Underground at the Dowse

I'm at the Dowse today until 3pm. This is my last market for 2012, so come visit, have a coffee at the cafe and get your Christmas shopping done!

Johnsonville Fair

In going to be at the Johnsonville Community Centre from 9am on Saturday as part of the Johnsonville Christmas parade and fair!

Come visit and get your Christmas shopping done early, it's going to be a fun day!

Update

Hi everyone!

This week has been a busy week for Cats & Whiskers!  

On Wednesday, I dropped off a whole lot more jewellery at Matchbox Studios, mainly necklaces and earrings.  If you haven't visited Matchbox, you totally should!  It's on Cuba Street.  Click the link below for more info and to access their online store if you aren't in Wellington.

I came home this evening to an awesome surprise.  One of my leather bracelets is featured in the 2012 Felt Christmas Gift Guide.  Such a compliment to be included!  I've added a few more different colours of leather bracelets to my felt store plus some new earrings.

I've also added some new anchor earrings to my etsy store!  These are the first of many new anchor items that will be added over the next few weeks.  Click the photos below to go to my store.

Don't forget, add a comment into any online order mentioning gift wrap, and between now and Christmas eve your item will arrive gift wrapped for free!

Have a great weekend.
Kim

Mini updates

Good Morning!

Two small updates for you today:

1. I will be at the Churton Park Kindy Christmas Shopping Evening tomorrow from 630pm. Come along to see all the amazing stalls and get your Christmas shopping done early! It's at Amesbury School and entry is $5.

2. From now until Christmas Eve, get your order from our Etsy store gift wrapped for free! Simply mention gift wrapping in the comments of the order and it will arrive wrapped and ready to go under the tree!

Kim

100 likes on Facebook!

Woohoo, we've reached 100 likes on Facebook! That means it's competition time!

First prize: $20 voucher for the Cats & Whiskers etsy store (must all be spent in one purchase).

Second prize: a resin rose ring in the colour of your choice (see below for colours).

To go into the draw to win, send an email to catsandwhiskers@gmail.com with the following:
1. Name and postal address
2. Colour choice if you win the resin ring
3. If you could have anything on a pendant what would it be? Be creative!

Competition is for people living in NZ only. You must also like our Facebook page.

Closes 8pm, Sunday 9 September. Winners will be drawn at random and announced on Facebook.

Good luck!

Market tomorrow!

Tomorrow will be Cats & Whiskers first ever market stall, at the Wellington Paper Arts and Crafts show at Te Rauparaha arena!

I will be doing a special at the market, buy one pair of resin earrings and a resin ring for just $15! This won't be available in the etsy store and will only be available at the market tomorrow.

Hope to see you there! It's going to be an amazing day!

Kim

Birthday sale!

As its my birthday on Saturday, everything is on sale in the Cats & Whiskers etsy store! Enter the coupon code 'BIRTHDAY2012' at checkout to get 15% off your purchase!

Sale ends 9pm Saturday 18 August.

New stock added

Hi everyone!

I've just spent this evening adding some new items to the store.  Photos below!  Click the photos to be taken to the store.

Kim

This week has been a really good week for Cats & Whiskers!

As you will have seen below, our jewellery is now for sale at Matchbox Boutique in Wellington.  If you haven't been to this store before, it is totally worth checking out.  They have amazing items for sale, and I wanted to buy everything!

Secondly, I'm very pleased to let you  know that I will have my first ever stall at a market at the Artisan Crafters Suitcase Market at the Wellington Paper Arts and Crafts show.  This will be at the Te Rauparaha Arena in Porirua on the 2nd of September.  It will definitely be worth a visit!

Lastly, you will notice something changed in the Cats & Whiskers etsy store last week.  Now, all items have free postage anywhere in New Zealand.  

Enjoy your weekend!

Kim

PS, below you will find some photos from the last week or so, including some new pieces that have been made recently!

 

News!

Very cool news! Our jewellery is now available at Matchbox Studios on Cuba Street! Check it out sometime.

www.matchboxstudios.co.nz

Free Shipping in NZ!

For today and tomorrow only, enter the coupon code 'FREESHIPNZ' at checkout on our etsy store, and you will get free postage anywhere in NZ!

Visit Http://catsandwhiskers.etsy.com to get shopping!

The week that was

I'm hoping to start a new section on the blog, with a weekly update of what's happened with Cats & Whiskers in the past week.

I added loads of new items to the store this week, including some items that had previously sold out.

Some of the new items (click on the image to go to the item in the store):

 

 

Some of the restocked items (click on the image to go to the item in the store):

 

  

I've also been busy working on the stall in order to be able to apply for some markets.  As you are already aware, I've been working on this for weeks now, and my sign for the stall is nearly done!  Hopefully I will be able to get my application in this week and have some news soon.

If you're on pinterest, I have a board set up just for Cats & Whiskers.  Click here to visit the board.

Lastly, I thought each week I could post all the photos of jewellery I've posted on instagram in the last week.  There aren't too many to post today, but here they are:

Kim

New Stock!

Loads of new items added to the Cats & Whiskers etsy store this evening, including resin earrings, leather bracelets and more!

Visit http://catsandwhiskers.etsy.com to check it out.

Ring giveaway!

Over the last week or so I have been so busy with preparing the Cats & Whiskers stall in order to apply for a market that I haven't been able to update the etsy store or blog in a while.

To make it up to everyone, I will be giving away one blue flower resin ring (pictured below). To be in the draw to win this, send an email to catsandwhiskers@gmail.com with your name and postal address.

Note that this is only open to cats & Whiskers Facebook fans, so if you want to enter but aren't a fan, visit www.facebook.com/catsandwhiskers to like our page.

The competition will close on Monday 4 June and the winner notified by email.

Good luck!
Kim

Update

Today's been a record day for offline sales for Cats & Whiskers, which is amazing!

I am currently in the process of applying for our first market stall. There will more information on that over the next few weeks.

For now, you can get a mini sneak peek of how the stall will be decorated with the photos below. More coming soon.

We have a winner!

Thank you to everyone who entered our recent competition.  The winner was drawn today.

Congratulations to Kahurangi, who won the balloon necklace!

This necklace is already one of the most popular items in the Cats & Whiskers etsy store, to the point that there is only one left, and it is only available in our felt store.  More should be available in around 3 weeks, but if you want one before then you may want to get in quick.

What an awesome week so far for Cats & Whiskers!

Firstly, some good news.  It looks like the issues I was having with resin are solved, so hopefully the first resin items will be up this weekend! 

I've also been working on my stall for displaying Cats & Whiskers jewellery at markets.  I won't say much about it for now, but it is based on one of my favourite books when I was little, The Folk of the Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton.

Finally, the competition to win a balloon necklace ends tomorrow, so there is still time to enter.  Click here for more info.

Thanks to everyone for your amazing support so far.
Kim

TODAY ONLY 10 percent off anything in the Cats & Whiskers etsy store if you use the coupon code "10offplease".  Be in quick because this coupon expires at 8pm tonight (NZ time).

Competition Time!

It's time for a competition!  Go into the draw to win the above necklace by doing the following:
1.  'Like' Cats & Whiskers facebook page (www.facebook.com/catsandwhiskers); then
2.  Send an email to catsandwhiskers@gmail.com with your name and postal address, and a short description of your favourite piece of jewellery you own and why it's your favourite.

Do the above by Friday 11 May and you're in the draw.  The winner will then be chosen by random and announced on this blog and our facebook page.

NB:  This competition is open to people in New Zealand only.

Good Luck!

PS: You can buy this necklace on the Cats & Whiskers etsy store here.

Thank you!

Awesome first day!  Big thanks to everyone for visiting our store and making Cats & Whiskers' first day a success.  More items should be up by the end of the week.

I'm also currently investigating other mediums to work with, including leather.  I will post photos of my progress.

Below is a link to the shop again in case you missed it yesterday:
http://catsandwhiskers.etsy.com

Also, you will see on the right hand side of the page a link to the store, featuring three pieces of jewellery for sale.  Click any of those to take you directly to the item.  If the pictures are not showing for you, you will need to disable adblock on your browser for this page.

Thanks again everyone!
Kim

Our shop is live!

Very glad to say that Cats & Whiskers' etsy store is now live.

Our resin stock is currently not available, but will be by the end of the week.

Enjoy!

Click here to visit our store

Bunny in a Bottle necklace.

Earrings currently drying.

Been busy making jewellery in preparation for opening my online store on 30 April.  Here's a necklace that will be for sale.

Another sneak peek!  Deer bow earrings.

Bird in frame necklace.

Another mini sneak peek.  Bow pendants, soon to be drilled for necklaces.

Just a little sneak peek of one of the items that will be available for sale from (hopefully) the 30th of April.

Adjustable pink resin rose ring.  Price TBA.

My very first post on my blog for Cats & Whiskers.

I started Cats & Whiskers as a way to sell handmade jewellery and other crafts I make.

Cats & Whisker's facebook page and stores on etsy and felt will be available soon!