Time for a give away competition

So, I am feeling all inspired having won a beautiful necklace by Nicky of Sparkly Treasures and have decided that it is time to do a give away competition. It is dead easy; all you need to do is visit my website, have a good look around and decide which your favourite piece is. Once you have decided, come back here and write your full name and which piece you like the most in the comments section. I will be drawing a winner from a hat (literally)on Friday 20th March at 7:00pm. I will let the winner know Friday evening and pop the prize in the post.

Kookie designs website: http://kookiedesigns.web.officelive.com/

You will be winning this super cluster necklace, beads made by Mindy Macgregor of Moogin beads, all findings and chain are sterling silver.
I will be running another competition in a few weeks, and the give away is a fab pendant made with a Laura Sparling pink heart (it is scrummy)

Thank you for dropping by and good luck xxx

Earring Mania

I had a bit of an earring making splurge before we went on holiday and I have finally had time to take some pictures.These are the group shots. I will be posting them this week, along with a few new necklaces and bracelets. I am going to be adding a sale page on my site too.

I have taken a few picks of my work space at home. It is organised chaos! Does it mean that I have a tidy mind if my work area is well untidy!? Hmmmmmmm I doubt it!

I will post again when my website/Folksy/Etsy are done
Have a super week xxxx

Lucky Me!!!

I was reading Laura Sparling’s blog the other week and saw that Nicola Ryan of Sparkly Treasures was running a competition. I popped over to her blog and entered the competition, it involved looking at her mouth wateringly beautiful silver jewellery (please take the time to have a look it is amazing) Anyhoo, I won, actually won the competition; a totally stunning necklace. In fact it is so lovely that I had to show Bri the post declaring me the winner as he thought that I had been stealth shopping (I would never do that he he) So a HUGE than you to Nicky, I love it xxx

Sorry it has been so long between blogs, I am so disorganised at the moment. I am getting back into the swing of things again post South Africa. Leo keeps commenting that the sun only seems to work in Cape Town! We missed the snow but gained the sun, so fair trade. I bought some amazing wooden beads out there which I am really excited about. They include a set of carved animal beads which are beautiful.

I have not made a great deal of jewellery recently, apart for the lovely ring that I have posted. I made it with a stunning bead by Laura Sparling and oodles of freshwater pearls, crystals and semi precious stones. It is defiantly a “wish I could keep it” ring. I have lots of earrings to list this week, hopefully we will have lots of sun this weekend and I can get snapping in the light box.
I am going to have a clear out over the next few weeks , so keep an eye out for some super sale savers, in time for Mothers Day too!
We are off to Brighton to see Elbow without Leo this Saturday, I am soo excited. I have a HUGE crush on Guy Garvey; Bri is so great to indulge me. This is the third time we have seen them in a year.
Time to collect Leo from school. Have a great weekend xx

I wanted to share these gorgeous bag with you, they are simply beautiful from Durrance Bagale Nepali Arts and Crafts http://www.durrance-bagale.co.uk/index2.asp
They are so lovely and fully lined to boot. I love bright and unusual bags and am a purple lover (the purple one is mine the other 2 are pressies) They do amazing kids bag, we bought the green bag for our son and it has really lovely finger puppets in the pockets in the front of the bag. He was hard pushed to leave it at home this morning when he went to pre-school.
We had a really lovely family Christmas, Leo was so excited. We had to leave the Reindeer and FC cinnamon biscuits and sherry before he went to bed. He was beside himself on Christmas morning, kids are so great.
Back to work today, I am hoping to get a few new bits done this week, but as we are off on holiday on Feb 1st for 2 weeks I am not adding too much to my site until we come back, then full steam ahead.
Happy New Year to you, may it bring health, happiness and an upturn in the economy please!

Super Discount

Gosh I have been so disorganised recently. This whole Christmas and birthday thing has really frazzled my brain, that and the constant cold I have- the joys of having a pre-school child who generously shares everything he picks up.
I have been really busy with fare and parties. I did my first teenage making party recently which went really well. The girls were fab and made some stunning pieces.
I made a lovely ring with 2 flower beads by Laura Sparling, which is totally stunning, and sold!! In fact a necklace that I was about to recycle was sold to the same lady.
I still have not heard back about Look magazine, but they kept the ring for a few weeks so hopefully they will use it.
I have decided to run a discount on Kookie Designs and Kookie Beauty for the festive period to help with the cost of Christmas for my lovely clients. Every little helps
Well I am prepping for a fair tomorrow and it is time to collect my little cherub from school.
Have an ace weekend x

Cocktail Ring

I had an ace but odd day Friday. I was ill in bed with some strange lurgy when the phone rang. Bri answered and dashed up stairs. Nina from The Look Boutique had called to say the Look Magazine wanted me to send one of my Cocktail rings to them for a shoot they were having yesterday. I should find out tomorrow if they have indeed used it. HOW FAB!!! I am so shocked and blimmin delighted. Anyhoo I will let you know what happened.
Other than that I am beavering away making necklaces and bracelets, I just need some sunny days to get some decent picks. My light tent is not liking the gloom.
Take care
Mel xxx