*PLEASE NOTE TO WIN THE PRIZES YOU MUST LEAVE YOUR COMMENT ON MY BLOGGER BLOG*
Tomorrow is the big release party for The Naughty Secretary Club: The Working Girls Guide to Handmade Jewelry and Volume 8 of Craft Magazine at Craft-o-Rama and I am finally feeling like things are coming together. I have bought every craft store in South Austin out of button covers to make Office Hanky Panky Rings. I ordered 60 cupcakes (30 chocolate and 30 vanilla) and Hope and I made custom book cover cupcake toppers for all of them. I noticed the party got mentioned in The Austin Chronicle and The Austinist. I also got all the amazing door prizes gathered up, it's worth coming just to win some resin, paint or rub-ons. But wait what if you don't live in Austin, but want to win a door prize? Well we can make that happen. Most of the prizes I have 2 of so I will be giving away one at the party and one right here on the blog. Winners announced next Saturday September 6th. I'm bribing you a bit with the prizes I'll admit. In order to win you have to either have A) leave a review on Amazon B) Review the book on your own blog C) Buy a copy (you can email me a reciept) D) Make a project from the book and add it to our Customer Gallery and then leave a comment right here to let me know about it! Be sure to leave your email in the comment and you might also mention which prize you want.
Ok onto the amazing prizes....
First up we have four 3 packs of rub-ons by Hambly Screen Prints. I love their amazingly fun and hip designs and I could not resist using them in The Naughty Secretary Club: The Working Girls Guide to Handmade Jewelry on the Transfer Me Jewelry set. You will win a set of Out on a Limb, Dingbats & Robots and Stamp Alphabet Letters. Sure these rub-ons were meant for paper, but remember almost anything can be made into jewelry. Have you been dying to whip up your own version of The Secretaries Delight Bracelet? Well the kind people at Environmental Technologies can make that happen. This is the exact stuff I used for years to whip up my resin jewelry. On the blog I will probably be giving away the set of mixing cups and the Transparent Dye Kits. The resin, mold release agent and resin spray will be given away at the party since that stuff is tricky to mail with all kinds of rules and regulations. Next up we have a variety pack of Tim Holtz Distress Inks by Ranger and a Ready-to-Go Blank Board Book by Create and Treasure. We have a ton of Finishing Touches Iron On Fusible Thread by Kreinik to give away at the party and here on the blog! Love to doodle, well we have you covered in the pen department. Goodies from Sakura of America and Jet Pens galore! There are a couple of different prize packs from Tulip including patches, Glitter Bond, Tie-Dye Kits and More. Rumor has it there is a package on the way with even more prizes not to mention you might have noticed in the book that I am quite smitten on their Liquid Fusion Glue. You better bet there will be plenty of that tomorrow to put our rings together with! You better bet your bottom dollar we have some Naughty Secretary Club T-shirts to give away! Thanks to Bead Style Books we have copies of Easy Birthstone Jewelry and Jewelry Just for You to give away! Have you seen the fabu Crafty Chica product line from dear friend Kathy Cano Murillo! It's amazing all the paint, tote bags, glitter, shrines - it's enough to make a crafty girls head spin! We will have some Crafty Chica prizes to give away here on the blog and at the party! Check out the back page of Volume 8 of Craft Magazine tomorrow at the party to see the I'm a Chica Too ad with pictures of tons of crafters including lil' ole me. You are going to need to brush up on your embroidery skills in order to make the All Access Pass Brooch in The Naughty Secretary Club Book. There is no better way than to snag yourself an embroidery kit or two from Sublime Stitching. At the party and on the blog snag yourself some patterns (oh I spy the new Black Apple set), card set or a Petit Embroidery Kit! Don't forget my co-hosts with this shin-dig tomorrow, Craft Magazine and lovely Rachel Hobson of Average Jane Crafter. You have to hit the party to win these prizes, but two lucky peeps can win Craft T-shirts and 1 lucky ducky will go home with a box set of Craft Magazine. The party is also to celebrate the launch of Volume 8 of the magazine which I am especially fond of since there is a full page ad for The Naughty Secretary Club right in the front!
This book is made to tickle your funny bone but also get you to start thinking creatively at the same time while you learn some techniques that aren't necessarily difficult but also aren't what you normally might think about when it comes to jewelry making.
My lovely co-host for the book release party Rachel Hobson of Average Jane Crafter wrote a book review that made me beam with pride. Plus this one has lots of pictures from the book!
Let's talk physical attributes: The book is square - it's a great size, and its colorful, crazy, kitschy design is off-the-charts fun.
The amazing Barbe Saint John whipped up a review on her blog as well as her blog for Craft Gossip.
This first glance is just the tip of the color saturated iceburg that awaits you inside its glossy covers-so much so, my dog and I made an emergency pitstop at Starbucks so I could sit and go thru this book right there and then.
I just did a super fun interview with the fantabulous Lisa Clark this week about The Naughty Secretary Club Book and more! It was a fun interview to do because there were questions like what would I go back and tell my teenage self, how do I feel about the color pink and what makes me jump in the air happy plus I confess that I have a bad case of potty mouth. New and exciting questions I have never been asked!
Wednesday, August 13, 2008, 11:49 AM CST [General]
You could buy my new book, or you could roll the dice and try to win a free copy! There are 3 contests going on at this very moment one of which ends in 2 days so you best shake a tail feather....
The contest with a deadline soon approaching is the Creativity 350 contest! This contest let's you use your creative skills for a good cause: to help stop global warming! By participating in the Creativity 350 challenge you can help creatively spread the word about what scientists and advocates are now calling the most important number on the planet: 350. Learn all about the number 350 and then create something that helps represent that number, enter it in the contest and then win yourself not only a copy of The Naughty Secretary Club but goodies from Sublime Stitching, Coats & Clarks, Envirosax and more!
Cozies. Cosies. However you choose to spell 'em, your challenge is to make a cozy with irony. What does that mean? Well, that's up to you to decide! All you have to do is head over to Craftster and enter to win yourself a copy of The Naughty Secretary Club.
According to Craftster's research team (uh, ok, a quick trip to this Wikipedia entry) the original intent of a "cosy" was a cover for a teapot and they were made of cloth or wool and were meant to insulate and keep the contents of the teapot warm. Perhaps you could make a jewelry travel cosy? A book cosy, man I used to love paper book covers in grade school. Make a project from the book like the Whistle at Work gnome necklace and make little plastic gnome cosies. The possibilities are endless whether you glue, knit, sew or solder!
The next contest let's you win not just the Naughty Secretary Club, but 11 other books from North Light like Glam Knits and Pretty Little Things. Win A Year of Crafting from MyCraftivity! Dang dude I wonder if I'm allowed to enter this one too, I want to get a new craft book every month for a year!
Sorry to be book crazed this week, but can you blame me for being excited. Thanks to everyone who has been buying copies. The Naughty Secretary Club Book is apparently the 19th most popular book on Amazon in jewelry, whoo-hoo! Can you believe it! People must like their doll house furniture and toy tin typewriter jewelry. If the book goes to number 1 I might just freak out and start giving away lot's of free stuff on the blog. Oh wait I am about to do that later this month anyway.
I wouldn't say today is the official release date as much as I would say this is the official release week of my new book The Naughty Secretary Club: The Working Girls Guide to Handmade Jewelry. I've never been entirely clear about the exact day the book came out, but according to Amazon it was yesterday!
If you love kitschy jewelry and especially love making it yourself then might I suggest you run right out to your local Borders or Barnes and Nobles and snag yourself a copy (remember if they don't have a copy PLEASE ask them to order one, chances are they will then order more for the store too), order it off of Amazon or get a signed copy at Naughty Secretary Club!
Also if you could help me spread the word about my book I would love you forever and ever! Send out a My Space Bulletin, Twitter about it, if you make some jewelry from the book add it to our Flickr group, if you have the book and heart it please leave an Amazon review, mention the book on your blog. Every little bit helps!
If you are going to be in Austin on August 30th, please stop by Craft-o-Rama from 3pm-6pm for the Naughty Secretary Club Book Release Party! We are co-hosting the party with Craft Magazine who will be there celebrating the release of issue #8 with us!
As if this were not enough excitement we are having a 25% off everything sale at Naughty Secretary Club. Just enter the word BOOK into the coupon/voucher field when you check out. You could snag a piece of jewelry like a Big Bucks Baller Necklace or Tardy Bracelet that makes an appearance in the book or some of the supplies for projects in the book like a Naughty Secretary Club T-shirt or a jar of Crafty Curios.
