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.

Gifts for Teachers and Students

I've been updating my gifts for teachers and students, this is the first set of designs that feature my new script initial charms! 

Quietly, and behind the scenes I've been building my website shop, and eventually I will update all of the designs in my Etsy shop too.

Last year my teacher gifts were very popular, and I'm hoping this will be repeated this year :)

So what's new?

Book Necklaces! I've wanted to launch these for a while now, and end of the academic year seemed like a perfect time! A great way to say thank-you to a teacher, and it also doubles as a gift for someone who loves to read!

New cute owl charms, and owls combined with apples make a lovely teacher gift!

Something for the students!

Graduating is a big deal! It marks the end of years of hard work and success, my mortar board necklace is the perfect way to mark the graduation occasion!

As always, my student and teacher gifts are available in my Etsy shop, and they are also available on the FunkyPinks website, which will be officially relaunched later this year.

Mother's Day Jewellery Madness!

I was caught off guard this year, it feels like Mother's Day has come around much earlier than last year! 

Like most small business I like to jump on the bandwagon and so I designed a few new pieces to honour the Mums, Nans and Grans in the UK.

I've wanted to try bangle charm bracelets, and Mother's Day was the perfect opportunity for me to try them out! (I love these gorgeous Mum charms too) Coupled with birthstones that can either represent your mother's birthday, or the birthday's of children/siblings.

(You might spot a new flower charm, these will be used for my new season flower girl jewellery coming soon!)

I've also tried our some Mother Daughter bracelets, with birthstones and initials. I'm not sure if they're here to stay forever, I'm still trying them out. I might try some birthday or wedding designs to see how they do!

Birds have been a favourite of mine since I started FunkyPinks, and I wanted to expand on my 'birdie' range. I love the idea of jewellery that can be added to and personalised, and the baby birdies are soooo cute!

I'm very excited about these bracelets! I've been putting off hand-stamping words and messages until I was fully confident in my skills! So I thought I'd start out gently with these small heart charms, they can only fit 4 letter comfortably so it's not too much of a stretch for me ;)

As always, Personalised Gift Boxes are also available for that extra special touch!

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