Facebook Competition Winner

Yesterday was the end of my facebook competition. It closed at 2.30. Here's how it went...

I wrote all the entrants names down and folded them up....

 

Then I put all the names in my hat...

...and I picked out a winner!

And the winner is... (drum roll)...

Lena Wettach

If you would like to get updates on my work and enter competitions visit my facebook page and click the like button:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Silver-Chestnut/254701737935713

Facebook Competition

My facebook page recently got 100 likes. To celebrate I'm having a giveaway of these earrings.

To be in with a chance to win the earrings, you need to go to my facebook page, like the page (if you don't already) and share the picture of the earrings on the time line. Tomorrow I'm putting all the names in a hat and pulling out the winner.

If you'd like to take part, here's my facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Silver-Chestnut/254701737935713

Jewellery Parties Part 2

The jewellery party on Friday was a quiet night, but I did have 3 visitors. It was good to catch up with them because I hadn't seen them for a while, and they each made an order, which is good.

My next planned jewellery party is at Christmas. I've done a couple of Christmas themed ones before and they tend to be quite popular with people buying presents, and occasionally treats for themselves. I've got a few regulars that like to come and see what new things I'm doing. From doing this jewellery party on Friday it looks like I've got more people to invite to it. There were a few comments about Christmas presents. I do enjoy the Christmas themed ones, partly because I'm a big kid and I like having the Christmas music on and decorations up.

If you or someone you might know would be interested in hosting a Silver Chestnut jewellery party feel free to get in touch. As a host of a Silver Chestnut jewellery party, you would receive 10% of the takings on the night of the jewellery party. (Any orders made but not paid for will not count towards the takings of the night.)

Jewellery Parties Part 1

Some of you may be asking what a jewellery party is so I thought I better start with a short explanation for you. It's a social get together where jewellery on display to touch, try on and buy. It's a good chance for friends to have a good catch up and also browse some lovely jewellery. There is a host who is the person who invites their friends and holds the party, normally at their house. Usually the host gets a little gift for hosting and a percentage of the takings. There is also a sales type person who is the person who brings the jewellery along and can answer any questions about it, etc. Depending on the business this person will be an employee (such as sales assistant) or, as in my case, is the person who makes the jewellery.

I enjoy doing jewellery parties because it's a chance for me to talk to customers about what I do and a chance for the customers to see and touch the jewellery, which is a lot easier than seeing a photograph on-line.

Last week I had a Silver Chestnut jewellery party for some friends at my house. It was a fairly quiet evening, but it was good to catch up with friends and I made a few sales too. This evening I'm having another one for some ex-colleagues (not that they're not friends too!). I'm looking forward to it and I'll let you know how it went on Monday!

Polishing accident!

I thought I would show you one of the slightly more interesting things that happened this week as I was working on my jewellery. I have never seen or heard of it happening before so if  you have let me know.

I was making a ring and had come to polish it. At the moment I don't have the full polishing equipment I would eventually like to own, but I do have a hand held 'multi-tool' that you can add different bits to including a small polishing wheel (or pendant, which is the proper name for it). I was polishing the inside of the ring which I have done many times before on other rings. The ring slipped out of my hand and started spinning round the metal 'pole' that I attach multi-tool grips on to. This does occasionally happen as it moves very fast, but normally I just turn the tool off and take the ring off. This time I turned it off and somehow with the spinning and, I'm guessing, the heat, my polishing wheel has now been bent. :(

Luckily I do have a spare, so I could carry on.

Cuff Links

I have recently started making cuff links. I made some over a year ago as a present for my husband (seen on the left), but hadn't made any to sell due to my main focus being to make jewellery for women. Then after to talking to a couple of friends, both of whom are regular customers/supporters of Silver Chestnut, I began thinking that perhaps it could be a good idea to branch out.


So I set to designing some cuff links. After a mixture of drawing, doodling, crossing out, daydreaming, measuring and a few other things I finally got round to coming up with some designs. Some have been scrapped, some are a work in progress, but finally some designs have been made, polished and photographed. So here's to the first couple of cuff links for you to view.

Keep an eye out for more designs. I have some more in the pipeline. If you would like to purchase these cuff links or want to check to see I've made any more, why not visit the cuff link section of my Folksy shop:
http://folksy.com/shops/SilverChestnut?shop_section=cuff_links