Want some free earrings? Or how about winning a necklace?

I love giving stuff away - ask any of my regular customers!
How would you like a pair of these earrings, free with purchase?

Simply spend £50 or over (not including postage and packing) in a single order between today and midnight on the 31st May and you'll get a pair of these Swarovski cube and sterling silver earrings.  
As you can see, I've gone a bit mad and made them in lots of different colours and they're all wrapped up ready to go so colours will be totally random.   If you order again and fulfil the conditions, you'll get another pair (in a different colour).  Simple as that.  
The earrings will come wrapped in tissue in an organza bag - wear them yourself or give them to someone you love, your choice. 
And for those with unpierced ears, like mine, just let me know and I'll change the fittings to plated clip ones at no extra cost.    

As always, there's lots of stuff on www.slcdesigns.co.uk - I hope you'll find something you just have to have on there!

AND...

May 2010's win a necklace competition...

Win this SLC Designs necklace - made with silver-lined handmade Murano glass, silver lined seed beads, sterling silver and Swarovski crystal, you can wear it anyway up you want.  Every time you purchase something from the SLC Designs Jewellery website, you'll be entered into the draw, regardless of the value of the item.   The more times you come back and purchase, the more entries you'll get.   I'll make the draw on June the 1st and announce the winner then.  Good luck!

Lisa Hair Vine Commission

This is a recent commission - a man in the States had me make a hair vine up for a friend - he was such fun to work with; we worked through colours until we came up with this hair vine.   I put loops on either end so she could thread some ribbon through and also wear it as a choker - its made in sterling.

I love working with customers, especially ones as fun as this one - he made me laugh so much - I hope his friend likes it!  

Published Project

Just a quick heads-up!! I've had my Murano Sautoir project published in the first edition of Creative Beads & Jewellery Magazine!  Its sort of weird being suddenly world famous (hah!)
Copies are available from WH Smith and from Hobbycraft, and kits for the project are available from my bead website, http://www.beadaddict.co.uk/ by following this link - there are three colourways to choose from.  I've even done a step-by-step tutorial available as a PDF download from the same page which is easy to follow and should make the project achievable for just about anyone.

Sneak Peek....

Shown are a couple of pieces of work for the website - both lariats, I've been doing a lot of

Necklace Commission

I just finished this necklace as a commission - with a Vermeil wirework heart, gold-filled wire, chain and fittings, Vermeil beads and beadcaps and lots of Swarovski crystal; I've used some chunkier beads in this piece which glitter beautifully. 

New Work - Venetian Glass Sautoir Necklaces

This is a sautoir that I have made recently in different colours - soon to go on the site - if you'd like details before it goes up on there, please contact me!!

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Sautoir in various colours featuring handmade Murano glass hearts, Czech glass beads, Swarovski crystal, goldtone chain, findings and fittings...

New Work

Just finished photographing a few new pieces - I am probably going to put these on the site next week some time - if you are interested in anything in the meantime, just let me know.  I've been attracted back to the sterling silver gorgeous hand-enamelled pieces I bought a few years back for earrings because they make up into such beautiful jewellery, and for necklaces I've been doing a lot of asymmetric long linear stuff that catches the eye against a lovely sweater...

Vivienne Heirloom Band Tiara

This is Vivienne Heirloom Tiara/Band which I made using an original 1980's crystal-and-faux-pearl-set goldtone brooch, wired into a handmade frame and embellished with Swarovski crystal and seed beads/rocailles.   A particular challenge was identifying the crystal pearl colour to match the original faux pearl, but as usual, I found a good match in one of the Swarovski pearl colours, and after identifying the matching Swarovski crystal colours, the challenge I had to come up with something a bit inventive for the side ornamentation which complemented the original brooch, so I made four-petal Swarovski-based flowers and also came up with Swarovski crystal pearl and bead 'rosettes', which you can see here to the side of the piece. It was only after I finished it that I realised that the gold-plated rocailles are what can only be termed 'delicate' - after quite a lot of gnashing of teeth, I found myself having to remake several of the flowers and rosettes because the gold was coming off inside the beads.  In the end, I used the same rocailles but used a painted on substance which is used to preserve and protect artwork and fragile papers - it cannot be seen by the naked eye, and gives a great deal of protection to these delicate beads and also the wirework and original piece of 1980's jewellery; I held my breath whilst I worked with the archival fluid but it worked out just fine.

I've been working on new and fresh items for the relaunch of my tiara site, 'Tiaraonline' and the relaunch has been in the works for months and months - this piece took me the best part of a week to make, so progress is slow but I think that's ok as I feel its important to have good work to display and offer for sale when it does launch.  I anticipate it will be up and running in about three to four weeks.

  

It's a fairly substantial piece of hair jewellery, which I imagine worn in alice-band fashion though I tried it out and it can be worn as a conventional tiara too - there are loops at the back of the frame so it can be pinned into place, but I find that my handmade flexible frames tend not to need securing in that way.  I can't wait to see photos of the bride who eventually wears this.

New Bracelets

A small selection of bracelets I have worked on recently - I started with Swarovski Roses Montees (which have a criss-cross back) and went on adding more Swarovski with seed beads, sterling silver, and they are all strung with Beadalon Pro.

Above - Tropical Colours

Above - Autumn colours with topaz roses montees

Above - Autumn colours with ruby roses montees

New Bracelets

Latest bracelets I've made for SLC Designs - these have yet to go on the site, so this is a bit of a preview - if you are interested in any of these, please just get in touch at stephanie@slcdesigns.co.uk

Above - first of a series of 'Upcycled' vintage pieces - 1950's brooch and mother of pearl bracelet link, acrylic silvertone flower, Swarovski crystal and Swarovski crystal pearls.