I Love Lucite

Following on from my last blog post, here are some photos of the lucite flower jewellery I have been creating recently. Hoping to re-open my Etsy store soon and get these listed!

If you like these please follow Artizania on Facebook and you can see more of this lucite jewellery on the photo album called "I Love Lucite" click HERE to view it. I have a selection of lucite chokers and brooches for sale at An Cnoc in Crieff, so if you'd like to see these in "real life" please pay An Cnoc a visit! They have a lovely selection of high quality Scottish made gifts, perfect for Christmas!

Funky Florals

I was very excited to receive a jewellery supplies delivery at the weekend - I will be posting photos of the finished items shortly. I love working with these lucite flowers, they remind me of the beautiful floral prints you get on 1970s retro fabric.

I know exactly what I'm going to make with these

  Funky floral fabrics (from my own collection) 

Perhaps an influence on my floral jewellery?

Finished floral chokers - More to come in "winter" colours

Mother Nature Loves You

Just thought I'd post a couple of photos of this lovely heart shaped rose petal that I found the other day!

Crafty Charity Shopping

Recently I found some fantastic vintage craft magazines in a charity shop. They even included segments on silver jewellery making, I'll share more pages in later blog posts. Fabulous!

Christmas Bazaar

Following on from my previous post - If I get a chance I'll try and sharpen up this image! (I only had a photo copy to work with)

I Don't Do Craft Fairs Anymore, But...

Last year I decided to cut down dramatically on taking part in craft fairs (that's a whole other blog post) however next weekend I am making an exception for Church Of The Holy Rude Christmas Crafts and Stall Bazaar! It takes place on Saturday 16th November in Stirling (at the Church Of The Holy Rude of course) I'm especially looking forward to the home made soup and baking in the South Aisle Cafe! An artist friend is selling cards and he has kindly asked me to share stall space, so I will have a small collection of jewellery for sale prices start at £5. See pictures below for a preview!

  "Vintage Rose" earrings 

 Brooches, bracelets, bag charms...

I couldn't resist a close up of the beautiful beads!

Start Each Day In A Happy Way

Ok, I'm trying encourage positive thinking. So my latest exercise in positive thinking came to me through a lucky purchase in a charity shop (and we all know how much I love charity shops!) I came across this Holly Hobby mug and I love the message on it! So now in the morning when I drink my coffee and contemplate the message on my mug I find that I am making the effort to "start each day in a happy way". It is actually helping me to focus on being positive, and in the morning that requires real effort from me (not being a natural "morning person") Yet another charity shop winning purchase!

Another thing to be happy about - I have finally got my new camera! I've been having great fun testing it out. It even has a set of photo filters on it! below are some photos of my latest vintage style rings (soon to be listed on Etsy) - its about time I had more jewellery photos on here! More to come soon.

 This filter is called "old film"

"Vintage" filter - it has a slight sepia tone to it