We’ve finally managed to build a facebook fan page for animal charms. join us there and become a fan! We’ll be announcing new charities and discount codes all the time.

http://www.facebook.com/AnimalCharms/

Filigree Butterfly Earrings

I’ve been adding a lot of new sterling silver earrings the last few days. From a whole collection of mini critters to a new batch of great looking dangle earrings.

These filigree design butterflies are my favorite of the group, so far. They have a great looking design and have a little faceted bead to give them that classic style look. Look around and see what else we have added.

Diane has also been hard at work on the web site as well. She has added a new feature where the newest items in the store are automatically listed on the home page. It saves you the hassle of searching the site to see what’s new. How cool is she?

One of the most important things about making and selling jewelry is that our customers have as much information as they want or need about everything we sell. Fortunately for us many of our vendors have started providing more information about the jewelry we buy from them.

Some of the new symbols you will be seeing around the site include which stands for jewelry made in an environmentally responsible manner or with recycled material. We look forward to the day when all of our jewelry has this symbol next to it, but for now I’m thrilled to see jewelry manufacturing take a progressive approach to being more earth friendly.

Another group of symbols you will be seeing around here is are the made in symbols. While we don’t always know exactly where something is made, when we do know we will be adding these symbols to our jewelry. Many of our customers care where they jewelry is made and this is just one way we are trying to help them.

As always, we are trying hard to add new product every week, and look forward to serving you, and generating a little revenue for our animal charities. If you know of an animal charity that we should be helping please let us know about them, or have them contact us. We will give them their own discount coupon where they will get 5% of every sale and our customer will get an additional 5% off their purchase. All of this is on top of the 10% we are already giving.

Whale Pendant

It has been far too long since we have added new jewelry to the Animal Charms website. I apologize for the huge delay but the wait has been worth it. I’ve added several pairs of sterling silver earrings and a few new pendants.

My favorite is this awesome Whale Fetish. It has a lot of great details and features a hidden bail making it perfect for wearing on a leather choker. I’m working on making a selection of leather cords and hope to have those available to everyone by the end of the week. Look for the announcement here.

The last month or so has been full of adventure around here. Between the bank messing up our accounts, problems with the credit card processor, and adding some custom touches to the store, this has taken longer than I was hoping it would.

The good news is that Diane is back home from her Air Force Reserve duty so we are back to full strength here. Over the next couple of weeks she will be adding new product and I will be writing pretty descriptions of what we have to offer. About the descriptions, there is some information that we simply don’t have about some of our product. So until we get an opportunity to order it in and tke measurements and weigh things there will be some missing information. Until we can get that fixed, if you order a new product that we do not have all of the information on we will happily weigh it and measure before shipping it to you or allow you to return it, unused, for a full refund, no questions asked.

This isn’t exactly the best solution, but for a startup early in the process its the best we can do.

Thanks to everyone that has visited so far, and thank you for the orders we have already recieved. We hope to have enough for our first animal charity donation soon. And keep checking back, we’ll be having our ‘Grand Opening’ soon with even more discounts!!