Trend I'm Loving: Color Block style

I am loveloveloving the color block trend. I feel like I've been carrying on a romantic fling with color blocking for a few years now, and I think it's because it's clean lines and classic styling make it less of a trend and more of just a bold statement. I love punches of color, and color blocking just feeds into that.

While swooning over some color blocked clothing I thought "I should really make color block jewelry, it's so me!" Then I realized..."duh, Erin, you already are." These earrings are fun and an easy way to get into the trend. You can wear them subtly with just a white top and jeans (let the earrings make the statement) or go crazy, and add them onto a color blocked outfit (which I fully plan to do!).

View 1, 2, 3, 4 in my shop

Just so you know, this weekend I will be offering free shipping with the code "FreeShip". I hope you take advantage of it!

Forgive me?

I just realized I neglected to tell you that you can win a pair of my Icicle earrings over at Teaching in Heels!

(Find out more here.)

You must follow Teaching in Heels. (And well, you should because the lovely MJ has great little inspiration posts like "Wish I Was Here Wednesday" and has amazing collaborations with other blogs which are always fun to follow.)

Some of you have been coming over here from that give away so I'd like to properly introduce myself.

I'm Erin. I make jewelry (which you know). And I am a sucker for Steven Tyler, fashion, good music, good books and good fun. You'll find my ramblings here. Feel free to introduce yourself in the comments!

And, if you forgive me, you'll find a little discount code over at MJ's!

1,000 follower giveaway!!!

I've reached a twitter milestone! I now have ONE THOUSAND followers on twitter!

Back when I realized I was close, I decided I would do a giveaway for hitting it. It's taken longer than I thought, I mean I think I'm pretty interesting, not all of the twitterverse does I suppose. But I've made it. My way of thanking you, my little twitter followers is with at giveaway! I'm offering one lucky winner a pair of earrings! You can pick one of the three following pairs. They're all my personal favorites, and I wear them quite often. Your picks:

Icicle

Little Black Dress (pick from black, clear or pink)

Indigo-go

The deets:

• This giveaway will be open for one week. At 11:59 pm (EST) on Wednesday, December 1, the giveaway will close, all entries after that will not be valid.
• There are 3 ways to enter, you may enter once a day by each method. Any multiple entries within the same day will be disqualified.
• Most importantly, you must follow petal & pink on twitter (@petalandpink).

How to enter:

1. Leave a comment on this post including which pair you want and your twitter name (so I can make sure you follow me).
2. Tweet this: @petalandpink is giving away a pair of earrings, find out more here: http://bit.ly/hJblj7 (or something similar. Be sure to include @petalandpink and a link to this blog post since twitter doesn't like you tweeting the same thing more than once)
3. If you have a blog, blog about this giveaway, and leave a second comment here linking back to your post

The winner will be announced here (and on twitter!) on Thursday, December 2nd.

Good luck to all!

Mixed metals

So you saw my polyvore inspiration I used for my mixed metal designs. I figured now would be a good time to follow up and show you what my pieces turned out like.

The bracelet is a 3 strand one and I love the contrasting colors. I wasn't sure how the solid, all one color strands would look, and I think I might recreate this with just a random mixing of all colors on all 3 strands and compare the two.

It was the hoop earrings that really got me to thinking that it might look amazing to do it this way.

I actually love how these hoop earrings turned out and I am definitely going to order more of these beads so that I can create a necklace (I'm thinking long, maybe wire linked, a few strands) for myself with the mixed colors. I'd also probably go larger in size to make construction a bit easier for myself (especially if I'm going to be wire wrapping each one).

So what do you think? I'm loving mixed metals, and I couldn't be more pleased with how these turned out.

sometimes you've got to sparkle.

My latest Etsy addition. Swarovski crystal sparkle earrings. ($17)