Christmas week....

Well Christmas is over for another year. We had a great day spent with family and friends, stuffing our faces with food all day! Then shopped yesterday at the Boxing Day sales. We were there with everybody else at 6am to shop for the bargains.  We've also had other family over today to have our Christmas together, and then there's two more other family Christmas days to go this week. I love this week and getting to catch up with everybody again.
I haven't spent any time on the crafts this week, but have got some ideas for summer scarves that I'll try out in the next few days.
I hope you all enjoyed your Christmas.

Merry Christmas!!!

Hi. Well it's almost Christmas day, and I've been rushed off my feet. The house is almost clean and only just the basics needed for shopping. All the plans are made and the presents wrapped. I think I may be able to enjoy Christmas eve this year.

Have got Sunshine market tomorrow, so hopefully the rain will hold off until the afternoon, and then everything will be perfect (or should be anyhow).

Nothing much to say today except to wish everybody a Merry Christmas. I hope that wherever you are and whoever you are with, that you are with good people and have a happy fun filled day.

Much love, Meg.

Pre Christmas cleaning.....

Wow. It's so close to Christmas now that I can't believe it. It will be at my place again this year and the house is currently a huge mess. I've tried to do little bits of clearing my work on the kitchen table and coffee table, but then I find something else to use and work on that.

This week I've been making candles, scarves, and Christmas brooches. I'm a little late obviously with the brooches, so hopefully I'll remember where I put them when it comes to next year. I made the brooches as I tried looking to buy some that weren't cheap or tacky looking. I coudn't find any and thought I'd give it a go myself. I'll include a pic to show you.

Good luck with all your Christmas preparations!!!!

Josh's birthday.....

Hi again. Well today we went to a birthday lunch for my gorgeous nephew Josh. He turned 2 today. He is so beautiful, excited and talking about everything he notices.

I've still been busy here making jewellery trying to keep up. I've just listed 15 more glass tile pendants in my madeit shop. And I'm making more of the vintage brass items. I think it will start to slow down in another week or so when people stop getting gifts posted as they worry about them arriving in time. I'm still waiting on items myself. I ordered a couple of beautiful scarves..... I'll include a picture or two. I got one for mum for Christmas, and the other for myself. The colours are lovely. I ordered them from an Etsy shop called FlorasFinest.

Brads bracelets....

It's been a little while since my last posting as it's still been busy. Had a great weekend with the markets and my husbands birthday. We went to our favourite Indian restaurant for dinner with family and friends. It was lots of fun.

Sunbury Market on the Saturday was probably the busiest I've ever seen it. It started off as a craft market but over the last two or three years, they have slowly added sellers with other items too. It's a nice market with both an indoor and outdoors. It's at the leisure centre on the first Saturday of every month except January.

I have been frantically making jewellery to keep up with the sales and I've also been listing new items I've made onto the madeit site. I call them "Brads bracelets". I'll include a couple of photos here.

Now it's time to continue these Christmas cards. Ciao!

Busy, busy, busy....

Well it's December again so I've made a start on the Christmas cards. I was looking for any excuse for a break so decided to come on here. Business is pretty busy at the moment. I'm selling travel wallets like there's no tomorrow. And I've just received an order for some custom pendants.  I've also got two markets on the weekend and my husband has a birthday. I'm not complaining though as I love being busy.

For something different I thought I might include a couple of photos of the travel wallets today that I sell on my website. They are made in either leather or suede and come in a huge range of colours. I have a bright pink suede one and I love it!!!

Early day....

Well it's a new day. I'm up early today as I've gone over the broadband limit and now it's slowed me down so I'll have to use it in the off peak time for the next few days!! It doesn't matter how many gigs I get, I always seem to overrun the limit. I do get lots of things done though early in the mornings. I've been very productive so far taking lots of photos and updating listings on my sites.

I thought I would show one of my necklaces today. It's called "sparrow in flight necklace". It's a very simple design made from aged brass and a Swarovski crystal drop. I love the colour of the bead, it's a teal colour in real life. The photos don't show it that well. And the detail on the bead cap is lovely. I love using birds in jewellery. What do you think?