1 Year Anniversary

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Today is YourSweetTreat's one year anniversary! Yay!! And I was thinking I should definitely have a give away since I haven't had one in a long time. It's time to celebrate and I would love to have you celebrate with me! So I am giving away a $30 gift certificate for you to purchase anything on my shop! It doesn't expire. :) Have fun and enjoy!

how to enter the contest

here are 6 chances you can win!

follow and comment - 1 chance

- follow this blogspot page

- leave 1 comment on this blog

with your 'favorite card' link on my shop

twitter it - 2 chances

- if you have twitter, go on my etsy shop

- find your favorite item and tweet the link.

be sure to include @yoursweettreat so i can track your tweets

example: my favorite item is link from @yoursweettreat

- leave 1 comment on this blog with your twitter link

- leave 1 comment if you tweeted about this contest with its link

facebook it - 2 chances

- if you have facebook, go on my etsy shop

- find your favorite item and post the link on your facebook

be sure to include @yoursweettreat so i can track your posts

- leave 1 comment on this blog with your facebook link

- leave 1 comment if you posted about this contest with its link

blog it - 1 chance

- have a blog? blog about this contest

- leave 1 comment with your blog entry link!

when you click on your favorite item on my etsy shop, on the right hand side it says "share", click that and it's an easier way for you to share the link on your facebook or twitter. just be sure to add @yoursweettreat to your posts and tweets.

giveaway ends friday february 11, 2011 8am pst

come back to see who the winner will be!

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New Layout

( photo was taken at a christmas cancer fund party, selling our jewelry )

I finally made the layout I wanted today! I'm so happy. I've always wanted to use this type of feel in one of my layouts and it hit me that I want to use it for my blog! Sorry I'm just over excited. Hopefully I just stay with this look. I have a problem with changing layouts. Never satisfied kind of thing. I think when its your own work you criticize yourself a lot more. Anyways I hope you like it! Now I just have to fix my mailing list layouts :)

If you haven't signed up on my e-mailing list, be sure to do so. Its on the right side of this blog.

I love photography

Photography is fun! Retouching photos is a great way to enhance photos. I use Photoshop and Lightroom. If you haven't used Lightroom, it's great. It's easy. You can lighten, darken, blue, sharpen your photos instantly. But if you are used to Photoshop, that's good too. I usually use Lightroom for my Jewelry Shots.

I took some photos of my friend for practice to see how I would do. I hope you'll enjoy them. Oh the masks, I loved them. Got them in hollywood. :)

Resin Pendant advice

I need an advice. I've purchased these resin pendants long time ago and realized I ordered the wrong kind. The material was too hard with what I wanted to work with. Before I blab about random things here is the question. What do you think I can create with this resin pendant? I have one idea but I'm not sure if it's good enough.

I have so many of these!

The story behind "Nina".

Nina was a name that was given to me. Jasmine Nina, Yeup it was good. Well I was in the car scene and I used Nina as my name. There were lots of Jasmine's in the industry when I wanted to start out so I wanted something different, sorta. There were other Nina's that I realized after I used it as my main name. Awe well it was too late.

There were many times that I decided to leave the scene, I started out when I was 18. I enjoyed the attention, the friends I made, the traveling, oh how I miss the traveling! But it was time for me to leave, I achieved what I wanted, get on magazines. After that I was pretty happy. I left the scene at 23. It was time for me to start fresh, and that's where YourSweetTreat came into my life. I have always loved crafts. Before then I just modeled, retouch photos and made website layouts. I was more of a hands on type of girl. As much as I loved modeling, crafting was more important to me. It let me express my feelings, not stress much about anything.

Plus, everyone was happy for me. My family and friends. They always supported me along the way. I don't regret modeling, I met some awesome people who I became great friends with. It's just my past, and it was time for me to move forward.

People still call me Nina, which I don't mind, but Jaz would be good too. :)

Erased the past

So I decided to erase everything on my blog and start something fresh. Something new. Something more exciting. I'm reading "The Handmade Market Place" by Kari Chapin and it's got me thinking.. Improve my business! Well that was the whole point of this book.

I've never been a great writer or blogger, and it says that I shouldn't even be trying that hard on my blog. Blogging should be about me, and what I do. So that's what I'll be blogging about. About me, about my life, about what I'm doing with myself. This blog will state and let you understand who I am. Hi, I'm Jasmine. I was known as a girl named Nina, or actually I'm still known as Nina. And you want to know why? Stick around and you'll find out. :)

And if you already know why, don't spoil it for others. *shakes finger at you*