Gift Ideas for Mothering Sunday

Mothering Sunday will soon be celebrated here in the UK on the 30th March 2014.

Mothering Sunday is a Christian holiday celebrated throughout Europe that falls on the 4th Sunday in lent. Secularly, it became an occasion for honouring the mothers of children and giving them presents. It is increasingly being called Mother's Day, although that has always been a secular event quite different from the original Mothering Sunday. In the UK, Mothering Sunday is celebrated in the same way as Mother's Day is celebrated elsewhere.

To celebrate the occasion Sprinkles Sparkles offers a wide range of feminine gifts perfect for the occasion. Gifts which start from £3.50 for Handmade Hair Accessories to £45 for a Handmade Bracelet Watch.

All available to purchase from Sprinkles Sparkles.

Creative Crafting Magazine

Well, we are already a week into the year 2014 and some exciting changes are already happening! As well as creating and selling jewellery and accessories, I am also the Technical Editor of Creative Crafting Magazine. (original post)

Creative Crafting magazine began in August/September 2009 when a group of crafting friends on the Creative Connections Crafters Network decided that it would be a good idea to raise awareness of the Crafting Community. From this point they started work and the first issue of creative crafting was published in October 2009.  You can find this issue on our back issues page.
This issue was welcomed by the community and subsequent issues have followed. The magazine attracts worldwide readers and its popularity is growing rapidly. The most popular issue so far has been the February/Valentines issue which received over 66,000 unique page views in its first two months until the next issue was published. All of our issues are still online to be discovered today and we look forward to creating many more.You can find all of our issues up to number 23 free to read on our site. All later issues are available for purchase both in digital and printed format.

You can purchase our Christmas Issue here!  

For this coming year we have some BIG NEWS!

We had an editorial meeting at Creative Crafting HQ on Monday afternoon and some big decisions were made.

For 2014 Creative Crafting will be changing to a quarterly magazine where we flow with the seasons giving our writers more time to submit their work and more defined issues. If you would like to be involved in any of the following issues please let us know (sprinks@creative-crafting.com) (Thank you to everyone who is already going to submit for our March Issue, previously Feb)

Spring Issue - 1st March (copy deadline 1st Feb) themes to include spring and Easter and other holidays through spring.

Summer Issue - 1st June (copy deadline 1st May) themes to include, holidays, summer, beach, back to school etc.

Autumn Issue - 1st September (copy deadline 1st August) themes to include autumn, Halloween etc.

Winter Issue - 1st December (copy deadline 1st November) themes to include Christmas, Winter, Valentines etc.

In between these issues we will also be releasing some Kindle Books on Amazon and other e-reader sites.

There is LOTS to look forward to.

New Camera

For Christmas, I was lucky enough to receive a brand new camera.

Tada!

Image From Here

My original camera I was taking photos with was a real pain as it gobbled batteries like no ones business so I had to use an adapter which was always falling out and quite frankly, just annoying!

I saved up for a new one, but unfortunately, as lovely and pink as it was, it wasn't up to the job of photographing jewellery. So now, this lovely camera does just what I want. It has a rechargable battery, which lasts forever, and is compact enough to also be my day to day snapper for when out and about.

So now, I am going to test it out taking a photo of some jewellery.

And here we go, the first ever piece to be photographed with the Nikon Coolpix S9500! I am chuffed!

Also, totally none blog related, but I received this Tetris Lamp. Ignore all the negative reviews as it is just fantastic! I have had no issues with mine what-so-ever. I just had to share it with you. 

Taken with Nikon Coolpix S9500

Taking Advantage....

Today I have taken advantage of MISI's free listing weekend. This is taking place from Saturday 4th January - Sunday 5th January 2014.

It usually costs 20p per listing, which, when you have quite a few products to add mounts up. So, today, I have spend the last couple of hours listing various bracelets, watches, key rings, bookmarks and hair accessories.

First off, a range of
Flower Petal Bracelets and Watches

Available here

Hair Accessories

Available here

Bag Charms

Available here

Earrings

Available here

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year and Welcome to the year 2014!

This year sees the return of Sprinkles Sparkles Handmade Jewellery and Accessories. I have taken the decision to re-open my MISI store where I retired a couple of years ago from there to take on new adventures.

In this time I have become the Technical Support for CRAFTfest . (I build the CRAFTfest pages and design all promotional advertising) and Co. Silver Team Leader. You will also find me other at Creative Connections where CRAFTfest is held as an admin. I still continue to be the Technical Editor of Creative Crafting Magazine since 2009. 

I will start to stock MISI with jewellery and accessories throughout the month. Today though, I have added three products to purchase. 

1. Red Petal Bookmark
2. Pink & Blue Petal Flower Bracelet

3.Red & Cream Petal Flower Bracelet 

Of course, I still offer a bespoke service on all jewellery and accessories, anything from Bridal jewellery to Party Bag Fillers, just drop me an email at mail[a]sprinklessparkles.co.uk (swap the [a] for an @)

Sprinks x

Ageeeeees!

It's been ages since I updated my blog. Sorry :( I've been really busy with Creative Crafting Magazine, getting the site ready, re-launching Creative Connections who we are now proudly sponsored by WowThankYou.

Creative Crafting Online Magazine is now on its 6th Issue, the Summer Edition! You can read it below. Click the magazine to view in full screen.

We have now brought the magazine and the network together. So Creative Crafting and Creative Connections are now one, although on two sites! On Creative Crafting you can view all the magazines projects, interviews, recipes from back issues, and on Creative Connections, network with fellow crafter's, upload your recent projects, host chat events, more! 

On the Sprinkles Sparkles side of business, we have recently had an order from a company for lots and lots of mobile phone charms! I won't mention who as it might spoil the surprise for some of you at Christmas. But I'm really chuffed to been asked to do the order. 

I've also just today had a commission to re-string some gorgeous freshwater pearls. I'm just waiting for the pearls to be dropped off here, so I can start work on them. 

I decided to take two days off, well, Saturday and Sunday, so yesterday I just chilled out, and today I started on Sprinkles Sparkles 'Zip Zip' range. This is a new venture for Sprinkles Sparkles. It's not jewellery, but lovely homeware gifts.

Here is what I made today (sorry about the picture. I took it with my mobile phone to show you all) 

It's a little sewing bag for all your sewing accessories.
The fabric is so scrummy!

I hope you all enjoyed your weekend. I enjoyed my two days off, even though I still ended up doing work!

It's 100!

It's my 100th post! 

What have I been blogging about to make 100! Only seems like 5 minutes ago I was excited about getting my blog back, after it had been hijacked. That was back in February 2009!


How glorious was today?  Sun was out, and it wasn't too hot. I'm not a sun worshiper in any shape or form. I do really prefer the winter months, mainly as it doesn't effect my eczema as much as the heat does. It has already starting flaring up. Backs of knees, stomach, hips, and groin area, but I wasn't going to let today pass without making some summery jewellery and accessories.

So I made this...

Pink Petal Flower Watch Bracelet

and this...

Pink Petal Charm

Both are available at Sprinkles Sparkles on Misi to buy!

Hope you are all enjoying your Easter Eggs as much as I STILL am!

Sprinks xx