Sneddonia Designs at The Starkeeper - Part 2

Remember my recent blog post about my designs in a local shop? The place is called The Starkeeper, and you can find it tucked away in a little side street in Stourbridge town centre:



I've recently been back to the shop, and had a look at how they've displayed everything. I love what they've done! They've had some more stock in too since I last visited, and it really does look gorgeous:



Especially since some of my work is in the window display:




They've also got it on the wall and elsewhere:





So next time you're in the area, why not pay a visit?

I spy with my little eye, something beginning with ... S

Is it Sneddonia? Is it Superman? Is it soup?

Nope:



Now do you know what it is? No, Boris doesn't begin with S. Try again, maybe Rosie can help you:



Now you've got it! Here's another one, the lovely Charlotte:



And another one, the glamorous Astrid, who has woven beads into her web:



Talking of webs, how about some cobweb necklaces? Click the image below for some:



Or maybe a cobweb sculpture or two?





These are great actually, because you can also hang your earrings and things from them:



Thanks for looking :D

A Treasury :D And the Dark Side ...

Hurrah, I got a Treasury! And it's full of British goodness, look:

http://www.etsy.com/treasury_list_west.php?room_id=10117



Also, I've joined the Dark Side. No, nothing to do with the Sith. It's a great new Street Team on Etsy, full of shops which sell, as the name suggests, items on the darker side. For Dark Side items, search etsydarkteam on Etsy. Here's some links:

The team page
The team website
MySpace profile
MySpace group
Blogspot
LiveJournal

The team even has its own private forum:
http://etsysdarkside.proboards85.com/index.cgi?
and networking site:
http://etsysdarkside.ning.com/
On which I of course have my own profile:
http://etsysdarkside.ning.com/profile/Sneddonia

So if you love the goth/alternative style, come join us! We don't bite, unless you want us to ;)

Sneddonia on Facebook

Find my Facebook profile here:
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1231166824

I've also got a couple of Pages so you can become my fan! Hurrah.

One for my Etsy shop:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sneddonia-Designs/15817885078
And one for my DaWanda shop:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sneddonia/13295433740

I've also, as mentioned in my previous post, joined Fashion Central. I've since joined indiepublic too.

http://www.fashioncentralcommunity.com/profile/Sneddonia
http://indiepublic.ning.com/profile/Sneddonia

New Things!

I've joined yet another social networking site (alongside MySpace, Facebook and VampireFreaks). This one's called Fashion Central and is rather fabulous. I joined about a week ago, and it seems cool so far. As the name suggests, it's all to do with fashion, and there's all kinds on there - designers, jewellers, models, photographers, etc. Seemed like a good place to network and promote oneself, so I joined.

I actually found out about it from the lovely Bunny who posted her profile on the Etsy forums. So thank you to her!

Also, I've started to make a few changes to my Etsy shop. It will have a darker theme, with richer colours used to photograph my work on, and some new items that are more gothic in style, for example this fella:



I'm trying to get some great colour combinations going in the thumbnails, just so the shop is as visually appealing as it can be. Rich, strong colours very occasionally punctuated by a pale blue or something, like these:








Which just happen to be the newest items in my shop :)

I'm an April Fool!

And not just for posting this a couple of days after the 1st, lol. On April Fools' Day itself, I went into work just before 12, thinking that's when I started. I came downstairs to look at the rota and see where I was, and the manager then informed me I wasn't due in til 6! Doh. So I pootled around the shops then came home again. At least I got a few decent photos on my way in, so it wasn't an entirely wasted journey!




I've also nearly finished a necklace I've been working on for a while, called Charlotte. Why Charlotte? Well, I asked folks for ideas for names for my necklaces, and some UK Etsy friends came up with Charlotte, as in Charlotte's Web. All it needs now is a little more wire, which I've ordered off t'internet. Here it is so far:




Talking of spiders, I've just made a new spidery suncatcher. Astrid is the little sister of Rosie. She is also a glamourous little thing, takes after her big sis, and is of course not scary at all, like some spiders can be. Because she likes anything pretty, she has woven beads into her web.

I made Astrid from two beads, one glass and one plastic, with steel wire threaded through and wrapped around them. This wire attaches it to the steel part of her cobweb. This cobweb was made from more steel wire, with copper wire and a mixture of glass and plastic beads in shades of green and blue. This cobweb has a loop at the top, to hang it from.



Also, Doctor Who's back on Saturday, yay!

Glass Moon - a painted suncatcher

Just last night I finished a new suncatcher. I make lot of suncatchers, usually from wire and beads, but this one was quite different. It involved painted glass, which is a technique I haven't used for quite a while. I used to do it all the time. This time though, I've not done it in the usual way. How you're supposed to do it is put the outliner on the glass then, after it has dried, put the paint in between where the outliner is, to look like stained glass with lead. I instead just painted onto the glass straight away, painting over the outliner in places and using it on top of the paint in others, to give it extra texture and colour.

I started off with a rectangle of glass, which was originally in this frame. I don't like to waste anything! I painted this glass with blue glass paint:



then painted a moon onto that with white glass paint:



After I'd let that dry, I then wrapped steel wire around the edges of the glass to form a frame, and also something from which to hang this piece:



I then painted a tree onto the glass, painting over some of the wire. This wire forms a frame for this painting and also gives more texture to the tree. I also painted silver-coloured outliner on top of the tree to echo the colour of the steel wire, and add to the texture. This suncatcher measures 17cm (6.5") wide by 13cm (5") high.



It's for sale here.