Camilee Designs Featured on Jewelry by Saniki Creations’ Blog

Thanks so much to the very sweet Penny from Jewelry by Saniki Creations for featuring me on her blog today!  She did such a great interview/article on Camilee Designs.

You can read the article here and check out her amazing chanmaille creations while you’re there!

:)   Cami

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Artist Spotlight: Simply Paperie

Artist Spotlight:  Simply Paperie

I’m so excited to interview the talented Laura Hudson from Simply Paperie for my Artist Spotlight!  Her items are just gorgeous.  Who wouldn’t love one of her handmade journals for Valentine’s day?!  The lucky attendees at the Golden Globes GBK Gift Lounge will be getting one!

~*~ Shop Owner Top 3s ~*~

Top 3 places to find you on the web:

Top 3 best-selling items (or Top 3 favorite items):

2012 Desk Calendar

Boarding Pass Invitation and Ticket Holder

Black Lace Personalized Stationery

 Top 3 random facts about you:

  • My favorite food is chicken fried rice, I could eat it every day!
  • My favorite colors are yellow and grey, which is totally coincidental, but is perfect as I am a University of Missouri grad and love my black and gold tigers!
  • I have a kitten named Pickles (sorry for all of the pictures on Instagram he’s just too cute:)

Top 3 favorite things to do (that are not business related):

  • Traveling (Esp going to the beach and scuba diving)
  • Spending time with my family
  • Baking

Top 3 pieces of business advice:

  • Don’t be afraid to step outside your comfort zone
  • Network, having a group of fellow artisans is an amazing support system and wealth of knowledge
  • Keep working, it’s not always fast or easy, but keep at it and good things will happen!

Top 3 favorite handmade shops (not including your own):

Where do you see yourself/your shop in 3 years:

Hopefully continuing to grow my business and successfully designing wedding invitations full time!

****For my lucky readers….use code CAMILEE10 – for a discount in Simply Paperie’s shop.  Valid ’til 1/25/12***

Thanks again, Laura!!

Cami

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Sweet Stella’s Feature and a $25 Etsy Gift Certificate Giveaway

 I’m honored to be featured on Sweet Stella’s website this week as the Mompreneur of the week!  Head over and check out the feature!

I’m also giving away a $25 gift certificate for my Etsy Shop to one of her readers!  Check out the post for details.

Cheers!

Cami

 

 

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4th Quarter Donation to Children’s Cancer Research

Thanks so much to all of my 4th quarter Etsy customers!  Because of you I was able to donate $306.61 to Cookies for Kids’ Cancer, my favorite pediatric cancer charity!

$306.61 is based on 5% of my sales from my Etsy shop in October, November, and December 2011.

Year to date we’ve donated the following to cancer research:

q1 $45.97 (Cookies for Kids’ Cancer)
q2 $17.55 (Cookies for Kids’ Cancer)
q2 $74.05 (American Cancer Society)
q3 $74.45 (Cookies for Kids’ Cancer)
q4 $306.61(Cookies for Kids’ Cancer)

This year’s total donations:  $518.63!!

Thanks again to all of my customers for helping make this happen!

If you want to read more about my story and why I choose to donate to this organization please read here.

Grateful.

Cami

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Personalized Mom Necklace Giveaway

Heeeey!  I’m giving away one of my best selling mommy necklaces!

Mommy Necklace

Head over to That Mama Gretchen and follow the details and instructions to enter for this sterling silver mom necklace with personalized with your children’s names (up to 3 discs)…there are several different ways to enter.

If you’d prefer to skip the contest you can buy the necklace at this link!

Good luck!!

Cami

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