Translating into Italian

Etsy is growing... and learning a new language: Italian.

The project started, and many members of Etsyitaliateam are helping in this great issue of translating etsy into Italian.
I've never translated a web-site before. I am very gratefull to my informatics course at University, otherwise html would be an enormous difficoulty. These codes are everywhere while translating and sometimes they make it difficult to understand the real meaning of a very simple sentence or phrase.
It's tricky, but so far is also interesting.

What is strange about it is that it must be functional, there is very little to "read". What we are translating are basic information to surf the great sea of shops on Etsy. Thus, we need to focus on the very use of words.
Another thing to take into consideration is lenght. Bottons and links are supposed to take the same amount of space of the english ones.

Luckily, we have a thread to compare our doubts and talk with the admin to be sure of doing a good job. Once again, what makes Etsy different from other places on the net, is the main idea of community.

Working (and living) with what has to do with languages, I've been wondering about this project before joining. We are doing it as volunteers, we are just partecipating in what we want to became real. We first wanted this site to speak Italian. But translation is also a serious matter, people do it for a living, so... how fair is it doing it for free?
I hope someone is supposed to revise our whole work, in the end. Someone that do it for a living.
So far, once again I am learning something new!

Dark blue-green, earrings in Murano Glass

My latest trip in Venice was really great time spent with a dear friend of mine.

He was very kind and waited for me choosing glasses in a little shop along the street.

I love this colour (and he loved it too) It's dark but shining too.



This time I decided to use only Silver 925 as a metal. Hooks and the rest are totally in silver.

Probably I want to make them just more.. precious!!

Though they seem heavy, they are quite easy to wear.
Perfect for summer, to make you shine!!

FREE SHIPPING!

Happy bithrday to me!!
Yesterday was my birthday, that is the kind of thing that makes me happy... so happy that I decided a discount for anybody will choose one of my items in this week!
Take advantage and insert the code: MYBIRTHDAY012

 

http://www.clode83.etsy.com

 

first sale!

My first sale on Etsy was on the charity shop. Someone has bought the earrings I've donated to the charity shop. I was very excited about it and luckily I could send them almost immediately after the sale!

I am particularly happy about this sale, I hope that it could bring me a bit of luck about my future sales. I've earned nothing, of course, but it was a real pleasure the same!

have a look in my shop to see the new items!
;)

In Clode's drawer

Yes, definitely I've got the title!

My drawers are always a mess! And nobody is authorized to open them, except for me, of course. Inside there I can found anything, really! Last week I found even money (that's the good thing of having such a terrible memory)! My sister is always complaining about my drawers, and when something disappears in our room, she is always convinced that it is there. That's almost never the truth.

But drawers for me are also something... poetic! There is an expression in Italian "il tuo sogno nel cassetto" which means the dream you keep in your drawer. You can keep it there because it is secret, or because you are waiting the right time to use it. Anyway, anytime someone asks me about my "sogno nel cassetto". To have a free drawer to put my dreams inside of it! :)

This shop is a partial realization of me, of what I'm doing, so it could be, one of my drawer for my dreams (Of course, I have more than one!!)

Here a bit of things you can find in my drawer now:

http://www.etsy.com/listing/99899793/in-shades-of-blue-earrings-variazioni

http://www.etsy.com/listing/100110209/glass-bracelet-in-green-and-turquoise

 

http://www.etsy.com/listing/100832529/bracelet-in-murano-glass-in-shades-of

http://www.etsy.com/listing/101087436/earrings-blu-agata-and-lava-stone

I'm standig up with etsy

 I'm partecipating in the campaign with this pair of earrings I've recently made.

Very light colours, a good idea for summer, and a very nice cause to help.

NO SHIPPING COST!

What are you waiting for?!
;)

etsy for charity

The earth is still moving in the north of Italy, etsy's Italian Friends are collecting money to help those who are in a difficoult situation because of the earth-quake, let's have a look:
"Stand up with us to help earthquake people by buying our beautiful handmade items!

The proceeds will be donated at the end of the campaign and we'll publish the receipt.
Please, take a look at our profile and shop policies and blog for more info."

Past found-rising:
- Five Land's Flood (Oct 2011- Feb 2012): http://etsyitaliateam.blogspot.it/2012/02/eit-for-charity-second-campaign-has.html
- GECA Onlus (2011 Jul-Sep): http://etsyitaliateam.blogspot.com/2011/11/eit-for-charity-first-campaign-has.html

Blog: http://etsyitaliateam.blogspot.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/etsyitaliateam
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/EtsyItaliaTeam"

I have donated something too, will be posted as soon as possible!
stay tuned!

It is a matter of size sometimes...

Bracelets are a totally different matter from earrings when you create a piece of jewellery...
Because bracelet may have a right size!

When I started working on this bracelet I didn't consider it, since I was busy in preparing the stones. The solution came quite easily, anyhow: putting various rings at the end it becomes suitable for different "wrist".

Matching agata with nacre is quite unusual, but I like these two colours togheter!
The result is a very fine bracelet.

I think I'll prepare a pair of earrings with the same motifs, since I still have agata and nacre...

Stay tuned!

what's in a hobby

I need to keep moving my hands, particularly when I'm nervous or worried for something...
That's why I play the guitar.
That's why I like cooking.
That's why I started this new hobby!

Earrings are my favourite piece of jewelery! What i like most is that they move while you move. According to this idea I try to make all my earrings move somehow. Though the long tubeis static, the final agata at the end can move.

That's just an hobby for me, of course. In etsy I found a way to share it first of all, and let see what is going to happen...

Even blogging was just an experiment at the very beginning and eventually made me in real contact with extraordinary people here around...

Too much time is passed since then and my blogroll is to be updated... I'll do that too.

Hope you enjoy what you see so far!

Time goes by...

...and new projects come to life!!

I've been thinking about my "English" blog, and how to keep it alive. Italian lessons are still something I want to do here, and language learning in general is still among my main activities.
Recently, I started something new...
A new hobby, if you want to say so... I started creating jewellery. At first I was not so satisfied with the result, but I kept on trying and... what I'm doing now is a bit more pretty to see (or, at least I hope so!)

Yesterday night I opened a virtual shop on Etsy. I "studied" a bit before opening it and I finally decided to try...
Here is my first item:

I bought the glass during my last visit in Venice. In the fine little shop where I bought these two, there were no others with the same colour. What I really like about these earrings is the colour! It reminds me of water, and the shape too convey to this idea! That's why I decided to put nothing else than the glass for these earrings.

I hope you like them, and hope that you enjoy visiting my shop!
Stay tuned!

The earrings are available here: http://www.etsy.com/shop/clode83