Marlo Noel Giveaway!

Can you sense it in the air? That's right wedding season is fast coming upon us and very soon everywhere you look there will be happy couples getting married. If you are a bride you may be wondering what you could possibly get as a gift to thank all of your bridesmaids. Well have no fear because the amazing Marlo Noel is here to provide the most breath taking pieces of jewlery!



I love the wide selection of great earrings, bracelets and necklaces that are found in Marlo Noel's shop! She pays such great attention to detail and that really shows in everything that she does! I love the great packaging that each and every Marlo Noel piece comes in! Look at how amazing those gift boxes look!


Marlo has a great selection of jewelry at every price point so even if your wallet is a bit tight you can still afford to own one of her amazing designs. Marlo Noel features great classic pieces that pack a real punch whether you are wearing it with a tank top and jeans or if it is the centerpiece to your wedding dress. Just take a look at the amazing clasp that she has on all her necklaces! It's so sweet!


Let's get to know more abut Marlo through this great interview:

Name: Marlo Noël Bontempo

Name of shop: Marlo Noël

Website: www.marlonoel.etsy.com, www.marlonoel.com

Location: Cardiff by the Sea, California

Favorite item from your shop: That changes frequently...currently my favorites are probably the Mabel necklace, the Anna VI necklace, and the Alice earrings. I loved the Rachelle necklace, but it is currently sold out!

Tell us a little bit about yourself: I have been running a business making jewelry for 16 years, since I was in about fourth grade. I was always an entrepreneur, selling friendship bracelets or earrings made with tie wire and marbles to my mom's coworkers. I have a very supportive family who always encouraged me to do what I loved, and told me someday it would turn into a real (more profitable) business. Through various jobs in high school and college at a bakery, escrow company, and salon, I knew that eventually I would be doing something that made me much happier and more fulfilled as a career. I still work part-time at Paper Source, but Etsy allows me to have my jewelry available for people around the world to see, and I make things as they are purchased, so I don't have to keep a huge inventory or work in brick-and-mortar shop all day everyday.

What do you consider to be your greatest accomplishment? Not giving up on what really makes me happy as a way to earn income, even when it doesn't always seem like the most lucrative route. And though I'm not technically using my degree in Apparel Merchandising and Management, earning that was important to me, too.

When and what made you want to open up your shop? I heard about Etsy through my coworkers at Paper Source, who said I absolutely had to open an Etsy shop to sell my jewelry. I'd been making jewelry since I was 9, and selling it to family, friends, and a couple of small local boutiques, but I hadn't yet found my niche online. I saw some other jewelry designers on Etsy who seemed to be doing extremely well, so I invested in a great camera and macro lens, took a ton of photos, and with my live-in graphic designer brother-in-law to post-produce the photos and help me list my items, created an Etsy shop!

Tell us a little bit more about your creation process: I make jewelry when inspiration strikes, or when I have an order to fill or stores to restock. I keep my jewelry supplies spread out all over the coffee table or my project table (sometimes both), and clean up my mess when it's time to eat dinner. I'm not very good at maintaining a tidy workspace, but I seem to work best when I have a blank slate in front of me. I also have a neat job at Paper Source, where I get to help people design invitations, and I work with my brother-in-law for Hase Design www.hase2.com and get to help him in the creative process with web and print design.

Where do you draw inspiration for all your amazing designs? I am so lucky to live by the Pacific Ocean, and I am inspired everyday I get to drive home next to it. I try to sift through my favorite design blogs every other day or so- Prudent Baby: www.prudentbaby.com, Making it Lovely:www.makingitlovely.com, and a recently discovered blog of a new friend of mine: www.seagrassinteriors.blogspot.com. I am also inspired by beautiful interiors, and I try very hard to keep our apartment fresh, inspiring, and feeling like home.

If you could be an animal what would you be and why? I would be an otter because they are so sweet and caring and form incredible friendships with other otters. And during a trip to the Monterey Bay Aquarium last fall, they just stole my heart. Go ahead, look "otters holding hands" on YouTube. You'll be hooked.

If you could have one super power what would it be and why? Well, it's not really a super power, but the ability to stay focused on my work would be really useful. I have a tendency to get distracted by the dishes in the sink, unmade bed, dinner that needs to be cooked, etc. When working from home, it's hard to keep on task. Actually, I'd love to be able to relive certain memorable days in my past- not to do things differently, just to get to experience them again.

The Giveaway:

Marlo has been so kind in offering one very luck The Giveaway Diva reader the chance to win a beautiful necklace of her very own! The winner will get to choose one of the following three options:

Maribel I Necklace ... White Topaz

Annabel II Necklace... London Blue Topaz

Maribel IV Necklace... Mystic Pink Topaz Briolette

And best of all this giveaway is open to everyone! So even if you live far far away you can enter!

This giveaway is valued at $34!!!

How to Enter:

1)Visit Marlo Noel and comment on one other piece of jewelry that you love for one entry! (Note that you must do this before any further entries can count!)
2) Blog about this giveaway! Include the link back to the giveaway post as well as a link to Marlo Noel (http://www.etsy.com/shop/MarloNoel) Do this and you get six extra entries!
3) If you are a new follower, welcome!!! Let me know and you will get four extra entries!
4) For my lovely current followers (followers before this post was published) to show my love and appreciation you get six extra entries!
5) Post my button on your blog and you get five extra entries
6) Heart Marlo Noel's shop on etsy for two extra entries
7) If you make a purchase from her you get ten extra entries! Just let Lisa know when you make your purchase so that she can let me know and I can award you the entries!
8) If you enter any of my other giveaways you get two extra entries!!! Just look on the right side of my blog for all my current giveaways!!!
9) Become a follower on twitter @thegiveawaydiva for one entry
10) Tweet this giveaway including a link to the giveaway! Make sure you @thegiveawaydiva so I can confirm it and you can do this once a day!

This giveaway ends on August 18th!

So head on over to Marlo Noel to check out Marlo's amazing designs now!

*Disclosure: Please note that I was not monetarily compensated to write this post but Marlo has agreed to sponsor a giveaway and all opinions are that of my own.