Wednesday, 8 February 2012. Tubular peyote stitch with a centre piece of embellished peyote with pearls and hessonite garnets. Monday, 6 February 2012. Getting slightly obsessive now! Saturday, 28 January 2012. Sunday, 10 July 2011.

Jewellery, crafts, art and life! Wednesday, July 03, 2013. Anyone who has visited Italy will probably recognise some of these beautiful traditionally- inspired designs from the stationary sets that can be bought as souvenirs in the gift shops. In my Etsy store - The Paper Tree. You can choose from a range of these gorgeous papers in large 50 x 70cm sheets to use as gift wrapping, but also in a wide range of crafts such as bookbinding, box making, origami, decoupage, scrapbooking - and many more! Regular .

The Ramblings and Photographs of a Jewellery, Baking, Knitting, Flower and All Things Purple Addict! Sunday, 8 November 2009. It all started with this one! I make no apology for blogging about poppies again! I told you last year.

2 Bracelets - some sort of sea theme. Some resin beads inspired me to some kind of sea theme in these two bracelets. Or at least that is what I myself come to think of. In the first one those very large oval flat ones make me think of the kind of large grass that often grows right on the edge of water and land. Turquoise and yellow ceramic porcelain barrel bead - Round Rabbit.

Buy and sell Handmade goods. Tuesday, 7 December 2010. Christmas is well and truly on the way, and with the icy arctic blasts showing no signs of abating, the best way to do your christmas shopping this year is with your feet up, by a roaring fire, complete with a glass of mulled wine. Accessories and a wee bit of fashion.

Lots of new work! Life has been rather eventful since I last posted -. Just after christmas my long serving SC2 kiln died, but the wonderful Kilncare. Sorted me out with a lovely new GREY Maxi kiln. A few days before the Flame Off my oxycon decided it too was giving up, but with a lot of help from lovely people online I got a new one delivered and got back to work.

Findings Now In Stock At Chez Gloria! We are really proud to announce that .

All the Thrills, Trials, and Tribulations of Starting and Running a Small Jewelry Business.

This is one of the many new pieces I will have on display - handmade glass with Peruvian Opals, and lots of silver. Perfect for summer! Thursday, 5 June 2014. Sunday, 1 June 2014. Saturday, 31 May 2014. Wednesday, 28 May 2014. Saturday, 24 May 2014. More Czech glass and sterling silver bracelets - gorgeous glass! .

I moved over to WordPress earlier this year because the functionality was more user friendly. And I re-read my old stuff on the old blog. I did lose some photos from the original posts, but I have a lot of history that I recorded as I learned lampworking and jewelry.