This is my entry for EAST's Winter challenge, as you can read from my blog I love being outside so when I was told that the challenge was going to be Winter Wonderland I insistently thought of walking in the woods with my children & being surrounded with trees all sparkling with snow & ice. I love when you go for a walk when everything is frosted & glittery, so I came up with the idea of a wind chime because to me Winter is a magical season ,where everything in the woods looks completely different & magical!. I have made the leaves of my Magical Winter Wonderland Wind chime out of polymer clay & covered them in beautiful iridescent glitter, to make them look like leaves touched by the frost , I think they have worked out well & the added bonus of this wind chime is that there will never be another one like it as each leave is different which is the way that Nature intended. I still have not picked a pic yet to post onto flikr as you cant get the whole effect of the wind chime into just one photo so I am a bit stuck so I think I will post a selection onto my Flikr page & see which one gets any views before I post it to the challenge page so if you like you could pop over to my flikr page & see which one you like best, just click on the flikr icon at the side of my blog & it will take you wright there. I suppose I better go & get on I will try and post back later with my new buys!.

Beach Comber

This is my first blog! so bear with me & any help or info will be very appreciated, Anyway this blog is all about my little shop on Etsy, http://trinkettree.etsy.com/ , the Ups & Downs of trying to start up selling my jewelry on & off the net & trying to do it all while being a single mum of 2 gorgeous kids. So as you can see there will probably be a lot of bad times & hopefully good to come....I am going to start of with this picture of a necklace i made the other day as i can't find any nice pictures of me & the kid's, (well none nice ones of me, i am a bit camera shy unless i have had a few whisky's.) This necklace is called Beach Comber as the idea for it came as i was having a walk along the beach with my children , while they were hunting for sea shell's & chucking stones in the sea i was looking at all the beautiful colors of the crushed shell's, pebble's & sea glass left by the waves. When we got back home & got some heat in us (Scotland in Autumn is not a great time to be walking along a beach) I grabbed my bead's & gemstone's, put all the color's i saw at the beach together & came up with this lovely necklace i think it worked out well, what do you think?