Kittens ,Beads and Christmas.....

I don't think i've mentioned on here or on the craft forum but my little ruby cat had kittens on my birthday on the 23rd of September..she had 4 and they are sooo ready to go to new homes now. My eldest son decided to have 2 and he picked them up yesterday ,that leaves me with these 2 monsters


they have loads of character alot like their mother and you can't help but awww and ohhh and them but it will be nice to see them homed and get my house back to normal and book the cat in too be done !...no more kits in this house !!

I mentioned I was doing a grey and white pearl bracelet, well i finished it ...took me longer because i was doing it while watching t.v and as all my family know i can't watch t.v,lol i either fall asleep or find 101 jobs that really need doing straight away !
anyway here it is, i have enough glass pearls left to make another so i think i will make one for the website


and finally ................there are 38 days left to Christmas !!!!

I had a thought while peeling potatos

I have some weird and wonderful and sometimes just dam boring thoughts and clippets of inspiration when I'm doing mundane jobs like spud peeling ,hoovering etc..well while peeling yesterdays spud ( 6 of us living at home and one son visiting,I had a lot of spuds,lol) I thought, people who follow or stumble across my blog must think I do some strange jewellery because the only pics i seem to put up are the ones i'm not sure about
I do do normal stuff....promise, I just don't always get round to photographing it all, as normally i tag,bag and store it in my craft fair boxes once they are done....anyway I did manange to take a pic of these 2 bracelets which sold at last weeks event ( can't remember why i took the pics but glad i did)

The faux glass pearl one is a popular design that I've done in loads of different colours and I'm currently doing one in white and grey



The other one is made from vintage leopard print beads, i had enough to do 3 braclets like this ( kept one for me !) and they have always sold really quickly...sadly i only have about 3 of these beads now , so i will have to think of something to do with them


so todays memo to self is ..............take more photographs !!

I've made so many new designs ...

I've been really busy making the past few weeks that last week we took a few days off and went down south to visit both sets of family

We had a lovely time and I came home with some mouthwatering allotment veg off my dad,I know I should make the time to do my own veg but I never seem to have enough hours in the day and Mr Boo is no gardener !!

I have a weekend event this week and then a 3 day event next week plus I need to put more designs on my website. As most of my designs are one of kind I find it hard to choose between putting them on the website or taking them to events .Most do end up priced up and bagged for events (mainly because I dread photographing them as I really can't seem to get a good pic of any of them)

anyway here's a couple of my newbies ....hope you like

The top one is dyed shell and glass , I love shell at the minute and it features in quite alot of my new stuff , I've had some lovely compliments over this design ,I have quite a few similiar designs like this

The middle pic is glass and vintage acrylic beads, I sold this design when we went down South ( I go nowhere without stock,lol).

The bottom pic is yesterdays make ...natural hollow shells with freemoving white freshwater pearls...I came up with this design over a year ago and it's still very popular and adapts to most beads ( ooh as i was typing a christmas present brainwave came over me,lol,shhhhh say no more)

Oh I do Love Buttons...

I really do, buttons feature in lots of different types of craft from card making , to soft furnishings and jewellery
I have hundreds of them, some inherited from my gran who lived in an age where you didn't throw anything away that could be used again, some i have bought and some people have given me when they know how much i like them


This is my latest piece with buttons
I've called it "cute as "
It has a lovely movement to it and look fabulous on.
I may go button buying when my local market is here next .....you can never have enough !!