Folksy Friday. 5 Favourite Flower Items.

It's been a while since I last did a Folksy Friday blog post but like the Treasury Tuesday posts there something I love to do. Sometimes I can feel like I'm just constantly spamming you with post after post about Fashion Magpie Jewellery, so it's nice to occasionally take a step back and say 'hey take a look at these other shops, there cool too!'
I decided that for my first post back I'd do a flower inspired post with 5 of my favourite flowery pieces on Folksy.

1. The first piece I came across was this lolly pop with a viola inside. I love that people are starting to use more edible flowers in there food and this lolly is a good example of that. It's by Eat My Flowers and you'll find your spoilt for choice with flavours.

Large Round Edible Flower Lollipop FREE DELIVERY

£3.00

Free Delivery

 

2. The next piece I chose is from Allana Morrison Photography and Handmade crafts. Allana has lots of flowery photography to chose from but I picked this Bluebell Path picture because it reminded me of a walk I used to go on in a wood called bluebell wood (not sure if that was it's actual name but it's what we called it.)

This picture really looks like how I remember walks there and I think that is what photography should do. It should transport you somewhere else.

 

Bluebell Path

£5.00

£1.94 UK P+P

 

 

3. When I first found this next piece I thought wow, that's beautiful. The colours are so vivid and strong. These are the type of orchids I'd like in my wedding bouquet someday.

then I read the description and was blown away again. This is actually a real flower which has been preserved in resin by Caven Of Jewels. 

Very impressive piece!



 

Real whole Dendrobium sonia orchid flower necklace in blue and purple

£25.00

£3.20 UK P+P

 

4. I wanted to make this list as diverse as I could and add different types of crafts as each number on the list. So I searched for cards with a flower on and among all the cards which where literally a card with a flower on it I found this one. I love the imagination in the image and the bright summery colours of this Flower Lion Card by Hannah Hinchman Illustration.

 

Flower Lion Card

£2.50

£1.00 UK P+P

 

5. The last item in my flower list just had to be a Tulip. It's my favourite flower and something which I always plant out in my garden, so I chose this stained glass sun catcher by JOYSofGLASS.

It was the bright red of the tulips which drew me to this piece, the red tulips are my favourite. It really striking with the clear glass background and I would love to have it hanging in my own window.

 

Tulip Stained Glass Picture Flower Suncatcher

£22.50

£3.50 UK P+P

 

That concludes the list of the 5 favourite flower items. If you would like to buy any of these items are take a look at them just click the name of the item under each picture.

 

All opinions expressed in this post are my own points of view.

 

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New in July To Fashion Magpie Jewellery

 

 

Published once a month this blog post is to help you keep up to date with Fashion Magpie Jewellery and tell you what has happened in the previous month.

It's been a quiet month of July for sales, compared to the last 2 months which has seen a lot of growth for the shop. However I have taken this as an opportunity to learn and progress by jewellery making and I have launched a new range of rings made out of some galvanised wire I found in a drawer. You can read more about it in a post I published earlier in the month for the first of these rings, the Steampunk cog ring.

Another skill I have decided to improve is making charm bracelets. I've decided these popular additions to my shop should be made more, so I've started to look into buying more charms and making themed bracelets. By themed I don't mean doing countless Disney inspired stuff, I don't think that's the way to go and getting the copyright to do that would be too much of a headache. I mean doing flower inspired, leaf inspired, owl inspired etc etc.

Lastly I think I'm going to stop doing so much of the silver jewellery and focus more on the bronze. I find the market for jewellery is already saturated enough that I need to set my self apart and I feel that bronze is the way to go. What do you think?

To start August 2015 off on the right foot, you will be able to find me on the 1st August at Crawcrook summer fair on the border with County Durham and Gateshead. I think this will be my biggest event to date which I have taken Fashion Magpie Jewellery to and it's outdoors which given the weather lately is making me a little nervous. Whatever the weather you will be able to find me ready to go and I hope it is a successful day. I will of course keep you up to date with how I do!

 

 

 

Steampunk Cog Ring

£5

 

Yellow Crystal Ball Necklace

£12.95

 

Multi Coloured Flexi Bangle

£3

 

 Flower Charm Bracelet in Red and Green

£10

 

 Blackberry Earrings

£6

 

Tile Flower Bracelet

£10

 

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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Featured item. Green Emperor Earrings

Every Sunday I feature a post from my shop, Fashion Magpie Jewellery. This week is the much admired Green Emperor Earrings.

These earrings where one of the first I made with kidney wire fastening on the top which give the earrings a long elegant look when worn.
The main body of the earring has a 8mm green glass bead and flower bead cap. Below hangs a Emperor Napoleon coin, made of thin brass made to look like bronze.

 

The reverse of the coin looks the picture below.

 

The roman emperor earrings also had another first for me, because they where also the first item I had after joining Etsy that made it into a Treasury. A treasury is a collection of items which someone adds to a list, normally they have a common theme. The treasury these earrings are in is called coin collector and is by Heather from MommySewAwesome. (Click here to have a look)

Starting next Tuesday I've decided to start running a new blog post on Tuesdays called treasury Tuesdays showcasing any treasuries I've been added to and any I've made myself. Hope you enjoy them, it's a great feature on Etsy and helps you to find new shops you may never of even heard of before they got featured.


The Emperor Earrings are now sold since publishing this post.

 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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Featured Item. Blue Clock Charm Bracelet

In this weeks featured item post I'm going to be showing you a charm bracelet named the blue clock charm bracelet.

 

This bracelet was inspired by the Alice in wonderland books by Lewis Carroll. This year marks the hundredth anniversary of the book which was published in 1865 and follows Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into a wonderland while trying to chase a rabbit with a pocket watch. Here she meets all sorts of weird and wonderful creatures and people.
In my design the blue of the beads represents Alice and her blue dress while the clock charm represents the rabbit.

 

This bracelet is made up of a nickel free silver coloured chain and has a mix of beads from the 3 4mm turquoise bicone beads to the beautiful clear beads with a inner core of blue, and not forgetting the sparkling oval beads which have flashes of pearlescent colour in the light. Then sitting at the centre of the bracelet is the small clock charm.

 

 

The Blue Clock Charm bracelet is £10.00 with £3.20 UK post and packaging and 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

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. Kaleidoscope 4 by Dei Dreams

Today I entered a few of my pieces from Fashion Magpie Jewellery to be considered for a Etsy treasury, which in short is a kind of list with a theme.
The group I use is a facebook group called Etsy UK Networking group, every Tuesday this group allows its members to request makes to make up a treasury from. For example you want to make a orange treasury so you post that your making a treasury with the theme of orange and others from the group can comment with an orange item from there shop. You then pick what you like and add it to your treasury.
I like going through the posts and seeing what people are looking for then commenting with something I think would suit. It was while doing this I found Dei Dreams from Dei Dreamcatchers was wanting some items for a treasury.

The treasury was named kaleidoscope and it's a wonderful make of colours and pieces, including my purple Dichroic Glass Stud Earrings from my shop.

 

 

 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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Featured Item. Purple Embossed Earrings

This weeks featured item post is about the purple embossed earrings

These earrings where made by embossing a blank bronze coin with my sissix big spot. I chose a tulip pattern to emboss onto the coin and polished it lightly to make the relieved area shine then painted it with patina glaze to keep the shine.

The filigree was painted with a vintaj amethyst patina ink and polished the same as the coin to give it rougher look. This was then glazed as well.

Next I added a jump ring to the coin then added another jump ring to that one and added the filigree and ear hoop.

  The coin is about the same size as a one pence piece, to give you an idea of the size.

These are lovely earrings which are lightweight and can be worn either casual or smart.

If you would like to be the one to buy the Purple embossed earrings it is £6.00 with £1.95 UK Postage and packaging. I do also 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

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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Featured Item. Steampunk Cog Ring

Once a week I chose a piece of jewellery from my shop to feature here on my blog. This week it wasn't hard to pick an item to feature. I have chosen the Steampunk Cog Ring.

 

This ring is the first of a new line I have been experimenting with using galvanised wire. I'm feeling proud of this piece because before this ring there is a few others which didn't make it and I have learnt from. So this ring is my triumph over the technique!

It looks beautiful on and it's comfortable to wear, the design doesn't sit to high and the way I wrapped the wire stops it scratching or digging into other fingers near the one wearing it.

The ring was made by first cutting a very long length of the galvanised wire, which I wrapped around a bead tube, although if your going to try this your self you can buy a specialised tool for making rings. For me the bead tube makes the perfect size ring.

Next I wrap one end tightly around the wire to secure it and stop it springing back into a straight piece of wire. I then used the other end to continue wrapped around the circle I made with the bead tube, taking care to keep them as tight as  I can. I continued this until it met up with the first piece of wire. I now have the base for my ring.

 

 

 

To make the focal piece of the ring I started with a bead I had found while I was out one day, (I think it is a silver coloured Czech polished bead.) I threaded the bead onto a head pin and then looked through my bag of watch parts my dad gave me for Christmas last year. I've been looking for a project to use these parts with for ages and this one seemed perfect. I used a small cog underneath the bead like a bead cap for the bead to sit on. Next I picked a golden coloured piece then another cog like the first but slightly bigger. To get them to thread on I had to make the holes a bit bigger with a hole punch (still the best tool I've ever brought!)

I liked this lay out so after a bit of struggling I got the remainder of the head pin to wrap around the ring I had made earlier. I could have left it there and called it finished but I felt the design moved to much on the ring base, so to make it a little more rigid I added one small length of wire to the underside of the design by wrapping it around and around so that it was effectively wedged in place.

 

 

After finishing it I couldn't wait to show people so I slipped it on and headed outside for a good shot of it. I posted the resulting picture on Instragram and my personal Facebook page and the feedback was great. Everyone loved it and for a week afterward everyone I bumped into commented on the ring they had seen on Facebook. It was this wonderful feedback which encouraged me to list it for sale.

I now feel confident in my technique to make a new line of this kind of ring to add to my shop.

 

To buy this piece it is £5.00 from Fashion Magpie Jewellery, with £1.95 UK postage and packaging. If you live aboard I also post anywhere 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

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.

To be the first to hear the latest news from Fashion Magpie Jewellery blog you can find me on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Google+

Treasury Tuesday. Dragonflies by Leah Wilkinson of FashionMagpieJewels

Treasury Tuesday is when etsy shop owners make a list with a theme of other people's items. Today I have made a treasury with the theme of dragonflies.

Originally I tried to do this treasury last week but when I posted on my favourite Facebook group last week, I got one person only, showing me there dragonfly make. This week I decided to try again and I got a better response and filled in the gaps with pieces from my favourite shops.


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.

To be the first to hear the latest news from Fashion Magpie Jewellery blog you can find me on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Google+

Featured Item. Long Dangle Earrings.

Hello and welcome to this weeks featured item the Long Dangle Earrings.

The idea for these came from a pair of earrings I made of bronze just like them. They had a bronze chain with a 8mm Swarovski bronze colour d bead on the end. They sold immediately so I decided to make a silver pair with the same design.

These earrings became the second pieces of my new wedding section on etsy. I can imagine the bride with her hair tied back in a bun and a strapless dress with these earrings in her ears. I think that would look beautiful!

My favourite part of these earrings is the bead. At a casual glance it doesn't look that spectacular but take a closer look and you can see this bead has a soft blue glow within and shimmers with a rainbow of other colours in the light, transforming this little bead into an opalescent beauty.

The long dangle earrings are completely nickel free, so no horrible allergic reactions.

If you would like to be the one to buy the Long Dangle Earrings it is £6.00 with £1.95 UK Postage and packaging. I do also 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

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.

To be the first to hear the latest news from Fashion Magpie Jewellery blog you can find me on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Google+

New in June to Fashion Magpie Jewellery

Once I month usually at the start of the month I publish this post to update you on what I've been up to here at fashion magpie jewellery.
In June I've been really busy with orders coming from both Etsy and Folksy.
The new tagging system on folksy seems to be working to encourage sales and I've been setting time a side every so often to work on my 100+ items in that shop. The new tags, are single words used to describe the item, I get five to use then if someone typed in one of those 5 words my item will come up in that search list.

Over on Etsy I've added a new weddings section to my shop, now that where in to weddings season.

Of course I've also been adding new items for sale in both shops also, which you can find below.

Purple Embossed Earrings With Tulip Design

£6

Yellow Crystal Necklace

£12.50

 

 Icy Blue Wrap Bracelet

£3.00

 

Purple Leaf Necklace

£12.50

 

 Bridal Pearl Necklace

£12.50

 

 

 

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.

 

To be the first to hear the latest news from Fashion Magpie Jewellery blog you can find me on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Google+