Appearing at a craft show near you …

lajohnstone — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:20:39 +0000

… well, if you live in London, anyway.

Cup of Sea will be selling our wares at two shows during December:

Saturday 05 December – Tea & Make {a great British Christmas fete}
12noon-6pm. Free entry. Free workshops.
The Honor Oak, 1 St German’s Road, Forest Hill, London SE23 1RH

Saturday 12 December – Bust London Craftacular
12noon-7pm. £2 entry. LOADS of awesome designers.
York Hall, 5-15 Old Ford Road, Bethnal Green, London E2 9PJ

Look forward to seeing lots of new faces there! I hope to be launching some new etched metal jewellery at Tea and Make, so come on down to be one of the first to get your mitts on some exclusive new designs. Woo!

Post-Halloween pumpkins

lajohnstone — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:24:18 +0000

Totally un-jewellery-related, this post.

Yesterday, a trip to the local grocery store yielded some post-Halloween pumpkins. Among them, looking lost, was one solitary teeny pumpkin, called a munchkin pumpkin. It’s about 3″ wide. So I bought it, and today, I carved it.

Rawr!

RAWR!

What? I'm totally not scary with the light on. *waves*

SNEEEEAK PREVIEW!

lajohnstone — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:00:27 +0000

Been promising one for a while, so here’s pics of some upcoming necklaces (new rings coming later this week):

Going for a statement necklace – it’s a pansy! I had to rack my brains to remember what that flower was called, I was convinced it was an iris …

A red version of my green Seeds of Love Necklace available on Etsy. Very similar Apple rings have been designed and are on their way this week (er, free time permitting)!

Adventures in Polypropylene …

lajohnstone — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:12:24 +0000

I thought I’d experiment with some polyprop I’ve had lying around for ages. I decided to try a design I had previously cut from white silicon sheeting (kinda like rubber), which had looked great, but was damn near impossible to clean – scorch marks from the laser. Just in time for Halloween, the design was a series of interlinked spiderwebs, intended to be made into a bracelet. Of course, I needed a flexible material to bend around the wrist, so polyprop should work.

Unfortunately, it melted a little during lasering, but while I think this makes it inappropriate as a finished product, it does make it look like a dusty, grimy spiderwebs, which I think is pretty neat. So back to the drawing board, but for your eyes only, here is the prototype:

Octopenis!

lajohnstone — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 18:00:34 +0000

Sorry for the appalling lack of posts – been alternately busy at the day job, making jewellery, working on my upcoming website, or tweeting (feel free to follow me on http://twitter.com/cupofsea).

I thought I would return with an amusing behind-the-scenes glimpse into the product development process. One of my rings / knuckledusters, called The Kraken, is a silhouette of a slightly sinister octopus:

The Kraken Knuckleduster rises from the deep

He started life with a very different-shaped head. It was only after laser cutting, when I saw the cut-out shape left behind on the sheet of acrylic, that I noticed my how much my little kraken bore a suspicious resemblance to a part of the male anatomy:

Octopenis rises from the depths ... of your underwear ...

Needless to say, I went back to the drawing board. The Kraken is now rated G for all audiences.

Soupa-duper!

lajohnstone — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 11:06:00 +0000

Many thanks to Soupa for visiting Cup of Sea at Saturday’s Tea & Make, and for being so enthusiastic about all the jewellery! They very kindly mentioned me on their blog here.

“Hello There” rings on Tweecap!

lajohnstone — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 21:06:27 +0000

The lovely Lizette Gagné can be seen sporting Cup of Sea’s very own “Hello There” rings in her latest Tweecap episode, recapping YouTubers on the latest interesting goings-on in the world of Twitter. Check her out!

“Hello There” rings, as featured on Tweecap!

Alternatively, click here

Leese wholesales to FayFey …

lajohnstone — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 09:37:20 +0000

The lovely Charmaine, otherwise known as FayFey, is my first wholesale customer. She’s just posted the first batch of rings – Half-Hearted and Hello There. Thanks FayFey!

Mention: "No Entry" Earrings

lajohnstone — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:54:06 +0000

VenetiaJewellry kindly mentioned my No Entry earrings on her lovely blog. Thank you, Venetia!

Mention: Etsy Treasury – Heart in Motion Necklace

lajohnstone — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 08:45:50 +0000

Fascinating fascinator-maker StellaPearl very kindly included my Heart in Motion necklace in her ‘Etsy in England‘ treasury, which hints at Victoriana with a pinch of Ascot. Thanks Stella!

Heart in Motion necklace (3rd row down) featured in my second Treasury