New look, Craft Fair display stands.

Well, that's one of my January jobs done!

Cleaned up and painted my display stands for the coming year. Lots of thought on what coplour to use but kept with the old favourite, Hot pink and white.

They look so much better, what do you think?

Hope you like the New look, Craft Fair display stands.

If you would like to see my design in real life, my first market will be the first Sunday of March (05/03/2017) on High Row, Darlington, 11am to 4pm (weather permitting).

Or you can always have a look on my website at

www.stevesmithjewellery.co.uk

or 

If you are local to Northallerton, North Yorkshire. I am in the shop on Fridays and Saturdays (10:30am to 4:30pm)

our address is:

Steve Smith Jewellery,

c/o Inspired By Script,

288a High Street,

Northallerton,

North Yorkshire,

DL7 8DW.

A few new designed.

A few new designs added to my website. Hand crafted by me from top quality dichroic glass in our studio in Northallerton, North Yorkshire.

Most of my work is free formed in the kiln so sizes and shape can are not repeated.

To see these and loads more click on the following link:

www.stevesmithjewellery.co.uk

Thanks for stopping by

Steve :-)

Hair Barrette, hair clip.

Here's  my latest listing in my shop. A beautiful hair barrette. Multi coloured dichroic glass, fired multiple times to get the curvature of the clip just perfect.

If you would like to see more then just go to my shop at

Stevesmithjewellery.etsy.com

Tree of Life hair clip.

The challenge should I choose to accept it was to make a Tree of Life hair clip for a customer in the USA.

Well the challenge was on. There was many possible problems with this, I was not sure if I could actually do it.

First things first, 

choose the glass, 

the customer had already requested streaky green so that was the easy bit.

The idea was to make the approximate shape by using a fibre kiln material

Here is a piece!

Then, cut the desired shape out, as the next picture shows.

Sorry about this but I seem to have a few picture missing. But basically I cut the glass in fit inside them shape. One long strip and two half moons pieces. I then repeated this with the top glass. Fitted all the pieces into the cut out and fired for the first time.

Once the firing cycles had been completed, I removed the glass from the fibre material, cleaned up the edges to reduce de-vitrification on the glass for the second firing. Like I said, I fired this cleaned glass again for the second time.

I now had a flat, streaky correct shaped glass cabochon.

The next stage was to bend the glass.

With a 4" square sheet of copper, curved to fit the curvature of the hair clip. See the following picture, although the picture does not show the 5 coats of kiln wash to stop the glass sticking to the copper.

I then fired the cabochon on a slumping cycle, not as hot as fusing the glass but enough to let the glass fall into to right shape over the copper

Once this had cooled,

 I applied the entwined Tree of Life decal onto the center of the cabochon.And fired it once again.

After leaving the new creation to cool completely. 

The cabochon was glued to the curved hair clip with E6000 glue.

Then totally left alone for 48 hours (glue drying time). 

I presented it in a beautiful heart shaped box, all ready to be posted over to the USA.

Then a few weeks later I receive this picture.

I was so please it all worked out in the end. I have missed a few points out as an alchemist can't give away all his secrets.

A massive thank you to my customer for letting me accept this challenge and for ordering my hand made jewellery.

Thanks for reading.

Steve

PS. if you have an idea of a piece of jewellery made from glass, please contact me via stevesmithjewellery@yahoo.co.uk and I will see what I can do, but no promises LOL.......

The mysterious Cat Pendant. Fashion jewellery.

Just a short post this time. Here is the latest in the Catitude range of pendants.

This fashion pendant measures approximately 1"1/2" plus the bail.

£15 plus £2 p&p UK delivery.

Can be postage worldwide, please ask.

To order, contact me via email at 

stevesmithjewellery@yahoo.co.uk

To see more designs have a look at my website:

stevesmithjewellery.co.uk

or like my Facebook page at:

facebook.com/stevesmithjewellery

Thanks for stopping by

Steve :o)

Unique Fashion Christmas Tree Pendant.

OK! I know if feels like ages away but people have asked for Festive seasonal jewellery. Never doing Festive jewellery before, I thought. I'll give it a go then. 

What is one of the most iconic images? 

The first thing I thought of was, yes you guessed it, 

a Christmas Tree.

And there you go. A couple of Christmas Tree fashion Pendants. To order these at £15 each plus £2 p&p please contact me via email at:

stevesmithjewellery@yahoo.co.uk

See other designs at:

www.stevesmithjewellery.co.uk

or

www.facebook.com/stevesmithjewellery

Libra Pendant Fashion Jewellery

Hiya. thanks for stopping by to read my blog. This is just a short one to show off my latest Zodiac designs for the star sign of Libra.

And here you are:

Similar colours as these are quite strong in this Zodiac sign but the image is slightly bigger in the right hand one.

Please contact me to order via email at:

stevesmithjewellery@yahoo.co.uk

If you would like to see more of my zodiac designs then click the following link

FACEBOOK

Or to see lots more designs have a look on my website by clicking the following link

WEBSITE

And if you want to grab yourself a bargain click on the following

30% Sale

Thanks again for stopping by and hope you come back soon

Steve :o)

New Catitude Fashion Pendant

For all you cat lovers of the world.

Here's my latest Catitude Pendant. This cheeky little cat could be yours! Only this cat is guaranteed

not to damage the settee or shred your curtains LOL.

Only £15 plus £2 p&p.

To order, please contact me via email at:

stevesmithjewellery@yahoo.co.uk

Thanks for stopping by

Steve

Mosaic Fashion Jewellery Pendant

Hi

Here is a very unique triangle mosaic pendant. These are made using a two firing process and set on a silver plated bail. The colours are gorgeous in real life and the picture only shows what a picture can. 

You can buy this unique fashion jewellery for £15 plus £2 p&p by emailing me at stevesmithjewellery@yahoo.co.uk 

or go to my Facebook page at 

www.facebook.com/SteveSmithJewellery 

to see this and lots more. Hope you enjoy you visit.

Thanks Steve

Fashion Jewellery, Earrings, Bracelets, Rings, Hair Clips and Pendants at Darlington Sunday Peoples Market

For all my readers that have not had chance to visit me at The Darlington Sunday Peoples Market.

To start with this first picture shows a collection of new designs and creations of Rings and Bracelets. 

The following pictures show off my design to the best of my photographic ability. 

I am always trying to show off my work to there best but I often cannot find display stands that I like or that I can afford. So the bracelet display is another creation of mine (being a ex worker, I enjoy doing things like this). All it took was a few scraps of MDF a bit of paint and my imagination to see the end product from a pile of unwanted bits and pieces.

This next picture shows the new large cabochon design Rings. They look great on another hand made bits of scrap Ring display stand. A couple of bits of perspex and a off cut of MDF plus some paint again and a bit of time and imagination again and there you go. A very cheap Ring stand to my requirements.

Here is a collected view of Rings, Hair Clips and a few Bracelets. 

And finally, me! The creator! I love making making almost anything especially when someone else like what I have made.  

And that was just a snippet of time at this lovely street market in Darlington on the first Sunday of every month, yes even the winter months.

If you decide to visit in the winter months wear thermals. lol. It's a great day any time of the year. Great atmosphere, lovely people and unique goods to get for yourself a friend or a loved one.

Hope to see you there and if you have read this and decided to make a visit, why not introduce yourself and say you follow my blog.

Anyway, that's about it for now.

Thanks for stopping by.

Steve :o)

Unique Fashion Earrings

The latest creation to come from the studio of stevesmithjewellery.co.uk is a pair of beautiful dichroic glass drop earrings.

These measure approx 5/8" x 3/8" and are set on 925 solid silver back and 925 solid silver ear wire.

Unique Fashion Earrings

To order these for £15 plus £2 p&p contact me via email at

stevesmithjewellery@yahoo.co.uk

or have a look at the range of fashion jewellery available on my website at

stevesmithjewellery.co.uk

Thanks for stopping by

Steve :o)

Zentangle Fashion Jewellery Pendant

Zentangle Fashion Jewellery Pendant. 

A dichroic glass pendant with a zentangle design fired into the glass. 
This, as with all my other creations are one of a kind and cannot be duplicated. 
So once it's gone, it's gone!

To order this unique piece of fashion jewellery contact me by email at stevesmithjewellery@yahoo.co.uk

To see more designs go to my website at

stevesmithjewellery.co.uk

Thanks for stopping by

Steve :o)

A seasonal butterfly dichroic glass pendant

A seasonal butterfly dichroic glass pendant

I thought, as it's butterfly season I would list one of the flutterby pendants available from stevesmithjewellery.co.uk

To order this for £15 plus £2 p&p contact me via email at 

stevesmithjewellery@yahoo.co.uk

Thanks for looking

Steve :o)

Matching Purple fashion Pendant and drop earrings.

A new creation from Steve Smith Jewellery

Gorgeous Purple Pendant with matching drop earrings. A must for any one who is looking for something unique.

The pendant is set on a silver plated bail and the drop earrings at set on 925 solid silver bail with 925 solid silver wires.

The set is £25 plus £2 p&p

To order, contact me via email at stevesmithjewellery@yahoo.co.uk

Thanks for looking

Steve :o)

Dichroic Glass Gemini Fashion Pendants.

OK. It's only a week away from the start of the Zodiac sign of Gemini. 

The 20th May this sign starts so if you are looking for that something special, unique and handmade for a love ones present then look no further.

I have designed and made a short run of just three of these 

Gemini Pendants and once they are gone there gone!

These three are classed as small, medium and large where the Dichroic Glass pendant measure approx 1"1/2" by 7/8" 

all at the same price of £15 each plus £2 p&p. To order please contact me via email at stevesmithjewellery@yahoo.co.uk

I will be designing and making new zodiac pendant for each sign and will be listing them about three weeks before the start date of the zodiac month.

Be sure to contact me if you would like that unique gift for someone special in your life.

You can see further designs on Facebook at:

https://www.facebook.com/SteveSmithJewellery

or my website at:

stevesmithjewellery.co.uk

or Pinterest at:

http://pinterest.com/stevesmithglass/

Thanks for stopping by and hope to here from you soon.

Steve

Fashion Jewellery Hair Clips

I have recently taught myself how to bend glass in the kiln. I was like a cat that got the cream :o)

I decided to put this new talent to good use and designed and made a few hair clips. The dichroic glass measures about 2" long and are set on sprung hair clips. These make beautiful hair jewellery and being unique a must for that extra special touch to your outfit.

As you can see, these sell for £15 each plus £3 p&p

You can order via my contact details here:

stevesmithjewellery@yahoo.co.uk

or

take a look on my website at

www.stevesmithjewellery@yahoo.co.uk

for more designs and creations from the studio of

Steve Smith Jewellery

Zentangle becomes Dichroic Glass Fashion Jewellery

When Zentangle becomes Dichroic Glass Fashion Jewellery.

I was introduced to Zentangle art a couple of years ago through a friend on Facebook. At the time I thought, oooow now that would look nice on my Dichroic glass Fashion Jewellery. 

It's taken me this long to get around to doing something with this idea but I got there in the end.

It happened quite by accident.

Whilst searching the web for some new decals to fire into my designs I came across a company that did porcelain works. After trawling through lots of twee pictures of scenery and chocolate box scenes I came across this Zentangle design which sparked my old grey matter again on the Zentangle Fashion Jewellery Pendants 

Well I just had to have a go at these.

This picture shows a small section of the Zentangle design.

The following four pictures show the initial fired cabochons of 

dichroic glass in my chosen colours. 

Ow yes, there are a couple of extra ones that will stay as they are 

because I just loved the silvery sparkling nature of them.

 Once I had chosen and cut the part of the Zentangle design that I thought would look best on these colours. The pendants complete with design then had a second firing. 

Once cooled and out of the kiln I was amazed at the outcome. 

They are gorgeous, if I say so myself LOL.

 And here are just a few of the finished designs with pendant bails attached and waiting for there new owners.

These and more designs will be listed on my web site as soon as I can but you can find these and lots more on my Facebook page. I have two prices for my pendants. £15 for a pendant with a decal fired into it and £10 without decal, these prices may change in the future and p&p to the UK is £2

 and to the rest of the world is £5.

Thanks for reading, if you have time. Take a look at some of my other posts. There are funny ones, daft ones serious ones and posts where I just wanted to post.

Steve :o)

Another design from the Fashion jewellery maker Steve Smith Jewellery

NOW SOLD

A beautiful white fairy with butterflies pendant. Approx 1"1/4" x 7/8" order this for £15 plus £2 p&p by contacting me here or via Facebook or via email at stevesmithjewellery@yahoo.co.uk.

Thanks for looking and come back soon to see new listings.

Steve :o)

Making of Fashion Jewellery, Part 1.

I thought I would share with my readers how some of my fashion jewellery is made.

I should start off at the beginning, the problem a couple of years ago was that I wanted to hand fired very small pieces of glass but the cost of gas bottles, tubing and burner was just crazy for my shallow pockets. 

I then had a brain storm or something. I bought a very cheap butane gas torch from the local supermarket. You know the type, it's the one that you use in the kitchen for burning the sugar on deserts. mmmm now where's the pudding we promised ourselves tonight. lol

Anyway, I'll try and type while salivating :-)

To start with I used my trusty mosaic cutter and cut a few 1/4" square chunks of Dichroic glass. Then place them on a old broken (doesn't have to be broken but I know there is always a use for everything at sometime) tile, raised it off my workbench and set the gas alight. 

oooowwww fire! man always likes playing with fire :o)

I think these picture explains it far better than my words except that's it's really great fun to do and the glass transforms in front of your eye's.

Finished cabochons in the background and on in the process of being hand fired.

As above but from a different angle

and again.

I just love my Alchemy!!!!

You might be wondering what these very small cabochons are going to use for. Well some get used for small stud earrings but these were destined for double cabochon rings. 

And here's one that I've just made:

I think the outcome is really amazing and when you see it on someones finger they look even better.

This form of hand firing is really satisfying, you are more interactive with the glass. Watching it flow in different directions as you change the direction of the heat.

Making Fashion Jewellery, Part 2 will follow in a few weeks so please call back and if you have any questions leave a comment and I will get back to you, with a answer if I can or directions on where to find that answer.

Thanks for reading

Steve :o)