I have no patience ......

I know ,i know I should wait for the glue to dry before i take a pic, but i've never had any patience with little things like that !!
I tidied up my worktable recently ( there was actually a mound of bits and pieces in the middle of the table at least 10 inches high )and found a bag of cufflink blanks...i think i bought a wholesale amount when i had an order for some scrabble cufflinks ,obviously i'd planned to do so much with them then forget all about it !!( typical me )
Well this is my new idea ( not new new but new to me )


I quite like them and the clear cabs on the front make the words "pop" out,I have about 6 pairs of cufflinks now ( the others being gaming dice ones) which i will box up and sell as Christmas stocking fillers at the next fair we do

Let you know if people liked them,lol

Sooo long since I've made a new charm bracelet.....

I havn't done one of my fully loaded charm bracelets for ages , but after a lovely trip to the auctions yesterday I have loads and loads of lovely "new" vintage beads....so here is make #1

My bracelets are a mix of new and vintage beads,charms and gemstones, each one is totally unique, I never repeat a bracelet ( although I have done similiar for customers in different colours )as I can't cause each one takes shape as I make it and involves so many different beads that I couldn't remember what went into one,lol,this one has a real Autumn feel to it and I have called it "Fall".

I made this one when watching t.v last night and I'm pondering over a design for another one in black with a nice strong contrasting colour ( not sure yet which colour to use)

A cardmaker I'm definatly NOT !

This year I decided to have a go at making my own Christmas cards and I've got to be honest I didn't discover a hidden talent,lol
I did only want something simple , the text on the tree is about Charles Dickens "Christmas Carol" and I even managed to print a greeting inside
( out of 20 only 2 went really wrong,one i did a tree upside down ! and the other the card slipped in the printer )

I quite like them but don't know if I'm brave enough to actually send them out,lol

so all you card makers , well done it's harder than it looks

And some bracelets.........

Two posts in one day , i'm on a roll......
I've had a productive day ( well jewellery wise, I've not done much housework,lol)...
The 3 bracelets together are for selling ,2 are minus clasps at the minute as I can't find my clasps!!...I love wearing this style and have another similiar one with a vintage bead on that came off a broken 1940s necklace.
The yellow one I'm going to keep ( I must stop keeping so much ,lol) cause I love yellow and I made it a tad too big so it fits my chunky wrists nicely

now which do I wear out tonight...the russian doll necklace or the bracelet ??...hmmmm

My little russian dolls....

I've been playing with my stash this week and come up with this cute necklace, I love russian dolls and think this necklace is quite sweet...unfortunatly ( or maybe not) I'm going to have to keep this one as the glue has bubbled under the setting..so I will wear it when I go out tonight :)
I will definatly make more and experiment with different images and different styles of chain.
hmmm wonder if the bubble will go the more the glue dries.....

Sad,Bad and Mad Times...........

I feel like I always say this but it's been a busy time here


Sadly I had to have a break this month from my jewellery as I suffered another miscarriage which left me feeling very run down and quite poorly not to mention all the usual lows that come with losing a pregnancy,but I am now starting to get back on my feet a little ,mostly thanks to my wonderful man who is always there for me, no matter how down I get.


We had a busy weekend at two lovely events and met some lovely people ,we caught up with old friends and made new ones.


I bought another Christmas present from the very talented kerry of pennydog jewellery .If youv'e never come across her designs before she is a wonderful resin jewellery maker who has now written a book explaining the whole process .Such a fantastic book I'm tempted to keep it and get another for a present and have a go myself ( I'm sure if i stop cooking for my lot and washing clothes I'm bound to find the time :) )

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)