Anyone for Tennis?

Ah, it's that time of year again.
I've just missed out on Wimbledon fever!!

Here are some tennis inspired earrings - they're made with fab faceted beads with a yellow and white swirl running though them. Well I thought they looked tennisy, anyway.
Perhaps the tennis racquets give that away...

 Available on Folksy!

Etsy Tags

I went to an Etsy local meeting this week. There was an opportunity for a shop critique.
Turns out I have some work to do...

And tags. So very many tags.

So - you're looking for wine glass charms on Etsy. What do you type in the search bar? That's what I need to put in my tags so that people can find me. Take this for example

wine glass charms
glass charms
wine glass identifiers (argh. no good, 20 character max!)
charms for glasses (how many's that?)
(This is so hard...)
wine charms
red glass charms
party charms
party favours
wine glass tags

Can anyone think of any more?! Do I want to go down the "girly" route?

What do you mean I haven't blogged recently?

No more excuses... I'm just rubbish!
(so much for blogging once a week. How long did I make it this time? A whole week? Maybe not even that long)
Anyway - the good people at Folksy have been promoting blogging in the last couple of weeks, where I admitted that I was one of the world's worst bloggers... so I thought I should get my bum in gear and do some updating.

I remembered why I stopped; this Blogger thing kept deleting my pictures, and I just got really annoyed with it. So bear with me - I shall try and upload some that it's happy to keep.

I have, in the meantime, made lots of new shiny things:

Lots and lots of handbag charms!! They're spread around various selling platforms, so I've collected them all up in a facebook album here if you're interested!

Eye Eye!

What do we have here, then?
It's a different sort of glasses dangler - this isn't one of my glasses dangler spec chain things - this is jewellery for your eyewear!

Look how dangley this is!

I have quite a lot of them...

All the enamel charms are attached to adjustable rubber loops, so they should fit pretty much any size glasses.
What I don't know is whether or not they'd drive people up the wall with the dangling...

More excuses? Me...? Surely not!

Every post seems to start with an excuse for my absense!
This time I have no excuse. I've just been lazy (and busy baking cakes...)

What have I been up to this month? I've made more glasses chains than you can shake a stick at. I've made hundreds of baked goods (but you'll have to see my other blog for those), there have been many earrings... and I've finally made something out of those magnificent bead strings.

Here are the spec chains - they're all on display at the opticians, and you can find some of them on folksy and on etsy

Whistle Stop Tour!

Ooops, I've been away from the blog again!

Busy doing craft fairs, commissions, dancing, actual proper work, and visiting folk with babies...!

I did manage to made a few new things this week - and I've bought some fabulous bead strings to play with next week - so here's a whistle stop tour of what's been going on... (No babies though!)

A bridal party commission

Bracelets, Earrings and a Necklace Drop

 

Pretty new beads!! (I'll be making some necklaces out of these)

A feature necklace - lava beads and marble on suede thong

Love Heart Charm Bracelet on an elasticated base - I made this at the last craft fair.

Accursed re-positional adhesive. This does not work at all!!!

I even managed to make a loaf of bread... mmm. I miss bread.

Another Nappy Cake!

A much bigger nappy cake!

Nappies all bundled up with baby stuff - lotions, potions and babygrows!

Tied with ribbons and wrapped in pretty cellophane.