...my commissions went down an absolute treat thankfully and one of them may generate a little something extra will have to wait and see.
I made a whole batch of beadies last night and the kiln fairies were kind. I will clean them up and post piccies later!
Gotta go got work to do in "day job" but will be back later
TTFNxx
Tuesday, 31 March 2009
Sunday, 29 March 2009
More fingerprint jewellery and some earrings
I have had a few commissions lately a couple of which you can see above. With the "left over" clay I made this little pair of leaf earrings. I am still just tinkering and not really trying anything too stressful plain and simple pendant stuff. TBH I am not sure where to go now and I guess this is where classes would be very helpful but that means money which I am sadly lacking right now :-(
The leaf earrings will be up for sale in my Etsy shop shortly and I have added a couple of bead pairs to my website today as well!
Anyway money is not going to stress me out! There is another batch of clay cooling down in my kiln as we speak all of which are orders. I have had 2 requests for my lariat featured in "Making Jewellery" I am not repeating that design anymore, not because I don't like it but because I want it to stay unique. Both of the orders have requested different colour beads so they are individual still, despite being the same design! And I am having a night on the torch tonight as well so there will be more beadies later this week!
I am feeling a bit down about the forum thing at the mo so I think I may step out a bit. I am not really sure what or why but I don't feel like I belong sometimes! I think it is my own paranoia and there is definitely nothing major but maybe I have just let it become a bit to much part of my life and need to take a little step back. I still look in and out but maybe not as often!
TTFN xx
Yay the return of Formula 1 and Jenson Button
I have always liked Jenson seems like a genuine nice guy, not that Lewis isn't cos he is fab as well but there is something about Jenson and I am well chuffed he has won the Australian Grand Prix. He looked so promising a few years back and then it all started to go wrong and 3 weeks ago he did not even know if he had a job! In steps Ross Brawn, what a guy and then to top it all off sponsorship from Richard Branson no less who is no muppet and wow a team to reckon with. Early days I know and Lewis should definitely not be written off but I am so chuffed for Jenson. Is there a possibility of 2 British drivers competeing for a F1 World Championship????
On the jewellery and beads front the kiln is on as we speak firing loads of art clay pieces for various commissions hopefully I will get up the studio tonight to get some beads made. Still got loads of jewellery to make for my party Friday, must get a move on!!!
TTFN xx
On the jewellery and beads front the kiln is on as we speak firing loads of art clay pieces for various commissions hopefully I will get up the studio tonight to get some beads made. Still got loads of jewellery to make for my party Friday, must get a move on!!!
TTFN xx
Saturday, 28 March 2009
Earth Hour and Etsy
Have you signed up for Earth Hour One simple little thing turn your lights off at 8.30pm local time for one hour! It's about making a statement for global warming. Go take a look.
Other news I have temporarily abandoned my Folksy shop in favour of Etsy.There are only a couple of things listed at the moment but I will add stuff if it looks promising! I still have my website it is just about getting my name out there and expanding my customer base and Etsy seems a good vehicle for that!
Hope you are all ok. Speak soon
TTFN xx
Other news I have temporarily abandoned my Folksy shop in favour of Etsy.There are only a couple of things listed at the moment but I will add stuff if it looks promising! I still have my website it is just about getting my name out there and expanding my customer base and Etsy seems a good vehicle for that!
Hope you are all ok. Speak soon
TTFN xx
Thursday, 26 March 2009
Not about the beads.
Not today I am having an angry and upset evening. I will try to explain cos I think I am probably no different from much of the UK population but I don't think it is vocalised well. Now that is not to say I am going to be Mrs. Eloquent here but I sure am gonna give it a go.
I work 4 days a week as a university lecturer My wage is not to bad thank you although I did take quite a hit on the ole wage by dropping 1 day a week last September. Anyway back to the point I don't earn crap money. My husband works in the building trade for a firm so he earns a fair wage not brill but not bad so jointly we are (on paper) apparently fairly ok. Middle Britain so to speak. So I pay £700 month mortgage and this months childcare bill has just blown me out of the water for £600. The last 5 weeks childcare amounts to 172.5 hours. Bloody hell how much!!! I only work 30 hours ish a week!!! Well there goes my wages. gotta live off hubbys this month, food (approx £100 a week for family of 4), gas, electric, water, council tax ( somewhere in region of £300 for the month)
...Do you see what I am getting at. I work my arse off to be a contributing member of society and for what??? I don't have any frickin money! We earn to much to qualify for any child tax credit so I get nothing diddly squat. Why do I bother? Why do we bother trying to earn a decent wage, to contribute to society, to bring our children with the values about working and contributing etc when no bugger even bothers to say thank you and here is a little help.
I am NOT a charity case I most certainly do not expect state handouts but why the bloody hell am I being penalised for keeping most of the country afloat? The rich just don't bloody matter and the poor just get their frickin handouts and keep on laughing yet the majority get nothing. It all quite frankly makes me so bloody angry that I have spent the last hour sobbing. Why do I bother. And yet we will manage cos we always bloody do and therein lies the problem. We just all keep on getting by and no one says anything about the blatant injustice and deeply skewed support systems in this country.
I find out next week what primary school my daughter is going to. If I cannot get her into our school of choice I am in deep do do's. I will have no child care, she will be part time for a while after staring how the bloody hell am I supposed to work 4 days a week and drop off and pick up a child from school. The government want mums to go to work but it just don't work does it! Take for example the outcry when parents had to take days off cos the schools shut cos of the snow. This country is useless.
I love being British not that I have any experience of being anything else so my basis of comparison is extremely limited but I do love many things about this country but there are some inherent problems that the powers that be are completely ignorant about. They are so out of touch it is untrue. I don't imagine that other countries are any better and I would hate for you now to think that I am one of those moaners who whine and bitch but don't do anything. I am impotent what can I do? One small voice highly unlikely to make any difference.
I do want to make one small apology for those of you who have managed to read this far...I have made some sweeping statements about people on benefits etc and the rich I am acutely aware that there are many different circumstances and situations that lead people to be in the situations they are. You could argue that I did not have to have a second child and this is my own doing. Correct. I am also responsible for the 2 loans I have which have undoubtedly compunded my situation. Correct. So why am I moaning. Who knows....hormones I guess...
Sorry. Normal service will be resumed tomorrow
TTFN xx
I work 4 days a week as a university lecturer My wage is not to bad thank you although I did take quite a hit on the ole wage by dropping 1 day a week last September. Anyway back to the point I don't earn crap money. My husband works in the building trade for a firm so he earns a fair wage not brill but not bad so jointly we are (on paper) apparently fairly ok. Middle Britain so to speak. So I pay £700 month mortgage and this months childcare bill has just blown me out of the water for £600. The last 5 weeks childcare amounts to 172.5 hours. Bloody hell how much!!! I only work 30 hours ish a week!!! Well there goes my wages. gotta live off hubbys this month, food (approx £100 a week for family of 4), gas, electric, water, council tax ( somewhere in region of £300 for the month)
...Do you see what I am getting at. I work my arse off to be a contributing member of society and for what??? I don't have any frickin money! We earn to much to qualify for any child tax credit so I get nothing diddly squat. Why do I bother? Why do we bother trying to earn a decent wage, to contribute to society, to bring our children with the values about working and contributing etc when no bugger even bothers to say thank you and here is a little help.
I am NOT a charity case I most certainly do not expect state handouts but why the bloody hell am I being penalised for keeping most of the country afloat? The rich just don't bloody matter and the poor just get their frickin handouts and keep on laughing yet the majority get nothing. It all quite frankly makes me so bloody angry that I have spent the last hour sobbing. Why do I bother. And yet we will manage cos we always bloody do and therein lies the problem. We just all keep on getting by and no one says anything about the blatant injustice and deeply skewed support systems in this country.
I find out next week what primary school my daughter is going to. If I cannot get her into our school of choice I am in deep do do's. I will have no child care, she will be part time for a while after staring how the bloody hell am I supposed to work 4 days a week and drop off and pick up a child from school. The government want mums to go to work but it just don't work does it! Take for example the outcry when parents had to take days off cos the schools shut cos of the snow. This country is useless.
I love being British not that I have any experience of being anything else so my basis of comparison is extremely limited but I do love many things about this country but there are some inherent problems that the powers that be are completely ignorant about. They are so out of touch it is untrue. I don't imagine that other countries are any better and I would hate for you now to think that I am one of those moaners who whine and bitch but don't do anything. I am impotent what can I do? One small voice highly unlikely to make any difference.
I do want to make one small apology for those of you who have managed to read this far...I have made some sweeping statements about people on benefits etc and the rich I am acutely aware that there are many different circumstances and situations that lead people to be in the situations they are. You could argue that I did not have to have a second child and this is my own doing. Correct. I am also responsible for the 2 loans I have which have undoubtedly compunded my situation. Correct. So why am I moaning. Who knows....hormones I guess...
Sorry. Normal service will be resumed tomorrow
TTFN xx
Wednesday, 25 March 2009
Folksy shut but Etsy open!!!
I am dabbling a little in other online shopping sites. My foray into Folksy has not been in the least bit successful. Now whether I have given it enough time or what really I am not sure. I am not sure I need 2 shops either but I thought I would give Etsy a go. Nothing is listed yet (typical!!!) but here is my etsy shop
I will hopefully list some stuff later this week most likely at the weekend but bookmark it now!!!
Right gotta go "The Apprentice" has started I love this show!!!
TTFN xx
I will hopefully list some stuff later this week most likely at the weekend but bookmark it now!!!
Right gotta go "The Apprentice" has started I love this show!!!
TTFN xx
Tuesday, 24 March 2009
We have lift off.....
....and all of a sudden things have gone a bit crazy! I am most definitely not complaining though. I have 2 fingerprint commissions going and to commissions for the lariat featured in "Making Jewellery".
There is endless debate about making something again and again like mass production but there is something very very fab about being asked to produce a piece of jewellery again for someone else. It won't be the same exactly I will do something a little different each time, different texture, different colour beads different findings etc.
Anyway things are nice and busy and the good news is that my 5 weeks of full on teaching is ending this week so things quieten down a wee bit for me at work. Still have lesson prep and student support etc but teaching goes a little quieter for a few weeks as the students are on placement. And added to that Easter hols are only a couple of weeks away!!! Ooohhh...so much going on. Life is good I am happy and to top it off the sun is finally shining.
I am having a photography evening later so new stock will be up on the website tonight or tomorrow.
Oh and one final piece of news Keiara and I are having our long overdue glassy play day tomorrow. Hoorah.....
TTFN xx
There is endless debate about making something again and again like mass production but there is something very very fab about being asked to produce a piece of jewellery again for someone else. It won't be the same exactly I will do something a little different each time, different texture, different colour beads different findings etc.
Anyway things are nice and busy and the good news is that my 5 weeks of full on teaching is ending this week so things quieten down a wee bit for me at work. Still have lesson prep and student support etc but teaching goes a little quieter for a few weeks as the students are on placement. And added to that Easter hols are only a couple of weeks away!!! Ooohhh...so much going on. Life is good I am happy and to top it off the sun is finally shining.
I am having a photography evening later so new stock will be up on the website tonight or tomorrow.
Oh and one final piece of news Keiara and I are having our long overdue glassy play day tomorrow. Hoorah.....
TTFN xx
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