Day 5 of my 30 New Pieces of Jewelry in 30 Days – The Coco necklace! Coco sat there happily screaming “pretty! pretty! pretty!”. And yes, Coco was very pretty. Coco was a Seychelles Eclectus parrot and she was more…

  Day 4 of my 30 New Pieces of Jewelry in 30 Days – The sea spray earrings! Where the water meets the sand in the crash of a wave, and the spray flies in my face, that’s where these…

Peridot, amethyst, emeralds… gorgeous lovely sparkly jewels. I adore bright shiny gemstones, the bigger the better. If I were a pirate I would ignore the gold doubloons, I just want a treasure chest filled with sparkly stones. In the meantime,…

The sun is out today, a nice pale yellow, the same yellow as the tulips in the park. And the daffodils. They perfectly match the lovely light green leaves, don’t you love fresh spring green? I added in some blue…

Day 1 of my 30 New Pieces of Jewelry in 30 Days – The Water Opal Earrings! Of course I am beginning my 30 Day challenge with something water based! Opals are my birthstone (October) and I love them because…

My brain is about to explode!!! There is so much colour swirling in my head! Everywhere I go I see colour combinations, purple pansies with black centres, green leaves against blue sky, red peppers with white cauliflower. It’s everywhere and…

Effervescent. Ecstatic. Sunshine. Serendipitious. Joy. BINGO! Wahoo. Launch. Sparkle. Bouquet. Waves. PUPPIES! Happy words, all of them. Words that make your mouth laugh just saying them. Everyone has happy words. I wanted to know yours so I asked. Lots of…

Oh boy oh boy oh boy! After a creative hiatus (vacation) I am ALMOST back in the studio! And my brain is SO stuffed with ideas I think my head is going to explode! This is the fourth year I’m…

Every month I give away one piece of fabulous Sailorgirl Jewelry! Why? Because I can. SInce this was the first giveaway of the new year, I was thinking of possibilities and that lead me to ask you, what is a…

Spring, spring, spring, happy times!  Full of flowers and birdies! One of my favourite birds is Zoe, she’s a Scarlet Macaw parrot and the inspiration behind my Zoe pendant. Perfect for spring! In the spirit of spring, I am giving…

It’s the first giveaway of the year. New years always make me think of possibilities. So much can be accomplished in a whole year can’t it? Me, there’s all sorts of things I want to get done this year. Like…

My giveaway for the month of December goes to Tobyn! Tobyn (smart lady) increased her chances of winning by tweeting the contest AND posting it on Facebook. Tobyn is the lucky recipient of a World is Your Oyster necklace, one…

Oh that was a bad idea. We talked candy, Halloween candy. The past month with my 3 huge holiday shows was a tough one and a sugar fuelled one. Perhaps we should have talked about veggies because with all that…

DECEMBER GIVEAWAY As always at this time of year, I’m beginning my annual review. I look at what happened this year and I dream of what I want to happen in the upcoming year. It’s a time of reflection and…

Back in my last newsletter I told you that I was debating on creating work based on birthstones. And I asked for your opinions. What was your birthstones and did you wear it? Muchas gracias for all your responses, SO…

It was a tough choice deciding what to give away this month. Right now there’s a HUGE amount of beads and jewelry on my bench, so much I can’t even see the table top anymore. So I shall let you…

Customers have been asking for ages for a really long chain, like you see in all the magazines. So I sourced out some really nice 36″ long chains. Wow, 36″ is really long! I found that for me it is…

With my upcoming birthday and with several requests, I’ve been thinking of birthstones. I admit, I’ve never really paid much attention to this. However they seem to be throwing themselves at me recently and when the universe throws a stone…

Solid pops of colour. Yes. I am in the mood for these. I’d be hard pressed to choose between blue and green as my favourite, depends on my mood. And I’m picky about what shade of green but blues can…

For me, the best part of every day – after my morning latte – is firing up my torch and crafting dazzling, happy beads. But this is not a tiki-torch or the British for ‘flashlight’. It’s a small, stainless steel,…

Lampworking is a kind of hot glasswork where a torch is used to melt glass. Once the glass is molten, the worker forms it by blowing or shaping it with tools and movements. Lampwork is used to create glass beads,…

Once upon a time, in a land far away, in an alternate universe,  I rode a motorcycle across Australia. It was hot, it was dusty and sometimes the distances were unbelievably long and boring. I loved it. The interior of…

You know when you do something all the time how it becomes second nature to you? And you forget that not everyone knows what you’re doing or why you’re doing it. Glass is like that. I walk into my studio,…

Introducing…. Recently I had a couple of visitors into my studio and they were blown away by how much equipment I have to make beads. I forget sometimes that not everyone knows what the COE of my glass is or…

Solid pops of colour. Yes. I am in the mood for these. I’d be hard pressed to choose between blue and green as my favourite, depends on my mood. And I’m picky about what shade of green but blues can…

It’s not your fault, really it’s not. I shouldn’t have asked. All that talk of ice cream flavours, and… well…. I had to try as many of them as suggested. Although I really have to find where to get some…

August has to be one of the most delicious months! Hanging out at the fruit shop is such a feast for my eyes. Oh the strawberries! the raspberries! the mangoes! such amazing colours. Even better when they are turned into…

Over the past 6 shows one of the most frequent things I’ve heard is “oh, you have so much new work!” Why yes I do. It’s because I did that 30/30 challenge in May. I did promise you a blog…

Help me out here people. As much as I love every single bead and piece of jewelry I make I can’t make all of them all the time. So I will continue to make those that others love too. What…

Done! Check! Finito! Oh boy, that was a LOT of work! And I enjoyed every minute of it! (I lie, there were a few minutes that I didn’t enjoy as much, and those were coming up with names towards the…