A little sneaky sneaky at the earrings I made to match the blue Labradorite necklace. The customer requested I match the beads along the chain, and I also mirrored the moon motif. A happy quick and easy commission. ☺️ #jewellery #designermaker #handmade

It's the time of year again -- time to do your holiday shopping from independent artists. It's more important than ever to support people actually making stuff! If you're an artist or craftsperson of any kind, please reply to this with what you make and a link to your store and I'll share it!

Your art isn’t bad just because it’s not selling right now. We’re in a recession and people don’t know when they’re gonna eat next, nobody can afford fun things because the economy is crumbling. It’s going to be hard a while.

💙 Blue 💙 I was SO pleased to finally wave off this lush necklace last week. 😍 #jewellery #designermaker #recycledsterlingsilver www.instagram.com/p/DQUODo_DCr...

Dragon ownership is a big responsibility. Owning a book full of dragons? Absolutely zero responsibility. The choice is clear– buy a dragon anyway. But if you’re having trouble sourcing a real dragon, you can buy this art book to tide you over until you find one: www.kickstarter.com/projects/jai...

✨ HOW TO: support artists for $0.00 ✨ - leave a like! - repost their work - more eyes!! - comment on their posts! (an emoji goes a long way!) all of this means so much to artists and helps immensely!! just a reminder that support does NOT always have to be financial 🥰🤍✨

OK, so I said the revamp was gonna take a week... in actuality, it's taken more like a solid month of DIY, throwing paint around, filling wall holes, and evicting spiders. But now it feels like an entirely different space 👌 Still things to do of course, but we'll get there!

This is my workshop right now. The ceiling is repaired, new lights have been installed, the walls are getting a fresh coat of white, and we built a new bench. It's taken an age (a week) but the revamp is almost done!

The workshop is out of bounds until this flippin heat bogs off again. There's no way in heck you can persuade me to light a torch in this weather, when my (badly insulated) workshop is south facing. Nope. Absolutely not. 🔥🔥🔥🔥

If you want to make your backyard a safe haven for lesser dragons, you must keep a close eye on your pets. While it is unlikely that a curious kitten will be able to cause a dragon physical harm, the egos of these small wyrms are as fragile as they are beautiful. #dragons #dragonart #cats #kittens

ADHD = Always Dropping Hobby Dollars

Finger splints! I just went a blimmin made myself one. It's more comfortable than I imagined...! Still got to clean it up and polish, but it's a start 👌 #hypermobile #jeweller #hypermobilemaker

Sometimes I feel very silly. I've been pricing up how much it would be to upgrade my earring stands and worrying about the expense... when I could have just made my own the whole damn time. 🙄🤦‍♀️ I forget that I can actually MAKE things other than jewellery 🤣

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Oh! And I'm getting rid of that awful green on the walls. I splattered it on there as a quick "ahh this should look nice!" before I moved in, instantly hated it, and unfortunately it's never grown on me. I have zero idea of what I shall replace it with, but the decision has been made!

I think I mentioned here that I'm planning on replacing the workshop celing (among other things 👀) this year. Well, I spent a chunk of today pricing materials up. I probably shouldn't have, given my melty brain, but I always feel fizzy when I spend all day doing nothing.

Ughhhh. Check what account you are on before you post, daft woman 🙄😅🤣 (Ignore me; too tired, too hot, brain obviously cooked.)

I wanted to ask actually; Are there any other #hypermobile #makers on here?? I'm having some quite painful issues with my left hand atm. My joints seem even more flexible than usual and my knuckles in particular are popping out of joint a lot. Its not even my dominate hand. 😩

Doing some last minute faffing ready for tomorrow's #craftfair and having the usual wee little panic. 👌 (It doesn't matter how ready I am; there's always a wee panic.) 😅

Oops... my borax cone has had enough of my abuse. I mean, I have been using it since 2014-ish, so it's allowed to give up on me I guess. #JewellerLife #Makersgonnamake

Also I apologise... I keep forgetting this account exists. Which rather puts a damper on my "maybe quick and easy posts will help me get back into posting more" plan. 🙄🤦‍♀️

I'll be at the Leicester Guildhall Summer Craft Fair this weekend; Saturday 28th. We are open from 10am till 5pm and I'll have my usual array of shinies to tempt visitors 💎🌟 Do visit if you can! If Jewellery isn't your thing, there's a great selection of crafts, art and food to discover too.

Best food supplier is best! And of course she makes lovely embroidered patches and shenanigans too! 😜

Thank you SO MUCH to everyone who visited and/or bought something today! I've had a lovely busy day! 😊 #jeweller #AttenboroughArts

Pretties waiting for new homes! #AttenboroughArts

I'm at the #AttenboroughArts craft fair today selling my shiny wares! We're open 11-4 and it's a beautiful day for it!

Oh!! And here's the last #MarchMeetTheMaker prompt I managed before I pulled my back out and was banned from the bench for a couple of weeks 😑; vm.tiktok.com/ZNdNu13DC/ #FavouriteCollection

I'll also be at the Leicester Guildhall in June! I'll do a proper post about it soon with all the details, as well as any other fairs that I'm still waiting to hear back on... 👀🤞 #jeweller #maker #jewellerymaker #ukmaker #craftfair #giftideas #ukcraftfairs

🎉 A date for the diary! 🎉 I'm very pleased to say that I'll be exhibiting at the upcoming Attenborough Arts craft fair on the 3rd of May! I'll be bringing my usual selection of goodies, along with a few new things, hopefully! This is a new fair for me, so please do come along if you can!

Most of the way through already! 😱 Might I actually complete it this year?!

Day 10 of #MarchMeetTheMaker is WHERE. Where can you buy my jewels? Exclusively from my website! (For now at least!) And at some craft fairs during the summer months. I'll announce here as soon as I know which ones I'll be popping up at! #jeweller #makersgonnamake

Day 9? Day 9... #MarchMeetTheMaker! This one is #Workspace Come and have a nosey in my workshop! vm.tiktok.com/ZNdRPjeLn/

Every day a new opportunity to bellow: I AM SO DISAPPOINTED WITH THE LABOUR PARTY… man… All I want is political parties that actually look after the little guy (and the planet) :(

I'm resizing and fixing a signet ring today, that's split with age. I had it all done, shaped it gently on my ring stretcher, and it's split somewhere else. 🤦‍♀️ So now I'm replacing the whole shank I guess! Bah!

And we're onto day 8 of #MarchMeetTheMaker already?! 🔍Details🔎 #jeweller #ukmaker vm.tiktok.com/ZNdd5Qtb9/

#MarchMeetTheMaker day 7! ✨️ Aim ✨️ (Bit late uploading this here... sorry! vm.tiktok.com/ZNdd5mBaA/

#MarchMeetTheMaker day 6! ⚒️ Tools and Materials ⚒️ I've got a whole workshop full of tools... but the ones I use the most are still my trusty hand tools! A saw, tweezers, a hammer, and my pendant motor. (Which is a weird cross between a fancy dremmel and a dentists drill 🤣)

And now for those with a more culinary bent: Eat the rich! Again this is humorous and not a call to do something illegal! #BlueSkyNightMarket www.ebay.co.uk/itm/19710411...

As you can probably tell, I don't use a whole load of colour... but maybe that'll change in the future! #jeweller #makersgonnamake #maker

And Day 5 of #MarchMeetTheMaker is Colour! vm.tiktok.com/ZNdecECSr/

Day 4 of #MarchMeetTheMaker was Decision! You can find it here: vm.tiktok.com/ZNdecwb74/

Super sneak peek of two new patches! I just wanted to make them obscenely bright and cheerful colours, to counterpoint the message. OBVIOUSLY this is satire, a protest if you will, since apparently they can’t just be taxed. I’ll have these up on my Ko-fi shop early next week for the UK.

Note to self; Buy a lockable cupboard for the workshop, so that your platinol doesn't degrade in the sun and become useless. 👎 (Thankfully there wasn't much left anyway.)

If you want to follow along for MMtM then here are all the upcoming prompts! #MarchMeetTheMaker

And there's a new piece taking shape on the bench this week. Almost there... #jeweller #designermaker

We're on day 3 of #MarchMeetTheMaker with Scenes! vm.tiktok.com/ZNder4k4D/

New things are finally emerging from the depths of the workshop... oooOOooo

Day 2 of #MarchMeetTheMaker is Style and you can find my latest reel here; vm.tiktok.com/ZNdednccK/

If you wanna see Day 1 of #MarchMeetTheMaker from me, you can find it here! vm.tiktok.com/ZNdJTkb38/

It's #MarchMeetTheMaker day 1 today; so I've put a reel up on Insta/TikTok 👌 I'm not sure if I can share it here... I might have to do a whole new post just for Blue-sky! You lucky things... 🤣