First listing of the week

This evening I was feeling a bit crafty, and came up with these! 

They are made from piller box red, and burgundy glass pearls, with black lucite petals. They hang to 1 inch, and have silver plated earwires.

They are available on MISI at a bargain price!

Tomorrow I will be adding some petal mobile charms, so stay tuned!

Sprinks xx

What! Where?

Since my last post, this week has been all over the place! I feel I have not got anything done, but looking back over it, each day was very busy with something or another.

My sewing machine arrived on Tuesday...

along with lots of free goodies! (see 2 middle images).

On Wednesday I had a play about with my machine, and concentrated on the Creative Crafting Magazine.

On Thursday I went down to see The Crystal Lady, and we had a fabulous time out shopping, eating, giggling about the lift in 'The Range', and going to the best charity shop ever!

On Friday, finishing off some more articles for the magazine.

And Saturday and Sunday, I tried my best to have these free and restful, but ended up sorting out some of my website and also added some new items, like BUTTONS to my Misi store! 

And now we are back to Tuesday! A week gone... just like that!

Just a reminder that the Easter edition of Creative Crafting Magazine is out THIS Thursday, 1st April (no joke!)

Sprinks xx

My new toy!

Here is my new toy!
Although I don't have it just yet, it will be arriving sometime during the week. I had some birthday money, and I didn't want to go spending it on the usual clothes, underwear, the usual things, so I decided on a sewing machine!
It's an investment right?!

Image from 

http://www.gursewingmachines.com/stitchmaster_impression_2000-sewing_machines.htm

I've only ever used a sewing machine once before, and that was about 2 weeks ago. I had completed a cross stitch, and decided it would make a fantastic pin cushion. So, I borrowed my mums sewing machine, set it up very successfully, and gave it a shot! 

It was slightly scary at first. I pressed the foot too hard and the needle on the machine went so fast, I could have lost a finger! But after a little trial and error I got the hang of it, and surprised myself! I really enjoyed it. 

The stitches were a little wibbly wobbly, but I just need more practice. 

Yesterday, while in Reading's Train Station I bought Sew Hip magazine. The bag pattern featured looked like it was made for me, so I bought it. And so, today, I got some old material, (my mums old curtains) and started cutting it up!

Now, here is what I achieved today, in between dinner and tea. 

It's not perfect. 

My cutting out skills are something not to be desired!

The numbered pictures are as follows:
1) Pattern design on the material
2) The two curtain panels
3) The body of the bag cut up
4) All the pieces of the bag cut up
5) All the pieces of the bag, pinned and ready to be sewn up.

That is as far as I got today-  I'm going to leave it there until my new toy arrives!

There maybe a domestic goddess in me somewhere yet!

Hope you have all had a wonderful weekend.
Sprinks xxx

It was my birthday!

It was my birthday on Monday, and I turned the grand old age of er.... 26! I had a lovely day, spending the morning in Matalan, TX Maxx, and Pound Stretcher, then in the afternoon I made a mobile phone charm, for myself, while having numerous amounts of cups of tea as people dropped in with their gifts!

So, what did I get?
1. Pink TV! It's actually nicer than it sounds!
2. Hello Kitty Pen
3. Long black cardy
4. Cross stitch book
5. Choccies!
6. New jewellery pliers
7. Compartment box
8. Gorgeous embroidery skeins - from Anna, The Crystal Lady
9. This bunny - from Diane, Peggy's Knits - CUTE!

On Tuesday all these buttons arrived! 

And got sorted out into their colours

They are all bagged up into 25g mixes, and will soon be available on Sprinkles Beads. I will let you know when!

Sprinks xx

It was like loosing my Teddy Bear!

You know that horrible, sickening feeling you get in your stomach when you loose something? That's how I felt today.

We woke up to no Internet!

I was intending to spend the day researching into finding more craft fairs, and updating my site, but noooo. It was 5pm by the time it came back on. So according to the last Twitter feed post that was 2:58am, that's 14 hours downtime! No emails, no chatting, no 'work'! It was like loosing my Teddy Bear!

I cannot believe how much I rely on the internet, just for basic chores, like checking my bank balance, looking at Radio Times site for program times, ordering food from Tescos.

Instead I spent the day doing an entire cross stitch for my mum to give to her on Mother's Day, finally watching Marley & Me (it was hard holding back those tears!), washing up, watching the Big Bang Theory, and more Bones, playing on the Wii, and generally having fun! I've certainly become one of many casualties to spending too much time on-line, and that needs to change! One thing that won't change, mind you, is my morning MSN chats to Anna - The Crystal Lady!

Hope you are all well.
Sprinks xx

Creative Connections has a new face!

On Sunday, myself and Anna decided on a face lift for Creative Connections Network. We set to work yesterday, (Monday), and now can reveal the new look!

Anna, The Crystal Lady, has made the new CC banner! How fabulous is it! (see top of page), and I got to work on fiddling with the CSS code.

There are some new features that have been added:

• You can now upload your own videos
• New photo slide-show on main page to 'show off' everyone's creations.
• Congratulate your fellow crafters on their birthday with the new Birthdays section
• View up and coming events- and add to them too!
• Attend 'chat' events. I am hosting the first one in the beginning of April, though no confirmed date or time yet.

So please, pop on over and check it out, sign up, and get networking!

http://creative-connections.ning.com/

Visit Creative Connections

My Box of Goodies

After tracking down my parcel from a certain delivery company that I'm not going to mention, it arrived today!
My little box of supplies!

Some of the items are going to be put on Sprinkles Beads, and the rest are for me! Mmmmm.........

Have a great weekend!

Sprinks xx

A little mess, for pretty things!

Today I got my ribbons and felt pieces out

made rather a bit of a mess...

...made some packaging...

...and added on the final product...

.... Voila!

Pretty Flower Ribbon Brooches!

Sprinks xx

Sunshine Award

A very special 'Thank you' to Daisy from The Seven Seas for my Sunshine Award!

The sunshine award is awarded to bloggers whose positivity and creativity inspires others in the blogging world.
The rules for accepting the award are as followers

• Place the logo within your blog or post
• Pass the award on to 12 bloggers
• Link the nominees within the post
• Let the nominees know they have received the award by commenting on their blog
• Share the love and link to the person from whom you received the award

Now it's my go to pass on the award to 12 blogs that I enjoy!

So here is the list of the lucky people!

The Crystal Lady

A little Madam Salami magick!
Scrap Happy Lou

joyknitt

Lily Whites

Little Book Of Misi

Little Scruffs miniature Bears

MISI - Make It Sell It

Misi Slimathon 2010

The Adventures of the Ninja Jedi and Baby Dynamite

Jean's Blog

JoolzKay

The Black Rose

These gorgeous roses arrived in the post yesterday

and today two of them got turned into these gorgeous bookmarks!

The roses are made from polymer clay, and are absoulty stunning!

The bookmark on the left is the Forest Rose Bookmarks, made from green, black, red and brown glass pearls, and the bookmark on the right is the Love Rose Bookmark, and is made from red and black glass pearls. Both are hung on silver plate squiggle bookmarks measuring 3.5 inches.

They are available at Sprinkles Sparkles Online!

Also added are some bag charms from £2.50!

Sprinks xx

Exhausted!

What a week!
This week has been the busiest ever for Sprinkles Sparkles Online! I have had sales on MISI and Sprinkles Sparkles Online, and I also launched Sprinkles Beads!

After launching Sprinkles Beads late Thursday evening, I had woken up to a sale Friday morning! Woohoo!
Stock on the site is very limited at the moment. I am waiting on new beads and findings to arrive, photograph it all, then add it to the site. Hopefully it will all be added by March!

Today we went to the Apple store in London's Regent Street.

Image from wiki

We had booked an appointment to get Twisty's iPhone looked at, my iPod touch and mac fixed.
All a total waste of time.

1. The iPhone was out of warrenty to be replaced
2. 'apparently' there is nothing wrong with my iPod touch - sods law it blimmen worked while I was there, and
3. there is a 5 - 6 week wait on mac repairs... I wasn't even going to consider leaving my computer with them for that amount of time! Thankfully, my mac isn't ill, its just a cosmetic issue. The case has split all over, and I would like it replaced.  

Oh well, it was a day out, although absolutely exhausting!

Enjoy your weekend everyone!

Sprinks xx

New Bead Store!

Sprinkles Beads is launched!
www.sprinklesbeads.co.uk

At the moment, we have limited stock, it's a teaser of what else is to come! In the next few weeks more and more stock will be added online! Every item is available to purchase individually, (apart from items that need to come in twos like earwires!), starting from only 7p!

We have in stock, seed beads, glass beads, findings, charms, buttons, embellishment mirrors, tools & storage. 

 

www.sprinklesbeads.co.uk

Pop on over and have a browse!

Postage and Packaging is only £1.00
for any items bought on
Sprinkles Beads
for a limited time only!

Link Exchange!

Over the weekend I have set up a Link Exchange on Sprinkles Sparkles Online.
The idea is to exchange web site address with their title and description and add them onto the links page
of your website.

It's FREE to join to add and exchange links, with just a few rules.
- You must have a handmade craft business
- You include the information required for the link exchange (that information is found here!)
- You link back to Sprinkles Sparkles using the information above with a functional URL link. 

So it's easy enough! 
Click the Link Exchange button below to find out more and to join up!

Finally finished!

I have finally finished the first of three flower petal watches. This watch has taken me a few days to complete as both of my thumbs have been playing up, and it was too painful to carry on and complete on Monday. But today I finished it!

It is part of 'The Petal Collection' and is made from green and brown glass pearls, green and clear lucite petals and leaves, with boheimun green and crystal bicones. The watch face is green, and fully working!

It matches the green and brown flower petal bracelet, earrings, and bookmark, that are all available on Sprinkles Sparkles Online, MISI, Folksy, Etsy and Groovycart!

Sprinks xx

Forever...

Over the weekend I fancied making some bookmarks. I made 4 different ones. Blue zircon, light siam, fuchsia and peridot.
They are swarovski crystal hearts, with matching glass pearls. They are attached to a silver plated squiggle bookmark, and are 3.5 inches long.

 

 

They are only £6.00! And are available at Sprinkles Sparkles Online and Misi  

Sprinks xx

As promised... although late

...here is my new necklace make!

It really does look better in the flesh. And I really think I need to try and take a better picture of it, but this is it.
It is made from:
♥ Garnet gemstone tumble chips
♥ 4mm round garnet gemstones
♥ 4mm and 6mm garnet swarovski crystals
♥ Flower and round silver beads
♥ Silver plated findings and clasp.

It's available in my MISI store, with more pictures, and close ups!

Sprinks xx

I'm in an Etsy Treasury!

While I was watching 'Pop Star to Opera Star' this evening, I felt in an inspirational mood, so I went on over to the Etsy treasuries to have a look at some collections.

We all do it don't we... we click through the all the pages to see if we are featured! I do anyway, and I KNOW you do too! Don't deny it.. haha!

And there It was.. the little yellow star on the list!

.. and here is the Treasury itself. My Pink and Purple Petal Flower Leaf Bracelet was featured!

The treasury was put together by albenaben - so thank you!

If you like the look of this bracelet, it is also available on MISI and Sprinkles Sparkles Online!

Tomorrow, I will be posting about my new Garnet Gemstone and Swarovski Crystal Necklace!

Until then! Tata
 Sprinks xx

Red Striped Agate Pendant Necklace

I was chatting away to Anna (The Crystal Lady) on MSN today, and we got talking about the colour amber!

Anna is feeling very attracted to the colour at the moment even though never being particularly attached to it, but I have never been attracted to the yellows, topaz's and citrines.

At the time, I was getting my odd beads and my pendants out that I have left. I was putting them on my bead board, and look what happened!
 

Red Striped Agate Pendant Necklace

I ended up making this stunning topaz swarovski crystal necklace, with a red striped agate pendant with black onyx gemstones and black glass beads! And I actually like it!

You can find out more about this pendant necklace on MISI!

Hope your all well!

Sprinks xx

Creative Crafting - Issue 3 Valetine/Mother's Day

The 3rd issue of the Creative Crafting magazine is OUT NOW!
I hope you enjoy this Valentines/Mother's Day issue!
www.creative-crafting.com



Please check out our new Creative Crafting Blog and also out new Facebook Fan Page.

And we're up... up... and away!

Finally, after 2 months of torture, Sprinkles Sparkles Online is up and running.

Okay, well, it was already up and running at the beginning of January, but I just did not like it, nor was it practical enough for me for when I am listing new products. 

So here we have it!

On the day Apple unveil their new Ipad, I am releasing

Sprinkles Sparkles Online!

 

 

 Please pop in and have a look!

That's all for now!
Keep well.
Sprinks xx