Leading a Charmed Life

Well as the last batch of pear charms I bought were just wee little things, I ordered these ones in the hopes that they would be better suited for the wine glass charms. These pears have a quite a bit of weight to them and they have nice markings.

Yellow Pear Drops

Well as I had so much fun creating the Sugarplum Faerie pendants...thought I had to do something more!
This is the first of two packages for a new pendant. Now this one will not be as fancy but I think it will be a nice touch for the Partridge in a Pear Tree theme. The next parcel will have the pear shaped sterling silver pendent settings.

Partridge in a Pear Tree - Growing Pears??

Well who would have thought! Something new to add to the gifts bags.....

Yellow Pear Tomato seeds!! 

A very tasty pear shaped yellow tomato. 

Colourful in salads, sliced or in preserves. 

As rich in vitamins as it is flavourful. 

 A very popular variety for the home garden. 

Cybr Trayd

I love this title. My final package of the day (yes it was a parcel day for sure)....came from a company called Cybr Trayd (ebay).

This package contained 3 of the 4 soap molds and some sparkly powders for our soap.

I am not sure exactly what happened to the 4th tray but an inquiry has been sent in.

But these are the ones I received today...


The Honey Bee (for Christmas 2012)

The Partridge in a Pear Tree .... the Pear

And for the Sugarplum Faerie...there are actually 4 designs on this mold tray (hard to take a picture of clear plastic)

The mold that is missing is for the Nutcracker Prince. I will keep you posted on its status. 

The final part of this parcel is the sparkly stuff :)

It is called Shimmering Lustre to give soap a festive shine! I thought that it would be a nice touch for the Faeries and who knows....just might go crazy and use it for all of them! I purchased the gold and pearl colours. 

3 in 1!!

A triple wammy at the post office today :)

I will update all three parcels on this one post (laziness, perhaps.....it is almost my bed time!).

Parcel #1.... from megacharms (ebay). As this vender sells their items in bulk I thought to save money this would work perfectly. I order two sets of 25 of both the beehive and the pear charms. The beehives are exactly the same as from my previous order (different vendor). The pears on the other hand are just weeeeeee tiny things. Not sure at this stage of the game if they will be usable for the wine glass charms or not.

Beehives....

The Pear.....now I have attached a picture of the new 'baby' pears and then one with the original pear for a comparison. As you can see, they are very tiny!

The next parcel was the Eggplant ribbon from balsacircle (ebay). As expected it is quite a bit darker than the Plum ribbon but in all fairness the Plum ribbon is sheer. When held together in the sunlight the outer edge of the Plum ribbon is really close to the same shade as the Eggplant. Final decision, I love the Eggplant ribbon and it goes fantastically with the sheer Plum ribbon...so I will buy both!! Now as I haven't been able to find the Eggplant ribbon in anything else but a double sided satin, I might go and try to get a wider size (this one is 1/16 of an inch). I have only attached photos of the two styles of ribbon together, as the Eggplant remains to look almost black when photographed.

The final parcel that came in today was....the scrapbooking paper from mch1069 (ebay). I am really pleased with it (though I wished it was not a matte finish). I did go ahead and order the last two sets that were available (prior to this parcel arriving) as the colour and style are now out of print. I think that the paper will make a wonderful addition to the whole marketing scheme as it does have both the Eggplant (and Plum) and Antique Gold colourings on it. 

All in all....a wonderful day to check the mail. I must say that with the exception for the size of the wee little pear charms I am thoroughly happy with all of my purchases. 

Charming are they not?

Another package arrived in the mail today :)

This one was filled with the charms for the wine glass charm project. As this initial order was to evaluate size, quality and quantity required, I am now in a better position to place a larger order.

I would like to thank Lois7374 (ebay) for this order.

The Nutcracker - these are actually larger than I thought they would be, but the detail is awesome :)

The Sugarplum Faerie - yes she's nude, but that's how they come!!

The Pear - these are just beautiful

And for next year...The Honey Bee - symbolized by the Beehive with two adorable little bees on the front.

Glycerine Soap Making

Just ordered the soap molds from cybrtrayd (ebay) for the 4 themes along with some glittery lustre stuff to make the soap all pretty.

I have put in a request to find fragrances to match the themes from a variety of suppliers.

Sugarplum Faerie

Partridge in a Pear Tree

The Nutcracker Prince

Honeybee (I will continue to look for a beehive mold as well)

Wine Glass Charms

I haven't decided whether these will come in sets of 4 or 6 yet. They will all have the same charm but will have different coloured beads to allow for distinction between glasses.

Sugarplum Faerie   

Pear

                                              

Nutcracker

Beehive (2012 theme)