Got that Friday feeling :)

Well hope everyone is in as good form as I am!

Tis a Friday I have a weekend of fun classes ahead of me (yep I know I’m weird) and a night of fun with the girls planned for tomorrow night. My orders are ready to go, just have to walk to the post office and then maybe go to yoga class, I’m not sure about that.

I’ve got a few new listings up in the last few days, check them out and I’ve been featured in some amazingly cute Treasuries!

I’ve joined a team on etsy the craftyfolk and will be taking part in their daily listings club, so I will aim to have at least one listing a day! Gulp! I can do it ...right?

I’ve started to get my folksy shop up the level of my etsy one, still a ways to go but I got a shout out on twitter by folksy which is definitely encouraging me to keep going! It’ll get there!

I have been very productive and I have more stuff ready to photo once the light is good, hopefully I’ll get a chance on Sunday and I am almost there on figuring out a nice design for clip on ear studs, they are being very very difficult and I’m not listing them until they’re perfect!

I’m also eager to get back to the enamelling! The planned sewing this week never happened! But I did promise I was going to sew something I could wear this month so I have 11 days left to figure that out!

Of course whats really put a giant smile on my face J Is this pic I just uploaded of the boy and Orla bunny my little girls aren't quite so little anymore! I love the expression on her face! 

My supposed day off.

I’ve finally caught up with myself so no more running after my own tail! Woohoooo! Decided to give myself a little break today but of course my day off involved me disappearing into the depths of the etsy forums! Found a few new teams I’m going to join and a few ideas I’m going to try, and it was pretty relaxing J Guess that’s the problem with being your own boss, are you ever really off work? But I wouldn’t have it any other way! There is not one single atom of my body that regrets giving up teaching to go for my dreams and I hope everyone else has the chance to go for theirs too!

In the midst of looking at etsy I listed some new pieces, and realised that my folksy shop has been set to holiday mode since Christmas ooops! I’ve fixed that and I’m listing some stuff up there as I type; it’s loading slowly in the background.  

I also followed a link to a very set of some amazing crocheted pieces you should all look at! Traffic cones, wheelie bins and poo! Brilliant!  

I also routed through a giant box of material we inherited from a friend when they left Cardiff, so I’m looking and making plans and I think I’ll take out the sewing machine tomorrow J but tonight is all about trying a new recipe and heading to pottery class. 

Oh and I'm getting very pin happy on Pinterest :) 

I'll leave you with a nice pic I took in the summer, remember back then when it was soooooo warm! Ah good times! 

Classes classes everywhere!

Well it's been a busy ol week!

Back to my classes, 'Pottery, Yoga and Tai Chi (what was I thinking) as well as Herbal Medicine next Saturday and some Yoga workshops I'm signed up for on Sundays! Also got a few hours in the museum which given its January and all is very very much appreciated!





 But today was a "free" day, I spent it at my bench and when the sun quickly popped its head out I grabbed the camera and got some shots for new listings as well as some daylight shots of the enamel work from my last post. I'm really happy with how far through the constellation pendants I am, I'm doing the entire zodiac but I'm also doing some of the more obscure like Andromeda. It's really fun and interesting and I very much want to go out star gazing soon! I'll actually have a chance of knowing more then just the Plough and Orion now!

Now for some real work!
Bunny cages need cleaning :(

Enamel bunnies everywhere!

Well Friday was enamel day, and I had great fun put on some really cheesy music and danced around the kitchen like a lunatic! We’re on the second floor so passersby can’t see in but I just hope the neighbour across the street wasn’t watching!

It was a success and a bust, I’ve working on making enamel stud earrings, and I started off with  8 earrings, I finished with this pair. I’m happy with them but I think it goes without saying there is work to do! 

I did however also manage to get several bunny brooches prepped and ready to go. So listing should be going up over the next few days, and I’m very happy with the little guys J I might even give them names! Ooooh actually can I have name suggestions please!

Unfortunatly not the best photos on account of the lack of sunlight today, but here they are!

All bunny brooches are made from
 enamel on copper

Gráinne as always likes to be involved!
No bunnies were harmed inthe making of these brooches! 

I also had a go at this howling wolf pendant on sterling silver,  and a copper pendant with two different colored sides, strung on a sterling silver jump ring and chain. 

Productive day :)

OOOH I had a productive day! Lots done, got a few new star signs almost finished and ready to go up on etsy; once pictures are taken J and got a bunch of earrings and brooches ready to be enamelled tomorrow! Very excited to get my kiln fired up! It’s so good to be back at my bench!

Also went to see The Lady in the cinema, very sad movie, but definitely worth a watch!

Right now to round up bunnies and go to bed, up nice and early to melt stuff! 

Photoshoot

Well I’m back at my bench and so happy for it! Had a lovely day just me and my saw, I’d forgotten just how relaxing I find it! I’m going to go back in a while! It’s my happy place J

But first I want to share with you the handy work of a very very good friend of mine Rachel Brennan, we’ve been friends since secondary school and while I was in Ireland over the Christmas she agreed to take some rather excellent photos of some pieces of my jewellery, we also managed to rope in another one of my very good looking friends who is too modest to have her name here.  

So here are the photos, I’m really really happy with them and how they turned out, hope you like them J

Poor sick bunny

Hope everyone is off to a good start with 2012. I spent the first day getting organised and cleaning, I want a proper fresh start. Also cooking lovely (not roast) dinner, I'm all roasted out!

Also discovered we have a sick bunny so really hoping that the vet will be open tomorrow even though its a bank holiday! Conan spotted the inside of Orla's ear today and it's all red and scabby, not good at all. Gráinne is fine so not thinking ear mites. She's still eating and running around, so not in pain, so not going to try for the emergency Vet, the last time we did the guy knew nothing about rabbits, so hoping our really good rabbit friendly vet is open tomorrow! Fingers crossed!

I'm also completely hooked on Pinterest! Check me out :)

Now for some yoga before bed!