Cinnamon Jewellery

I've been a bit obsessed with hearts lately...........what with Valentine's Day coming up Been busy with my saw and copper sheet and enamel powders creating these colourful cuties Sawing mostly definitely is not my favourite thing but I did manage not to break any blades this time! And felt relatively calm and relaxed while I was doing it :D Here's a selection of enamelled heart earrings and pendants all available in my Folksy  and Etsy  shops.... Here's a custom order in progress - the customer (a lovely lady called Jill who's just about to start enamelling herself) recently bought a pair of large raspberry enamelled hearts and asked if I could make her two pairs in royal blue. I'm not exactly sure what royal blue looks like (!) but used Aqua opaque with Prussian Blue transparent on top and Jill loves the colour so now I just need to make the earwires to finish them off  ♥ 

I've finally gotten round to listing my handmade copper and sterling silver findings in my  Etsy shop ! I've been making my own findings for a couple of years now and noticed the distinct lack of handmade earwires and headpins, especially in pure copper, that were available to buy in the UK. So I thought I'd start selling them............ I opened another shop on Folksy - Cinnamon Jewellery Findings  in June 2011 and a findings shop on eBay  about the same time and I'm pleased to say the sales from these, particularly eBay, tick over nicely keeping me busy and have made sure I've definitely got my money's worth from my torch and tumbler! So I decided to try them out on Etsy where there's lots of US sellers selling handmade findings but not that many UK sellers. I've had several findings sales on Etsy already so fingers crossed they will prove to be popular! Sterling Silver earwires - oxidised Fancy antique copper hea...

A nice surprise this morning - my  handmade copper headpins  are featured on Folksy's  homepage   in their "Handmade Supplies" Featured items! Lots of lovely stuff to look at including some cute fabric covered buttons and handmade lampwork beads. Got to say my favourite is the ceramic raku button ♥

The Scene : The kitchen, Sunday evening just after CountryFile The Victim : Left-over barbeque-style chicken breast, cooked for Sunday dinner, covered with foil and secured on kitchen worktop The Crime Scene : The Suspect : Name: Eddie Age:  7 Distinguishing Features : Rips in both ears  Slight swagger when walking due to a back leg injury as a kitten Known Aliases: "monster" "satan's cat" "he's evil that cat" "monkey" "eddiekins" Previous convictions : 1. The taking and carrying upstairs to the bedroom of a packet of fish taken out of the freezer to defrost for tea 2. The scoffing of a bowl of grated cheese left out on the kitchen worktop ready to go on top of the pasta for tea. Two incidents. 3. Due to a strange fruit fetish, helping himself to some sliced strawberries left in a bowl on the kitchen worktop 4. The purloining of small items from the bathroom, namely a sponge and a mini bottle of bubble bath, which w...

I've got that mellow relaxed feeling at the moment, knowing I've got the next two days off work. But it does mean I'm working this weekend though........ My plans for tomorrow (Weds) are to make a start on a project for Bead magazine that needs to be in by December. I know what I'm doing it's just taking the step-by-step photos and the weather issue! It's meant to be a bright day tomorrow so it should be full steam ahead (camera battery on charge as I write!) I managed to get all of my new earrings photographed last week which is always a relief. Here's some of them....... These green enamel ovals have been hanging around for a while then I suddenly thought those pretty pink and green czech glass nuggets might go ok with them! Dogtooth Amethyst and sterling silver hoop earrings made as part of my last Bead project I twisted the copper wire for these using my Dremel I'm planning on making more of these in other colours..... I had fun...

After a few teething problems yesterday trying to access the newly relaunched  Folksy site - I had to install Firefox due to problems with IE8 closing the page, I managed, about an hour later, (wasn't impressed!) to get to see my new improved shop. I do like the new look but think it's appalling that there were so many bugs on relaunch day............ Anyway, it was nice to see a pair of my enamel earrings in the Featured Items section on the front page, which takes up the entire front page now! Here's the rest of the lovely items chosen for the page :

It was a lovely surprise earlier when I went to sign into my  Folksy shop  to see my red enamel poppy earrings as part of the current Featured items on the homepage! There's some really lovely stuff on there at the moment with a red theme. Definitely worth a look!