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!

All of my jewellery is available to buy on Etsy:

Christmas Gift Wrapping

To build on my personalised gift boxes, I'm launching some new gift boxes for Christmas.

I slightly over did it on the ribbon front (you know how much I love variety!) I have four different style of ribbon to choose from!

I'm also trying out some new pillow shaped gift boxes, decorated with ribbon too! If I like these then I might replace my standard gift boxes!

 

Most of my jewellery is currently for sale in my Etsy shop, and the full range is on the FunkyPinks website!

Birthstone Jewellery is Here!

I'm so excited to finally be launching birthstone jewellery! Since I started making jewellery a few years ago I wanted to work with birthstone crystals, but couldn't justify the investment at the time.

After such a busy Summer with my bridesmaid and flower girl jewellery, I decided to take the plunge and try out a few designs to see how popular they would be, and I soon found out they were very popular!

Simple Birthstone Charm Jewellery

I've started with some simple designs, and gradually I will introduce different styles and mix the birthstones with my other charms, and cater for different budgets. 

Simple Birthstone Bracelets

I've opted for the Swarovski birthstone crystals, as they fit perfectly with the charms I currently offer. I want to expand my 'Birthday Jewellery' range, as I'm constantly being asked to make custom orders for birthday necklaces and bracelets in different styles!

Here's a peek at what I've been working on!

Hand Stamped Jewellery

Stamping is another skill I've been wanting to try my hand at (literally!) as you can see from the picture above, I'm going to be using small silver tags to stamp initials into, this will provide an additional option to my standard silver plated initial charms.

Brand new to FunkyPinks! Hand-stamped Initial charms

New Gift Boxes

I wanted to present my birthstone jewellery slightly differently to the rest of my jewellery, so I have designed a card insert for the gift box that each piece will be sent with.

The card features the corresponding month, the gem stone that the crystal represents, and the attributes.

Birthstones and their meanings:

January - Garnet - Faith, Truth & Grace

February - Amethyst - Peace, Protection & Tranquillity

March - Aquamarine - Strength, Hope & Creativity

April - Diamond - Innocence, Courage & Health

May - Emerald - Love, Success & Happiness

June - Alexandrite -Charity, Faith & Peace

July - Ruby - Nobility, Contentment & Enthusiasm

August - Peridot - Happiness, Luck & Success

September - Sapphire - Wisdom, Serenity & Truth

October - Rose Quartz - Hope, Purity & Health

November - Topaz - Fidelity, Courage & Serenity

December - Zircon - Success, Luck & Prosperity

Birthstones, months and their cards

Most of my birthstone jewellery is currently for sale in my Etsy shop, and the full range is on the FunkyPinks website!

Personalised Jewellery Gift Boxes

I'm so excited to finally launch my personalised gift boxes, and I absolutely love them! I think they add a real personal touch to a gift!

I've been working on these for a while now, trying to get them right, and deciding if I would offer them as standard with all of my pieces, or as an extra 'add on' that my customers could choose if they wanted to.

I decided to opt for the latter; I want my jewellery business to cater for all budgets, especially when it comes to wedding jewellery. I would hate to think that customers were turned off because they couldn't (or wouldn't!) pay the ticket price because of the premium for the personalised box.

So they are an 'add on', and are sold in a separate listing on Etsy here: https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/187702086/personalised-gift-box-jewellery-gift-box?ref=listing-shop-header-3

There is also a 'bulk price' if customers would like more than one box, which is particularly useful for brides to be with lots of bridesmaids and flower girls!

Most of my jewellery does come with a small gift box as standard, these help to keep the pieces nice and safe in transit, they are also useful for storing the pieces and taking care of them.

The message inside is completely customisable, I'm asking customers to write their messages in the notes when they checkout on Etsy, and to check spelling carefully as the message in the box will appear as typed to me! (I'm guilty of many a typo in a daily basis!)

My Jewellery is available to buy on my website of in my Esty shop!