Pirate Treasures is 5 years old!

Hello again!
It's just occurred to me that the first incarnation of the website www.pirate-treasures.com went live 5 years ago (Well, 5 years last week, but I only just realised!). So to celebrate I have decided to give everyone 10% off their orders (excluding p&p) from now until midnight on Friday 24th. All you have to do is enter the code 5years2012 when you go through checkout.
 
I must have subconsciously remembered as I decided to revamp the homepage a bit. Well, the website as a whole now has a fancy frame border and the homepage has new photos. I think it looks pretty stylish. I will get round to taking new photos for the category pages too, but have to wait for a nice bright day! 

My Twilight saga inspired jewellery range is nearly all sold out. When it's gone, it's gone - I won't be making any more and will be deleting the section from the website, so if you want some you'd better hurry! 10% of the money from the Twilight range is dontated to the British Heart Foundation, so it's all for a good cause - to keep more human hearts beating...

Latest makes on the website are:

 
< this necklace with a china owl, scissors and heart charms and beads, which can be found here.

A whole bunch of steampunk jewellery here 
New necklaces, rings, cufflinks, brooches and earrings made with lovely mechanical watch and pocket watch movements and parts. I couldn't resist keeping one of the key necklaces for myself!



The Contemorary range has some new lariat style necklaces. I sold two the day I listed them, so have made some more!

 Right now, there's red & black, green, pink, silver and brown in stock and I'm planning a purple one to make next. Some are on silky cord and some on faux suede. Some have beads and charms at each end and some have them interspersed at knotted intervals all along the length of them.


Well that's all for me for now, got to go and pack an order, plan the purple necklace and get pancakes made!

~Jane

What's new?

Hmm, well I haven't appeared to have done a showing-off of the other SHHIM shops yet, but the official Supporting Handmade - However it's Made Christmas showcase will be online soon, so I'll remember to link to that if I don't do anything myself first. Anyway, int he meantime you can click the link above to go to the page and see the increasing amount of crafters/artisans involved!

I've still been hard at work on the website SEO,  gosh it's driving me round the bend, but interesting to see how it changes the search results on Google.

So what's new for Pirate Treasures? I have three events booked - 26th November at Oasis Academy Coulsdon's Christmas Fair, 3rd December at Keston Primary School (Old Coulsdon) for their Christmas fair and Sunday 4th December at the Christmas Concrete Market at the Green Dragon pub on Croydon High Street - more about that here. 

On the Pirate Treasures website this month I have added several new designs to the vintage inspired range - a cool new octopus charm bracelet and matching necklace. A sweet little birdcage charm necklace, vintage style chrysanthemum necklace and brass owl earrings.

The pirate jewellery range also has some new designs including a cameo charm bracelet, plectrum and charms bracelet and a matching ivory pearl bracelet, necklace and earrings.

 

Phew, well that's kept me busy! Next I'm going to be making Christmas cards and gift tags, so hope to show some of them next time.

Bye for now,

Jane

What I've been up to...Challenge 52 weeks 14-15

Good Afternoon!

So, the fetes & fairs are over for the Summer (yippee!) and now I need to work on the website and a jewellery party I have booked for next weekend.

I got some lovely flower cabochons and ring bases through the post last week, so have been making some new accessories, as modelled by my Glamourous Assistant who has actually nabbed a couple of these for herself, so we need to make some more ASAP!

I decided to make a couple of really over-the-top pirate theme necklaces for the website http://www.pirate-treasures.com/, they took ages to make but I think they look pretty cool!

I also made another new pirate necklace, which has been featured on the Secret Carousel blog today. Secret Carousel is a great new website, which is a showcase and directory of the UK's alternative clothing & accessories online stores.

June was my best ever month for website sales and July has been pretty busy so far, so while it's a bit quieter in August I'll be closing the shop for a couple of weeks. I've been meaning to get a gallery of sold designs done and delete them from the main shop pages as it's getting a bit clogged up with 'out of stock' things. I also want to get a completely new category up and running - details of that nearer the time.
I'd probably get on with it so I can start September with new collections and exciting stuff...
~Jane