Etsy Treasuries

I love love LOVE it when I notice I've been featured in an Etsy Treasury. It's such a nice suprise! Treasurys are one of my favourite etsy features.

Here are some I've been featured in this month, aren't they gorgeous collections? You can click on them to go through to the original treasury and, if you like, leave a comment - people always love to get a comment on their collections. Or you can go through and look at an item in more detail.

and some gorgeous pastels....

Brrrr....when winter won't let go...

Don't worry winter is closely followed by the Spring....(how great is that bird photo? - love it)

And finally a fantastic collection from the lovely DLC..

I'm going to actually get around to putting some together myself this week - I'll let you know how it goes!

Jewellery giveaway!!!

At the beginning of the year I joined the Starving Artists Team. Last year I spent ages on the team forum, and picked up so many tips, tricks; honestly I learnt LOADS - what a talented and clever bunch they are. So when the opportunity came up to be a part of the team I jumped at it.

Artisan Blue Lampwork and Oxidized Sterling Silver Dangle Bracelet by Galadryl

And April is an exciting month for the team because we've organised a fantastic giveaway - officially it's a mothers day giveaway because most of the team are based in the US, and for them Mothers Day is the beginning of May. But for us UK folks, you get to keep all the goodies yourself should you be lucky!!(yeah ok you could buy your mum a little something too if she's been good!)

Artisan Hot Pink Oxidized Sterling Silver Wrapped Necklace - Hello by Shiny Adornments

It's completely free to enter, and would take seconds - and the prizes are gift vouchers totalling over £100!!!!

The jewellery above is from some of the jewellery artisans taking part - wouldn't you just love one of these beauties!!! Click on the pictures, or links below to take a peek at the shops, and then......

Go take a look at the prize draw blog post for how to take part!

We're in!

That's it, I'm never moving again!

It took a lot longer than expected to get the telephone line and therefore broadband working again, but it's done so I'm back online and raring to go....ish.

The new house is lovely - we're thrilled with it, it's so much better than we thought it was going to be. Isn't it funny how you spend so much money on a house that you only see a few times?

And the garden is beautiful (before I've got my hands on it). It's going to be so much fun seeing what pops up over the year. I've got a feeling it's going to keep me busy though! I think I need to go on a course so I can finally learn what's a weed and what's not as opposed to my usual gardening technique of pulling up anything that's growing too well, because it's obviously a weed.

At the moment we've got some blossom. I think blossom in the spring is such a treat after the dark, grey winter. I'm loving seeing the pink trees all over the place.

And guess what else we've got in the garden.....

....nope, I don't mean the pond... look closer.....

I went out this morning to see about 10 frogs, all gathered around their spawn. I'm such a kid at heart, but I'm soo excited!

Hope you're all well out there, and enjoying the fab spring weather!


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New house

Phew....busy busy busy - we move house on Tuesday, so I'm spending every waking hour, cleaning, sorting, painting, - you know the drill. Sadly, anything other than jewellery making at the moment!!

Anyway, I just wanted to let you see a picture of the new house that Chloe drew....it looks exactly like it....kind of....and to let you know I'll be back, and raring to go at the beginnning of March. See you then!
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My latest commission...

I've just started working on a commission for my friend Louise, some little heart earrings. She was very sure about what she wanted, heart earings on a long wire, with a delicate grey pearl. I decided to use silver clay, rather than sterling.

I've shaped the silver clay

smoothed them down and drilled holes

I've just got some lovely new deep grey pearls with a gorgeous sheen.

I'll show you when I've finished. I do love working on commissions!

My workspace

We have a new house! I'm so ridiculously excited about moving in, but we still have a couple of weeks before we do. So we've been over to do a bit of painting, and remove the internal glass doors that would be just a leeeeetle too dangerous to have around with the kids haring around. Busy busy busy. I'll put some pics up next week.

I've figured out where my new jewellery corner will be, there's space for a little table upstairs right by the window. Perfect!

It's a good job, because as you can see from the piccie above, my little workspace in our temporary home is getting just a little cluttered. What a complete mess!!!

It will also be a very good opportunity to get some new storage for my bits and pieces.

Something like this would do me...

which I came across on pinterest via browndresswithwhitespots

or maybe this

which I found on Jordan Ferney's blog.

Do you have any storage ideas to share with me?

I found treasure!

When I was little I used to go and stay at my Gran's house every Tuesday night. It was great as it was nearer to school, I got a yummy cooked dinner, and I slept in her spare bedroom in a bed with an electric blanket - just thinking about it now makes me feel all warm and cosy.

In the spare room she also had a bookcase with some old books in,various classics in paperback, like 1984 which were a little old for me at the time, but she also had a set of 10 hardback Collins Junior Classics. God I loved those books. They were published in the early 60s, and were American and I used to spend hours and hours amongst their pages. I still remember my favourite story about 100 dresses. But that was nearly 30 years ago...

Then on Saturday night, huibbie and me were out on a rare night out to celebrate buying our new house, and walking past a charity bookshop guess what I saw in the window?

You got it!

I picked them up today. And I can't wait to read them to the girls - I hope they like them as much as I did.