Crafts at Cooden Beach

 

Tomorrow and Saturday I am doing a fair at Cooden Beach Hotel. I really like this fair, it is a lovely venue as the hotel is right on the beach and the people are always really nice.

 

Today I have been enamelling some more earrings as I sold out of all my blue and green earrings at my last fair. I also finished another pair of my Sakura earrings with a matching pendant. Normally I patinate like all the rest of my pieces and then the little branches go a nice brown, however I think I might leave these bright silver. These also have some purple on which I don't normally add.

 

I have also been having a good sort out of my half made pieces and scrap silver clay.

 

Below are three pieces that I finished off out of them. The cross is made using little branches from my fuchsia bush. I may yet decide to enamel the bee piece :)

 

Below are the backs of the three pieces. They can all be worn either way round.

 

 

I shall be finishing all of these off tonight to take to the fair, and I shall be listing new work for sale on my website and in my Etsy shop next week :)

 

Joy x

Production Time!

In two weeks time the craft fair season properly starts for me so I have been reviewing my stock and starting to make more jewellery in preparation.

The bracelet above is one of my handmade chains with beads by Clare Scott. Clare makes wonderful beads so do pop over to her website to have a look.

These beads are black glass and Clare has used a reactive silver glass on them which gives fantastic iridescent colours - like you get on an oil slick. Really difficult to photograph but they look wonderful when you wear them! This bracelet can be converted into a necklace just by adding my necklace converter to it.

I shall be sending batch of work off for hallmarking this week and here are a few of the pieces. I think you have seen all these pieces before but I always like photos of lots of work together (makes me feel I have actually done something!). I think this also proves that if I have a 'style' I have no idea what it is :). I guess it shows I do like colourful things though!

Watch this space for more new work in the next week. The kiln is on and firing as I type:)