There are really some very wonderful people out in the world. A week ago Donna received an email from Kelly at Kabela Design. Kelly had seen the blog post about Kristen and her injuries and that Donna was planning on designing some jewelry to help with medical funds. In addition to sending her thoughts and prayers, Kelly and the folks at Kabela Design have very generously donated some of their products to help Donna build designs.

Donna received the package yesterday and is starting to design more pieces inspired by Kristen. To Beth, Tom, Kelly and everyone at Kabela Design, everyone at Alainn Beaded Jewelry thanks you from the bottom of our hearts for your thoughtfulness and kindness during this difficult time.

Please be sure to check out the Kabela Design website to view their beautiful products. A lot of it is absolutely stunning!

After taking a hiatus from the site to buy and move into my new house, I am back to work on this site. I will be doing little updates and adjustments all over the place. I will try and make sure that the slideshow’s are up to date with all of my Mom’s latest designs. I will also try and get the pictures of the jewelry being modeled onto a slideshow as well. Look for more to come!

Here is a post from my website Marla Anson Photography.

Wearing Alainn Beaded Jewelry

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Here is a picture of me wearing one of the necklaces that my Mom made for me.

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Look for new slideshow’s to come! I have just prepped an entire batch of pictures with my sister modeling the jewelry, necklaces and bracelets! Some of these items will not be for sale and are just examples of Alainn Beaded Jewelry.

I just added some nifty new pictures onto the the necklace and jewelry sets pages. There are soon to be pictures for the bracelet and earring pages!

Ok, it has been a little too long in coming, but all the pictures in the slideshow have been named and priced! There will probably be some changes on names and pricing because I’m not sure exactly what names my Mom has picked out for everything or the proper amount to charge. I just want to at least make sure that there was something for each picture instead of “-5, -8, etc…” Now I just have a bunch of new necklaces to add to the slideshow. There are some really pretty ones! Also, I have been weeding through my vast hard drive full of pictures and will soon be posting some images of Alainn Beaded Jewelry being modeled on my sister. I’m still trying to figure out how I want to get these onto the site. I think I may dedicate a page to them. This really helps give an idea of how these necklaces look in action! If you want to get an idea before I actually post those, check out the Flickr pictures that demonstrate how to put on the jewelry in the sidebar on the right.

Still working on integrating Facebook with this page. I need some help on this and am getting my IT guy (i.e., my husband) on the job!

Alainn Beaded Jewelry is now on Facebook. I have to do a lot of stuff with it still, but we are now using Facebook for advertising!

Today I have started doing our first ad campaign. Starting really small, but you can only do what time allows. We have an ad on the Albany, NY Craigslist and the Manhattan Craigslist. I also put an advertisement on the classifieds section of my mommy groups website. We’ll see if we start getting some traffic. We should have prices on stuff soon. We are also working on getting the Etsy storefront really up and running.

In other news, the obnoxious spam comments have started showing up on our posts. Very annoying! I will have to get Akismet up and running to block all of that nonsense.

I have been doing some updates to the site. Please check out our new page The Jewelry! There are several pages under this one to explore too. I haven’t really put anything on them yet except for a slideshow on the Necklaces page. I am still trying to figure out how this feature works, so it may look a little messy for the next couple of weeks.

Update October 3, 2009: Figured out the slideshow and it is looking great!

Look for new designs soon. Donna is going to the Innovative Beads Exposition within the next couple of weeks, which means that there will be new necklaces and other jewelry! She is very excited about the coming event and is really looking forward to making some new product!

Here is the latest necklace from Alainn Beaded Jewelry! Donna only has enough to make seven of these Lotus Blossom Necklaces, so if you really like it, get in contact with her!

After running through several themes, Alainn Beaded Jewelry will have the current look that you see now.

I put Flickr on the site so you can see how to put the jewelry on. Check it out! Unfortunately the pictures are not in order. I will work on fixing that as soon as I can figure out what I have to do for them to actually be in order. Sometimes this stuff can be frustrating.

On a side note, we have just been featured on GarrickAnson.com.

These are very beautiful, Mom did a wonderful job on them. Each color represents something. Here is a link to them on my site, too.

Update: You can now purchase these beautiful prayer beads in our store!!!!! Just go here.

This necklace will be available for purchase.