New in November for Fashion Magpie Jewellery

November has been a crazy month, it's lucky Fashion Magpie Jewellery isn't a made to order company, I already have my items made. What you see in the picture is what you get! 

All these recent sales have mainly been through folksy.com who added my bumblebee necklace and earrings set to there favourite items guide. It's lovely to have my work recognised by the biggest uk selling place for craft. 

I've also been busy with craft fairs around my county area. The first one was at Whitley Chapel church hall, which I shared a table with my mother for. It's wasn't particularly busy but I sold two flexi bracelets which wasn't to bad. As it turned out, the saying everything happens for a reason was really relevant that day. I'd forgotten to put my shop into holiday mode before I left, like I normally would. When I checked my emails after I got home I found the biggest fashion magpie jewellery order I've ever had, so I counted my blessings I hadn't been busy that day. I think I can directly attribute this sale to being featured by folksy as one of the items in the order was the bumblebee necklace and earrings.

 

The next fair I went to was at Washington Tyne and Wear, this one didn't go well at all. First it was a nightmare to find where we were meant to set up, it was an outdoor fair and most of the roads where closed for the day. I had no information about it other then the organiser and they had something to do with the pub there. What made things worse was there was two fairs on at the same time on the same length of road. 

Anyway we eventually found where we where meant to set up, however by this point the weather was changing and it was very windy. We battled on trying to fix the gazebo together, while the organisers ran round offering weights to other crafters who's gazebos more resembled kites! Finally we got the roof on and weighed it down with car alternators. I stepped back for a moment and saw the trees a few yards down the road from us bend in another gust of wind which battered into the gazebo next to us and smashed it into ours snapping the pole for the roof. We all grapped for what we could and tried to untangle the two gazebos.

By this point it had been over an hour and my last nerve had been well and truly tested! It was time to admit defeat and leave. It's a shame we had to go, it looked like it could have been a really good fair. There was rides and the sweet and donuts cab was just next to us so the footfall would have been good.
The last fair I went to was at Morpeth town hall, with the same people as last time. The fair started well, I hadn't even finished setting up before I had my first sale and the lady wished me luck for the rest of the day.

It was several hours before my next sale and unfortunately as usual I'd been set up next to the cake stall ( no idea why I always end up next to the cakes!) I was hungry all day staring at chocolate cakes with glitter icing, lemon cakes with sugar lemons and giant iced cakes wrapped or kitkat Christmas trees.

This fair was worth the boredom though when a lovely lady approached the table and started her Christmas shopping. She was the type of customer every craft fair goer dreams of. First she picked out a brooch and I thought that was it so I popped it in a organza bag but while I was doing that she noticed the bracelets and picked out one, then she moved onto the necklaces and picked out one of those too and kept going adding pieces. This one sale paid for the fair, fuel and gave me profit. I made sure she took a business card to show her friends!

The drive home from Morpeth was a scary one, storm Derek had hit the UK and as we drove along the A1 I noticed some small twisters in the distance. One was large enough to touch the ground and 2 more where spinning around it. The car got pushed around all the way home and we saw the destruction the Tyne caused as we drove back into Hexham. Most of the Tyne valley has been under water as well as Cumbria that day. We had no electricity when we got home, due to a electricity line being blown over at the end of the street. 

I think the message I will take from this November is to count my blessing! For every negative thing that happened something good followed..

 

Here are some of the pieces I've listed for sale in November.

 

 Owl Earrings

£6.00

 

Wire Brooch

£4,00

 

Green Leaf Earrings

£6.00

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Featured Item. Green Bow Crystal Earrings

The featured item for Fashion Magpie Jewellery this week is the Green Bow and Crystal Earrings.
Made to be light weight and wearable for everyday use, I have made them from a gold bow charm which I painted with green patina ink and then distressed to bring back some of the shiny gold again. This has given the bows a weathered look which I sealed with glaze to help preserve the effect.
Below the bow is a tear drop clear crystal which gives a nice contrast to the weathered bow.

 

Set on bronze ear wires, these cute little bow and crystal earrings are £6.00 with £1.95 UK postage and packaging, I also post to Europe, Untied States and Canada.

You can find Fashion Magpie Jewellery at the below links

Folksy Website www.folksy.com/shops/fashionmagpiejewellery

Etsy Website www.etsy.com/uk/shop/FashionMagpieJewels

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New in October for Fashion Magpie Jewellery

Welcome to Octobers catch up for Fashion Magpie Jewellery, where you can get up to date with the latest from my shop.

In October I Signed up for 5th December market, back at Morpeth town hall in Northumberland. It's promising to be better then last time but we'll have to wait and see. It's on the same day as the towns farmers market again which is right outside the doors. This time instead of being down stairs we'll be upstairs in the grand hall, while another craft fair set up by the children of the town will occupy the downstairs hall we where in before.
October has been a month of trying to balance life just right (which I'm still perfecting!) I've been doing the supervisor job at my day job and then coming home to try and find time for my shop which I must admit I prefer pouring my time into. I won't lie, it has been a struggle to juggle them both, but this shop means the world to me and I'm passionate about helping it succeed, so in the end it's worth it, just tiring!
Below are the items I've made in October, hope you like them!

 Red and Blue Necklace

£12.95

 

Blue Choker Necklace

£12.95

 

Blue Swirl Bead Bangle

£3.00

Green and Red Earrings

£6.00

Blue Chandelier Earrings with flower detail

£6.00

Green Cluster Earrings

£6.00 

You can find Fashion Magpie Jewellery at the below links

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Folksy Friday. Time to snuggle up at home.

In this Folksy Friday I'm focusing on the cosier side to this time of year. Out side it maybe getting colder but inside we can enjoy the comforts of home, made a little easier with these 5 buys I have selected to show you.
When I was choosing which pieces to feature I kept an image in my mind of coming home to a warm house with a fire and blankets to snuggle up into, the colour I kept thinking of was warm reds and cinnamon. The patterns where Scandinavian and geometric prints. Of course everyone is different this is just my interpretation.

1. First thing i do after a cold walk home is put the kettle on for a cup of tea.
These cupcake tea bags are made by Cush-N-Craft.

Cup of Tea and a Cupcake Novelty tea bag set

£2.49

2. If it's a particularly cold day I like to make up a hot water bottle with the left over water from the kettle after my cup of tea.

I love the colours in this hot water bottle cover by Selvage.

Hot Water Bottle, 2litres.

£20.00

3. So you got your cup of tea and hot water bottle, it time to cosy up now with some woolly hedgehog socks by Fir Tree Knitwear
 

Winter Hedgehog Wool Socks

£28.00

4. The next step of 'operation get warm and cosy' is to get a blanket. This gorgeous red rustic blanket box is both styles hand practical. It's a beautiful piece of work by Very Woody Things

Red Rustic Blanket Box

£85.00

5. And in the blanket box is of course the blanket you wrap up in. You'll definitely feel warm with this beautiful autumnal blanket by Simply Blankets.

Tunisian Crochet in Autumn Colours

£54.00

 Hope you have enjoyed browsing through this collection of cosy items and if you would like to see more about any of the items features just click on the artists name or the title under the picture

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#TreasuryTuesday Nature's Jewelry by Spider Fly Clothing

 

This weeks beautiful leaf inspired treasury from Etsy.com is brought to you by Spider Fly Clothing. My double leaf bracelet is featured in the treasury called Nature's Jewelry.

There is a lovely mix of jewellery in this treasury and it really deserves to be seen, I especially like the beaded bee necklace.

The piece I have in this treasury is the joined leaf bracelet available in my shop Fashion Magpie Jewellery.

 

 

 

Joined Leaf Bracelet

£10

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#TreasuryTuesday Harvest by Twiggy Peasticks

 

Treasury Tuesday is a showcase of up to 16 items from Etsy.com, the American craft and vintage website.

This week I'm showcasing a treasury my black berry earrings where featured in called Harvest. It encapsulates everything that is good about this time of year in one treasury. I love it!

The treasury is by a jewellery shop called Twiggy Peasticks.

 

These are the earrings below which I have in the treasury from my shop Fashion Magpie Jewellery.

 

Black Berry Earrings

£6.00

 

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Folksy Friday Bonfire Night

 

 Bonfire Night is one of my favourite times of the year. I love going along to my local fireworks display and marvelling at the fireworks. It's always a good night!

 

All the makes in this list of five handmade items for Bonfire night are from Folksy.com and if you fancy buying any of them just click on the highlighted links or the titles under the picture.

 

1. When I was younger I remember getting toffee apples to eat before going to the bonfire. Not something I liked, (I preferred the chocolate cover apples with sprinkles!) but this make reminded me of that fact. I'd forgotten about it until I found them.

However don't eat these toffee apple scented wax melts by Tinder Box Candles, just melt them down in your oil burner and enjoy the fragrance.

 

Toffee Wax Melts

£2.95

2. Something which is an essential on Bonfire night is a hat! As you stand waiting of the bonfire to be light, you nearly always end up feeling like a block of ice tottering from foot to foot trying to keep warm!
This hat by evecollection is the perfect solution to the cold. It's bright colour is right on trend this year as well so you can be warm and trendy! It has a cable pattern and cute bobble on the top.

Hand Knit Beanie in Orange

£20.00

 

 3. So now we've enjoyed the toffee apples and we're warm in our hats so it's time for the bonfire to be lit. My local Bonfire has a different guy on the bonfire each year made by local people, last year it was a house with stained glass windows which lit up and revealed themselves when the fire was lit. The best part was the dragon on the roof with glowing eyes.

To represent the bonfire I choose this head piece by Dawn Chorus Creations. This piece actually looks like a fire with it's fire material and flicking fire feathers, it would look awesome when worn to a party

Fire Fascinator Hat

£9.50

 

4. At last all that waiting the first fireworks go off and we glaze at the beauty of them, perfectly illustrated in this make by March Hare.

The A4 print Giclee is of Kendal in the Lake District and shows fireworks over the town.

 

Kendal Mint Cake Heist

£20.00

 

5.  The last piece I chose is by an artist I first found on the Folksy forum, TalkFolksy. I was recommended this next artist by other fellow artists for this bonfire folksy Friday and took a look over to the Stephanie Guy Fine Art shop to her Halloween themed section where I found lots of flame inspired miniature creations. The one I picked to feature is less Halloween and more bonfire night I think.

It measures 2.5 inches by 3.5 inches and is of an owl looking out over the bonfire, a lovely piece which would look great collected with the other pieces of the collection in her shop.

 

Owl ORIGINAL ACEO

£6.00

 

Hope you have enjoined browsing through this collection of bonfire items and if you would like to se more about any of the items features just click on the artists name or the title under the picture

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#treasurytuesday. Halloween Spooky Pumpkins

This week for treasury Tuesday I've made my own treasury for Halloween and have gone with the theme of pumpkins.
I'm pleased with the way it turned out and hope you are suitably spooked by the wares I've chosen.
For those not aware of treasuries, they are group of items from Etsy.com which are compiled into a list of up to 16 pieces. Normally this list; like my pumpkin treasury, has a common theme.

I think my favourite item in the Halloween Pumpkin list is the cat hat, makes me wish I had a cat to put it on!

Hope you enjoy browsing my treasury.



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Featured Item. Blue Choker Necklace

 

Each week I feature an item from my shop Fashion Magpie Jewellery for you to read about. The item this week is the Blue Choker Necklace.
The necklace sits around the collar bone of the neck so is quite short with a large pendant. The pendant is a bronze disk with blue jewel enamel and glitter. Jewel enamel is a UTEE resin which sets like marble and appears to have several layers to the colour. The glitter I used is a heat sensitive glitter which bonds it's self to the hot jewel enamel when it was setting.

I decided the beads should repeat themselves so I started with light blue Swarovski crystals which sparkle almost as much as the glitter in the pendant. I spaced these with oval beads of the same shade of blue then contrasted with a darker blue. In between the dark blue beads, I decided to use bronze tone accent beads, to mirror the bronze of the pendant.

 

For the upper half of the necklace I set out the beads the same way but instead of the diamond shaped bronze tone accent beads I used a pretty round flower patterned bead.

 

 

 

 

 To buy this Blue Choker Necklace it is £12.95 with £3.20  UK postage and packaging. I also do international postage.


You can find Fashion Magpie Jewellery at the below links

Folksy Website www.folksy.com/shops/fashionmagpiejewellery

Etsy Website www.etsy.com/uk/shop/FashionMagpieJewels

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Folksy Friday. Ghosts and Ghouls

 

It's really not long now until Halloween so this week I'll be celebrating all the ghosts and ghouls of the creative world of Folksy.com.

I hope you enjoy you enjoying reading through my five picks and as always if one of the items takes your fancy just click on the highlighted names or the title under the picture.

1. To start off this ghosts and ghouls Folksy Friday, I've picked Bizzy Lizzy's spooky little handbag charm, made of white felt and with their own ball and chain and eyes made of sequin.

Possibly more cute then scary they jingle as they swing from your bag

 

Halloween Ghost Bag Charm

£9.00

 

2. I know people who take the zombie apocalypse very seriously and are hooked on the Walking Dead show. If you count yourself as someone who knows exactly what they would do in that situation then you may also like my next item by Bobby Boutique. This one of a kind necklace will make sure if you are found your returned to the right place!

'Daryl's Girl' Glass Love Heart

£9.00

3. I love a bit of Steampunk, it especially looks good at Halloween as this mask by Masquerade Madness stands testament to.
Made with copper paint, black mesh and mdf cogs it looks fantastic!

 Men's Masquerade Mask

£20.00

 

4. Just what you need in the window for that Halloween party you've been planning or perhaps just to scare the kids! The pumpkin is personalised especially for you and reads 'Happy Halloween from the [your name]'

SoRt supply you with this made to order black acrylic with iridescent orange acrylic behind it plus the sucker for sticking it to your window.

 

Halloween Pumpkin Hanging

£9.99

5. This gruesome eyeball necklace is by Greenwood Makes and comes hung on a silver coloured necklace, the perfect accompaniment for any Halloween costume!

Necklace Seeing

£10.00

 

I hope you have enjoyed this Folksy Friday and have used the links to view some of your favourite ghost and ghouls from this week.

 

 

 

 

 

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Featured Item. Red and Blue Necklace.

This week the featured item in my Fashion Magpie Jewellery shop is a brand new item, I've only just listed for sale. It is called the Blue and Red Necklace.
Its made with one of my favourite materials to work with, Jewel Enamel. I first discovered jewel enamel while watching the jewellery maker channel and found them featuring this brilliant stuff which melted down from a powder quickly to a liquid which could be poured into mould and then set within a minute and could be handled. I feel in love instantly and I've never looked back.

The pendant for this necklace is made with Apitite blue and Burmese Flame which is a red jewel enamel which has a gold frosted look when it's melting.
Each time I pour jewel enamel into a mould I never know what result I'm going to get which is half the fun of working with it. This particular pendant looks fantastic I love the flowing lines and mix of the colours.
Originally I had been planning to make this necklace mainly blues but the pendant dictated the colours to me and I decided instead to work mainly with red and accents of deep turquoise.
I placed the pendant on a bead board and planned my necklace on there, experimenting with how much turquoise I could use and trying not to go over board with the red.

I settled on using two different types of turquoise crackle glass and a red bead of a similar size with the same sort of crackle design. In between then I used red seed beads the same deep red as the jewel enamel.
The design only goes as high as the collar bone and then I used bronze chain to go behind the neck making it 24 inches long when worn.

 To buy this Red and Blue Necklace it is £12.95 with £3.20  UK postage and packaging. I also do international postage.


You can find Fashion Magpie Jewellery at the below links

Folksy Website www.folksy.com/shops/fashionmagpiejewellery

Etsy Website www.etsy.com/uk/shop/FashionMagpieJewels

Facebook www.facebook.com/fashionmagpiejewellery

Pinterest http://uk.pinterest.com/fmjewellery/

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#TreasuryTuesday. *46 by Skeinofwool

 

This weeks treasury Tuesday shows us a treasury made by Skeinofwool which I was featured in but its a little bit different to the normal treasuries I feature.

Normally a treasury is a group of up to 16 items which has a common theme, this week however there is no theme. Every so often I find my items have been entered in a treasury because the creator either wants to showcase a group of items they love or, as I suspect with this one. They have made the treasury to help the people they are featuring be seen.

The item I had included in the treasury called *46 is my bumblebee set of earrings and necklace I have for sale in my shop Fashion Magpie Jewellery.

 

 

 

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Featured Item. Gold Bead Brooch

This week the featured item is the Gold Bead Brooch which I made with welding wire.
These brooches from my shop Fashion Magpie Jewellery are great to make when you have some beads left over from a project but there is not enough to make anything else.
There made by bending some copper welding wire into a shape you like then, doing some loops through the centre of the shape, before winding the end of the wire around its self to secure. To prevent the end scratching sometimes it can be necessary to file the end a bit.

Next I use tiger wire, in this case gold, to wind around and through the shape adding beads as I go. There doesn't have to be any rhyme or rhythm to the design just let your imagination take hold. I find it's easier if you don't over load each branch of beads with to many because they can begin to bulge upwards and make the design look too fussy. It also looks good to mix up the beads size and textures, like this brooch which has gold coloured filigree, 4mm faux pearls and pearlescent tear drop beads.
Where the tiger wire meets the copper wire I have wound the tiger wire around 2 or 3 times before continuing with the next length. This method helps to stop the tiger wire slipping around the copper and makes everything more rigid.

When I am happy with the design I use the tiger wire to secure the brooch back to the copper wire by just winding the wire through the holes on the brooch back fastening until it doesn't move as much any more.
These brooches never fail to get positive feedback when there worn.

To buy this Gold Bead Brooch it is £6.00 with £1.95 UK postage and packaging. I also do international postage.


You can find Fashion Magpie Jewellery at the below links

Folksy Website www.folksy.com/shops/fashionmagpiejewellery

Etsy Website www.etsy.com/uk/shop/FashionMagpieJewels

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