I'm sorry!

Gosh - didn't realise it had been SOOO long since I'd posted. I will try harder...I will try harder...I will (hopefully) try...at least a bit more frequently!

In my defence a lot has happened over the past few months. I have a beautiful new daughter who obviously and happily takes up vast quantities of my time; I've taken some leave (not sure how much - until the money runs out I guess!) from work and we're all trying to bed ourselves into new routines. At 14 my son Leo is getting used to not being an only child - he's taken to brotherhood like a duck to water! - at almost 2 Rhianne is getting used to a new mummy and brother (did I explain that she'd come to us through adoption?); the dog, cat and rabbit are getting used to a toddler in the house - and all the food this little one will get for them - including her own! She's turning into a big asset, which even the odd tail pull or over excited squeeze can't dampen - and I'm trying to find time to finish the increasing orders during naps, bedtimes and illicit trips to her brothers PS3! Not easy I can tell you but just about keeping my head above water with it all. I know it will get easier, but please bear with me!

So what have I been up to? Well scoot over to my Etsy shop and you'll see all the lines I have added since I was last here. I've recently got hold of some aluminium and am experimenting with that - it's softer than the copper I use but is so light that you don't know you're wearing it - have swapped my copper 'waiting' for an aluminium bangle and it's nice not to wake up with obligatory 'green wrist'!! My knees do seem creakier though!!! Ah well!

New tooth?

Just a quickie today to show you my cute new little bracelet for tiny little wrists belonging to gappy smilers!

It's been so long!

I am ashamed!

I've thought about writing something often, and I've not stopped making jewellery, it's just that I've never seemed to have any time just lately - and to be honest, I don't really know if anyone reads this actually!

But anyway, school has broken up, I have six long weeks stretching in front of me - hopefully with some good weather! - so I thought I'd catch up a little!

So, what's new? well, I'm moving away from chain a little and onto cord (waxed cotton, ribbon, silk, rubber). A lot of my items have it as the core of their strap.

At the moment this is my biggest seller - lots of GLEE fans out there! It's threaded onto a black faux suede strap.

This little PUNK necklace has a rubber/PVC cord. I love the safety-pin charm!

The CUPCAKE bracelet has 4 1mm waxed cord strings - this is actually on sale at Etsy for less than $5 because of the oopsie 'U'!

Back to Alice! Bought this cord for Halloween bracelets (coming soon!) but the colour just lent itself to the 'tea' theme.

A really nice set - popular with girls finishing school or holiday clubs - can be made pretty small for skinny wrists! the pink faux suede is luscious!

Sunbathing!

What a gorgeous day! The sun was shining, my grass was cut, the birds were singing - and my two deckchair loungers arrived just before lunch on the back an extrememly unhelpful ('not over the doorstep!') delivery man's van - hooray! Lunch involved reclining and slurping water melon and magnums (the ice cream, not anything large and bubbly!) whilst Leo moaned that his chair didn't go back as far as mine, and tipped his feet up, and it was too hot, and he wanted to watch TV anyway and not sit outside...school holidays eh?!


But nothing could keep me away from my hammer for too long and after much tapping I have this little bracelet to share with you. This is a quote - and title - of one of Leo's favourite books when he was little...before he got into vampires, werewolves and other gore! - I love it - I love it so much that I made two - one for Etsy, and one for me.

This is another little bracelet that I made this week. I have a very good friend who is fighting cancer at the moment and my Mum lost her fight almost 13 years ago, so this is inspired by them. I like the pink bead just sitting at the side dressed with two fuchsia seeds. It has a heart toggle too.

Both on sale now at Etsy

I love Alice...

Just a quick post tonight - it's late, I'm tired and I promised myself an early night (failed again!)

I just can't seem to leave Alice alone. This latest bracelet is showing off the results of my fab gift from my dad - a metal hole punch with various sized holes...hours of fun! Perfect for my little rabbit and stylised Alice to crawl through (or at the very least dangle from!)

On sale in my Etsy store now.

School days

I realised today that I'm counting down to the end of the school year (9 weeks, not including half term!) I guess that means that my little munchkins are growing up and getting ready to move on and probably so am I! Any time now they start to get a bit bolshy and realise that they only have a few weeks left to be the biggest and eldest on the playground before they have to move up and it's another four years before they reach the giddy heights again!

That in mind I made a couple of school-themed bracelets - great gifts for graduation, teachers or end of year. It's always nice NOT to get chocolate or scented candles once in a while you know (I speak from experience! The amount of chocolate that I gorge through at Christmas and the end of the school year is disgusting...but it'd be rude not to!!)

Both of these bracelets are on sale in my Etsy store now!

Bank Holiday

Don't you just love bank holidays?! Going to bed on Sunday night knowing that you have one more lie-in before work - another whole day stretching in front of you with nothing to do?! Of course, I'm not going to get a lie-in - it's Leo's first day of his paper round and he has to be there at 7am - that means SOMEONE (?!) has to get up at 6am in order to make sure that he gets there on time! And I certainly don't have nothing to do (cleaning, shopping, planning, amerking...) but the theories sound!

the long weekend has given me chance to make some new bracelets, and show them here too.

This is the ''New Mum' bracelet - American or UK spelling, pink, blue or white beads, plus a year, date or name tag dangle.

This little bracelet is ideal for a gift for the lady gardener - grandma, aunty, mum, wife - just to acknowledge their position out there!

All these items are listed on Etsy now.