Giveaway time!

You may have noticed that my blog has a funky new design, I love it! To celebrate this momentous occasion and to get my blog going again, I am doing a giveaway.

All you need to do is follow my blog on bloglovin and tweet my giveaway, simple!

Here is what you can win, made especially for you in your size :)

My sterling silver stacking ring set worth 50 euros!

You can see more details about the rings in my shop

I will announce the winner next Friday, good luck!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Shop update

I have added a couple of new things to my shop, my aim is to have 100 items listed and I am at 52 so er, it could take a while :)

Hope you like them.

Bloom necklace

Bloom post earrings

Tiny trios

New bench, new work..

Hello! I wanted to show you my amazing new workbench, made by amazing other half, Dom.  I have been wanting a "proper" bench forever but couldn't justify the price.  After searching, a lot, I stumbled across one made out of an Ikea kitchen island.

"I have one of those in my kitchen!" I thought.

 So that is what it became, my new jewelers bench and it is the perfect size and everything. :)

Here is the original Ikea island

And what it became, the perfect jewellery bench!

...and me working at it

Here is a new necklace I have in my shop, all sterling silver.

Finally a first look at a new brooch I made for the Brooch a Week challenge

Thanks for reading :)

2011 Recap

I like to try and do a yearly recap of all that is happened, I think it is fun to look back and remember what has happened over the past year.

January

This was a pretty cool month, I turned 30 and my mum organized an amazing surprise party for it.  As we live in France she had arranged for my sister Dani and her boyfriend Mike to come over as a surprise and it was amaaaaaaazing.  Now I will be 31 in 13 days and I am not sure it will be as good as last years celebrations :)

February

In February I joined Macro Mondays on Flickr, every week there is a theme and you have to take a Macro shot using the theme.  I only did it for a couple of weeks but I would like to get into it again as it's a really good way to challenge yourself.

I was alo nominated for the stylish blogger award! ;)

March

I really started to explore working with sheet metals this month and I was practicing my saw piercing using copper.  This was when I started getting addicted to the jewellery saw!

I also found this surprised kitty!

April
April was a pretty funny month as we bought a new large cage for our 2 rats Bella and Bo.  We then decided we wanted a couple more ratties to add to the family so we went off to the pet shop.  We were only going to get 2 and then Dom decided he wanted this other big black rat so we bought her too.  2 days later she gave birth to 10 babies, it was a bit of a shock at first but we kept therm all and got the 5 boys neutered so they could all live together happily. :)

May
This month I was moving forward creatively and made more first all sterling post earrings which I had soldered all by myself!  This is something relatively new to me so I was happy I had cracked the process.

June
Busy as ever this month with the cake toppers and it was scorching weather over here in France.

July
My poor old girl Bo passed away this month, it was really sad as we went to the U.K for a week and she died while we were away.  She got a bad case of mites and unfortunately just didn't recover.  RIP Bo Bo!

August
In August we decided were going to move apartments so the search was beginning!

September
Packing! and not much else :S  We also lost another ratty, RIP little Dora :(

October
We moved to an awesome house on October 1st, much bigger than our previous tiny hole of an apartment.  I actually really hate moving as we have done it sooo many times over the last couple of years but hopefully we will be in this place for a while.

November
More house sorting, oh and we decided to get a puppy, more on that later :)

December
We had a great Christmas this year, we hosted Christmas dinner and my sister and her partner were here for the festivities! Their friends also came over on boxing day from the U.K so we all had a great week.  Topped off with and amazing and funny New Years Eve in Basel watching the fireworks.

Hope you all had a great year, heres to 2012!

Something New!

I made these post earrings for a friend and I thought they were super cute, so I have now added them to my etsy shop.

They are all sterling silver and measure a tiny 6mm approx. I hope you like them and you can find them here :)

*Update, one pair sold today, yay!

Hello World..

..Wow, I haven't seen this page in a while.  So I started working full time about 2 months ago and it is tiring!  I forgot what it was like to work full time, ha!  Since I started I haven't been very creative, mainly as I have been too tired after work and there is always too much too do at the weekend.
Also I have been quite addicted to reading, I got myself one of those new kindles from Amazon and I love it!

I have no more cake topper orders to make so now is the opportunity to make more jewellery, watch this space!

Christmas in July

It is the 3rd annual Christmas in July on etsy where lots of shops offer a discount or free shipping to drive the sales in the slow month of July.

I am participating and currently have 'free worldwide shipping' on everything in my store. :)

Also here are 2 new pieces, some tiny sweet black post earrings and 'the missing piece' necklace in brushed silver.

More toppers & beads

I have been working like mad to get this set of cake toppers finished, the customer loves in the States and it was a last minute order so I was very conscious of the time. Finally finished today and in the post.  This set seems to include everything but the kitchen sink! :)

I also got around to turning these older beads into necklaces and have got them listed now.  They are polymer and all findings are sterling silver.  I think I may have blogged about these beads a while back when I made them.  Even though green is my favourite colour, the blue and brown necklace has to be my fave.