New Paris themed jewellery on the website

Oh and I was doing so well at the beginning of the year with blogging and then, well....

So here we are again and what have I been up to all summer?

I redesigned the website, giving it a slightly more contemporary look whilst retaining the vintage style colour scheme. There's a snazzy new sliding photo banner on the homepage to give a quick look at the different collections available.
I've also been making lots of new things to supply the Ship of Adventures shop, planning a wholesale range for other shops, doing my annual summer fete stall (in the pouring rain with a gazebo that broke, let's not dwell on that day!) and of course constantly designing and making new jewellery for my website and Etsy shop.

This week I have designed and made some new Paris themed jewellery. With a base of antique bronze charms and chain and coloured with glass beads in shades of purple there are matching necklace, bracelet and earrings in the collection. You can find them in the Vintage section on the website here.

Christmas is coming! Don't Panic!

No matter how much I intend to be organised for Christmas, it never really happens! 
Having said that, I have got plenty in stock on my website and Etsy shop  but I always feel like there could be more. Or I'm busy making things to stock up the internet shops and leave the stock taking of the boxes I keep separate for local events until the last minute and then have a panicky rush to make more for them. This year I also have to have enough stock to supply the East London shop I'll be stocking too.
So why am I blogging? Well, I epoxied some cameos and cabochons into their settings this morning, so while they set I thought I'd get round to a blog post as it's been a month since the last!
Over the last few weeks I have made a bunch of simple charm necklaces (including the ones below) for my Pirate Treasures Etsy shop  which are all under £10 - ideal for little Christmas gifts!

Simple charm necklaces

 I have a few more chunky charm necklaces with a mix of vintage and new charms for my Emporium of Curiosities Etsy shop.

Layered charm necklace

Vintage charm necklace

 I have one charm necklace which I have just added to the Pirate Treasures website (www.pirate-treasures.com) and plan on making some more similar ones when I can delegate the time to it!

Silver charm necklace

Right, I can't put it off any longer, it's time to get the big boxes out and see what I have left from the Summer fair and plan what I need to make for the Christmas ones - I have three booked so far!
~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

Lavender & Days 30-31

On Thursday night we went to see Mr David Viner play at the Kings Cross Social Club, the first time with his new band. Hearing 'Lavender' again inspired me to make a range of Lavender themed jewellery. I made a bracelet a couple of years ago on silver chain, but decided this time to make them on antique bronze.
So yesterday I made a bag charm and today I made a necklace - I'll add a bracelet tomorrow...