New Etsy Listings

I've been busy today - photographing and listing on Etsy. My brain hurts now!

Here's a peek at some of the listings

That's enough for now! Off for a well deserved cuppa and biscuit!

Gosh, aren't my posts sporadic at the moment!! There is such a lot to get done, time isn't on my side!!

I spent Tuesday running a private tuition day at the studio. I had two lovely ladies who made some great work, and hopefully they learnt lots too! I really enjoy private tuition - the people who book usually have previous metal clay experience and want to expand their knowledge in certain areas. Group classes don't always fit in for everyone, so its great to be able to offer this service on a more regular basis now that I'm in the studio.

The rest of my week has been taken up with day-job work, and trying to get my head around my marketing leaflets etc. I've designed a leaflet which I'll be dropping through letterboxes local to the studio (have to put my trainers on I think!), I made it a 3-fold leaflet so that I could maximise the information on there, but now I have to sit and fold them all up!

Tomorrow is going to be a lovely day at the studio. One of the ladies that came on my first ever class up here in Cheshire is coming to my studio. She's been on lots of classes, and we've become good friends, so we're just having a play-day tomorrow. I can't wait - it'll do us both the power of good. Bronzclay is definitely on the agenda tomorrow. Although I've played with Bronze, I haven't fired and finished anything yet, but that'll change tomorrow so watch out for some bronze pieces soon.

I thought the blog looked boring without many pictures of my jewellery! So here you go, they may be bad, mobile phone pictures, but at least you can see some of my recent metal clay work.

I'm working on some new pieces ready to launch my Etsy store. There'll be a range of these necklaces with matching earrings. They are highly polished silver pillow-shape beads, simply strung on sterling silver necklets. There are countless options for these in all sorts of different textures. They look really pretty on - in fact I'm tempted to keep the ones I've made so far!

These lentil shape beads are lampwork beads by the fantastic Claire Morris. They had a top decorative layer of glass that I decided to cover up!! I painted some silver paste onto the top, and left it fairly uneven so that it took the shape of the glass underneath. It silver has cracked in some places which I love because it adds to the texture of the glass. I think there's about 10 of these beads, so I see them being split up into a few different pieces of jewellery.

Better pictures will follow as soon as I can get my hubby to take them. We're currently looking into equipment to set up a proper lighting / photography area. This will mean much better photos and hopefully, even I will be able to point the camera and take a decent picture! Well, maybe!

Becci

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I've been rubbish at this blogging lark lately haven't I!! My personal life is VERY hectic at the moment!! Some of you who know me a bit better, know that I currently live in a rented house and have my own house which is a building site!! Well, things are moving ahead with turning the building site into a house again, so it's keeping me busy along with normal everyday life stuff!

Although I'm not finding much creative time at the moment, there are still things going on in the background here. I've finally settled on a banner design for my Tiny Charms business. All I need now is samples made so that pictures can be added to it. I wonder what job number that is on my long list!

I have been making some pieces of jewellery and have a collection growing for my hubby to photograph. I will show you these though

They are the top halves of 2 magnetic clasps. I decided that I wanted to add colour, so enamelled these and was really pleased with them. Then I realised that I've completely forgotten to add any loops to the side of them so that they can be attached to the piece of jewellery - this is what happens when there are too many distractions!

I have got some more being made now to replace these. And I definitely won't forget loops again!

I put this piccie up on Frit Happens, but thought it might be fun to show it here as well - it's my work in progress.

I think it's sometimes hard to imagine how pieces are going to turn out, so seeing them part made gives you a bit of an idea

There's a mix of things on here, it'll be interesting to see what you think of the finished pieces compared to the WIP!

I'm getting my kiln repaired on Friday so watch out for lots of lovely glassy goodies, as I haven't been able to do any glass work because of the kiln ggggrrrr.

New Class Dates

I've set a date now for my next Beginners Class. It will take place on Saturday 7th February 2009 and runs from 10am to 4pm.

I'm also going to run another open studio date as we had so much fun last time, so that will take place on Saturday 21st March 2009.