17th October

Things have been ever so slightly manic the last couple of weeks, first of all preparing for the Not On The High Street Winter Gift Guide to come out, my Location Location Location cufflinks are in it and I have to say that I love the photograph they have used....the response so far has been wonderful, far exceeding my expectiation :() hopefully my preparations will pay off, you can check out the gift guide here.

I have also been desperately trying to find some time to put my new girls necklaces and bracelets on the site...yeah they are finally there, this range came about when a friend asked if I could make her necklaces and bracelets for her neices who were to be flower girls, she had in mind something that reminded here of the daisy chain necklaces she made as a child.

This is what I came up with a gorgeous little trail of flowers all different and soooo sweet, the girls adored them and I have to say I do too, a couple of the ladies at the wedding have requested them in adult sizes, so they are available too, why should the kids get all the sweet stuff!!

There are also some additons on the website for ladies, firstly we have 'Bolle' gorgeous artisan made hand blown glass beads complimented with darkened silver, this will soon be available in a bracelet as well.

There are also two beautiful charm bracelet....perfect for gifts, go on give him a hint....after all it is not long to Christmas!!!

Peapod & Ebony

I have had the most wonderful coloured Chinese Chrysoprase for ages and had completely forgot what I intended to use these for, yesterday I was having a clear out and found the other beads I had wanted to uses with them....gorgeous, rich and dark ebony rondelles, combined simply with sterling silver, how could I forget this combination, it is luscious....I love them and they look good enough to eat!!

These are available from today (Sunday) from my website

Tuesday 24th August

Where has the sun gone....it is pouring with rain here and it is freezing!!!

I have been working on comissions the last few days but was drawn in a completely different direction when my eye caught beads that I had purchased a while ago and had to make something with them, so here is the result....the beads are by the wonderful Mindy McGregor at Moogin Beads, you can find the finished bracelet here, I have deliberatly kept the design simple...with beads as beautiful as these you need very little else.

Following on from the success of my 'Location Location Location' personalised cufflinks I have had so many enquiries for necklaces in the same design I have decided to make these available, you can find them here.

I am off now to try and heat up.

Clearance items in my Etsy Shop

Hi everyone,

Hope you are all enjoying the lovely weather this weekend, just wanted to let you know that I have started a sale today in my etsy store, you can check it out here, these prices also include free shipping worldwide,.....more items will be added over the next few days.

Enjoy the rest of the weekend....

Beads By Laura Prize Draw

As you know I adore lampwork beads, one of my favourites is UK artist Laura Sparling.....her beads are absolutely gorgeous......Laura is having a giveaway of these fabulous beads shown here.

For a chance to win these stunning beads all you just have to visit Laura's blog and leave a comment, simple as that....good luck everyone. x

New 'Specials' added

To free up some space on the website for for new designs I have added some new items to my 'specials' section these currently have 25% off, you can check them out here

Go on check it out and bag yourself a bargain!!

Free Shipping Worldwide

Hi,

I am back from my holidays, we had a lovely time.....but I am just catching up with everthing and trying to get orders out....slowly but surely getting there, I hope to have some new designs to show you soon, but for the meantime it is back to work on the rising number of comissions that I have to work through.

Oh! one other thing, I now offer free shipping worldwide in my etsy store why not check it out at http://www.etsy.com/shop/EVYDesigns

Always a thrill!!

It is always a thrill to me to find that someone has taken the time to let me know they have featured a piece of my jewellery in there blog, thanks very much to the lovely people who have taken the time to let me know about this recently, I appreciate it.....It was also a thrill this morning to open up the main page of Not On The High Street and find my 'Location Location Location' personalised map cufflinks on the front page.

I love making these cufflinks they can feature any location at all and are the perfect gift.....they can feature where you met, honeymoon location, wedding location or just somewhere you dream of visiting, the possibilites are endless, at the moment they are available through NOTHS, or direct from my website.

Beads By Laura Prize Draw

If you haven't aready found Beads by Laura you don't know what you are missing....stunning, gorgeous handcrafted lampwork beads!!! Check out Laura's blog she is running a prize draw for a wonderful selection of her beads to be drawn on Friday 4th June....pop over and check it out, I guarantee you will go back!!

Tuesday 25th May

Hi,

Just thought I would share with you my latest Treasury West on etsy....'Time for Tea' inspired by all things teatime, this has a great selection of artists that I love on Etsy, check out their shops there a some wonderful items to be found....

Artists included are: Fuzzylogicfelt, Fairyfolk, EstherCoombs, hodgepodgearts, MossBeachCeramics, madelaine, purposedesign, miekongo, britishcreamtea, craftypagan, sugarandflour, finestimaginary

I have also made a few pairs of earrings, they will be on my website from tomorrow...here is a sneak preview of 'Daisy Blooms'

Thursday 13th May

I have been working on expanding some of my ranges over the past couple of weeks these include lots more colour options for my best selling Colourstuff Bangle...this will be available in a wider selection of colours and with the option of adding more beads to the bangle....the additonal colours will be available from Friday from the website.

The Continuum vintage watch movement cufflinks are now also available in a rounded square option.

There has also been an addition to the Pompom earrings, they are now available in stunning Spectrolite.....a wonderful stone full of blue and gold flashes.

St Georges Day

I am over the moon ...just when I finished my last blog this e-mail arrived from Not On The High Street it features my 'Keep Calm' and 'Carry On' cufflinks....I now have a big smile on my face and am doing a happy dance about the room :)

Where has April gone!!!

I can't believe that it is almost the end of April already, the months are flying by....I have been kept busy over the past few weeks with more commission orders, they are all but clear now so I have some space again to take more orders, just contact me through the website if you have something special in mind.

I love clusters in earrings and after seeing some beautiful tissue pompoms featured recently on etsy front page, I decided to do my own little take on pompoms but in earrings....here is what I came up with...hope you like them, I love them.

Carmello Bracelet & Earrings

I have been working on a lot of commissions over the last few weeks, but I finally managed to get some photographs of some new additons to the website...so here goes....Carmello bracelet & earrings these are gorgeous beads by Claire at Rowanberry Glass, and they are soooo nice.

I love these little mallow earrings the colour is quite simply divine, the softest mallow pink vintage glass beads, complimented with oxidised silver......Lovely!!

I am off to get back to my commissions now x

February Already

So sorry it has been quite a while since I have managed to update on here, after a busy run up to Christmas time just got away from me, we then decided that we would have a bit of a break......it was wonderful 14 days in the Dominican Republic just relaxing and soaking up the sun, but what a shocker to come back to even more snow.

I tried to get all artistic with my photos...(this did not work) but here are a couple just to show how lovely it was...oh I wish I was back there....(the first one is the artistic one)!!!!

I did manage to buy some Larimar while I was there so watch out for some designs these stones...here is a bracelet I made with the stones I bought on a previous trip there...and it really is just the colour of the ocean....beautiful!!!!

Trinkette's

Trinkette is a new additon to my jewellery, it is a selection of necklaces that incorporate some of the things I love, gorgeous gemstones, charms and sterling silver.....you can check them out on my website....currently available is Amethyst Trinkette and Crystal Trinkette.

I have also been working on commission orders, they are all complete now and will be with you all early next week if you have not already received yours.

I have just added a couple of pressies for the boys 'I can't Stop' & Silver Birch Cufflinks you can check them out here.

And don't forget gift vouchers are always available if you are not quite sure what to purchase for your gift.

Bye for now...have a good week.

Disaster!!!

Oh this has been such a bad weekend....firstly with my day all planned out on Friday the first thing on my list was to buy ink for the printer and petrol for the car which was nearly on red!!! I set off only to get half way there as I was hit by an articulated lorry.... went right into the side of me spun me round into the line of the oncoming traffic...reeeeallly scary, I am ok just a bit shaken up, but the car is not so good....can it get any worse...oh yes it can...

After I had tried to calm down a bit I tried to get onto my website...only to be faced with my site not being there...it was eventually sorted out...problems with the host company, so apologies if any of you wondered where I had gone.

As you can imagine I was pretty frazzled by this time...but had to laugh in between the crying as I called to tell my mum and dad about the accident she checked I was all ok told me to have a nice bath and asked quite innocently what type of truck it was that hit me...my response was I don't know but it was big....mum's response was 'no what was written on the side of it', trying to hold it together I replied Anchor Butter, thinking what does that matter, 'I am never buying that again' was her response.

I couldn't not laugh!!!

bye for now
Elizabeth

Just for Luck!!

I made this delicious little necklace for my friend as a special request....it is such a delightful necklace to wear and attracts such a lot of compliments.

Each one is handcrafted and unique...and is now available to purchase from my website......perfect for gifts.

Quick Update

Hi everyone I can't believe how long it has been since I have found the time to get on here and let you know what I have been up to....time just seems to run away from me these days...anyway I have been working on loads of commissions in the past month...it has been great and have had some wonderful feedback from the items I have already sent out...

I have also been working on some lampwork bracelets among other things here are two of my latest...'Going Underground and 'Willow'.......I adore these beads, they are from a wonderfully talented British Artist......Gorgeous!!!!!!!

I have added loads more items to the website recently, hope you have time to pop over there for a look http://www.evy-designs.com/

It has always been my intention since I taking a few lampwork classes to set up a studio and make my own beads.....well I finally took the plunge.....Last week I went to Harrogate Bead Fair and decided to purchase the kit from Tuffnell Glass, I haven't set it up yet but hope to get this done shortly and find some time to actually make some beads....I can't wait to get started on it.

All things golden

I seem to have been going through a bit of a gold phase... here is just a selection of some of the items I have been making...mainly earrings for my website and my new stock for my local gallery....here you go

Abella, hammered marquise earwires hold sparkling Phrenite

Mallowrose...gorgeous I love these...loads of sparkle!!!

Quintet & Trio necklace & earrings.... simple and oh so wearable!!!

And some lovely oxidised teardrop earrings...Periwinkle!!!

Visit my website to check out other new items!!!