Craft Fayre and Classes

Its been a busy couple of weeks between attending the Fierce Valley Roller Girls Craft Emporium and teaching jewellery classes! Here are some photos to illustrate what's been going on! Photos of the FVRG Craft Emporium are courtesy of Claire Fotheringham, you can see more of her photography and design work here - ZENSPIRATIONS PHOTOGRAHY AND DESIGN and here ZENCLAYRE

FVRG Craft Emporium - I loved the grand hall we were in!

Can you spot my stall?

My "vintage style" pendants

Saturday 5th May was the day of my "Multi-Strand Necklace" class at Resonate Arts House in Alloa.
We had a fun morning creating the necklace design, as usual I took photographs of everyone's work, if you click on the photo below it will take you to my facebook album "Class Creations At Resonate Arts House" and you can view the beautiful jewellery that people have created at the Resonate workshops. I should mention the necklace below was made by Julie Dunion, please take a look at her facebook page to see some of her fantastic artwork - Julie Dunion Art

The workshop was great fun and we had a really good mix of people, from experienced jewellery makers to complete beginners, and everyone left with a beautiful necklace to wear. It was really interesting seeing everyone's finished pieces. We were all working to the same design but people's choices of beads and colours ensured that everone created a necklace tailored to their own personal style and taste. We have more workshops planned for June and July, details will be posted up on here next week! Watch this space!

Fierce Valley Roller Girls - Craft Fayre

I will be selling my jewellery at the FVRC Craft Fayre, Sat 28th April! See image below for details

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Proceeds from the FVRG stalls at the Craft Fayre will help fund Fierce Valley Roller Girls team, ‘Parma Violents’, in their next bout (This is their second public outing - playing away at the Belfast Roller Derby) If you would like to know more about Roller Derby and the FVRC check out their website www.fvrg.co.uk 

Learn To Make A "Floating" Necklace!

My next jewellery workshop - Make a Multi-Strand "Floating" Necklace

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 of projects at Resonate Arts House

 

Learn how to make a multi-strand "floating" necklace using basic beading and crimping techniques.

Saturday May 5th 2012, 10am-12noon. Workshop cost is £20 - All tools and materials provided, plus light refreshments of course! You will create a beautiful necklace to take home with you.
Beginners are very welcome!

Resonate Arts house, Unit A3 North Castle Street, Alloa, FK10 1EU

To book phone 01259 928014 or email info@resonate.uk.net

Spring Time and Etsy Finds

Ok, So Spring has finally arrived! But I have to acknowedge the snow that we had on 3rd of April, here is a pic of what I woke up to on Tuesday morning, we got away with a light dusting of snow here, but I heard that other areas had quite a lot of the white stuff!

The weather here never fails to surprise me

Right, lets get back to spring time! The other week I was delighted to find that one of my rose rings had been featured in this beautiful Etsy treasury "Through A Rose Tinted Lens" To view please click on the image below

Click image to visit Etsy treasury

This treasury was curated by Scottish based  Etsy artist Pat Longmuir, owner of Etsy shop "PatsParaphernalia"  click HERE to visit her Etsy Shop which specialises in polymer clay (I LOVE her range of hand made polymer clay buttons) and needle felting. To keep with the spring flower theme, I am posting a pic of her beautiful needle felted rose brooch

Click image to view this Etsy listing



While I'm on the subject of Etsy finds, the same day that I discovered Pat's shop I was also lucky enough to discover this wonderful Etsy shop Lincara Vintage (click HERE to visit shop) Specialising in vintage costume jewellery, evening bags and powder compacts. This is a lovely shop full of vintage treasures and every time I visit it there are new items listed. I was also delighted to discover that the shop owner is local to me, because Etsy is so vast I always get excited when I find shops that are based in Scotland, but even more so when the shop owner is in my area (Stirling)! Here are some goodies from Lincara vintage...

Sticking with the spring theme, more roses! Click image to view listing.

A lovely piece vintage glamour, click image to view listing

Well that's all for now, enjoy checking out the above Etsy links, and lets hope the snow stays away!

Resonate Workshop 31st March

The next jewellery making workshop to be held at Resonate Arts House in Alloa is on Sat 31st March. I'm excited about the arrival of Spring (warmer weather, lighter nights, everything coming back to life...) So this workshop has a Spring time theme! Using wire wrapping techniques we will be creating "flower" pendants (pictured below) So versatile and wearable, I love this design!

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album of Resonate workshop creations

Click on photos to visit Facebook photo

album of Resonate workshop creations

The workshop to create the pendant pictured above is Saturday 31st March, 10am till 12noon, cost £20. All tools and materials are supplied, you will create a beautiful flower pendant to take home with you.

To Book contact Resonate Arts House, 01259 928014 or email info@resonate.uk.net

Resonate Arts House, Unit A3 North Castle Street, Alloa, FK10 1EU

Creating Scrabble Tile Pendants!

I love creating my Scrabble tile pendants, I'm selling them made to order ( £15 incl P&P) just tell me what initial you need, I can be contacted by CLICKING HERE, and they will also be for sale via my Etsy very soon!  Here is a look into how they are made...

H for Helen!

YAY! A nice full set of Scrabble tiles.

The tile needs a hole in the top to transform

 it from a Scrabble tile into a pendant charm!

Drilling a hole in the tile 

Constructing the pendant

Finished Pendant!

I'm selling these made to order, £15 including P&P

 message me via my website by clicking  HERE

Or go to www.artizaniajewellery.co.uk

(they are coming to my Etsy shop soon too!)

Resonate Workshop

We had a lovely time making wire wrapped pendants at Saturday's workshop, here are some pics of the pendants that were created! If you click on the images they will take you to my facebook photo album "Resonate Workshops and Jewellery Tutorials". A big thank you goes out to Karen for taking the pics and forwarding them on to me!

"Pretty in Pink" - Karen's pendant

"Beautiful Blue" - Made by Addie

Marlyn's pendant, nice colour combination

and the ribbon is a lovely touch!