NOVICA Review & Giveaway

I was very excited when I was contacted by NOVICA to review one of their handcrafted products - and more specifically, from their sterling silver jewelry line!  If you've ever read my blog before, you know that the majority of stuff I review are either for my kids or some sort of green cleaning product for my house - so to actually be able to review something just for ME, definitely made me even a little more excited!

NOVICA is one of the leading fair trade artisan websites.  They work with National Geographic to give talented artisans around the world a place to express their artistic talents and provide access to the world market.  They have thousands of jewelry items on their website!  It took me a long time to go through their website to find what I really wanted to review.  I ended up going with an Amethyst pendant necklace "Mystic Marvel" from an artisan in India - I do love Amethyst and it is my youngest baby's birthstone! 

I received the necklace in the mail a few weeks ago and have had a chance to wear it a few times already!  Everytime I wear it, I am always receiving compliments!  It is a square pendant with 12 round amethyst stones in it.  My husband and I went on a cruise last week together without our kids, so this necklace was definitely worn one of the nights at dinner.  I really love the necklace - it is the perfect size and length.  Many times when I buy a necklace, it ends up too long for me, but I love that this had an option of a shorter length.

What is even cooler (besides the gorgeous necklace) is that when it arrived, it came with a personalized postcard from the artisan!  It was very cool to receive the postcard from India written by the artisan (and also an English interpretation below).  I thought it definitely added a personal touch to it!

Here are a few other pieces that I love too!

NOVICA has been generous to offer one of my readers a $50 gift card to the NOVICA store.  Use it for whatever you would like - some stuff from their home decor line or possibly even a nice pair of earrings!!!   In order to enter, you must be a public follower of my blog and leave me a comment letting me know you follow and what item you would purchase from NOVICA with your $50 gift card. 

Before you can do any extra entries, make sure you've done the mandatory one....
Extra entries:
1) Become a facebook fan of NOVICA
2) Become a twitter follower of NOVICA
3) Follow 3 Little Ones on twitter and tweet giveaway (tweet can be done up to 3x per day) - make sure to comment with link to your tweet
4) Like 3 Little Ones on facebook
5) Blog about this giveaway (3 extra entries)
6) Post giveaway on your facebook wall

Giveaway begins on September 18th and ends on October 2nd at 8 pm EST.  Giveaway is open internationally to anyone over the age of 18.  Winner will be selected via random.org and will announced on this blog.  Winner will then have 48 hours to send me an email or a new winner will be selected. 

Good luck!!!

*I was not compensated for this review.  I did receive a necklase from NOVICA for the purpose of this post.  All opinions are my own. *

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