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I'm On Etsy's Front Page!



I was thrilled to find my items included in five different Etsy treasuries last week, and even more thrilled to find that one of the treasuries was featured on Etsy's front page...

...of course I'm never home when these things happen, but got a capture of the screen shot :-)







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Gold rush in China is pushing the Gold price to all times high

Chinese love GOLD


May 18, 2010China is now the number one consumer of Gold , and it is not just consumers , the central bank of china is quietly building up its reserves moving away from Euros and Dollars into hard assets like Gold ...and to meet this demand for gold China is opening new mines every month to the point that China now eclipsed south africa as the gold's first producer , Smart Chinese buying gold and dumping FIAT at rapid rates....

I guess they see currencies are only headed one way...DOWN!


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Gold Bull vs. Bear

Tom O\'Brien, editor of The Gold Report, expects a $200 pullback in gold, and Brian Hicks, of US Global Investors, thinks the commodity could soar to $1,500. They go head-to-head on CNBC.











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Gold May Rise for Several Decades says Robert Cohen, manager of Goodman

May 17, 2010May 17 (Bloomberg) -- Robert Cohen, manager of Goodman & Co.'s Dynamic Gold & Precious Metals Fund, talks with Bloomberg's Julie Hyman about influences on the gold market and the outlook for gold prices. Cohen also discusses some of his gold-related stock recommendations including Osisko Mining Corp., Red Back Mining Inc. and San Gold Corp. (Source: Bloomberg)


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Watch out for GLD pretending to be GOLD

GLD vs GOLD


May 14, 2010Watch out for that GLD, it isn't really GOLD.

Read the prospectus on the ETF, I believe they hold 10%...I am not sure I even trust that as an accurate number.

Physical is the only way to protect yourself form the Banksters Paper Games.
Yes, it is a game of musical chairs...

Paper gold is NOT physical gold!
If it isn't in your hands, then you don't own it.

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Refreshed






So glad to be back to my little blog and working again - this winter I made like a bear and hibernated most of the season...but am back with lots of new pretty things and a refreshed Etsy store with tons of new stock! (Check it out below!)


Note the new Etsy store name - missing the letter "a" in Dishfunctional - but alas, Etsy only allows so many character spaces for shop names....so I am without the a, but still dishfunctional if even now more so...

I actually had one of the very first shops on Etsy way way back when they first began. At the time, I had been a steady eBay seller for many years (I started selling my broken china jewelry on eBay in 1999) Since then, I've amassed over 5,000 positive eBay feedback - the number they show is 3,788 give or take a few, as ebay no longer counts additional feedback from returning customers - a bummer for sellers, but what can you do?

In any case, I closed my Etsy store after the first year, as I found I was spreading myself too thin, trying to supply both eBay and Etsy with new stock on a constant basis. Now times have changed. I've found the handcrafted market on eBay to be too ...well, too complicated. Fees and rules are always changing, I get phone messages on my answering machine from eBay associates trying to sell me new features, etc etc... I figure it this way, life is hard enough, why complicate things? I'm still a registered eBay seller - I haven't cut the cord completely, but am definitely shying away from the eBay marketplace. My new items will now be listed on etsy on a regular basis!


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Wire Wrapped Pendant


This is my first attempt at wire wrapping - I thought it turned out pretty well! 





I used all sterling silver wire with a coin pearl center and two freshwater pearl dangles. I oxidized the silver to give it an antique finish. Measures approx. 1" wide and 1 & 3/4" tall.

The wire wrapping was definitely fun to do - and more tiring on the hands than I expected! But now I'm inspired to try out some more wire projects.

For this piece I used:



 24g sterling silver wire 
two sterling silver headpins
coin pearls
  small freshwater pearl beads 
misc small silver beads

  


What do you think?
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