Wild Acre Jewellery Private View

Well, my socks have been well and truly blown off by the wonderful response to my Private View last night. The dark and slightly muddy field by our house quickly filled up with the cars of friends, customers and stockists of Wild Acre, and friends of theirs, who came to have a look at my work.

Along with the display of jewellery, we served champagne cocktails and blinis, there was candlelight and music and MUCH fun! I loved the excited, buzzy atmosphere and I am super grateful to every one who came along and my dear family who helped out in so many ways, for making it such a very special and encouraging evening for me. One to remember.

Sadly my hubby was too busy outside, torch in hand, getting people to and from their cars to take photos during the event but here are some of the set up pictures:

If you might be interested in attending a Private View in the future, please send me your email address and I will add you to my Wild Acre list.

Now for a serious amount of making! xx

sunshine and a Spring sale

Oh it is such an insanely beautiful day today! Fresh and sunny with kind, mild breezes that tickle and ruffle not the winter meanies that bite my cheeks and chap my lips.

The garden is full of lush new green growth, especially of woodland anemones, lungwort, tulips, narcissi and alliums, all reaching for the skies, even if most of the bulbs are not yet in flower, all that verdant green is giving me HAPPY!

Another thing that I'm loving is that some winter lettuces (Chinese mustard leaves) I planted in the autumn have soldiered on, providing leaves all winter, and look at them now - perky just doesn't do them justice - and they are lovely tasting. I am such a fan of growing salad leaves, they are really what I focus on growing foodwise, along with fresh herbs. There are varieties to take you through the whole year, they are so easy to grow, no maintenance and as you cut,  they just grow back incredibly fast (not true for proper hearted lettuces). AND, you avoid having to buy those overpriced sweaty bags of limp salads at the supermarket. Win win. The only one I have had any problems with is rocket because here it bolts so fast and gets decimated by some kind of pest.

I think my ratherchipperforamondaymorning mood is also because I had a lovely day yesterday, my gorgeous kids all got me adorable/hilarious cards and I was taken out for a delicious lunch, and it was just such a treat to be out with all of them, I am one lucky mama. I am not usually very good at these official days of affection, Valentine's day always makes me feel a bit queasy and sometimes I just think they are about commerce more than genuine feeling, but yesterday I did really feel the love! Finn made me a card at school, and I think they were asked to make a list of nouns they thought described their mums. Some of the ones he wrote cracked me up - 'breakfast-maker' (I am terrible at making weekday breakfasts most of the time, really useless!), 'toy-buyer' (is that a hint, Finn?), t-shirt cleaner,  but most plain melted my heart into a puddle. Tear-wiper, story-teller, heart-giver...sob!! I hope you mums out there felt appreciated yesterday, it is a wonderful but tough job we do.

To celebrate all this Spring-is-here happiness, and also to make way for lots of lovely new stock for Spring/Summer I am having a fabulous nearly-Spring sale in my online jewellery shop - a whacking 30% off all the items labelled 'sale'.  None of these items will be continued so grab 'em while they are still there! The sale will last until the end of the month. The "shop" button is just on the right hand side of the blog. Enjoy! xx