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Wireworkers Guild ~ New Jewellery Blog

The Wireworkers Guild is a new blog set up by Linda Jones, author of several jewellery making books, teacher and regular contributor to Make Jewellery and Step By Step Wire magazines.
Linda has very kindly featured me and my jewellery in a mini interview! Even more exciting ~ Linda has agreed to do a mini interview for me which I will post in the very near future!

They're here!
Several nice things have happened this week ~ I reached 50 sales in my Folksy shop, I decided to make my life easier by buying a jewellery tumbler AND I won a blog giveaway for a gorgeous keyring from Dinky Daisy! 


The tumbler arrived a couple of days ago and it's fab!
It will save me an awful lot of time and brings my jewellery up to a lovely shine :D


The print I ordered from Folksy shop Sascalia also turned up yesterday and it's as beautiful in real life as it looks on the screen


And the very cute stickers I ordered from Moo are here too

They're so sweet!
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  1. SophieSaturday, March 27, 2010

    Your stickers are really sweet, I love them! They'll look lovely, however you use them :) x

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  2. Christals CreationsSaturday, March 27, 2010

    Ohh a tumbler. . . how exciting!!! Looking forward to seeing your ultra shiny new designs. I have already become a follower of the wireworkers blog. Loving it!

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  3. UnknownSunday, March 28, 2010

    Eek how exciting - all that new stuff. Love sascalia's prints, the stickers are great and I really really really want a tumbler. Any tips on choosing one?

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