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Check out my new shop here: handoveryourfairycakes.goodsie…

Folksy have changed their criteria for submissions recently and for jewellery it seems that you cant upload anything that incorporates beads you havent made yourself. Some of my stuff is allowed on the site and some of it isnt and some of it comes somewhere in between. Despite various emails back and forth they're being annoyingly vague about the whole thing: since I make jewellery for fun, I would rather it stayed that way and I didnt spend my time worrying about whether it was "handmade" enough for Folksy. The practical upshot of which is that I have a new shop on Goodsie!

Has anyone else been affected by the Folksy changes? Does anyone else use Goodsie?




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Tumblr: fairy-cakes.tumblr.com/

New Shop: handoveryourfairycakes.goodsie…

I made one of those Tumblr things: fairy-cakes.tumblr.com/

Does anyone else have one??




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Hey, how have you all been? I haven't written in this journal for months, disaster. Been mostly working and EXAMS, these things always get in the way dont they?

Last weekend I decided to take a break from studying to make a cake. As you do. Tea and cake are after all essential for learning, so there's my reasoning right there. I should mention now that my previous flatmates banned me from doing any baking following the grilled fairy cakes incident and the salt/sugar mix up while attempting to make scones. Basically Im not the best baker ever and they figured it was best if I wasnt allowed near an oven. Current flatmate, however, is blissfully unaware of my lack of baking prowess and didnt throw himself infront of the kitchen door to stop me.

So anyway, I decided lemon cake might be a relatively safe option, and it was going quite well apart from me trying to rind a lemon which mostly consisted of me grating my own fingers. I put the cake mix, which surprisingly actually looked like cake mix into a baking tin and was starting to feel a bit suspicious that it was all going so well. Approximately 4 seconds of oven time later there was a bit of an explosion so I looked in the oven to see the massive fireball that was once a cake. Woops. There was alot of shouting and fire extinguisher hunting but post-fire it looked a bit like this:



You'll be shocked to know that no one wanted some with their tea.

I was not to be defeated though (and by this time I REALLY wanted some cake) so I tried again and made another one. This time there were no fires, only EXCELLENT CAKE.



CAKE VICTORY.

In other news, my most excellent pal Richard has a lovely shiny new website which you should check out. He sells music based stuff and its pretty cool. musicgiftsonline.co.uk/


These iPod cufflinks are AWESOME, if I was a boy or had any shirts requiring cufflinks I would totally be all over these.


Plectrum bases jewellery, always fun.


This is so pretty!


Michael Jackson Duck is probably the scariest thing Ive ever seen in my whole life, ever. So obviously I need one.

But yeah, check it out! musicgiftsonline.co.uk/





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Lots of people ask me where I get all my beads and charms and things so I've written a blog with a list of stockists I use regularly - hope this helps!

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Hello everyone, I've finally restarted my blog here: handoveryourfairycakes.blogspo… It's mostly me ranting about shiny things I like and my jewellery based progress but if you're into that sort of thing follow me! Also, give me a link to your blogs, I love reading other peoples. If anyone has any blog-based suggestions I would love to hear them too.

Just started making a HUGE mess with resin in the past couple of days. Its going ok so far, will blog about it soon Im sure....

Making things like crazy for my craft fair in March in Queens Park - if anyone lives near the south side of Glasgow come and drop in!

I dont think Ive done enough ing recently - you guys got any suggestions? Let me know your favourite pieces you've seen here whether its your stuff or someone else's feel free to show me.




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