South Paw Studios giveaway

Check out South Paw Studios if you have a mo, they are holding their first giev away and it is ace. The jewellery is beautiful , good luck xxx
http://southpawstudios.blogspot.com/2009/06/south-paw-studios-first-give-away.html

Lavish

I have been a fairly erratic blogger for the last few weeks, sorry! I have been beavering away with making bits and adding bits to the website, which is now full to gunnel's
http://kookiedesigns.web.officelive.com/sale.aspx

May fav is this ring, I bought some Lavish beads from Julie at Lush Lampwork
http://www.lushlampwork.co.uk/userimages/procart6.htm , which are stunning and made the ring with one of them along with lashings of semi-precious stones and pearls. I do love it.

I had such a lovely week last week, lovely Laura sent me a stunning pressy which I shall blog about tomorrow as I need to take some pictures. Her beads are sooo lovely, she has some up far grabs tonight at 8:30 have a squizz if you can .
http://www.beadsbylaura.co.uk/index.htm

I also had a gift from Jena at Kanna Glass studio , a challenge set of bead, which I am really excited about. I shall get working on the challenge next week and post pictures then
http://www.kannaglassstudios.com/

Right bed time for Leo so I'm off for story time and snuggles. Have a great week and let me know what you think of the new bits if you get a mo, any feedback welcome (as long as it is kind ;) )

Mel xx

Make Jewellery

We are home after a lively week in very sunny Devon with my parents. Leo had a ball mostly on the river and digging wherever he could! I had a lovely surprise whilst I was there, 3 of the pieces that I had made of a Gallery in Dartmouth had sold. I am so pleased as they were higher end pieces and I was worried that they would hang around looking all lonely and in need of a good home.
The really exciting news for me is that Make Jewellery Magazine have featured Kookie Designs as their Folksy shop of the month. I am dead chuffed. It is the first time that Kookie Designs has been featured in any way in a magazine, I know I am gushing but YAY! It is a great publication, really slick without being too much.
http://www.makejewellerymagazine.com/
Anyhoo- I am off to try to get my stubborn computer to let me edit the 120 pictures of new jewellery that need doing before I can list anything, grrrr to technology.
Have a great and sun shiney day
Mel xxxx

Charity

Hi Ladies

Thank you all so much for pledging you beauties for charity. I am away now until next week, but I did not want to go without dropping you a HUGE thank you mail.

I have been mulling this over and have a few ideas, please let me know what your thoughts are:

- instead of auctioning on e-bay we could do it directly. Emma Ralph holds all her auctions on her site, I could set up a page for the auctions and I am happy to manage the bids and updating the page as they come in. If we send just the page link to all of our data bases we will hopefully gets lots of interest.
- -Mindy of Moogin Beads suggested tying pieces together for auction lots, which I think is a fab idea. We could create collections of beads that would normally be far too expensive to buy. We could do the same with the jewellery of sell them as separate lots
- How do you feel about calling this The Collective, I thought the name is simple and basically it is what we are
- Bead wise, if you don’t want to donate a set how about a few lonlies? I personally love lonlies as they are so versatile.

OK I have to dash, I have not finished packing yet! Mull this over and let me know what you think. I am planning to do the first auction at the end of July, is that OK for everyone.

Thank you all again

Have a really super week and take great care

Mel xxx

May winner

And the winner is .... Nic. Congratulations Nic, please send me your address and I will pop your earrings in the post to you tomorrow.

Thank you for entering and enjoy the rest of your Bank Holiday evening

Mel xxx

Charity idea

Hi Ladies
I have a proposition, well actually it is an idea in very very early infancy. If any of you are interested please send me a pm or comment.
After a long, dignified and inspiring 5 year battle with cancer a very close family friend passed peacefully away this morning. I have decided that instead of flowers for the funeral that I am going to make some jewellery for Lizzi and auction it on e-bay (any other ideas welcome) giving the proceeds less the e-bay/PayPal charges to Lizzi’s family’s choice of charity.
Now this is where you all come in. I was thinking that twice maybe 3 times a year that we could, as a collective, put pieces up either for auction or on our sites for sale; stating that all proceeds will go to charity. We could all nominate a charity each time we put the pieces up for sale; and either split the money equally between all of the charities, or pick 2 or 3 from a hat and split all of the money between these.
I think as talented and people we are in a great position to raise some real money for charity and I am pretty sure (remember infancy stage I have not approached yet) that Bead/ Beads and beyond/ make jewellery etc would run at least a small piece on the sales if there are a few of us involved.
Let me know what you think, I take absolutely no offence if you feel that you do not want to do this, equally if you know of another artist/ jewellery designers/ crafty people that you feel may be interested please pass this on.
I am happy to administrate this (I may regret saying that)
Take care and thank you for taking the time to read this
Have a great Bank Holiday weekend and don't forget to enter the giveaway I am running, the draw is on Monday at 7 pm
http://kookiedesigns.blogspot.com/2009/05/flower-give-away.html
Mel xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Uprinting.com giveaway

Check out One World blog, they are featuring a great business card giveaway by Uprinting.com
follow the link below

http://10oneworld.blogspot.com/2009/05/uprintingcom-giveaway.html


http://www.uprinting.com/

Good luck

Mel xxxx