Jewellery By Shalini

Artists Market at Stamford Arts Centre - a-n The Artists Information Company : Artist Market Organised by ESCartists showcasing the work of various creative designers. Free Entry!

Still looking fantastic The wonderful comments from the visitors have left all the exhibitors feeling elated! If you have not visited yet please do come and have a look! All artists accept commissions & bespoke orders and at least one of the participating artists is available at the venue for a chat between 10 AM - 9 PM. Stamford Arts Centre Gallery 27 St Mary's Street, Stamford.

The latest challenge on Artisan Whimsy is all about love! With Valentine's day just round the corner that is just perfect :-) The challenge is to "Design a piece of jewelry or component(s) that represent your PASSION & LOVE" I am hoping to make a new piece for this if I can but in the meantime there is a piece I made recently which is called "Love" and I am entering it into the "Voted Category". I really want to hear what other jewellery designers think of it! Fingers crossed it gets a few votes! Read more about the piece here: Love is in the air!

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 t...

I am making something for this... The Challenge is to create a piece of jewellery or a jewellery component inspired by one of these places: Dorset / Edinburgh / Bath / The Isle of Wight / Liverpool / Southampton I wonder which city I should choose... Any ideas people?

How nice to see some coverage of the Oakham Castle Craft Fair in the Stamford Mercury on the day they did a front page feature titled "Shop locally this Christmas" All of us at the Stamford Artisans Guild started the Shop Handmade - Shop Local campaign with our Bull Hotel Christmas Fair back in October. Hope people are still listening and supporting their local small businesses, local traders and craftsmen . It would be fantastic to see the people of Stamford come out to support the Handmade Christmas Market at the Stamford Arts Centre and Newages Social Club on 4th December . All artisans work very hard to create new and unique items for our customers which would make fantastic Christmas presents. Give us a chance to show you that 1) beautiful things don't always have to cost the earth and 2) Christmas presents don't all live on the shelves of Tesco, New Look et al! They can be found in little independent shops AND local Christmas...

The Rutland County Museum Christmas Craft Exhibition Opened Last night. There are some absolutely gorgeous hand-made crafts on display including my jewellery (of course!), Wood-turned pens plus textile crafts, weaving and jewellery by 4 other talented artisans from the area. The Exhibition will be on until 22 January 2011 at the Museum at Catmose Street, Oakham, LE15 6HW Work by the followings makers is on display: # Jewellery By Shalini (and Stamford Lapidary ) # Wisteria Woodcrafts (member of The Stamford Artisans Guild ) # Calla # Rhubarb # Wiggles # Jo Edwards Do come along and browse though the beautiful items on display and for sale. The wonderful staff at the museum are very helpful and a great group of people. Some photos from last night:

Yes I know, we are all talking about THE SNOW! And so we should be! Because it is being a nuisance for artisans doing the craft fairs at the moment. It made a real hash of the week-end for a lot of my friends at craft fairs! Its only snow, comes every winter and we should be prepared for it. Yes that's fine! But when you have to travel across narrow country roads which no one remembers to grit and salt it does change your thinking a little. I am brave enough to venture out on proper roads to go into Stamford, Peterborough or Grantham and most people should. The roads are fine and if you use common sense and caution you should be safe on the road. However when it comes to going to a country house in the middle of nowhere I would think twice too! So where is all this leading to? I was at The British Red Cross Christmas Prelude in Tolethorpe yesterday. Its a beautiful place. Except that when the...