Giveaway is up and running!!!

You have no idea how long it took for me to work out how to do this without breaking some sort of Facebook law... but here it is!!! I feel like a technological genius!!!! I can do anything now -  I might live life on the edge and get my head round twitter next...

Ok so if this link works, it will direct you to my Facebook give-away page, all you have to do is like it to enter, no pesky contact details to give or anything like that....I think.....and then you have a chance to win a snuggley pair of hand warmers!!!! DO IT!

https://www.facebook.com/steffiglaves/app_228910107186452 

Give away soon.....

So basically, since leaving uni I have been spiralling downwards into the bleak ibis that is my own crochet habit. It's getting to the point where it is overtaking any other procrastination form and I have more hand warmers than I have siblings to give them too. So I'm giving a pair away. I don't know when, or how, or what you have to do to enter, but it will be on Facebook and this is the prize so far. Hopefully I will get my head round what to do in the next couple of days.

Thinking of new ways to package my handwarmers....

Gallery Order and Facebook Page

So over the past month or so I have made a bazillion pairs of handwarmers, brooches, earrings and the odd owl or few... these are a few of my favourite pairs

I also have a facebook page!!! I have been putting it off for so long.  I also have a twitter account that I set up on a whim and never use.... 

Feel free to like and share and comment and things, it will destract me fro the fact that I am still unemployed and no longer have a gallery to supply, better look for ones up north! 

https://www.facebook.com/steffiglaves

In the mean time I am crocheting over some ear defenders. I have no idea how it is going to turn out. more on that next post

New Earrings

Coming soon to Etsy and CDS Gallery and Silversmithing Studio, Leicestershire. 

Work in progress for gallery order

I am cooking on gas!! Got 10 crochet flower brooches well on their way to finishing for the lovely Claire Sherriff at CDS Gallery and Silversmithing Studio. Can't wait to have my stock mingling amongst the amazing work she has curated. Next post will be about the ridiculous amount of hand-warmers I've been making. I think my current score is 20-something. Right now they are buttonless so will show all once they've been sewn on.

Feel free to like the facebook page and look at her websites for more info:
https://www.facebook.com/cdsgalleryandsilversmithingstudio

http://www.cdsgalleryandstudio.com/
http://www.clairedaniellesherriff.com/

This is going to be a good week - I have owls to crochet, buttons to shop for and a ring to make at York School of Jewellery..... and enamelling kilns to oggle over......

Giving Knobs to the Knobless.....

Now that I am back home from uni, for good, and a little bit jobless I have found the time to give this lovely writing desk the crochet drawer knobs it deserves. I tell myself that it was a valuable use of my time, because having full use of the desk's top drawer will aid the inevitable tidying process that comes with reintroducing 3 years worth of rubbish to a bedroom. Said rubbish, however, after 3 weeks, is still in boxes downstairs, and the drawer is still empty. Never mind. 

Since doing those I have been making some flower versions, but have no door knobs left to cover ....*sniff*..... ohum :-(..... 

Degree Show

Blimey what a month! Degree show on the 14th and then New Designers in London the week after. Just got back to Leicester last night to be faced with the house I have to sort out before moving back to Yorkshire for good! overwhelmed does not cover it, but at least I get to spend some time with the family soon. Here are some images of my final collection and set up, more will be up soon....

Sold some ceramic pieces too! (fist pump the air). They also got nominated to be added to the Christopherson Collection at DMU

New Designers Promotional Packs

Instead of enjoying the sunshine I am glued indoors to the laser cutter - but it's OK because I'm indulging in one of my favourite things......PACKAGING!!! 

 It even has a free paper thing inside!! I haven't decided if it is a gift tag or a just something pretty to hang  on a notice board. Think I might make some with hand coloured watercolour paper as well.

I AM DONE!!!!!

After rousing from my post-uni coma I thought it was about time I put up another blog post. The bad news is that I have finished Uni. For good. I am no longer a student. I cannot put taxes off any longer. The good news however, is that I got selected to go to New Designers in London!!! I now have that and the degree show to look forward to, so at least I can finish uni with a bang. In the meantime I'm going to crochet all day and do frivolous things like let my nails grow back and paint them.

I'm not sure If it is wise for me to upload final pieces on here before New Designers, so for the time being I will sneak you all a cheeky close up. Enjoy...