What can a picture of measly strawberry plants get you?

The plant itself will eventually give you some strawberries. Until then all you can really do is take pictures of it I guess :) Well, this is what mine looked like at the time of photographing (I think about a weeks ago). And then I entered into Natalka's giveaway on instagram. The rules were to take a photo of a flower and tag it with Natalka's tag... Most of my plants just decided to give up their flowers so I took a picture of this, a bit for a laugh:

But my entry was accepted and.... Well and in the end I won! Winner was picked out of a hat, so at least the quality of my agriculture was not affecting the result ;)

So few days later this arrived in post:

...Perhaps one day I will be able to grow a flower like this :P But so far I need to satisfy myself with this. Which is not such a bad thing anyway ;)

You can see Natalka's fabulous shop here on Etsy. She makes lots of gorgeous embroidered jewellery. She also runs another shop with recycled computer parts jewellery and more :D Very cool.

April Market

As you might know form my facebook page spamming, I have had a stall at my favourite market on Saturday. That would be the Out Of The Blue Drill Hall market ;) It just seems to be one that I always do. And I like it :) The location is great and they are normally pretty busy, full of lovely things.

So as per usual I took some snaps of my stall. They probably don't look overall that different, but you can spot some new things (that will make their way to etsy sometime soon.

For one, there is a few bits and bobs of assembled rainy jewellery....

And a preview of the one I have been REALLY excited about - the origami line! There are brooches, earring and necklaces... Again, they will make their way to etsy soon but if you are dying for one drop me a line :)


Otherwise, I can't believe it's already April... Been really REALLY busy lately! And it's only 8 months till my favourite time of the year... Christmas :) Haha, yes, I am a little bit crazy there probably... I am also really looking forward to summer. I have some holidays booked-ish, but I will not say anymore until it's a bit closer :)

It's raining!

There are some parts of a new jewellery line. Finished pieces will come here soon :) These are kind of inspired by the weather I constantly have here ;)

Drawing lots of trees :)

So I have decided to do this for REAL. Nearly two weeks ago I started doing this "a ... a day for a year" thing, and my own "..." is tree. You can find them (nearly) daily HERE.

Here are some samples...

 At the moment I feel they are just following a certain pattern, but I am curious to see how they will change over time... Because I am sure that they will! After all this has only been a couple of weeks, and there WILL be loads for sure! :)

Some of the ones I like better have also been turned into brooches...

some whales...

...are just cuter than others!

A snippet preview of what is coming to my etsy store THIS SPRING! ;) Shame about the blue whale fella as his tail fell off :(

Busy in December!

December was probably my busiest month next to May (which was the Degree Show prep month). I've been away twice: far away (Stockholm) and not that far away (Lancashire). I did two craft fairs (one remotely... Thank you, Claire!), tons of bird brooches, which are now also available for purchase at the Drill Hall Arts Café. So yeah, this is the first time I have time to actually sit down and do some blogging!

These are the birdies. Soon to be available on Etsy!

And these are the fellas in the cabinet at the Drill Hall Arts Café.