October 29th, 2009
I’ve been working away on a new range of button pendants. When I say range, so far I’ve made a prototype and one actual pendant, but there will be more on the way soon. I wanted to adapt the processes I’ve learnt to make my small silver button earrings and adapt them to my ideas for pendants.
October 27th, 2009
I’ve been steadily working up a small collection of button charm bracelets for my up and coming craft fairs in November and I’m really pleased with the results so far.
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.
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.
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.
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.
July 24th, 2009
I’ve just listed 4 of my cereal box notebooks in my Milomade Shop.
These ones are made using envelope patterns for the covers and are all blue/white.
July 24th, 2009
I’ve been listing hair bobbles in my online shops today and all three shops are now fully stocked. Amazingly I’ve already sold one pair! Made from pairs of vintage buttons attached to standard black elasticated hair ties they’re perfect for pony tails and bunches and whatever other funky things you can do with your hair nowadays.
July 23rd, 2009
I had a lovely day in Pittenweem today visiting Karen Edward of Funky Scottish fame. I was delivering some new stock as the Pitenweem Arts Festival starts on the 1st August and she wants to stock up on all that is Milomade. So if you’re paying a visit to Pittenweem during the first two weeks in August, why not pay Funky Scottish a visit and see what’s in store.
July 19th, 2009
Well I’ve been busy over the past few days making silver earrings from pairs of lovely vintage buttons. I’ve been putting aside pairs of interesting small buttons for a while specifically to make earrings from them and have just got round to getting into this project this weekend. Loving it! Not only am I getting better at soldering and finishing, I’ve also learnt how to make simple ear wires.
June 21st, 2009
I’ve been busy over the past week or so making lots of cereal box notebooks as I had a few donations of empty cereal boxes and envelopes from friends. I’ve not just used envelope patterns for the covers this time though, as I thought maps would look good too and I was right.
I still have quite a few pages left from our old Road Atlas that I’ve used to make gift tags with and so decided to try a few of these pages for notebook covers and they look great.
May 12th, 2009
I’m busy getting ready for my next craft fair in St Andrews at the weekend and have been making lots of lovely colourful Button Flower Brooches and my studio is getting messy again.
I can’t seem to be able to be tidy when I’m working – there are buttons all over the place, along with bits of leather and colourful thread.
April 13th, 2009
New in my shop today are some more sets of gift tags, this time made from recycled maps and from recycled music.
As with the gisft tags made from recycled envelopes, these ones come in packs of ten also, but are a completely random mix and so no two packs are the same.
At only £2.50 per pack, you’ve got no excuses to make your gifts just that little bit greener!
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