Featured Item. Sunflower Bracelet

Every Sunday I feature an item from my shops on Etsy.com and Folksy.com. This gives me a chance to explain how the piece came about and any inspiration I had. This week is the turn of the Sunflower Bracelet.

 

This is the perfect bracelet to feature this week as we look forward to June and we can hopefully start thinking of Summer. I say hopefully because so far although the weather is getting slightly better here in North East England it's still very cold and I'm desperate for some sun with a bit of warmth to it!!
Anyway it hasn't stopped me going in my garden and my sunflowers are growing nicely in the greenhouse.
This bracelet was inspired by this yearning for warmer weather, the sunflower on the pendant is so cheerful and bright so I picked out beads to match. By late summer in the garden, the colours are getting stronger after the pale pastel shades of spring. Keeping this in mind, I picked out burnt oranges, bright yellows and deep blues with peaches which are all colours which also look great with the bronze too.

The sunflower is glued onto a bronze filigree which is flower like and blooms around the petals of the sunflower.

To buy this summery Sunflower bracelet it is £10 with £3.20 UK postage and packaging. I also can post aboard.
It will come to you wrapped and in an organza gift bag.

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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Fashion Magpie Jewellery Blog is a celebration of antique and handcrafted jewellery, with regular featured items from my shop, antique jewellery showcase, interviews, reviews and tutorials.

 

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New in May to Fashion Magpie Jewellery

Welcome to my monthly blog post to tell you what is new in May at Fashion Magpie Jewellery. Sometimes it's hard to keep up with all the goings on in your favourite shops, so once a month I write this blog post to help catch you up on the newest items to Fashion Magpie Jewellery.
It's been a busy month this May with orders going as far away as the USA, Not bad for a little ran from Northumberland, England. I've been quite proud of my little business this month!
If you remember last month in April, I told you I moved some of my jewellery into a shop in Hexham called Gifted of Hexham. I popped by the other day to see how they where doing and found I had a pair of earrings had sold to a man who had brought them for his wife as a surprise present.
This month I've been hard at work trying to build up the listings in my Etsy shop, I'm aiming for 100 listing and I'm up to just over 70.
Unfortunately with all the promotion of Etsy my Folksy.com shop has been a little neglected, however I was pleased to find that even though I hadn't been promoting the shop was still doing well in it's stats and even kept on selling.
The pieces I've made this May have had a very pink and girly theme to them. My favourite piece has to be the donut bracelet, I think the donuts look beautiful if you study them closely. Within the initial pink you also find a wealth of purples and other shades of pink mingling together like water. Very happy with how they turned out.

Pink Bracelet with White Faux Pearls

£10

Charm Bracelet in Pink and Blue

£10

 Purple Embossed Earrings with Tulip Design

£6

 

Triangle Dichroic Earrings

£6

 Round Dichroic Earrings With Leopard Spots

£6

 

 

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Treasury Tuesday. Green Treasury by Sarah Jones of TwiggyPeasticks

I love treasury Tuesday it's a way to show off all the lovely shops on Etsy.com and take some time out from continuously promoting yourself! A treasury is a list you can make up on Etsy which as a common theme. Each week I show you either a treasury I've made or a one I'm included in.
This week I'm showing you a treasury I was included in, in April called Green Treasury by Sarah Jones of TwiggyPeasticks.

 

I tried to pick out a piece I like most from this collect but found it hard. I'm not normally one for green, but the items in this treasury have caught my attention. Take a look and see if you can choose?

 

The piece I have in this treasury is my Green Embossed Necklace, which I was thrilled to have included. Before this the necklace was one of my least favourite pieces on Etsy but this treasury gave it a big boost and pushed it into the public.

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Featured Item. Turquiose Embossed Earrings

Sunday is featured item week, where I show you an item from my Folksy and Etsy shop and tell you a little bit more about it. This week is the turquoise embossed earrings.

These earrings are one of the first I made with my sissix bigkick embossing machine and Celtic motif DecoEmboss die.

There made by taking a small blank bronze coin and placing it in the DecoEmboss die where you want the pattern. As you can see from the above picture I chose the top of the circle pattern. the die is then closed and placed between two pieces of acrylic, on top of the solo platform in the embossing machine. This is all then winded through the machine by holding the top with one hand and turning the handle on the side with the other.

It's not necessary but I like to wind it back through after as well. Now just take your newly embossed coin out of the DecoEmboss die. For these earrings I gave then a buff first to shine up the raised pattern then dabbed Vintaj verdigris Patina ink all over them and then buffed the excess off again to reveal the pattern. This is all then sealed with Vintaj Glaze. The glaze helps to keep the shine and also prolongs the colour.
The only thing left to do was finish them off with a pale blue Swarovski crystal and add a ear hook.

 

To buy these Turquoise Embossed Earrings, they are available for sale for £6 with £1.95 UK postage and packaging, I can also post aboard.
They will come to you wrapped and in a organza gift bag.

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/

Fashion Magpie Jewellery Blog is a celebration of antique and handcrafted jewellery, with regular featured items from my shop, antique jewellery showcase, interviews, reviews and tutorials.

 

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Thursday Throwback. The four generations of Victor Mayer.

This week for Thursday throwback I'm writing about the company Victor Mayer which was established in 1890 and worked in the style of Jugendstil which is a type of Art Nouveau in Pforzheim Germany.

Victor trained as a apprentice steel engraver, after completely military service he moved to Vienna where he homed his engraving enamelling and guilloche engraving skills.
In 1890 he started up Vogel and Mayer in Pforzheim with a merchant friend named Herrmann Vogel. The company lasted five years before a disagreement saw the partners part ways and the company changed named to Victor Mayer. It boasted some of the greatest designers of the time such as George Kleeman and Anton Krautheimer.

Between the years of 1898 and 1945 The Victor Mayer label was also associated with Gustav Meyle and was known as Meyle and Mayer.
In 1932 Victor Mayer retired from the company handing in equal parts his shares to the company to his son, Oskar Mayer and his Son in law Edmund Mohr.
By 1965 the generation was taking over at the firm and Victor Mayers grandsons took over, Dr Herbert Mohr-Mayer and his cousin Hubert Mayer. Hubert Mayer unfortunately died expectantly in 1989 and his cousin took over his shares and became the sole proprietor of the company.

From the 1970s onward the company focused more on jewellery and from 1989 until 2009 they where allowed to produce Faberge jewellery, originally made famous by Peter Carl Faberge. The work was so good it was proudly included along side the originals at Faberge Exhibitions.
In 2003 Dr Herbert Mohr Mayer stepped down from the company and his son Dr Marcus Oliver Mohr became creative director and managing partner of The company Victor Mayer. This fourth generation is now leading the firm into the future.

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Featured item. Red Tree Charm Tutorial

Every week I feature a item from my shop and this week is the turn of the Red Tree Earrings

These earrings are a simple design even a beginner jewellery maker could make. 

If you want to give it a go you'll need the tree charm, red 8mm bead, eye pins, ear hook cutting pliers and round nose pliers.

First thread the bead on the eye pin and bend the head pin 90 degrees then loop the wire 180 degrees into a circle and cut the excess wire off.
Now add the ear hook to the bead by opening the loop just enough on either the eye pin or the ear hook to thread the two together.

Lastly add the charm to the bottom of the bead by opening the bottom loop of the bead and threading the charm on before closing the loop again.

If you'd like to buy the red tree earrings they will come wrapped and in an organza gift bag
All the pieces I make are one of a kind and can be brought from my shop called Fashion Magpie Jewellery.
The Red Tree Earrings are £6.00 with £3.20 UK postage and packaging. I also post aboard.

 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/

Fashion Magpie Jewellery Blog is a celebration of antique and handcrafted jewellery, with regular featured items from my shop, antique jewellery showcase, interviews, reviews and tutorials.

 

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Treasury Tuesday. Helping you with the perfect weddings.

Every week I show you a treasury from Etsy.com which I have either made or been featured in. A treasury is a list anyone on Etsy can make which has a common theme. This week I'm featuring treasuries I've been featured in which have the theme of weddings.
I find these treasuries particularly useful for planning my own wedding and love browsing what people have found to feature in their wedding themed treasury.

The first treasury I'm going to show you is a one called Wonderful Weddings by Hectors House Craft. This treasury has some beautiful wedding dresses and I love the bunting.

 

The piece I have featured in this treasury is the Wedding Leaf Earrings, which are available from my shop for £6.

 

The second treasury today I have to show is called Bridal Bliss by The Moss Root Designs. I love the candles in this treasury, I've tried to make some them before and found it's much more difficult then it looks.

 

 

In this treasury the piece I have featured is my lovely Long Dangling Earrings, also for £6.

Fashion Magpie Jewellery Blog is a celebration of antique and handcrafted jewellery, with regular featured items from my shop, antique jewellery showcase, interviews, reviews and tutorials.

 

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Throwback Thursday. Piaget watchmakers and jewellers

Throwback Thursday is a post I do weekly in which I write about either a jewellery company, an individual or a famous jewel from history. This week I will tell you about the watch maker and jewellers called Piaget.

Piaget is named after the family who run the business which was founded in 1874 by Georges Edouard Piaget. Georges set the business up from the family farm in La Cote-aux-Fees in the Swiss Jura Mountains. The business thrived as a watchmakers and they began to make up new movements to make watches lighter, and more mobile. By the 1960s two generations later, Yves Piaget had taken over and they where making brooch watches, ring watches, cuff link watches and coin watches. They had also moved into making jewellery, applying their same attention to detail and fashions as there watches.

 

Now the company was ready for bigger premises and moved to Geneva where they opened a bigger factory and their first boutique. The factory is the largest jewellery workshop in Geneva.

There innovative mix of watches and jewellery caught the eye of high sociality  and people such as Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis where seen wearing the pieces.
In the 1970's the company started to make a new trend of luxury bracelet watch they named Polo after Yves favourite sport. The time piece did very well and the design can be seen still on the high street today.
In the late eighties Piaget was acquired by the Richemont luxury conglomerate.
Today the brand is still going strong and still loved by A listers such as Angelina Jolie Pitt and Rihanna.

 

 

 

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Treasury Tuesday. Depth by Oksana

Every week I feature a Etsy treasury I'm either featured in or have made myself. A treasury is a list you can make on Etsy.com which has a common theme. This week I'm featuring a treasury I've been included in called Depth by Oksana.

 



I think this is one of my favourite treasuries Fashion Magpie Jewellery has been included in so far, the colours are fantastic and the items are all something I'd buy for myself.

The piece I have included in it is my midnight blue necklace and earrings set which was also in the handmadeuk winter showcase last December.

 

 

 

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Featured Item. Rose and Laurel Necklace

Every Sunday I feature a item from my shop, Fashion Magpie Jewellery. This week is the Laurel and Rose Necklace.

 

This necklace has a simple design I made last December 2014. I has a cross filigree which is wrapped around a bronze wreath of laurels and berries. In the centre I glued a peach coloured rose which fits perfectly in the middle. It almost feels like it was meant for that space!
The chain is made up of 4mm beads I brought from Hobbycraft with my birthday money (my birthday is also in December.) The colour of the beads go really well with bronze, they look the same colour as a cup of tea when in the light.

On Etsy this necklace is one of my top 5 items with favourites! It has 140, something I'm quite proud of.
It measures inches and sits just below the collar bone, making it perfect for a top with a cowl neck jumper or scoop neck top.

If you'd like to buy the laurel and rose necklace it will come wrapped and in an organza gift bag
All the pieces I make are one of a kind and can be brought from my shop called Fashion Magpie Jewellery.
The Laurel and Rose Necklace is £12.50 with £3.20 UK postage and packaging. I also post aboard.

 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/

Fashion Magpie Jewellery Blog is a celebration of antique and handcrafted jewellery, with regular featured items from my shop, antique jewellery showcase, interviews, reviews and tutorials.

 

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New in April to Fashion Magpie Jewellery

Sometimes it's hard to keep up with all the goings on in your favourite shops, so once a month I write this blog post to help catch you up on the newest items to Fashion Magpie Jewellery.
Some of you may have noticed my new branding for Fashion Magpie Jewellery, Its something I've wanted to do for some time now and decided recently that it was about time I took it off the to do list. The design is by a company called Lily Rose Branding and included a logo, cover picture, flyers and business cards all for a very reasonable £25. It was the last day for this excellent offer so I took it. What do you think of Fashion Magpie Jewellery's new logo?

Also new for Fashion Magpie Jewellery is the chance to sell my jewellery in a shop, there currently on a trial basis at a new shop in Hexham, Northumberland showcasing the best of local artists. This is quite an exciting opportunity and I'm hoping that the pieces I've selected have done well enough to stay permanently. If you would like to visit the shop it is called Gifted and is located next to Natwest on St Marys Wynd, Hexham. I'm also in negotiation with a shop in Eldon Gardens in Newcastle Upon Tyne, but it's still early days yet! (Fingers crossed!)

Below are the items which where added to my shop during April 2015.

Purple Clip On Earrings

£6

Pink Drop Earrings

£6

Owl Necklace

£12.50

Dichroic Glass Earrings

£6

 

Fashion Magpie Jewellery Blog is a celebration of antique and handcrafted jewellery, with regular featured items from my shop, antique jewellery showcase, interviews, reviews and tutorials.

 

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