Featured Item. Purple Leaf Bracelet

The featured item this week for Fashion Magpie Jewellery is the Purple Leaf Bracelet.
The idea for this bracelet can from the colours, I love the way turquoise blue plays with deep purples, I think its a stunning combination.
The embossed leaf at the centre of the charm bracelet was an experiment its self. I had just got the deco emboss part for Christmas 2015 and was eager to try it out. It was after painting the embossed coin with Vintaj patina inks that the idea started to form in my mind for how the bracelet should look.
I knew it needed to be bronze, it's my preferred metal to work with and I wanted the piece to show off the colours of the beads rather then be shiny like silver.

I used purple vine leaf beads along the length of the bracelet to mirror the pendant leaf and joined this with some bronze charm leaves. Next I brought in some turquoise with some 8mm facet beads and filled up the gaps with small 4mm crackle glass beads.
I love how full this bracelet looks and how it rings when its worn.

The Purple Leaf Bracelet is £10 with £3.20 UK postage and packaging.

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How to find inspiration when you have writers block

Regular readers of the Fashion Magpie Jewellery blog will have noticed a lack of new posts over the past few months. Basically I've hit burn out!

So to remotivate myself I've sat and forced myself to look at the blog from another angle and I think I may be on to something! 

The first thing I did was to find a notebook and pen, make a cup of tea and get comfortable.
To find ideas I took a look in my favourite book 'blogging for creatives' by Robin Houghton. Chapter 5 has 12 ideas for blog posts which I wrote down in my notebook.

From here I took the 12 ideas and tried to suit them to my blog. I did that by looking at Pinterest, which is always a major source for inspiration. I looked for other bloggers posts giving details on what they blog about and looked up what was trending at the moment.

I think I know have at least a few months of post topics to choose from. 

One last tip I have is to keep an eye on the calendar for upcoming bank holidays, world days etc.

What do you do? Or what would you like to see me writing about?