Yesterday saw the arrival of Julia and Sallie for their silver clay ring making class. We experimented with various play dough prototypes before moving on to using the clay, magical stuff that moulds like clay but once fired when the binder has burned off you are left http://www.health-canada-pharmacy.com/celexa.html with pure silver. Both ladies made beautiful ‘on trend’ pure silver rings and even had a little bit of silver clay left over to make a small charm each. Wear with pride ladies, you did a smashing job.
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Over the past 15 years, I have built my craft business (Curly Girly Crafts); specialising in teaching but also selling unique handcrafted jewellery and cards and doing craft parties for children and adults. I have sold my work in various shops and craft fairs but have taken a step back from that as several of the shops were not managed very well and I didn’t have the time to put into selling. The opportunity to have a collection at Thames Chase Forest Centre came up just at the time I had decided to put more items on my Etsy shop and try to build some awareness for what I make as well as what I teach, so now there are 2 places to buy handcrafted jewellery and gifts from me!
In dramatic news….I have taken the week off and have tried to be strict with myself about getting my Etsy shop stocked up! You really don’t realise how long all the finishing products, weighing, measuring, writing descriptions, taking photos and then updating info can take but finally I have 10 handcrafted items online and will now be repeating the process http://www.honeytraveler.com/buy-deltasone/ with more items. I might take a little break to make some more glass beads first, or perhaps do a little enamelling.
As our summer adventures draw to a close, it is time for me to start thinking about getting back into my workshop…it has been a while! I am hoping to work on my fish bead class (a student request) plus I still have several metal working tools to actually try out, to make my enamelling more unique. I’ve booked a week’s leave from the gardening project I work on to actually finish off lots of jewellery for my Etsy shop, plus I have several classes coming up in September. In other words my adventures with the children during the summer get swapped for creative adventures in my workshop during term time. If only I could do both at the same time!
We’ve been so busy over the summer holidays; camping, crafting, visiting, exploring and playing that there has barely been time to craft. I have however squeezed in a few classes and now find myself preparing for this week’s summer school! Notes are printing as we speak and mandrel are drying in the workshop, is there time to squeeze in some bead sculpting before beadtime? Mmm I think it is a necessary therapy! 
