I need money!

It was a good idea at the time. I was hunting through the Centenary website when I came across the advertisement for Ultimate Edinburgh. They describe it as a glamorous city break and it probably will be with the ball, and castle trip although what I was mostly thinking was that it's in the UK. This makes it cheaper.

I had the money for a deposit in my hands and I'd just sent off a pile of job applications so why not. I had hope.

Now I don't. I still don't have a job but this is an once in a lifetime trip. A once in a hundred years trip. So I'm pulling up my socks and trying to raise money in anyway I can.

Therefore I am proud to announce the launch of my new, first, and probably only jewellery line. The earrings are £4 a pair. If you want something in a different colour or a matching necklace bracelet or handbag it can be done. Just let me know.

Chandelier earrings hanging from a beautiful silver central piece. Beautifully coloured fire polished beads hang delicately down. Available in Blue/Pink and Green/Blue.

Captive bead earrings with various Japanese seed beads hanging from silver rings. Creates a lovely cascading effect. Available in Blue with Purple Finish, Clear with Blue Centre, Red and White with Silver Centre.

Cute dice earrings. Three strands of dice beads and vintage clear crystal beads with aurora borealis effect. Available in Purple/Blue/Black or Green/Blue/White.

Stylish drop earrings. Dramatic double drop red hearts on silver, cute double drop flowers with green fire polished bead on silver, and funky purple glass beads on wire. There is also a string of stylish vintage faceted beads with aurora borealis finish.

And then I ran out of beads! I'm also planning to sell cakes and do a quiz sheet. I'll sit on babies, do a bit of mending, hell I'll even take in ironing. I'm only after money to cover the trip and transport not a ball gown or anything mad and if I manage to make more than I need then it will be put into unit funds.

Vintage flower buttons and broken hearts

I work as a maid. It’s not a bad jobs as jobs go and I’m not really one to care too much about what I do. When I started working as a maid I realised I wouldn’t be able to wear bracelets and the like. So that is when I became an earring convert. I made these three pairs in the last two weeks. The diamond shapes, the heart beads and the red and black crystals are new. Findings and ‘wire’ is from the stash and scrap bucket. 

Silver shapes with red and black crystals draped  below

Yellow and brown buttons from a job lot I bought a couple of years ago

Wire wrapped little red love hearts

Ten purple bottles...

I've really been bitten by the bug here. The beads are from Bijoux Beads and got here in super fast speed. 24 hours and I was working with them. I made two.

The second one was made in a fit of insomnia. I made the beads from verdilak's tutorial over on Craftster.

Something about dieing hard...

Crafts are addictive. Before internet shopping came into my life I had two big addictions, knitting and making jewellery.

Jewelery supplies where mainly bought from The Bead Shop in Manchester. The necklace is the result of my last visit.

Only that's a train ride away, a train ride I make less and less often. So I stopped. But now. But now I can buy bead in Huddersfield. And I have. And so the gloomy earrings were born.

The red bracelet is product of some recycling.

Speaking of recycling. The box is where I'm keeping little bags of seed beads. It was going to have a green heart but I didn't have any green glitter. So I used some red. So instead of being the 'I'm super madly envious' box it's the little box of (slightly morbid) hope. Or something.

The ribbon headband is an adorable project from the craftster book. I have a second one made up for Louise.