Snow Day

 

Happy 2010 everyone!

I'm having a brand new start, 4 days a week at the restaurant and 3 days at home making beads jewellery and what ever else comes up :-) I have had such a lovely xmas/new years with family and friends and am ready for life to start getting back to normal!

Well... as normal as can be expected with 8inches of snow on the ground and a constant flow to snow falling on top of it. It looks very beautiful but it is becoming very disruptive. I am going to take a walk in a bit with my camera and see if I can get any artistic shots :-) Wish me luck! :-)

Christmas Commissions

 

 

 

Just a few more left to do before xmas. I would really appreciate your thoughts on this jewellery as I have really enjoyed making the jewellery using my own beads and precious stones and metal!!! So Please either leave a comment on here or pop over to my Flickr Page to comment. Thank you in advance!!!

Merry Christmas

I have just had a second to upload a couple of photos to show you (the snow is so beautiful at the moment!), I did a lot of hours at work last week, and when I wasn't working I was making beads and jewellery for commissions for Christmas.

I will leave you with some pictures of my latest commisions, and I have more to photograph tomorrow morning, so will probably post more pictures tomorrow.

Happy Holidays everyone!

<--- List of Suppliers

After my last blog and only having one reply (thank you Mel!!!) I decided to get together ALL the suppliers website I have come across... there are a few!!! I have written them in a list at the bottom of the left column
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Hope this is helpful to other jewellery makers, and anyone who wants or knows anymore links, just message me and I'll stick em on! :-)

Calling all Jewellery Makers.... Best Suppliers?

If anyone is out there reading this and can think of a few good websites links that sell jewellery supplies (I mainly need STERLING SILVER beads/findings etc but any other links would be great) I would love to take a look at them please, in return I will share mine with you!!!! Some Jewellery artists are very secretive about who supplies them their materials, but I'm more than happy to share the link I have found (these links are the sites a find useful for buying Sterling Silver):

•  www.hilltribesilver.co.uk
• www.thesilvercorporation.co.uk
• www.eternalflow.co.uk 
• www.palmermetals.co.uk
• www.shiana.com - I haven't yet bought from here... just purely because I want everything on the site and need to win the lottery to do that!!!
• http://stores.shop.ebay.co.uk/Dreambell-Jewelry-DIY__W0QQ_armrsZ1 - again, need to win the lottery! 

Would really appreicate any more if you guys have any, would be helpful if they were UK based too... wonder what sort of responce I will get off this post...

I will wait in hope!!! :-D xxx

IT's CHRISTMAS (nearly)

Happy December everyone!!!

I had a lovely week off - I made lots of beads, I have been practicing alot of techniques (I have pretty much double my lonlies/orphans box, hehe) and I think I have pretty much sussed "encasing" out as you can see in beads above - YAY! We went out on Wednesday night for Fran's Birthday with friends and we had such a great night! Then we went to Liverpool to see Fran's Parents and then went christmas shopping at the Liverpool One shopping center. It was so lovely getting to spend quality time with Fran, as usually we are so frantic with both our work, it has really made me appreciate everything we have (SOPPY I KNOW!!! its true though) and the friends and family we have around us. I do work a lot and I think I can get quite engrossed and maybe forget the good things- I think I will be going out a bit more now - just have fun!

Sorry about that soppy moment there - back to normal blogging Vicki now haha!

OK, Beads beads beads... I have made a couple more sets the one above and this one:

I absolutely love this set... I have made it with a Effetre's Light Sky Blue as a base encased in Effetre's Amethyst which I then wrapped with fine silver foil and then encased in a thin layer of Vetrofond Crystal Clear (which too be honest I'm still undecided whether I like it as a clear glass... it can scums up at the first site of the flame so I'm gunna keep going on my mission to find the best clear glass) To be honest these beads wern't too fun to make but the sight of them now they are finished are think is just soooooo worth it. and I am definitely going to make more of these... and I now have 24ct Gold Leaf to try out next... mmmm red and gold.....

Hehe, I have been thinking I did really enjoy the practicing my bead making a have been doing this week... I guess I thought if I make bead set then my bead making will just naturally get better but thats really not true... I really do need to practice. :-D I might have some orphans to give away for christmas, so Watch this space!