October 25th, 2009

I’m on to my 6th interview and Kat Dibbits of Made With Love fame is in the hot seat this week.

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October 22nd, 2009

I bought a beautiful set of silver teaspoons on eBay and they arrived today in a lovely old red case. So I have 6 spoons to make rings from.

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October 20th, 2009

I spent the whole day in Cupar today invigilating Colin’s exhibition, so in order to make the best of the time, I took up all the bits and pieces I needed to make a new lot of button charm bracelets.

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October 19th, 2009

Colin is now the same age as me [I'm 6 months ahead of him] and his birthday was a great day.

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October 18th, 2009

My fifth victim is Tina Peacock who runs Mollimoo and designs and makes lovely fabric buttons from vintage fabric as well as button and felted accessories.

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October 16th, 2009

Colin’s birthday is fast approaching and one thing I wanted to make him this year was a pair of Joy Division oven gloves. Let me elaborate…

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October 15th, 2009

I’ve been busy making lots of things for my up and coming craft fairs in November and one idea I wanted to try was to make a cluster ring to match the cluster necklaces and earring I’ve been making – more on those later.

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October 14th, 2009

I’ve just posted a list of the craft fairs and events I’m going to be doing in November on my homepage, so make a note of the dates in your diary and come along, say hello and do some Christmas shopping! Here is a handy list with a little bit more information on each event.

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October 11th, 2009

This is just a quick post to let you all know that I’ve closed my Folksy shop and listed all my items within my Coriandr shop instead. I liked Foksy but…

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October 11th, 2009

My fourth victim is Kay Guccione who runs lilidrawspictures and designs and makes lovely MOD-ish original clothing, bags, wallets, badges, brooches, purses, and notebooks.

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October 10th, 2009

A while back I wrote a post about Colin creating a new piece of work for the Cupar Arts Festival based on the pioneering balloon flight by the 18th century Italian balloonist Vincenzo Lunardi. I also wrote about our first experience of hot air ballooning here. Well the past few months have been very hectic and traumatic and tiring and stressful but also amazing.

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October 10th, 2009

I managed to source some really lovely small silver cake forks the other day and at my jewellery class last night made five rings from them.

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October 7th, 2009

My new ‘I used to be a spoon…‘ range is now available in the Milomade shop!

Small beginnings with only three rings, but I’m slowly accumulating silver flatware in lots of different designs/patterns and so more rings will be available soon – all different sizes and prices depending on the weight of the silverware used.

Watch out for the ‘I used to be a fork…’ range – coming soon.