Being Featured & A Giveaway Opportunity

Wow! three posts in just over a week, my faithful readers must be reeling with shock, not to worry I don't think I'll be able to keep that momentum up but I aim to at least try :)
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Well today I am pleased to share with you all that I am being featured in the very cool blog of the online magazine UK Handmade. This organisation is doing great things for the handmade industry by showcasing all that is wonderful great or small within the handmade community and I am honoured to be featured in their blog.
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The feature also has a bonus for their readers in the form of a giveaway of some of my creations which I created especially for the blog post.
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So I'd like to extend a warm welcome to all the readers who have popped in from the UK Handmade blog, to peruse and check out my Blogshop and creations, my Blogshop site navigation links are on the right, I really hope you enjoy your visit.

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Here are some sneak peeks of the giveaway prizes, so if you would like to take part in the giveaway, then pop over to UK Handmade's Blog and have a read of the feature for the details on how to take part, it runs from the 16th to the 22nd of Oct.

Thanks again everyone for returning to read my updates,
have a great weekend,

Facebook Fan Page 5 Day Sale!!!!!!!

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I am so happy to make the 300 likes milestone on my facebook fan page and really wanted to thank my fans for their support, so I'm having a 5 days 15% off sale at my fanpage shop, details here: http://ning.it/9eU3Lq
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Its a great way to get some christmas shopping done early, so if you're on facebook and hanker after my wishes, why not like my page, take advantage of my 5 days sale and

Make A Wish!

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I'm Still Here and New Stock Unveiled

Wow! So its the month of October already, the summer is well and truly over and the season of autumn is in full swing.

I know I have been very absent with not much happening on my other blogs and nothing new listed here since August :( But I promise I do have a few good reasons for my absences. the main one I'll go into here is my recent experiences of getting to sell at face to face events.

The first one was at Langley Farmer's market on the 2nd of August, which isn't far from me. It is a fairly quiet market, and the organiser was a little worried that I may not have made any sales but I did ok and this embolden me to get myself in some more markets or fairs.

Initially this turned out to be quite a challenge, you see, the handmade jewellery market is quite saturated and to do well you have to be very unique in your designs. Now I aim to create designs that unique and because I aim to create one off pieces 99% of the time, I can honestly say my pieces are also bespoke, and in the end this is why I got into the last craft fair I did.

Understandably organisers of these events do not like to overbook one type of product or artist, which is fair enough, as they want their customers to get lots of variety and they also want the vendors to do well. Luckily the organiser of the most recent fair I attended said in hindsight she probably had overbooked jewellery artists but felt my pieces stood out enough to garner my own audience, so she kindly gave me a stall :)

So on the weekend of the 25th - 26th of September at Brogdale Farm Cider festival I shared a stall with my good friend who is a visual mixed media artist Chelsea ART Designs (feel free to check her out). I proudly unveiled my homemade banner and was quite chuffed with how it turned out.

Overall I think I did quite well, Saturday was better than Sunday but then Sunday's weather was horrid and so there were less people about.

The experience was still very educational and I was able to learn a lot from both my experiences in selling face to face with the public.

I also got a few more addresses for invites to my home jewellery parties and there is one in the pipe line for early November but I'll blog on that closer to the time.

Well as you can imagine there was a lot of preparation involved in getting ready for these pass market and fair events which is lucky for you because that means there is a lot more new eye candy for you to see and to buy, especially if you want to get your holiday shoppng done early. I may have panicked and created a lot more stock than what I needed to show at the craft fairs, so there has been quite a lot to list in the blogshop, the storenvy shop and the facebook fanpage shop.

Its all done now and the new items can be found in the Sets category, Necklace category, Bracelets category and the Earrings,Rings, Cufflinks category. Here is s video of the newly listed items:

I have been busy in other blogging arenas as well and I am now also a guest blogger on the fast and upcoming blog Handmade and Fabulous, here is the link to my first blog post there (what do you think).

I should also be featuring on another blog with a giveaway soon, so keep popping back to get updates on that.

All that is left to say, is thank you for being patient with my recent abcenses and thanks again for sticking around. I would love to hear what you think of my new creations and by all means if you see something you like, don't be shy, treat yourself or a love one and...

MAKE A WISH!!!