Long thin dichroic glass pendants by Steve Smith Jewellery.

Long and thin dichroic pendants

Lovely sparkling Long and thin Dichroic glass pendants. Fired and free formed in our small studio in Northallerton, North Yorkshire. 

These pendants measure about 5cm long (plus the bail) and 1cm wide and come complete with a FREE 45cm stainless steel chain.

I hope you like what you have seen in this post about our long thin pendants, if you would like to see more then CLICK HERE

Special commissions can be undertaken and visitors to the studio in Northallerton are welcome by prior appointment, send me a message via email at stevesmithjewellery@yahoo.co.uk of fill out contact form on my website www.stevesmithjewellery.com

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The emergence of Dragonflies.

Well, spring has just about broken out in the UK. 

With the temperature reaching double figures in some area.

Beautiful Dragonflies will be emerging from their winter slumber. 

Bouncing through the skies and darting through the reeds. 

Beautiful colours floating over the pools of blue water 

and 

occasionally landing right next to you. 

Giving you a glimpse of their beautiful true colours.

Well that's my attempt at describing these amazing creatures.

Here are a few of my designs. I have tried to catch the colours in the dichroic glass with a simple Dragonfly enamel image

But I prefer Alfred, Lord Tennyson words which I have included further on.

The Dragonfly

 Today I saw the dragonfly

Come from the wells where he did lie.

An inner impulse rent the veil

Of his old husk: from head to tail

Came out clear plates of sapphire mail.

He dried his wings: like gauze they grew;

Thro’ crofts and pastures wet with dew

A living flash of light he flew.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

 If you would like to get one of these, just click on the picture and it will take you to my website. Here, will can find many different designs to suit many tastes.

I hope you have enjoyed this little snippet  of my creative mind.

Feel free in commenting below.

Kind Regards

Steve

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.

New bags with new foiled labels.

So what happens on a cold winters evening in North Yorkshire? Well plenty but one thing that I have got around to doing is ordering my new bags. Plain white and really nice quality. I didn't want plain so my wonderful partner Sue at www.inspiredbyscript.co.uk made quite a few labels and foiled them beautifully with hot pink foil.

And there you have it.

And just to get an idea of the foiled labels click on the following youtube link to see the short 15 second clip.

https://youtu.be/Ma_D7jogDTk

Posh new bags for my happy customers to take their purchase away proudly.

Thanks for stopping by and hope you come back soon.

Steve

New sterling silver and dichroic design pendant.

A new and unique design sterling silver pendant. Hand crafted in our studio in Northallerton.

The dichroic glass for this pendant is made by firing multiple strips of glass in the kiln then shaping by hand and then firing again with a gas torch to smooth the edges.

The silver is then hand made, shaped and soldered to fit the dichroic glass.

You can see this and many more designs on my website at

www.stevesmithjewellery.co.uk

I am always designing new pieces so keep an eye out on here, my website and facebook if you want that something different, you wont find elsewhere!

And DON'T forget, for January 2017 there is a discount code to receive 10% off your order. 

Just add

JAN2017

at the checkout.

Happy New Year

Happy New year to all.

Wishing everyone all the best for 2017, lets hope its a good one!

A massive thank you to all my readers and supporters of my Jewellery business. 

Without you, I could not do what I love to do. Which is

"Design and make sparkly jewellery"

I am really looking forward to 2017, with all the new designs, new ideas and with the feeling that this year will be better than the last in many ways.

Good luck with what ever you are doing.

Kindest regards

Steve

x

Craft fair table displays.

Just a few pictures of how I display my crafts on a six foot table instead of two six foot tables.

Lots of designs but it goes down well with the customers.

If you would like to see and buy my creation then please click the following link.

www.stevesmithjewellery.co.uk

Special presents for the man in your life.

I am always trying to come up with new designs. 

These are normally designed with women in mind.

I also design and make for men as well. 

Some like my pendants, normally of dragons.

Some like the Superhero design.

 Some like my colourful tie clips.

 Whilst others prefer the cuff links I design and make.

If you click on any of the pictures above for that unique special present for the man in you life, it will take you to my website where a bigger range is available.

Alternatively, you can click on the following link to see a fuller range of my jewellery designs.

www.stevesmithjewellery.co.uk

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you can find something you like.

Steve

(designer and maker at our small studio in Northallerton, North Yorkshire) 

Something different, Elderberry jam.

When I am not designing and making beautiful dichroic glass jewellery, working at my Monday to Thursday job, working for my partner Sue of Inspired by Script or catching up with all the odd jobs that needs doing around our home and garden. I  occasionally try something that I have never tried before.

This week I had a few hours spare so decided to do something with all the Elderberries that we collected over the last couple of seasons.

This first pictures shows the small amount collected from a previous year in the bag and the bowl carries the next years collection.

After de-stalking the berries they were put in the freezer until I had time to do something with them. The choice was Wine or Jam and as Sue doesn't like red wine I decided on the jam option. 

Well that was last year and this week was the week to get boiling.

The next picture shows straining the boiled berries, I expected a little more than this but free jam is, free jam!

Here you can see the hanging set up. The straining sheet had string attached to each corner and then hung from a long piece of string from handy hook in the ceiling. 

(where there is a will, there is a way). 

The same amount of suger with pectin was added with a little lemon juice and brought to the boil, and kept vigorously boiling for about 20 minutes. You can see this short video on the following link.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9RUzDhPBMg

Whilst the jam was boiling, I sterilised a few jars, more than I needed but I did not want jam left over with nowhere to put it.

Here is the final product, about 1kg in total. 

Nicely set as well.

One thing I didn't know was the smell of Elderberry jam, whilst being made and when finished. It's a very peculiar smell, lets hope it tastes better than it smells. LOL.

Anyway, I hope you have enjoyed this little diversion to my normal blog post. I will be posting other daft stuff in the future, I might post about the fully insulated box for our local stray cat I made for the garden or the multi coloured garden shed or whatever I have not even thought about yet.

Only time will tell!

Steve  

Why use kiln wash when firing glass!

A few weeks ago I was very rushed in the studio. I had orders to fulfil and commissions to design and make.

In my hast, I grabbed a kiln tile to fire some long dichroic glass cabochons and thought the tile had already had kiln wash applied. 

Well, unfortunately, it was a brand new one and although it felt like there was wash on it. It was just the newness of the tile.

As you can see from the outcome, glass fired on un-kiln washed tiles is not a good thing.

That's a very expensive lesson, double check the tile before assuming anything. Unless you want to waste loads of dichroic glass, time and a brand new kiln tile.

Luckily I had more glass and kiln tiles and all the jobs were completed on time and the customers were happy.

If you would like to see my designs that are for sale, please visit my website at 

www.stevesmithjewellery.co.uk

Thanks for stopping by and having a read, Steve :-)