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

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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.

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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.

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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+