New earrings

These earrings I made a little while ago, but have only just got round to listing them on Etsy. I like the vintagey feel, with layers of little orange and peach flower beads and little bead caps.
The flower beads are Czech glass, which come in such a pretty range of colours and styles, I'm a bit addicted to them at the moment!

To view the earrings on Etsy, click here

Silent Sunday: Tangerine Tango

Some of the lovely things I've found this week over on Etsy. 

Click the links to be taken to the shops :)

Carnelian necklace from Elephant Beads

Red dichroic glass pendant from bluedaisyglass

Felted scarf with tassels from FrouFrouFelt

Silver ring with red roses by Miss Viola Designs

Small fallen copper oak leaf necklace from Enchanted Leaves

Red dandelion card with dragonfly by Lilly's Night Garden

New today

This necklace is new in my shop today. Pretty freshwater pearls with a soft coppery sheen and a cute fairy charm.

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I also have these art nouveau style fairy earrings, also with pearls:

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Yes, I admit it: I am a fairweather gardener!

Saturday - loads of possibilities ....... However, sadly, the garden isn't one of them today. Last week we had some glorious sunshine, and I made the most of it by doing this:

Today I did venture out, just briefly, tempted by this lovely sight of hellebores and honeysuckle doing their winter stuff :

I freely admit though, with no shame, that when it's grey, windy or raining, I mostly stay firmly indoors. The next sunny day will come along soon enough! In the meantime I have this little beauty to admire (and smell!) right in front of me :

And to bring a touch of much needed sunshine at this time of year, these yellow earrings:

Just look this way please ...

I have a dog. I take him for walks. I always have my phone with me, and very often I try to take pictures of him doing 'doggie' things.

As you can see, most of my efforts are unsuccessful.

My method is clearly to blame. I say his name to get his attention, and invariably he looks up. I have my phone ready on the camera setting, finger poised, click - and of course at that precise moment he turns his head away. Luckily no-one is usually around to witness as I repeat this sequence 2 or 3 times, before (usually) giving up.

So that's why my pictures are mostly blurry, or of his rear end :/

Just occasionally, though, he humours me with something like this :)

Phoebe dreams' photostream

Phoebe dreams' photostream on Flickr.

Beautiful Etsy finds

As part of the On Fire for Handmade team on Etsy, we were given the challenge this week to create a treasury based on the on-trend colours for this spring.
You can see the colours here:  Pantone Colours Spring 2012

The colours are all lovely, and I chose to concentrate on a limited palette of soft browns and aqua blues. Here is my finished collection:
Driftwood, Starfish and Cockatoo Treasury


I do enjoy putting these collections together, even if it's quite time-consuming: you get to discover lots of lovely new things along the way.