Parties and Pink Lemonade

It's time for a new cupcake candle! I have some gorgeous new fragrances that are begging to be made into cupcake candles, and this is the first of the bunch..



The fragrance is 'pink lemonade' and it's so realistic, smells delicious!

I also finished a custom order this week for party favours. My customer decided on fairy cake sized candles, fragranced with 'Angel Cake', topped with white icing, pink sugar sprinkles and silver sparkle - as favours for her guests at her pink cupcake themed birthday party!

This is where you need to use your imagination because I didn't take a photograph before I posted them off, but my customer was very happy, which has encouraged me to add cupcake candles to the wedding and party favours range. I'm working on that this week as we are attending a 'wedding and events' evening on Friday at The Park House Club in Cardiff. You can read more about the event and book tickets here..

So for now, it's back to the baking..!

More from the world of Etsy..

I am still quite new to the world of Etsy, and I learnt about treasuries earlier this week from my fellow team members at The Eclectic Artisan Team. Treasuries are a group of items hand picked by Etsy members, usually along the same theme.

Then this morning I got a message from Love at First Blush to let me know I had been included in her treasury! Then with a little help from Michelle from Michelle's Charm World I worked out how to take a screen capture of it.. it's pretty!



I've been adding some new goodies to my Etsy shop over the past few days, there are some gorgeous vintage finds, and my new bobby pin hairclips..



These are the first ones, but I have ordered some gorgeous new fabrics so I hope to make lots more of these soon.

In other news, the new handmade goodies are still filling up our Wincanton shop. Today I took a delivery of some gorgeous handmade bags, all one of a kind! And we're still busy with candles and melts going to our stockists in the Isle of Wight, and a new stockist in Northern Ireland.

Hope you're all having a good week!

Purpley :-)

The beading bug is back!

I've got a few new projects that I'm working on at the moment, and I'm finding myself wishing for more hours in the day so I can fit them all in, as well as sleep, and as well as playing the new Harry Potter game on the Xbox, and as well as baking and then eating cupcakes.. it's a toughie!

One thing I have managed to complete in the last week is some new beaded jewellery.



This bracelet was alot of fun. It's made from memory wire, so it's one big stretchy wire with no need for any fiddly clasps! I also made some pretty petal earrings to go with the bracelets..



in lots of different colour combinations..!



I had a handmade surprise gift to make for another fan of beading, so I got a plain wooden trinket box and decorated it, and filled it up with different beads..



This is winging it's way to the United States as I type, so I hope it gets there safely!

Last but not least, and nothing to do with beads, let me introduce you to Fleecy..



Fleecy is for another handmade surprise swap, for a lady who lists amongst her likes - 'sheep, prim style, original artwork'. He was another one that was alot of fun to make. He's on his way to Texas right now!

In Purple Sparkle news, our little shop is filling up with more and more handmade goodies..



In the past week we've got in some beautiful glass jewellery, love tokens and lazy bones fish from Lazy Daisy Glass, and some gorgeous fabric goodies from Julie at Shabby Chic.

See you soon,

Love from Purpley :-)