A Few New Beads

Just Listed on Etsy today for you!




Written In Stone

 

I have been making some of my Pebble Beads and thought that this would be great for Valentines Day.  I will be taking quite a few of these to the Craft Fair on Saturday, just in time for the 14th. 




Faux Jade Little Elephant Charms

 

My Little Elephant Charms are always popular, but I wanted to make them in something else rather than Grey.  After a little thinking it suddenly occured to me that they would look brilliant in Jade!  Hope you like them!

In case you haven't seen them in my Etsy Store, here are my new connector beads to match the Petal / Flower Capped Beads. 



Snowdrop on Burnt Orange




Turquoise Waters




Azure Skies




Bronze Flower



Hope you all have a great and warm weekend!  (It's been snowing here Brrrr!)

Pippa

WINNERS!

WOW!

I have been completely blown away by the amazing response to my Giveaway.

Over 60 wonderful people entered, then lots of you blogged about it, left comments on my Facebook Page and linked through on your Facebook Pages and Profiles too.

Thank you all. I am so thrilled. The comments that you posted have inspired and moved me so much.

In the face of such an incredible response I have decided that one winner is just not enough, so I am doing the drawing for two winners to spread the love a little further!

In total, including comments left on this blog, comments on my Facebook page, postings on your own blogs about the giveaway and postings on your Facebook profiles and pages the total number of entries comes to 92! Ninety Two!!!!

So, without further ado......... The Winners are...................

Number 40 is Jean A Wells from Jean A Wells Handcrafted Artisan Jewellery

Number 27 is Cilla from Tell Your Girlfriends

Congratulations to you both!

Please get in contact with me to let me know which beads you would like and I will send them winging their way to you!

A big, big thank you to everyone who entered and so kindly spread the word about this giveaway. It has been such fun and a wonderful experience for me, getting to meet you all and seeing your lovely blogs and your work.

Hope you all have a great week.

Pippa

GIVEAWAY!!

Well, here it is! My first ever Giveaway on my blog!



I am so excited about my new Petal and Flower Capped Bead Series that I thought I should spread the love a little by having a Giveaway.



You can win one of my sets of beads shown here, you choose which you would like! This Giveaway is open to everyone where ever you are!



Choose from: Bronze Flower, Monochrome Kaleidoscope, Gerbera or Spring Time Blue on this Mosiac, or on the bottom Mosaic, Petal Capped (main picture), Azure Skies, Gerbera, or Clematis. They are all up on Etsy if you would like a closer look and to read the descriptions!



To enter, please leave a comment here on my blog, or on my Facebook page, the link is over there on the right. If you comment on both my blog and my Facebook Page then you will be entered twice! And if you would like to spread the word by putting something about the giveaway on your own blog then you will be entered again! Just let me know that you have blogged (a link would be great, to save me searching!!) and I will make sure you are entered!



Then all you have to do is let me know which of the sets you would like and leave a contact address for me to inform you if you have won! It's that easy!



I will be picking a winner on Monday 6th February.





Good Luck!!!!

Excited!

More Petal Capped Beads

I have been really enjoying designing and making my new range of Flower and Petal Capped Beads. Even better, is that you all seem to love them too!

I have just finished another couple of sets and have put them up on Etsy today.

My inspiration came from this beautiful palate by Design Seeds. I have a look everyday to see what is new and always love the wonderful pictures and the breakdown of colours is just begging to be mixed in polymer!

So here are my new sets. Gerbera Petals and Spring Time Blue.

The colours are fresh and calming, reminding me that Spring will soon be here, even if it has been snowing today!

I hope you like them as much as I do!

Have a great week.

Pippa

Flower / Petal Capped Beads

I am not a great one for New Year's Resolutions, but this year I had decided that I need to make better use of my poor, neglected, Etsy Shop.

Doing a Craft Fair every Saturday certainly keeps me busy with selling and making my jewellery and as a result, very little finds its way on to Etsy due to time constraints. After all, there are only so many beads I can make in a week - let alone make them all up into something special in the way of jewellery.

Thinking about this over the Christmas Holidays, I decided that my Etsy Shop would be better put to use as a place to sell solely beads.

So after much thought, I came to the conclusion that I could easily make 5 more beads each time I make enough for a necklace/bracelet/earrings etc for my Craft Fair and put these extras onto Etsy and hopefully people will love them as much as I do.

So here are my first two offerings.

The first are the Bronze Flower Capped beads, pictured above. As soon as I posted them on Etsy, they sold! Yay!! So I made another set and relisted them. They seem to have struck a cord with people and the photo on Flickr even made it onto Explore - I was just a bit excited!!!!

The second are Petal Capped Beads in a lovely shade of Aubergine with Ecru and palest green/yellow. I love these!!

So if you are looking for some unique and individual beads for your next project, please check them out!

I would love to hear what you think of them and if you would like to these these in any other colour ways.

Happy New Year to you all and Happy Creating!

Pippa

Cara Jane's Sleeping Cat Tutorial

I was lucky enough to receive a sneak preview of Cara Jane's lovely Sleeping Cat Tutorial yesterday.

Cara first showed these little cats with flowery bottoms that she made on her Blog back in November, to much acclaim! Everyone loved them.

So much in fact that Cara decided to do a tutorial on them and then sent it out to a few people to "test" it for her. I was so thrilled to receive one.

And what a delight it is - great concise instructions, lots of pictures and such a pretty subject!

I immediately had a go and was so happy with the results I got by following the steps.

I added my own little twist in the flower by adding individual petals rather than a cane slice and voila! a little sleeping cat of my own!

If you want to have a go at making one of your own then pop over to Cara's blog where she has generously shared the tutorial for everyone to use!

Thank you Cara - what fun!!