Back from Nice

Hi - had a wonderful time in Nice. Lovely hotel on the front, great crowd of people and wonderful weather who could ask for more! Only problem was that someone stole the tour guide's bags containing, not only her passport, money and credit cards but also our return rail tickets from Nice to Paris and Paris to London - all first class seats but of course the French railway people insisted that we all had to pay again for the first lot of tickets and some of us had to re-pay for our Eurostar tickets as well! They did let Rosie back into the country without her passport - nightmare journey home - not sure about rail travel now - seems as bad as flying! Maybe we will stick to cruising. Attaching some piccies of our trip. The first one is a bunch of us having a drink on the terrace outside the hotel. The second is the casino in Monaco where we lost 50 euros at roulette. The third is me and Richard having a mega expensive lunch on the beach at Cannes and the final one is all of us stuck by the Eurostar terminal in Paris for two hours!!! Working hard for the Cabbages and Frocks market on Saturday - I hope the weather clears up as it's terrible here at the moment. Jo (Richard's daughter) is helping me on the day so it will be good to have someone younger on my stall!

S&M had a fab holiday in Camden but they are not liking this rain. Have made a couple of new rings and some earrings this week. I will let you know how I get on on Saturday.

must show you this before we're off on holiday!

S&M are ready and waiting for Victoria to collect them for their holiday in Camden! Tomorrow morning we set off for the South of France. In the meantime, check out this wonderful necklace I have just managed to make before we go. In the process of wiring on the plum heart in the middle of the silver plated heart I stabbed myself in the finger with the wire - don't worry though, I have washed all the blood off ha ha!

Weekend at Wend's

pearl bracelet

pearl necklace

bridesmaids

the happy couple

Pam & Dave

Sophie swimming!

Richard with S&M Me & Wend

Had a lovely weekend with Wendy and also managed to get together with friends Pam and Dave on the Sunday for a lovely ferry ride over to Hamble and a very boozy lunch in the pub. Unfortunately the weather wasn't good but we managed to go to Southsea on the Saturday. A good time was had by all (including S&M). They were very well behaved apart from spending the nights on Wend's bed!

Then last weekend was my niece Claire and Rhys' wedding in Wales. They were so lucky with the weather last Saturday and everything went wonderfully, having been organised by Claire. I made Claire's earrings and bracelet and also the bridesmaids earrings and necklaces. (see pictures).

We are off on holiday to Nice in the South of France on Saturday. The weather is forecast to be very good so I hope they are right. S&M are staying with Victoria in Camden for 8 days. They love her so much they almost don't want to come home. S&M stayed in kennels when we went to Wales for the wedding - they seemed OK afterwards but very pleased to see us!

Have managed to make some jewellery - lots of bracelets. I'll be back after the holiday. XX

So many weddings, so little time!

Had another wedding last weekend. This time it was Richard's eldest daughter Joanne. She married Jac in Sussex and we all had a wonderful time. We are still getting over it! When you get older it takes so much longer to get over a mega drinking session! Jo and Jac had a photo booth at the wedding and had to censor some of the piccies. There is one of me snogging my sister in law though - think that should have been censored.

This weekend we are off to stay with my friend Wend near Southampton. Sounds like another boozy weekend. Piccies to follow!

Whilst getting over my boozing I have managed to make some jewellery, see pictures. I never thought I was capable of making chain maille but this pattern is quite easy and looks good.

S&M are coming with us to see Wend - hate to think what they will get up to!

Back in the countryside

Here we are back in our Somerset village. Richard is back in London working hard. S&M are exha usted what with all this heat and trying to avoid the cows etc. They are getting better now - they just ignore them which is an improvement on barking at them.

Have made some jewellery. Got a spiral maker which I cannot get to make spirals but a good wire twister and a gizmo that makes coils into metal beads - very good when you get the hang of it. I will post some piccies of what I have done with the latter gizmo. Made a ring out of twisted wire in purple and green and a bracelet with turquoise glass beads and hand made clover spacers. I also have a rack for my pliers so they are all neat now and not in a huge heap!

Deb and Gerry's wedding went brilliantly - she looked lovely and the weather was fantastic. What a great time we had. See piccie.

Well that's all for now - off shopping with my sister Gill this afternoon.

Lyme Regis

I took some jewellery to a gallery in Lyme Regis on Saturday and they bought 13 out of 15 pieces. Very exciting. Two of the items are the amethyst necklace and bracelet further down in my blogs.

Did OK at the craft fair in the village but not wonderful. I have made 3 pairs of stud earrings and a pearl bracelet this week. See piccies.

I decided to close my shop on Misi to concentrate on my own website and my Folksy site.

I got some lovely new stones in Lyme Regis one of which is an amethyst geod which is so pretty. I had never heard of them before. Then I got some more semi-precious stones from Buffy's Beads near Carnaby Street.

Took S&M to Lyme where they had great fun playing in the rock pools. Megan is such a daredevil - she was diving off of great big rocks - scary stuff. We also took them to their favourite stream in Sherborne where Sophie chased into the water after sticks and swam back with them. Might not sound such a big deal but this is a dog that nearly drowned in a water trough in France - that's another long story but she was saved by a dog called Hugo who came to get us and took us to her - she couldn't get out and would have drowned if it hadn't been for her friend.

Off to Somerset for a week next week after going to my friend Debs wedding in Essex. Hope the weather stays good for her and Gerry - photos later!

busy, busy

Have been so busy marketing my website, signing up for craft fairs and sitting at this laptop! I rarely get the time to make jewellery. I have signed up to Facebook and UK handmade. Have now started chatting on line and showing my new things. It's hard work let me tell you.....

These are a couple of things I have had time to make. The butterfly necklace started life as a bag charm/keyring but became so large I decided to make it a pendant! Not for the faint-hearted but very eyecatching!

The first item is so pretty, the colour is lovely - it's a choker and the pendant is all my own work. See these items on my website http://www.lynettejewel.com/ or they are on Folksy and Misi under lynettejewel.

S & M are hating this weather - far to hot to run in the park - they can't wait for winter. I am loving it. Another wedding coming up on 24th July, then another in August and another in September. Let's hope the weather holds out for all of them.

The craft fairs I have signed up for are at Cabbages and Frocks market in Marylebone, London. The first one is on 7th August. I have never done any selling in London so it's a bit scary.