currently sold 872 items since February 8, 2009 and have 199 left.

Australian and other Etsians from around the globe have donated items for sale.

All items have free International Shipping.

Sales from all items will be donated to the Australian Red Cross every week. (They can't withdraw from Paypal any more regularly than that) Donated on Tuesday 16th February - $4,886 Donated on Monday 23rd February - $8137

They have stopped taking donations, but the shop will remain open until 31st March 2009, they hope to have SOLD OUT by then!

Shop is currently run by:feliciafairy.etsy.com, vanillapixie.etsy.com and the awesome members of the DUST

team. http://dustteam.com/ ALL PURCHASES will be shipped directly to Paypal addresses or Paypal emails. Thanks.

These are just a few items that have been donated please visit http://ozbushfireappeal.etsy.com/ to see more!

The Hormone Guide

Women will understand this!

Men should memorize it!

Every woman knows that there are days in the month when all a man has to do is open his mouth and he takes his life in his hands! This is a handy guide that should be as common as a driver's license in the wallet of every husband, boyfriend, co-worker or significant other!

DANGEROUS, SAFER, SAFEST, ULTRA SAFE,

What's for dinner? Can I help you with dinner? Where would you like to go for dinner?

Here, have some wine.

Are you wearing that? Wow, you sure look good in brown! WOW! Look at you!

Here, have some wine.

What are you so worked up about? Could we be overreacting? Here's my paycheck.

Here, have some wine.

Should you be eating that? You know, there are a lot of apples left. Can I get you a piece of chocolate with that?

Here, have some wine.

What did you DO all day? I hope you didn't over-do it today. I've always loved you in that robe!

Here, have some wine.

What PMS Stands For:

1. Pass My Shotgun

2. Psychotic Mood Shift

3. Perpetual Munching Spree

4. Puffy Mid-Section

5. People Make me Sick

6. Provide Me with Sweets

7. Pardon My Sobbin

8. Pimples May Surface

9. Pass My Sweatpants

10. Pissy Mood Syndrome

11. Plainly, Men Stink

12. Pack My Stuff

13. Potential Murder Suspect

RHODE ISLAND

Just a little about the state I live in...

Capital ... Providence

Admission to Statehood ... 1790

Bird ... Rhode Island Red

Flower ... Violet

Highest Point ... Jeremiah Hill

Motto ... Hope
Population ... 1,048,319




Nickname ... Ocean State



State Song ...

Rhode Island's It for Me

Written by Charlie Hall
Music by Maria Day

Arranged by Kathryn Chester

Chorus

I’ve been to every state we have,and I think I’m inclined to say that Rhody stole my heart:

You can keep the forty-nine.
Herring gulls that dot the sky,blue waves that paint the rocks,water rich with Neptune’s life, the boats that line the docks. I see the lighthouse flickering to help the sailors see. There’s a place for everyone: Rhode Island’s It for Me.

Rhode Island, oh Rhode Island surrounded by the sea. Some people roam the earth for home; Rhode Island’s It for Me.

I love the fresh October days, the buzz on College Hill,art that moves an eye to tear,a jewelers special skill. Icicles refract the sun, snow falling gracefully. Some search for a place that’s warm: Rhode Island’s It for Me!

Rhode Island, oh Rhode Island surrounded by the sea. Some people roam the earth for home; Rhode Island’s It for Me.

The skyline piercing Providence,the State House dome so rare. Residents who speak their minds; no longer unaware! Roger Williams would be proud to see his colony, so don’t sell short this precious port: Rhode Island’s It for Me!

Rhode Island, oh Rhode Island surrounded by the sea. Some people roam the earth for home; Rhode Island’s It for Me.

Rhode Island, oh Rhode Island surrounded by the sea. Some people roam the earth for home;Rhode Island’s It for Me...

State Tree ... Red Maple

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My "Sunshine on my Shoulders" earrings were chosen for this beautiful treasury by HuayruroPeru!!

My Friend Candi from BeJeweledByCandi featured my "Sunshine on my Shoulder" Earrings!

My "No Rhyme No Reason" Necklace is featured in this beautiful Treasury by HuayruroPeru!!