Macro Fun

Bouquet of flowers for Valentine's Day.  Collage was done through PicMonkey.  

I use to do a lot of Macro photography and then shied away from it, not sure why. While sitting next to this beautiful bouquet inspired me to shoot some macro. Hmm...maybe I'll start doing a "Macro Monday" challenge myself.

Capture Life!

I love this quote...

Photo A Day Challenge

Day 31

You

Ending the first month of Photo A Day Challenge for 2013, is to take a photo of yourself.

This is me taking a photo of our new window display...during the day the reflection is horrible, but I thought what a great way to photograph myself without photographing myself...lol!

I used Jerry Jones of Shadow House Creations, Black Box Overlay Set, on blending mode "Screen" at 100%.

Here is the window taken at night.

Capture Life!

Our new line of bath salts

Introducing...

Ametista's Magical Bath Bliss

Just in time for that special "Love" day coming up...Valentines!

Only the highest quality ingredients have been selected for Ametista’s Magical Bath Bliss. The moment you immerse yourself in our luxurious bath salts, you will begin to enjoy the benefits of the aromatic pure essential oils and the soothing affects provided by our spa quality Dead Sea salt.

LoVE bath salts has been especially created, 

during the waxing Moon in Venus, 

to ignite your passions with a special blend of 

superior essentials oils, consisting of  

Lavender and Rosemary for love, 

Yarrow for love and courage and 

Cardamom to stoke the lusty side of love.

Now we can't forget about our lustful sides....

LuST bath salts has been especially created,

during the waxing Moon in Venus, 

to ignite your passions with a special blend of 

superior essentials oils, consisting of  

Sandalwood for cleansing and promoting energy, 

Patchouli to enhance sexuality and passion and  

Cardamom to stoke lust and love.

The perfect gift for that special someone in your life or simply just to pamper yourself.

We'll be adding more bath salts in other scents soon, so please be sure to check out our shop.

January's Lucky Winner!!!

Congratulations to TiLT of Detroit! 

She's our January drawing WINNER

and the recipient of a Belandaria Designs
original affirmation necklace entitled,
"Love Will Grow In The Garden That You Keep" 
a handmade art pendant with Mother of Pearl, 
Peridot and Sterling Silver

Thank you, everyone who participated and thanks for all the lovely comments!

Be sure to check back in February for another

FAST

FUN

FREE

Give-Away!

Wishing you all the brightest blessings now and always!

Carrie & Kathy

Ametista is hosting another fabulous giveaway!

There's still plenty of time left 
winner will be announced on January 28th! 


We proudly present...
Beautifully unique artisan jewelry from Belandaria Designs.



So for your chance to win this stunning piece click here...
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Artist ships worldwide...so all can enter.

Good Luck!

February Free Monthly Drawing....

This month you have the chance to win a great prize

from one of our very own shops!

What better way to highlight your loved ones, who's pictures inevitably
end up on your fridge, than to surround them with the icons of love...hearts!

Set of four handmade, one of a kind,
(well, four of a kind if you wanna get technical)
polymer clay heart shaped magnets. Approx. 2" x 1.75" each.

All you have to do is click here and following the instructions for your chance to win.

We ship worldwide, so all can enter!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Etsybloggers Blog Carnival - Valentine

Valentine's Day memories...I'm going to write a little bit about the past and present day. I'm sure we all remember when we were in grade school and going out shopping for the cutest "pack" of Valentines for your class, and your mom getting upset because....well they never have the right amount in the pack, so you're having to buy more than one pack and have so many left over...LOL.

Anyway, it was always fun decorating your box or bag for the "Big" day. We carefully chose how we were going to do it and wanted to have the best looking one sitting on our desk, right? I think for me that was the most fun, but also that dreaded feeling of...how many will I get? or will anyone give me any? and will everyone see that I only received a few, because back in our days, it wasn't mandatory that you give EVERYONE a Valentine. Well as usual, I was the girl who only got a handful of Valentines, and hardly ever did they actually have my name on them (we were always given a list of names). It was such an embarrassing time for me that during school years I came to dread Valentine's Day. I always made sure I gave everyone a Valentines card, because I knew what it felt like to be left out.

I'm just glad that now days, hopefully, are children give them out to everyone (at least I made sure mine did).

So now that I'm all grown up and went through years of therapy over those years....kidding! I still would get excited about helping my son pick out those "great" Valentines. We would usually make our own just to be different. He would get great feedback, which I guess in my own selfish way, it helped with the past. Even though, he's in Junior High, not sure how they handle that nowadays or even if he's interested...lol. So far no mention of buying or making any Valentines...sad, but will always treasure the great memory of being on the "mother" side of buying/making Valentines for a classroom.

As far as "special" plans with my Sweetie, we'll probably go out to eat at a nice restaurant (depending on if we get a babysitter or not). We don't usually buy each other much for that day. I tell him 'NO CANDY", I don't need it! We usually exchange cards and sometimes I get some roses as well.

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY EVERYONE!