Jewellery By Shalini

Guest Post: Oakham Festival 2012 on Stamford Artisans Guild : Dave & I will be at the Crafts show at Oakham Castle which is part of Oakham Festival 2012 on 23 June. We had a great day last year at this event which was held on Gaol Street and really looking forward to this one at one of my favourite venues of all - Oakham Castle. Sarah who is the chief organiser for this has been working really hard to get everything in place and I think she is doing a brilliant job! Hope to see you there! 'via Blog this'

I have already talked about these on my " other " blog but I thought I should post the pictures here too :-) Really proud of the finished pieces and THIS is why I do what I do! :-) "Hiya, Safely in receipt of the pendant and I absolutely LOVE it – it’s amazing. I know Stacy will love it too. Thanks again for all your hard work." "Safely in possession of my 2 pendants - they are both amazing, love them! I am going to keep the more triangular one for myself and send the other one to my friend in Oz - can't want to hear from her when she gets it!!! Thanks again so much for all your hard work - it's been fun...well for me...maybe less fun and more work for you!"   (They were sent on different days) I can assure everyone that it has been a lot of fun for me! :-)

Stamford Lapidary Workshop Creating Beautiful Cabochons | Jewellery By Shalini : 'via Blog this' The Engine Room!

Craft Fairs, Shows and Markets Where You Can Meet me & occasionally Mr. A too! : I don’t have a showroom (yet!) but you can meet me at various local craft fairs and hand-made markets in Stamford and surrounding areas. I have updated the Craft Calendar on my website. You can have a look via the link above :-) This little one has been helping me sort out all the jewellery and packaging for the fairs too! If I forget to take something important I blame it on Millie in advance!

Go Slow | Jewellery By Shalini : I wrote this on 25 May 2011: At the moment my adventures in jewellery making are on a go slow and its not very nice. For about  a month now I have been suffering from blurred vision on and off.  Some days I can see clearly but some days the vision is completely blurred. Been to the optician – nothing wrong with eye sight. Had a whole lot of blood tests including for diabetes. All Fine. I have now been referred to the eye clinic & Fingers Crossed they will know what’s wrong. So there are days (and quite a lot of them!) when there is no way I can make any jewellery because everything is blurred. I can do some work on the computer because it can be set to large size reading option but I am reluctant to try close work or take on any repair jobs at the moment. The last repair job was delayed so much because of vision problems.  The customer was really sweet and und...

Do you know about Craft Blog UK ? Well if you had not heard of it before now you know. You should have a look! Its an excellent resource of blogging tips, social media tutorials and fabulous craft links. This morning there was a really easy to use tutorial on How to Install a Pinterest Tab on Facebook Brilliant pictures explaining what to do. So I did! Have a look via this link!  Jewellery By Shalini : 'via Blog this'

Today I met someone else who I have been talking with for a few months on twitter - Andy Deighton from the Events and Fundraising team of local charity St Barnabas Hospice (  @StBarnabasLinc on twitter). The charity ploughs all the funds it raises back into helping Lincolnshire. It was a very pleasant meeting and some interesting ideas discussed. Always nice to put a face to name :-) Read more about St. Barnabas Lincolnshire Hospice   on their website. And can I just add that we met at the Stamford Arts Centre , a great venue for one to one and group meetings. They serve up a nice mug of coffee at the Arts Centre Coffee Shop too.