Birth of a new range!

Exciting news! Today I'm launching the first of my new range of resin jewellery with this cute hand-painted stork (or crane!) pendant, available at my Etsy shop.

Other new ranges coming soon!

Going Gaga for the new jewellery!

If you are a lady Gaga fan, you're very happy tonight!

It's February already! Where is the year going to?

First pictures for the new products are done, and I have already started to post them. Here is a preview of some of my new necklaces!

And how about a quick seasonal extract?

On the wind in February
Snowflakes float still,
Half inclined to turn to rain,
Nipping, dripping, chill.

'A Year's Windfalls' by Christina Georgina Rossetti

Frosty mornings

How is your new year going? I hope you have lots of lovely plans for 2017!

I've been hard at work making some super new designs and I will be posting them shortly. They're mostly earrings and necklaces so far, super creations in glass, semi-precious beads, and pretty colours for spring and summer.

My Twitter posts are now up to 250! 

Its been cold and foggy here, and with thick frost in the mornings. Talking of Frost (see what I did there?) how about a little poem?

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

by Robert Frost

Whose woods these are I think I know.

His house is in the village though;

He will not see me stopping here

To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer

To stop without a farmhouse near

Between the woods and frozen lake

The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake

To ask if there is some mistake.

The only other sound's the sweep

Of the easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,

But I have promises to keep,

And miles to go before I sleep,

And miles to go before I sleep.

Happy New Year! I predict this will be wonderful year for everyone reading this post...

I hope you all had a lovely Christmas/holiday?

The shop is back up again. I've had a little break from making – well, what with the whole Christmas thing, and other RL paraphernalia, its been difficult finding the opportunity! However, I shall start making again this weekend, and I can't wait. I've got so many ideas to try, lots of new lines coming up, and I need to get on with my upcoming Spring and Summer jewellery, too.

Before we finally say goodbye to 2016 though, I would like to share a couple of Chrimble pictures.

The first is my Christmas cat, looking somewhat miffed by it all...

And you might be in interested in a local tradition. Residents of the town knit Christmas or winter scenes to decorate post boxes. Its fun and quirky! As an example, how about this one:

Happy 2017 everyone!

Christmas Trivia

5 days to Christmas! Is everybody ready?

 

The shop is now on a short break for Christmas. It is too late to post anything and I need to concentrate on organising our festive preparations. I am so looking forward to Christmas!

Since there is not a lot happening on that front, I thought it might be fun to do something different today. Most of us like trivia of one kind or another, and many of us like Christmas, so how about a little compilation of Christmas Trivia?

The Three Wise Men – A well-known aspect of the Christmas story, except that the bible never actually states the number of wise men.

Jingle Bells was written by James Lord Pierpont. It was originally called 'One Horse Open Sleigh' and was actually created for Thanksgiving entertainment for a Sunday school in Georgia. 

 

Mince pies – these were originally made from minced meat, fruit and spices. Back in the time of the Tudors, these used to be called 'shred' or 'shrid' pies. It doesn't seem to matter much what the meat was, either. Rabbit, mutton, and beef were all used, and in the 16^th century many recipes used 'neats' or beef tongue. 

 

Boxing Day traditionally gets its name from the practice of giving money (or sometimes gifts) to the needy, or those in service jobs. Priests used to open the church's Alms (or charity) boxes on December 26 and distributed funds to the poor. 

 

'Good King Wenceslas Looked Out On the Feast Of Stephen' - The Feast of Stephen is another name for Boxing Day. St Stephen was the first Christian martyr, who died in 34 AD.

Happy Christmas, everyone!

Last ordering dates for Christmas 2016

I now have my cut-off dates for Christmas orders. The dates are as follows:

Australia - Wed 7^th December

USA, Canada, Europe and all other non-UK destinations - Mon 12^th December

United Kingdom – Monday the 19^th December

After last orders I will be closing the shop on Tuesday 20^th December so that I can concentrate on organising our festive festivities, but will re-open again after Christmas, all refreshed and raring to go!

December already!

It is only 21 days to Christmas!

I have now made 350 posts in my Instagram account! Not bad for a technophobe, is it?

How's about some purty earrings? Czech glass, Indian glass, Steampunk, Christmas – lots of different ones!

Check them out in my Etsy store!

I've got some Christmas Trivia coming up for you on the run-up to Christmas, but for a bit of fun today, how about a Christmas Alphabet?

Christmas Alphabet:

Advent, Angel

Bells, Bethlehem, Blitzen, baubles

Camels, candles, carols, Christmas, chimney, child, cranberries, cake, crackers, cards, chestnuts, Chrimble,

Dasher, Dancer, Donner, decorations

Elves, Ebenezer, eggnog,

Fireplace, festive, feast, Frankincense, frosty.

Garland, gifts, goose,

Holly, holiday,

Ivy, icicles, infant, inn

Joy, jingle, Jesus, jolly,

Kiss

Lights, Lapland

Magi, manger, mincemeat, myrrh, mistletoe

Nativity, noel, Nutcrackers,

Odin, oranges

Partridge, Prancer, presents, pudding

Quantity,

Reindeer, Rudolph, religion,

Stocking, Santa, Scrooge, shephard, sheep, snowman, snow, sleigh, spirit, solstice, star

Tree, tinsel, tidings, turkey, toys,

Unwrap

Vixen

Winter, wonderland, Wassail, Wenceslaus,

Xmas

Yule

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