Long time no blog.

Hello! So sorry I haven't written for awhile, to be honest I have been struggling to balance social media and actually getting to the nitty gritty of making stock. I am a full time Mother first and foremost,  I sew while my daughter is in morning nursery and I sew when my girls have gone to bed which gives me about 2 hours a day (in terms of my work that is probably a couple of petals!).

But enough of that, as many of you know I have been working on new style pendants, I have really been thinking about the message I want my work to send, I want my pieces to feel a part of nature. This means sourcing, as far as possible, from responsible companies and using natural materials.

Setting my spider in a piece of salvaged willow gave me such satisfaction and got me thinking. When I was cutting my poor, deceased lavender down you could probably hear the cogs turning in my head and I ended up creating this little brooch from a piece of the dried wood.

It obviously went down well as it sold on its first trip out in public. What I loved was the faint smell of lavender that accompanied it.

I then turned my attention to my pendants and sourced the wooden frames from a small Etsy company in Europe. My Dad phoned me one Sunday and said that he loved the new frames but questioned whether the silver chains would jar with the natural image (what a fashion guru!), I had been thinking the same thing so we got our thinking caps on and decided that some sort of cord would fit better. After trawling the Internet I found a great hemp company  Hemp Fabric based in Devon and managed to buy the cord from them. Hemp is such a fascinating and useful plant, I recommend visiting their website and having a browse.
The final pieces looked like this:

The boxes have come from The Tiny Box Company and are made of 80% recycled card.

I am so excited by these new pendants and so full of new ideas.

I promise to try and blog more often, in my next piece I may show you a little more of the watercolours that are in the background of my photos and their origins (I wish I could say they are mine!)