Jewellery
Some new items listed in the shop today; pin cushions, bags, brooches, pendants and our hanging bird ornament kits. Check it out! shop.madestuff.co.uk
We’ve been renovating our house since moving in almost four years ago. Progress is slow but steady and lately we’ve (read Alasdair) been ripping out the old electrics in one room that will eventually be our living room. The old wire is a lovely thick copper wire that we just couldn’t throw away. So, I [...]
Peacock’s are well known for their fantastic plumage and for proudly strutting their stuff, they’re also an immense source of inspiration for a huge number of people; as you’ll discover if you type ‘peacock art’ into google and look through the image results. It’s easy to see why they should act on the imagination and [...]
I’ve been busy making layered button pendants today from some of my vintage button collection. These buttons have been collected from various elderly relatives over the years and there are some amazing buttons within that collection, some of which make great pendants within themselves. I’ve not even scratched the surface of the buttons I have, [...]
For those who don’t know DeviantArt is a massive online artists community which spans the globe and contains the work of many thousand artists and crafters, amateur and professional alike. I recently came across Karolina’s work while browsing through the submission feed and I’ve got to say it simply knocked my socks, her gallery is fabulous. [...]
I’ve been busy extending the range of runic pendents available to include more ‘bind runes’, that is runes designed to have a particular influence on the wearers life. Whether or not you believe such things the sentiment is rather nice and I think it’s nice to have a little hope that things might be better [...]
In prearation for our forthcoming craft fayre Jo and I have stepped our crafting from something just short of a slow simmer to a frantic and frightening boil which essentially sees us crafting every night, obviously when I say ‘we’ I mean ‘Jo’ … personally I’m still pretty horizontal when it comes to crafting activity! [...]
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