New Bracelets & A Lovely Sunday

What a day!

I got up early with Ramsey and we tidied the flat - well, I tidied and he sort of followed me around throwing things about. Then we went swimming! I've been going a lot recently, but the little man was a little surprised by the experience, he kept holding onto me and crying. It was funny because there was another teeny baby in there, much younger than my little guy who was loving it! Anyway, it was nice - I'll take him more often I think, I want him to learn to swim as it took me a seriously long time to learn, I was like, the last kid to stop using armbands in my class.

Then we went to the Harvester for a yummalicious lunch, and to the park to play on the swings. I love spending Sundays with my little family - and I adore seeing m little fellow getting more and more independent by the day, he is such a little sweetie!

Speaking of sweet, I've also spent time today editing and finishing some listings in my Etsy shop. These bracelets are all one-of-a-kind, nickel-free platinum-plated lovelies. I have four designs currently residing at http://twinklyspangle.etsy.com :

Clockwise from top - Flowerbright, Fabulous, Sweetie & Cutiepie. All are $18 which is just under £10 (paypal will do the converting for you if you make a purchase). I will be making more of these as they are such fun to make - but each and every design is unique and never-to-be-repeated. That is the joy of having your own shop, you don't HAVE to make huge batches of things, you can try out different stuff and end up with something fabulous! I've added a whole new section for my one-of-a-kind bracelets, you can check it out here.

I hope you are having a lovely Sunday, what is your favourite thing to do on YOUR day of rest?

Fabulous Bows

I showed you a sneaky peek of these a few weeks ago, but now I have the Etsy part of the range complete and ready for sale in my Etsy shop. You can choose between Hot Pink with a black chain, Sea Green with a silvertone chain, or Maroon Purple with a goldtone chain. I'm also more than happy to switcharoo the colours of the chain if you so wish, just let me know in the message to seller.
This week I'll also be uploading the rest of the spectrum to my website - in the mean time, if you would like to know when I've done it (so you can get one in every colour!) and other monthly Twinklyspangle news, I have just added a Mailing List sign-up option on the left of this screen. It's the third section down. I absolutely promise not to spam you!

Beautiful Goodies!

I've caught up today on pretty much everything! A long old slog with the camera means I have uploaded four brand new designs that I debuted at Handm@de Cambridge to my Etsy shop. A few people asked me about whether my Pretty Little Rings were suitable for titchy hands - they ARE adjustable but it gave me the idea to make up these fab hairclips with some bobbypin blanks I had knocking about. I sold a few pairs at the fair, and now they are listed here on Etsy! I've got an obsession with cute little scenes in cameo settings right now, and I had these brassy findings. I wasn't happy with the finished result until I added a vintage brass rose charm to each one, now they are fabulous (buy one here) and I think I may even wear one to work tonight. Do you wear your own stuff? The luscious Niftyknits and I generally hawk about telling people they should do it, but I know sometimes it's hard to have confidence in your own stuff. I made a rule a while ago - If I wouldn't wear it, I won't sell it. Therefore, you'll see my personal style reflected in all my recent pieces! I especially love wearing my own earrings as they are such fun to fiddle with!

Some more lovely cameo settings, and these cute brass heart stampings were crying out to be made into Twinklyspangle pieces. I love the heart detailing around the edge, and have made these into cute delicate necklaces with tiny ball chain and giant cameo rings with an adjustable brass ring blank.

I went swimming this morning! You may or may not know if you follow me on Twitter that I am trying to lose a stone before June. I used to be super-skinny, before I popped out the bairn, and I just don't feel happy at my current weight of 11st 4lb. I started The Diet three weeks ago when I weighed 11st 10lb, but pigged out at the weekend so I should have lost 7lb but I have only lost 6. I do have a tendency to obsess over the scales, weighing myself after every meal. So we don't have scales in the house anymore, but once a week I go along to the electric scale in Boots and see whether I've lost any. The swimming is a new thing. I bought a cheap Primarni swimming cossie and went down there, it's £5 for 5 swims this month, so I WILL go 5 times now I have paid for it. I managed 8 lengths!!

I know a few people who have met me have said I don't need to lose weight, but I'm not going mental over it I just want to feel trim and healthy again. No more cakes for me!

Anyway, I'm sure you are almost falling asleep by now, so I'll ring off. I have work tonight...we are running an incentive to win bottles of wine, Easter eggs and DVD's. I'm thinking a nice bottle of wine would go down well with my made-from-scratch spaghetti bolognase.

Handm@de - The Big Day

Wow, what a day!

I'm really tired, so this will just be a short entry - we have just ordered a takeaway (it's a post craft-fair tradition!) and about to watch a film to try and unqind, I've been so tense about this fair, I'm so relieved it all went fabulously!

We had a queue out of the door by 10.45, and over 600 people came through the door. The fair was organised by lazygiraffe (Deepa), MomentsbyMartha (Becci), Snapdragonbeads (Alice) and me!

Here is a fab shot of my table - I was really happy with it and my stuff looked really bright and cheery.

And here is me and Deepa with lovely Liz from Etsy, who was in the country and came by to chat to sellers and have a browse!

Now, I am off to chillax, and not think about crafting for a few hours (finally!) I'll update tomorrow with more photos of the fair and what I purchased.