So I’ve mentioned that this is my birthday month and I’ve also mentioned that my handmade business is turning one at the end of the month. To Celebrate I’ll be offering some fun discounts, giveaways, and promotions! Woo! I will be sharing them here on my blog during the next week and a half so make sure you keep checking back! Tomorrow I will be doing a giveaway so make sure to come back and check out the rules for your chance to win!

Now to share something a bit silly but really quite exciting for considering how I was managing before. I just bought my first jewelry power tool! I had put this off for sometime liking the idea that my hands were doing 100% of the jewelry work I was doing. I realized that my hand drill was really doing me no favors. It’s really a 2 person tool so when I used it by myself I would have to hold the end under my chin while awkwardly leaning over my work and slowing drill a tiny hole. It was bad for my back, neck, arms, probably my whole body. So I caved and I bought a drill press. IT HAS BEEN WONDERFUL. I mark my holes, walk them over to my hand drill press, turn it on, and pull down the lever. One, two, three, four holes, it’s that fast. I love it and my back, neck, chin all have thanked me.