Now Available...Heart-Shaped Pendants!

Here is the latest for Hoyden Designs...heart-shaped pendants! I'll be painting on them soon to add to my shop, or you can e-mail me at christina@hoydendesigns.com to request a custom pendant painted especially for you or a loved one!

Raven Pendant - Custom Order

This post shows the process that was taken in designing custom raven pendants. The sketch shows the initial ideas for the layout, shown to the customer for approval. Once the design (or in the case, designs!) is chosen, I'll paint the pendant. I love doing custom work...it always makes my imagination and talents stray in to unexpected and delightful venues!

Hoyden Designs Newsletter

Would you like to know the latest goodies coming up from Hoyden Designs before anyone else? Are you squirming with curiosity to know what's in the works? Do I ever have a solution for you!
Join the Hoyden Designs mailing list! I'll send out an e-mailed newsletter every so often with all my latest schemes and plottings, and you might even get a valuable coupon good toward freebies and discounts for some great stuff in my Etsy store!
To join you can e-mail me at christina@hoydendesigns.com. Hope to hear from you soon!

Now Offering - Hand-Made Necklaces for Pendants!

I'm am pleased - and very proud - to announce that I've added a new catergory to my Etsy store...necklaces! These simple cords look incredible when paired with a Hoyden Designs pendant, and the shipping is FREE is purchased with one! I make them myself out of black waxed cotton cord, and will soon be adding smooth and natural leather. Please click here if you're interested...I offer them in 18", but I'd love to do custom orders if you prefer another size! Just let me know in the "Notes to Seller" when you purchase.

I was in TWO treasuries on ETSY!!!!!

A few days ago I was so excited to see that I had been included in 2 separate treasuries! (SimplySusan, thank you!) Yay! This is a first and is such a HUGE deal for me! :)

Dreaming of Darcy "Cameos" - ON SALE in my Etsy shop!

Over the next few days I'll be adding these lovely ladies to my listings! They are the newest to join the ranks of the Dreaming of Darcy series of paintings and pendants. Jane Austen probably never dreamed that her most famous hero from Pride and Prejudice would have such a flock of beautiful women dreaming about him! These delicate hand-painted pendants are the perfect accompaniment to your (or a Jane Austen fan's close to you) fantasies about the moody Mr.Darcy. They can be purchased in my Etsy Store! So please visit and take a look at my little Regency-inspired ladies in all their dreamy elegance!

Please Welcome "Caroline" to the Dreaming of Darcy" series!

Please welcome Caroline to the "Dreaming of Darcy" series! She's quite an elegant lady, all ready for a ball in London during the "season" in her fashionable gown and with pearls in her hair. The background is made up of textured earth tones of browns, greens and yellow and muted with a glaze. There are also rose leave impressions climbing up the right side.
And due to the popularity of this new series of mine, I am creating a new line of pendants to go along with it! 2 of them are pictured here. Each is a polymer clay pendant, hand-formed, sanded and buffed by myself. I then hand-paint each image and finish it off with 2 coats of protective varnish. These are lovely pendants that are quite eye-catching!
The green-gowned pendant (the lady in purple has sold! And I'm so partial to Caroline that she's currently in my private collection.) are available in my Etsy Store! Please come on in and take a look around!

Halloween Pendants are HERE!

Yes folks, Halloween is just around the corner! And in honor of that wonderful autumn season I have come up with a few pendants to get you in the spirit of things. Above you can see one of my favorites, Mr.Dancing Skeleton, but I have a great selection in my Etsy Store...please click here to check them out and purchase! Thank you!

2 New Paintings in the "Dreaming of Darcy" Series

Please welcome Mary and Lucy!
Mary is sitting in a buttery yellow gown on an 8x10 wonderfully textured and glazed gallery-wrapped canvas. Lucy is on a 5x7 canvas board surrounded by a mottled green background and lazily waving a delicate fan. Both are a part of my Jane Austen inspired series of paintings.

Dreaming of Darcy - Isabella ... SOLD!

Thank you and congratulations to BreeLeeD on www.etsy.com who came up with such a perfect name for my new painting series inspired by Jane Austen ... "Dreaming of Darcy"! She has received her FREE one of a kind Hoyden Designs hand painted pendant based on this new painting series. The first painting offered up for sale in this series and named "Isabella" (shown here) has SOLD! Please visit this link to view the listing or to access my shop for others in this popular series!: click here!
Thank you! Christina