Saturday, 24 November 2012

Farm Animal Jewellery

Much of my jewellery is themed - from simple pendants to charm bracelets

Today's theme is.... Farm Animal Jewellery

pig bracelet
sheep pendant
pig pendant
chicken bracelet
duck pendant
rooster pendant

and last - the animal not welcome on the farm
fox necklace
all this jewellery is listed in my GroovyCart shop - along with lots more animals, birds,fish.....

Thursday, 16 August 2012

New Stock on GroovyCart

Apolgies in advance - this is a shameless promotion post...

These are a some new pieces recently listed or relisted on GroovyCart. 

I called this pendant The Dressmaker, for obvious reasons.  It sold a while ago but I've now made another one, took a new photo and it's now been relisted


Everything below is new stock

Love Bird charm earrings and pendant



I decided to make some new shape Jelly Tot keyrings - these ones have got "love you lots like Jelly Tots" on the reverse - a sort of secret message!
I was asked by a bridegroom to make a Jelly Tot pendant with a personal message on the back for him to give to his bride on their wedding day to commemorate their marriage.  It was a bit of a "doh" moment for me - why hadn't I thought of putting the words on the back.  All the best ideas come from my customers!





I've made some music theme jewellery recently for a bride to give her bridesmaids so have made some other pieces for my shop.





















A music charm on a black leather bracelet and a musical charms pendant

and finally a peacock blue pendant
I bought some peacock tail pendants and have added the colour myself - I made the blue glitter mix and put little drops in each circle.  The pretty crystal bead has a lovely AB coating.

Monday, 30 July 2012

Fish in Resin

I can't believe I've neglected my blog for so long. 

I've been busy making and stocking my shop on Etsy.  I opened it a while ago but have only started listing regularly in the past couple of months.  I joined the CraftyFolk team on Etsy who have a Daily Listing club where you try to list every day and we record all the sales of the team members who are taking part.  It's been a really good discipline for me.

I'd bought a pack of seed beads a while ago - each colour coming in it's own little glass bottle.  I knew I'd find a reason to recycle the little bottles at some stage and when I found some miniature polymer clay fish recently - whilst trawling the internet for something else - they seemed to be a perfect match. A little bit of resin in the bottles and the fish appear to be swimming!

I've used the little fish in other resin pieces, making them into pendant and keyrings - quirky or what!
Listed in my Etsy and GroovyCart shops

Saturday, 2 June 2012

Diamond Jubilee

I grew up and went to school in Windsor and my parents and family still live in and around the town. I've been a spectator at many State Visits and events - from my school days to the recent State Visit by President Sarkozi. 

As a child we marched two by two from school to the Long Walk to stand and wave our homemade flags.  Mum was a teacher so I got roped in as a teenager to help out when she took her class to see another State visit and I took my son as a child to see numerous events.  When it was the Queens Silver Jubilee we went to see her light the first beacon next to the Copper Horse at the top of the Long Walk.

So to celebrate the Queen's Diamond jubilee I thought I'd post a few patriotic items from my Just K Jewellery shops










Monday, 19 March 2012

Leather Wraparound Bracelets

something different from me - leather wraparound bracelets!

I've been talking about making leather wraparound bracelets for quite a while.  I really like them and have been trawling the internet for the leather cord and thonging as well as the bracelet ends and clasps.

These five bracelets are the first to be listed in my GroovyCart shop






I really love the simplicity of these bracelets - and of course I am testing driving one myself!

I've got more leather on order and can't wait to make more for my other shops.



Thursday, 8 March 2012

Pepper Cat Jewellery

About 18 months ago we adopted a little rescue cat called Pepper.  I don't think at the time we realised how much joy she would bring us.  I blogged about her and posted some photos in April last year - if you'd like to take a peek look here.

Recently I spent an afternoon experimenting with our photo editing software using photos of Pepper.  Some of the effects gave the photos a retro appearance so I made one of them into a pendant for myself.  I've had so many comments and compliments when I've been wearing it that I decided to make a few more pieces for my GroovyCart shop.

This pendant is very similar to the first one I made for myself.  It's strung on soft brown leather cord. For more information please click here


This second pendant comes on a 24" antique bronze colour chain.  Again, for more information please click here


And a bracelet on pretty silver plated chain. The cat photo charm dangles from the last link of the bracelet.  For more information please click here

While I was editing the photos and listing them in the shop my little helper was on the chair next to me sleeping on the job!