Jewellery By Shalini

Its a really busy time of the year at the moment. I am  working on bespoke orders for Christmas presents, there are Craft Shows every week-end, I am making new stock to sell at the shows and I have to make sure that all the guild events publicity is happening as scheduled. This means I have no spare time at least until 10 December! So I decided to do another Artisan Whimsy Challenge, "Berries and Leaves" ... Yes I know I just said its a very busy time... But challenges are fun! There is always the hope that I might win something, but more than that its thinking of new ideas and making something different to what I have done before that really excites me. Its a "Me" exercise really  A little bit of time invested in me and to pamper my ego. Self indulgent... yes. Even a bit vain... of course! Well its high time I did! I am reading a Terry Pratchet book at the moment and this statement by a character called Malicia  really struck a chord "If you don'

And now there is a "Berries and Leaves" November challenge over at Artisan Whimsy . Hmmm... Yeah! Why not! :-) I think I can make a pair of earrings for this...

Fineshade Woods Craft Display : 2013 Fineshade Woods Craft show dates are now booked and I am looking forward to the monthly Fun Sundays there April 2013 onwards :-) 'via Blog this'

Christmas Craft Fair: 18th November : 'via Blog this' Jewellery By Shalini will be there!

I came across ArtisanWhimsy on Facebook through MyBeadTherpay ’s Page (I follow Heidi’s work with a passion because she has inspired me to try so many new things and its great to see how wonderfully her work has progressed in the 2 odd years we've been talking bling with each other!) And right there on the front page of the forum was this little banner which took me to a page which said: “Can you create a piece of jewellery or a jewellery component inspired by where the UK Blog team live?” The choices were Dorset / Edinburgh / Bath / The Isle of Wight / Liverpool / Southampton and this is what the description said about Liverpool : image courtesy Wikipedia “ Liverpool  is world-famous as the home of The Beatles, but is also well known for football, the Scouse (now there's a term for you non-Brits to look up!) sense of humour and of course, the shipping port and the River Mersey” The description and for various other reasons Liverpool it had to be!

Of Course! That's all I am saying for now. Oh and two things I am quite partial to are involved... Copper and Red. This is for the  Artisan Whimsy: UK Inspiration Challenge  I wrote about a couple of days ago. My piece of jewellery is inspired by Liverpool. Here is a sneak peak :-) Rest of it on 12 November.