Hen Party Packages

For us girls, the only thing better than a wedding is the hen party that leads up to it, mine was definitely a wild night (from what I can remember anyway!)

For my hen party, I wanted a pirate theme, and I made a personalised trinket necklace for my hens; all 17 of them! This actually started off a bit of a trend for me, as I'm a big fan of themed trinket necklaces, and I'll tell you about this another time.

Here's a picture of my pirate necklace, personalised with my initial and birthstone:

This year, I've decided to launch some new, specially priced packages for hen parties, and realising not everyone's budget will stretch to 17 trinket necklaces, I've made them at a special package price for larger groups.

So, what do I have?

  

  

I'm starting with six designs, centered around partying and drinking, a typical hen night out on the town. Champagne flutes, cocktails and wine glasses, plus party dresses and high heel shoes for good measure! 

Don't forget the Bride...

I've also designed a cute trinket necklace for the Bride's big night, mixing the party charms with a cool 'L Plate'. This can be personalised with different charms and colours if she'd prefer!

All of these designs are available on my Website, or on Etsy, hen party packages are available up to 20 pieces, but if you need more, then please let me know!

Flower Girl Gifts - New Season

Wedding season is almost upon us, I've already had lots of orders for one of my most popular lines: Flower Girl Gifts.

Personalised charm jewellery is a great way to say thank you to the girls who have made your day special and I have new style flower charms to match your wedding theme.

Summer Flowers
Pretty long stem flowers, which stand out beautifully and fit nicely with my initial charms.

Tiny Leaves

I had a woodland theme for my own wedding and these tiny leaf charms would have been perfect if I had found them earlier!

Posie Necklace
Ideal for Flower Girls and Bridesmaids, a sweet posie charm would make a pretty keepsake from your special day.

Ring Bearer Gift

If your ring bearer is a little girl, then this makes a great gift she can keep as a memento!

Tiny Snowflake Charms
Snowflakes are my most popular design in Winter, and these sweet charms make excellent gifts for flower girls.

Sweet Butterflies

Butterflies are a popular wedding theme, and these charms add a pretty touch to any outfit.

Roses
What's a wedding without roses?

Vintage Flowers

My personal favourite of this collection, these flower charms almost have a vintage feel.

Daisies
The first flower girl design I launched a few years ago, they are still one of my most popular designs for Flower Girls!





All of this jewellery can be found on the FunkyPinks website, and most of it is on Etsy. If you have any special requests then you can send me an email here: kirsty@funkypinks.co.uk

Bridal Jewellery

I love a good wedding!

I made a beautiful custom charm bracelet for a Bride-to-Be, personalised with white beads, hearts, snowflake, horseshoe and initial charms representing the Bride and Groom's names. 

I loved it so much, that I experimented with some of my good luck charms I've bought in for St Patrick's Day and launched a new Bridal Range.

 My favourite piece is this beautiful Trinket Necklace. It features a silver horseshoe charm, two clover charms, one is my new special diamante charm, and a white and sparkly bead. This looks best on a long chain, and compliments a beautiful white dress perfectly!

Here's the diamante clover again, this time on a Bridal Bracelet! I think this charm is so pretty on it's own I haven't added anything but a simple white pearl. This is designed as a 'Good Luck' gift for a Bride, and is also available as a necklace.

And of course who could forget the Lucky Horseshoe? This is a sparkly diamante pendant, it's quite large compared to my other charms and is designed to sit on a long pendant. It's a very pretty alternative to a traditional bridal horseshoe gift.

As always, everything can be found on my Website, and on Etsy. IF you would like a custom order then feel free to send me an email: kirsty@funkypinks.co.uk

 

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.