Best Sellers of 2015

I've been busy planning for 2016, and I decided to do a bit of analysis on my best sellers of last year.

I had a few surprises, it's funny how I've been sitting making jewellery all year, not realising which pieces I'm making the most of!

Here's the top 5 of 2015:

Number 5 - Snowflake Jewellery

These have been a best seller for two years in a row now, originally inspired by the movie Frozen. They are also popular as Winter wedding jewellery for Bridesmaids and Flower girls.

  

Number 4 - Mother Daughter

As Mother's Day is just around the corner, I will be soon relaunching my Mother Daughter range on my website, it's currently only available on Etsy. This was probably my biggest surprise, I had no idea I had made so many of these sets! Mainly featuring mother and baby bird charms my Mother Daughter Jewellery can be personalised with initials, beads and birthstones.

  

Number 3 - Sister Jewellery

I made my first Sister Necklace for my own sister as a Christmas present a few years ago, I had a few leftover and tried them out on Etsy... and the rest is history!

  

Number 2 - Bridesmaid & Flower Girl

My Bridesmaid Jewellery was the beginning of what FunkyPinks is today, thanks to a few custom requests for bridesmaid jewellery a few years ago. Since then I've expanded my range in this category, an I love putting together new pieces for themed weddings!

  

Drum roll...

Number 1 - Birthday Jewellery

This surprised me, as I expected my wedding jewellery to be number one, but my Birthday Jewellery has one by a clear mile!

I love my birthday and birthstone charms, and the hand stamped pieces are particularly popular. These designs can be combined and personalised in any way, and customised to any birthday age.

  

I also have set birthday charms that can be personalised with coloured beads and different shaped charms, which are also very popular!

  

As always, you can find my jewellery on the FunkyPinks Website and on Etsy, any questions drop me an email: kirsty@funkypinks.co.uk

21 Bracelets for 21 Bridesmaids

This week I had one of the biggest orders I've ever had from a beautiful Bride to Be!

She wanted 21 Heart Charm Bracelets for her 21 Bridesmaids, all in personalised gift boxes.

Making up an order of this size takes about 2-3 hours, and I find the most efficient way to pull it all together is to set up a production line, of course I have my trusty Lapdog Tray to help me out!

Preparations
First things first, getting the bracelets ready. All of my jewellery pieces are made by hand, as I build them to the customers specifications, so each bracelet needs building separately.

I lay out the pieces I need to build them and start putting them together; I tend to start with the clasps and the extension chains and drop to finish.

Then I lay out the chain and attach the pieces together to make the bracelets. This customer wanted them all standard sizing but I can make them in any length.

Personalising

Next, the charms. The customer tells me the initials that each bracelet needs to have, and I lay them all out with the shaped charms and start attaching them to the bracelets.

I then make the beads into charms. I use a simple rolled loop to secure the beads and add them to the bracelets.

Et Voila! 21 personalised bracelets all ready for packing!

Gift Boxes

The Bride-to-Be also asked for a Personalised Gift Box for each bracelet, so I got printing!

Packing

Then it's time to wrap them all up and get them to the post office. As this was a special order they got my special pink bags!

If you have a special order (or just want one!) then all of my jewellery is available on my Website, and selected lines are available in my Etsy Store.

May Wedding Event

To celebrate my recent wedding, I'm running a promotion on my Wedding Jewellery in May. 

When you purchase any of my selected jewellery, you will get personalised gift boxes absolutely free! (Usually starting from £4.99)

Flower Girl Jewellery

I have two main designs specifically for flower girls at the moment; daisies and roses. 

Daisies were one of the first designs I launched last year, and I introduced roses for valentines day this year. Both styles are available with glass pearl beads and with birthstones.

Bridesmaid Jewellery

The jewellery I have for bridesmaids can also be lovely gifts for flower girls. M main themes are birds, hearts and my favourite are the cute couples charms!

I have also included my snowflake jewellery in the promotion, these are one of my best sellers and would be great for a Winter Wedding, so order now to get your free gift boxes.

Gift Boxes

The gift boxes can be personalised to say anything you'd like, I also have some standard greetings and sayings that can be personalised with different names.

These boxes will only be free during May, so make sure you get your orders in by the end of the month!

We Got Married!

I am now a married lady! I've taken the last month off from FunkyPinks so that I could enjoy my beautiful wedding and fabulous Honeymoon!

Our wedding was truly the best day of my life, we had an absolute ball and shared it with all of our wonderful family and friends.

It was all very glam of course! The theme was 'Woodland' and my gorgeous mum made most of our decorations, I'm going to be writing a separate blog about it all in the next few weeks, as I know a lot of brides-to-be can take a lot of inspiration from it all, just like I did with others!

May Wedding Promotion
And FunkyPinks is open for business again! To celebrate my wedding I'm running an promotion this month.

Throughout May, any orders of selected Wedding Jewellery will get personalised gift boxes absolutely free!

Here's a picture of the boxes I gave to my own Bridesmaids on my wedding day, all o their jewellery was handmade by me of course!

I made them all leaf charm jewellery, matching the colours of their dresses; always one to stand out, I had four different colours!

Green, pink, blue and lilac. The colour scheme ran through the entire wedding and it all looked fabulous! 

I gave my girls sterling silver jewellery, with diamante leaf charms, which added a lovely bit of sparkle to their outfits.

I am planning to add these charms to my wedding jewellery range in a few weeks time!


Watch this space!