My Copper Pick Necklace on Retro Roost.

 
I was pleased to see my Personalised copper pick necklace featured on Retro Roost website's homepage. There are some lovely handmade gifts there, including these gorgeous hand painted personalised plates by Eclectic Tea. Would make great gifts for Christmas...

Please click here to visit my Retro Roost shop.

Latest commission: Personalised Bridesmaids Bracelets

I have recently been contacted by a bride to be who was looking for some bridesmaids bracelets.
She wanted to combine the capped bead from my 'floating flower necklace' together with my 'stretchy pearl bracelet'.

 

Her colour theme was sage green with light pink. We have decided to use some 8mm Swarovski Crystal pearls together with a glass lampwork bead with pink floating flowers and green leaves.

This was a bit of a rushed job as I was asked to do this on a Monday for a wedding on a Saturday but I think the bracelets looked lovely and my customer was pleased with them...
Here are some photos of the final result!
Please contact me through my Folksy shop if you are interested in personalised bridesmaids jewellery.

Blog giveaway: prize claimed.

The winner of my blog giveaway was Charlotte from Charlotte Hupfield ceramics.
Charlotte won a free personalised item of her choice (up to £16.99) and  she chose a Sterling silver necklace with a heart charm. She wanted the word 'HOPE' stamped on and added a simple clear crystal birthstone.

The necklace looked simple but elegant and I think Charlotte was pleased with it.

My new blog giveaway is coming soon so watch this space...

I (heart) my new tool.

I have bought myself a new tool recently, a Heart shape hand punch tool.
I thought it would be useful for decorating Christmas gift tags, cards etc. I'm really pleased with it, it works really well. You can cut heart shaped holes (they are only about 6mm) but also heart confetti, although you may be a while doing it...
Anyway, I have created some tiny tags with a heart shaped hole which will be threaded onto each of my personalised necklaces and bracelets.
The tags say:
Handstamped by Personalised Treasures.
www.personalisedtreasures.co.uk

Overall, I'm really pleased with the tool and my new tags. Hope you like them too.

The Silver cross personalised necklace above is available to purchase here:
http://folksy.com/items/2495833

Chain Types to choose from

With some of my necklaces you have the option to choose which type of chain you would like. Here is an image of all my chains to help you decide:

From the garden

 

Pumpkin carving fun.

My daughter and myself have been doing some pumpkin carving. She got bored after about 5 minutes but I quite enjoyed it and was pleased with the result (until the following day when my pumpkin dried up and shrunk and looked terrible...).
May just have to do it all over again on Monday...

And the winner is...

My blog giveaway is now closed.
My 2.5 year old daughter has picked one lucky winner and that person is:
charlottehupfieldceramics

Congratulation! I will be in touch soon to discuss your prize.

Thank you to everyone who entered, a new giveaway will be launched soon...

Time to treat myself (again)…

Every now and then I get this need to treat myself and make a piece of jewellery for ME rather than other people.
My recent soldered stud earrings project (read here) has inspired me to make another soldered, slightly more complicated, piece of personalised jewellery.

I wanted to create something very personal to me with the names of my closest, my little daughter and my husband (so that he doesn’t moan about not having his name included…)
I decided to make a sterling silver heart shape pendant with the 2 names hidden inside. It was a bit more complicated than what I normally do but I have really enjoyed creating this necklace and I’m pleased with the way it turned out.
Here are some progress pictures together with the finished piece. Hope you like it.
I’m not really planning on making this pendant again and adding it to my shop, it was just a treat for myself (although I would probably give in if somebody tried to persuade me to make it for them…)

Last chance to enter my blog giveaway!

You may remember my blog giveaway where you had a chance to win a free personalised item of your choice.
I have decided to close this giveaway earlier than originally planed (before the mad Xmas rush starts...) and so you have a last chance to enter.
The giveaway will be finishing this Friday the 21st October so if you would like to enter, please click here to find out how.
Good Luck.