I’m back to being a jewellery maker, now my webbies back on line. I’m currently working on my Hoops Range. I’ve come up with a new way of making hoop earrings. I’ve always had a great response from people when I wear mine and they are good sellers at craft fairs as well. the simplest ideas really are the best. I’m now using chains to connect them to the memory wire. You see, I thought it was ‘normal’ wire and I was understandably annoyed when I discovered it was not. Funny thing – I got the memory wire by mistake and I hated it until I came up with the idea of ”hooping-it”.

I’ve also been working on some new colours for my Chunky Junk necklaces range. I wanted to make a piece in purple but the necklaces need a lot of large chunky beads. I decided to wonder down to The Warehouse in Wellington City – which isn’t the best outlet if you want variety of beads (or anything for that matter). Anyhoo, I’m wondering around aimlessly clutching my two new DVDs (obviously I’m easily distracted when it comes to shopping – purchasing Quicksilver Highway and The Twilight Zone Movie for those of you playing at home) , so I can’t find any beading stuff around. I go over to the party balloons section(!) and hey presto, beads!? Well, one jar of multicolour large glass beads with many purples is sitting there waiting for me to snatch it up. Long story short – I am now working my 24 gauge gold plated wire into a purple chunky junk necklace. I’ll post pic as I progress.

With my revamped webbie in the cyber stratosphere its time for me to look at spreading my electronic wings I think I’ll take a “mental health” day (of) work sometime this week and register with TradeMe and Etsy. TradeMe is a huge buying and selling wonderkid here in lil ‘ol New Zealand and Etsy is a craft store selling Extravaganza! I could also look at eBay too. Anything that is free to join has my vote, right Readers?

Happy reading, Reader!