The Great Gift Voucher Giveaway!

Anyone who becomes a Sisily Love follower, on either TWITTER or my BLOGSPOT from now until the end of October will be entered in to a fabulous prize draw! The winner will receive a £10 gift voucher and the second prize runner up will receive a £5 gift voucher! These vouchers can be spent in either of my online shops.
http://www.sisilylove.etsy.com/
http://www.sisilylove.folksy.com/

Go on start following, you know you want to!

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Calling all Creative Types!

Artist? Crafter? Performance Artist? Musician?... CompARTment are looking for people to take part and volunteer in the White Nights art trail in London Road Market on the 30th October 6pm - 2pm. A meeting about it will be happening tomorrow evening (Tuesday 28th September) at the Hydrant Pub, Preston Circus from 7.30-9pm.

Hopefully see you there!

http://compartment.org.uk/

Cheeky Monkey!

I was treasure hunting at a flea market in Bournemouth a few years ago and I found an amazing Vintage Monkey ornament which I simply had to take home. I fell in love with his super cute face and cheeky smile so much that I had to try and reproduce it in some of my work...

So I decided to make a mould and re-create his cheeky little face in plastic resin!

Each Monkey face has been hand casted by myself using a resin plastic. The delicate system that I use to create my moulds mean that it is only possible to cast an extremely small number of pieces before the mould saturates. Therefore the number is Monkey face brooches that I have created is limited to an edition of 5.

So if you are wearing one of these little cuties it is highly unlikely you will see anyone wearing anything the same!

Each resin face has been securely attached to a corsage style brooch which has been made from reclaimed felt and netting.

The brooch is secured with a security pin on the back.

 

These are avaliable for sale for just £12 (or $20)

from my online stores....

 

www.sisilylove.etsy.com (for worldwide sales)

www.sisilylove.folksy.com (for UK sales in GBP)

Back by Popular Demand!

Yipee! My ever popular Lego jewellery is back!

But for this season I have tried to make them with a slightly different 'twist' - I has sourced some different colour chain and findings, and have started producing necklaces too...

All of the LEGO which I use is recycled – it was second hand, unwanted or unloved. I cannot always get specific colours as particular LEGO colour runs are harder to source than others; this is due to ‘LEGO’s’ original production levels. Some colours are particularly rare and therefore expensive to source, but I do my best to get my paws on whatever colours I can, and rarer/limited edition or discontinued colour groups are reflected in my pricing.

I always ensure that my LEGO products are sent out gift wrapped in a box made from 100% recycled materials - This particular gift box was made from a 'Diana' Annual from 1984, which has been customised with thread and logos.

 

These are on sale in both my ETSY and FOLKSY stores....

www.sisilylove.etsy.com (for worldwide sales)

or

www.sisilylove.folksy.com (for UK sales)

New Stock in my ETSY and FOLKSY online stores...

I love Lychees, and I really wanted to recreate my passion for this fruit in my latest project making ‘corsage style’ flower brooches.

I began by hand casting a lychee in plastic resin. The delicate system that I use to create my moulds, mean that it is only possible to cast an extremely small number of pieces before the mould saturates. Therefore the number of resin lychees that I have created for this project is limited to an edition of 14.

I then sewed a corsage/flower style base to secure the lychee onto. Each flower has two layers, and on each layer there are 6 individually crafted petals. The petals are made from reclaimed fabrics and recycled vintage fabrics that have been stitched on to a felt or denim base.

In addition to the extremely limited number of these brooches that I have produced, each individual piece is made from very different fabrics and the lychees are made from different coloured resins, therefore each piece is 100% bespoke and individual.

The brooch is finished off with a pin on the back that has a security fastening.

Due to their bespoke nature, if you were to wear one of these little cuties it is highly unlikely you will see anyone else wearing the same piece!

If you would like to take a closer look at my Lychee Brooches, check out my ETSY store www.sisilylove.etsy.com or for UK shopping pop by to my FOLKSY store www.sisilylove.folksy.com.

Jewellery Party...

Just a quick note for your diaries....

I have been given a fantastic opportunity to host a Sisily Love 'Jewellery and Accessory' party this coming Wednesday at 7pm at Gymophobics Gym.

It will be a great night, not only a fantastic opportunity to meet some new people and have a few glasses of complimentary vino, but also get a sneak preview of my new stock for Autumn/Winter 2009!

Don't miss out!

(Gymophobics can be found above the Co-op on Blatchington Road, Hove)

Pantone Madness!

So I get an intive to a friend's birthday party....

'FANCY DRESS OPTIONAL'

So with little time and less money, (and with many thanks to Deluxe, Focus DIY, Home base and Wicks), we managed to pull off the creation of all creations as the King of Queen of Pantone.....!

Will making his pantone cape...

Stitching up my pantone skirt...

So how do I look???

(Skirt close up detail...)

Pantone brooch...

Pantone eyes...

Pantone photo shoot...

Shame I was the only person dressed up! Huh!