January 2016

Pale blue hollow bubble beads with swirls of palest soft green and grey.

After a successful series of Christmas events in my studio, at the Quay Arts, Tapnell Farm and Ventnor Winter Gardens, it was time for a little rest. Feeling refreshed, I'm now ready to start thinking about Spring and Summer, yippee!

Bell flowers, this time pale baby blue with mauve grey petals.

All these discs are destined for one necklace. A good illustration of  my first colours for Spring 2016.

I've not quite got the colours sorted yet. I've started with some turquoise, soft green and white. These are colours that work well and are so wearable. Always a good place to start.
I used a spot pattern on cream and black for my Autumn and Winter designs that proved popular. Attempts to use it in a Spring design haven't been too great yet, but it's early days.

Here are some experimental beads I've been making with some interesting variegated glass rods.

I've been having a few little experimental sessions and have come up with a sort of sideways heart design. Definitely a useful possibility.

Heart shaped patterns created by dragging dots of colour on white.

Events this Christmas - 2015

I've been busy getting things ready and looking forward to this year's Christmas events.
To get the season started I am having a mini Open Studio in my garden studio. This is a sort of preview of my new jewellery and decorations, as well giving regular customers first dibs!

Saturday 21st November - 9am - 12noon

The first proper event will be 'Quay Christmas Gift Weekender' which is at the lovely location of the Quay Arts Centre, Newport. quayarts.org 

Quay Christmas Gift Weekender

Saturday 28th and Sunday 29th November - 10am -4pm.

The next event is part of Isle of Wight Arts Open Studios. This year it is located at Tapnell Farm in the West Wight. It's not a place I've been to before, so I'm interested and excited to see what it is like. isleofwightarts.com

Christmas Open Studios.

Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th December - 10am - 4pm.

The last but by no means least event is 'Ventnorville' at the Ventnor Winter Gardens. I first had stall at this location last May and it had a very lovely atmosphere, which I'm sure will be enhanced further by all things Christmas. loveventnor.co.uk

Ventnorville 

Saturday 12th December - 10.30am - 4pm.

Swirls and Whirls

Here are the newest additions to my Autumn and Winter collection. Soon to be found on my website littlehousejewellery.co.uk and in my Etsy shop.

New Jewellery for the Quay Arts

Swirly Whirly Brown, Turquoise, Cream and Green 

While I have been working on some more spotty beads, my priority this week has been to get a new collection together to take to the Quay next week. quayarts.org. It takes a bit of time, consideration and balance on deciding what to include. After all these years I'm only just getting to know what their customers like. I need to balance this but still bring in something new to keep it fresh.
Anyway, here are a few that can be seen in the Quay shop from the end of next week.

Cubes

Cream with Spots

Bells to go with Blackberry Necklace

Mauve, White and Black Beads with Concentric Circles

New Spot Pattern.

I've been trying out a new spot pattern this week. I made fine stringer [thin stretched pieces of glass] to keep the spots small. I wanted to make black beads and I think this may just work.

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Plain and Simple Cubes

Really Long Cube Bead Necklace

I wasn't sure how to include turquoise in my Autumn and Winter jewellery this year. Looking at the colours I was attracted to I decided it maybe good to go back to basics and make plain shapes. Some of the glass is variegated,  has a slight lustre finish or marble effect, so the beads are not completely plain.
Of course the big advantage with plain beads are that they are so versatile.
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Short Cube Bead Necklace

Cube Bead Earrings

Turquoise Bead Stud Earrings

Small Glass and Silver Cube Bead Necklace

Cube and Cuboid Bead Necklace with Seed Beads

More Additions to the Autumn/Winter Collection

I've been working on grey beads mostly for the past couple of weeks. Here are the results so far. They're not all on my website yet, but I'm getting there!littlehousejewellery.co.uk

Grey Bell Flower Earrings

Grey Bell Flower Necklace

Twisty Black and Grey Bracelet

Grey Bubble Bead Necklace with Iridescent Bobbles

Black and Grey Earrings

Grey Marble Earrings 

Black and Shades of Grey Necklace

Grey Marbles Necklace