Newletter

July 2010 News

Monthly GiveAway and Stacker Rings

Monthly Giveaway

Each month I will be running a giveaway for beads, silver findings or jewellery. This month we're giving away 3 of our handmade sterling silver charm bracelets, they look great on their own or with lots of colourful beads and charms, they also make a great present!

All you have to do is send an email to karen@lavidalerie.com and confirm that we are sending our newsletter to the right email address and you will go in the draw for one of the bracelets - Draw ends 1st August 2010
Next month we are hoping to do a joint giveaway with Trudi at www.glitteringprize.co.uk - Trudi makes gorgeous lampwork beads.

Making Jewellery BOGOF
We're also involved in a giveaway in Making Jewellery Magazine (Issue 17), MJ are running a BOGOF giveaway for one of our jewellery making breaks, if you win you can have a "buy one get one free" holiday with a friend !

New Items
At Last - Handmade Sterling Silver Stacker Rings ! - We have been trying to get these on

the website for ages, lovely, easy to

wear stacker rings, collect them, swap them around, re-design your ring everyday. We have 3 thicknesses of rings (£3 to £5) each in a choice of 5 textures plus a sweet Pebble Ring and 4 designs of band (including a heart design and your words). We will be adding to this range so start collecting now !

Copper Charms- New handmade copper

charms including

Dreaming - domed and oxidized for detail, hearts cut from sheet - each one different, karma and a charm for your own special word (check out our website to see why mine says "twelve". They loo

k great on their own, hanging from a thong with other dangles or as part of a story bangle. We will be adding similar charms in silver next month

Large Silver Hammered Heart- We have added a bigger sister to our handmade hammered heart charm, makes a great pendant either on it's own or with lots of dangles.

Other News
Thanks to everyone who "liked" our new FaceBook Page - thanks to you it now has a sensible address - http://www.facebook.com/la.vidalerie.jewellery.making.holidays it has lots of photos of students work - Very inspiring ! We need lots more likes so it you haven't had chance to visit....

Tim Update - And just a short time after his operation, those of you who have met Tim won't be surprised to hear that he is back on the roof, if the heat doesn't get him we should have a beautiful new (well old) stone lauze roof on the cottage this month !