Competition! Win a Beautiful Handmade Bracelet

You can win a beautiful handmade bracelet, made by myself from Leopard skin jasper and turquoise beads, wrapped with sterling silver wire.

All you have to do is go to our Facebook page (linked below) and share any of our links on that page (thats hit the share button not the like button):

here: http://www.facebook.com/wireandicejewelry

 

Alternatively, you can share the link to this competition on your Facebook page

The more links you share, the more times your name gets entered into the hat.

On the 1st of December 2011, we will then collect all of the names of those who have shared links on our Facebook site and place them in a virtual hat and randomly pick the winner. The winner will be announced on this blog and on our Facebook page Wire and Ice

The competition is open to worldwide users and I’m happy to pay the postage, but if you live outside the UK you’ll have to be responsible for any customs charges: although there shouldn’t be any as it’s a gift.

Handmade bracelet competition prize

Legal bit (sorry!):

By accepting a prize, all winners agree that the Host  will have no liability whatsoever for, and will be held harmless by winner for any liability for any injury, loss or damages of any kind, to winner or other persons, including (without limitation) injuries, loss or damages arising out of or relating to death, and, injuries, damages or losses to property, due in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, from the acceptance, possession, use or misuse of the prize or participation in this promotion.

Folksy Friday: White as the Driven Snow

I thought now that the sunshine is out, it’d be appropriate to do  Folksy Friday to remind us of the lovely snow we had this last winter.

I am of course being sarcastic, as it was awful, at one point I forgot what the world was like when it wasnt covered in thick white stuff.

So to commemorate this:

here’s some ideas for a whiter than white outfit:

The White Queen by April is Forever Jewellery

White Jaquard Cocktail dress by Fashion Couture

White Disco Earrings by Emily Storm Designs

Pure as the Driven Snow Bracelet

And to complete the look:

White headband by Janine Basil

I’m afraid you’ll have to find your own shoes as Folksy doesn’t seem to have white shoes for women – unless you know better?

Trials and Tribulations: Part 2 A New Start

I recently posted about how sometimes, when you make a piece of jewellery, even though it may have taken you a long time to do, the result may not be exactly what you want. So, you have to just , start again.

Well, I did: start again, that is. I took the necklace as mentioned in the post “The trial and tribulations of making handmade: hard decisions” and made it into something else.

I had a look at the necklace and realised that I could re-use the handmade links and turn them into three bracelets. To break up the necklace, I had to cut the wrapped silver from the green moss agate beads, however that went into my scraps pot for melting down at a  later date. The links however, were fully able to be re-used. From those links I created three bracelets. One from the green moss agate beads and two others using some, quite fabulous, black freshwater pearls that I just bought.

One of the black pearl bracelets will be sold by WowThankYOu on behalf of the Cystic Fibrosis Trust

So, in the end, what seemed like a large waste of time, ended up in a good result: three bracelets, one of which, the proceeds will go to charity.

Here’s a sneak preview of one of the pearl bracelets which will be going off to the Edinburgh Assay office for hallmarking shortly:

Black pearl bracelet

Blog Giveaway: Handmade Sterling Silver Bracelet

Hello!

To kick off my Etsy Stalker shadowbox listing I am doing a blog giveaway of a handmade bracelet, made by yours truly.

To enter the giveaway you need to leave a comment in my shadowbox which is located by clicking this link

IMPORTANT Its really IMPORTANT that you leave me an email address on the Etsy Stalker comment otherwise I wont have anyway of contacting you.

I will then, on February the 1st, run the sequence generator widget on random.org (this gives me a timestamp to show when I have run it and the top number in the generated sequence is the winner, i.e. the number which equals the numbered comment on Etsy Stalker).

The Bracelet

Is made from hand forged sterling silver links. Each link has a 6mm brecciated jasper bead wire wrapped to the links to form the bracelet. The clasp is a sterling silver lobster clasp. There is also little heart, which I made from PMC (polymer metal clay) that hangs from the clasp end.The bracelet length is approximately 7 inches (18cm).

It hasnt been hallmarked yet but if you win it you can wait for it to be hallmarked, or I’ll send it out to you without hallmarking.

The competition is open to worldwide users and I’m happy to pay the postage, but if you live outside the UK you’ll have to be responsible for any customs charges: although there shouldn’t be any as it’s a gift.

Here are some pictures and good luck (and if you have any questions just let me know):

Legal bit (sorry!):

By accepting a prize, all winners agree that the Host  will have no liability whatsoever for, and will be held harmless by winner for any liability for any injury, loss or damages of any kind, to winner or other persons, including (without limitation) injuries, loss or damages arising out of or relating to death, and, injuries, damages or losses to property, due in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, from the acceptance, possession, use or misuse of the prize or participation in this promotion.