Indescribable ~ Chris Tomlin

This video and song were the inspiraion behind the name of my blog.
How can we fail to be uninspired by the wonderful and amazing creations of our amazing God.

Pandora style bracelet GIVEAWAY!!

To celebrate our new range of pandora style bracelet bases and beads at Crystal Velvet I am going togive away a starter bracelet with three beads, two dangles and two clips.
For those of you who don't know yet what a pandora style bracelet is, it's a new funky version of the traditional charm bracelets where you attached silver or gold charms to a link bracelet. Charms are traditionally bought to mark important events such as a wedding, the birth of a child or a first communion , eighteenth birthday etc.
With a Pandora style bracelet, you can add silver cored lampwork beads and dangle charms. The great thing is that you can use as few or as many beads as you want. You simply remove them if you don't want them all on.

Base Bracelet

crystal fascetted beads

Lampwork silver cored beads with a dangle charm

To be in with a chance of winning simply leave a comment below or on my blog

Crystal Velvet Weddings

or even on both!

The draw will be made at random on 31st October 2009 at noon.

Special offer on Alice band tiara's

Until the end of October all of the band style tiaras created by Crystal Velvet will be sold to blog readers at a reduced rate.
They can be created in single, double or triple row Swarovski crystal, in any colour that you want with or without reshwater pearl accents.

Triple row are usually £28.00 and blog readers can purchase them for £23.00.
Double row are usually £22.00 and blog readers can purchase them for £18.00
Single row are usually £16.00 and blog readers can purchase them for £13.00
Postage is £2.00 per order(however many there are)

Simply email your requirements to mail(at)crystalvelvet.co.uk or telephone 01430 421477.

This style tiara can be worn as an alice band and make great gifts!
Examples of other tiara bands can be seen here

Church and school unite ~ Hunsley Youth Trust

Recently All Saint Church in South Cave has joined forces with other churches in the catchment area for South Hunsley School in the East Riding of Yorkshire. Together they have agreed to fund a Christian youth worker to work half the time with the churches and the other half within the school.

The Youth worker is Mark Tiddy and he's looking forward to the challenges before him.

South Cave church has been very blessed with it's youth work up to now and has great provisions and groups for up to 18's. Our Young people have been the force behind the Christian union within the South Hunsley. It's great that they now have a formal youth worker to support their work.

it is still early days and the Hunsley Youth Trustweb site has only just gone live (expect more in the next few weeks) http://hcyt.co.uk/.

Please keep them in your paryers as they begin their work.

Come, Now is the Time to Worship

Now is the time to worship.

Come just as you are!

Chokers

I've recently been having fun creating these choker style necklaces. They are really easy and comfortable to wear and because there are no catches involved (the choker finds your natural

size) I love they way the accent colours can be matched to your outfit.

Sing Your Praise ~ Amy Grant

I love the orchestral intro to this classsic Amy Grant song

Hat pins

If you are looking for the perfect finishing touch for your outfit, then these hatpins could be just the thing you need.
They are created to order in colours to match your outfit on either silver or gold pins.
available through
www.crystalvelvet.co.uk

Before the Throne of God Above ~ Jill Southeren sung by Selah

A beutiful celtic version of this wonderful song of hope.

Everlasting God ~ Chris Tomlin

Our hope, our strong deliverer

Flowers

Having been asked by a client to create her wedding flowers, I gratefully and enthusiastically took up the challenge.
It's a craft I've had very little to do with before, but using existing craft skills and a little trial and eroor I creted bouquets and buttonholes for the whole wedding party and expanded my wedding range even further. You can see more of the flowers on my blog crystal velvet weddings or on my website Crystal Velvet

Just letting you know!

Freshwater pearl Bracelet

I have a blog giveaway on my blog Crystal Velvet Weddings. simply leave a comment below the post along with your wrist size to be entered into the draw which will be picked at Random next wednesday at 12 noon BST.

God Speaking ~ Mandisa

Beautiful music with deep thoughts to get me back into the blogging.

I've missed you all!

Selling Crafts by Sale or Return.

"Erica" available through www.beadsbydesign.co.uk (can be created in any colour)

I have been selling goods by Sale or return for sometime now and I thought I would dedicate this post to the "how to's"

It is important that the thought of "selling your items" does not shove common sense out of the door.
By following the points listed you should experience a happy and fruitful relationship with the gallery / shop.

Sale or return is where you supply goods to a gallery / shop and no cash is handed over to you in exchange. The goods are displayed and cared for by the shop and then in the event of any sales being made, the shop pays you a percentage of the sale.
When you hand over your goods, it is important that you put together a simple contract. The language must be basic and state the following:
An inventory of stock: List all items clearly.
Pricing: You must list the price you want from the item and then the mark up that the shop can make
Discounts: If the shop decides to include the goods in a sale promotion, that the cut should be from the shop's cut.
Payment: When you can expect payment for sales and how you will receive that payment.
Damage or loss: If damage or loss of item occurs whilst in the shop's care, then the shop will pay you your cut of the price.
Transporting goods to the gallery If you are delivering or posting the stock to the shop, who is responsible for postage costs (I normally state that if I am sending I pay the costs and if they are sending then they pay the costs)
Promotion If your goods are to be displayed in the shop, it is no good having them in a weak site eg. stuffed in corner and not displayed to their potential. You should state that they be displayed with good lighting, visiblity etc.
Copyright : ensure your goods cannot be copied whilst they are in the care of the gallery… no photo’s without your agreement
Statement of Ownership: so that the gallery cannot claim them as assets should they run into financial difficulties. This is incredibly important. If the shop goes under in the credit crunch then you need to be able to prove that the items are not part of the shops collateral.

By observing these simple steps you should have a problem free relationship with the shop.

Remember that when approaching the shop, you should be confident and know prices etc. Always dress in a business like way and be positive.

Updates

Recently I have been a bad blogger. I have not updated nearly as much as would ideally like to. Anyway there has been a lot going on and I'll tell you some bits and bobs...

On one of my other blogs www.crystalvelvetweddings.blogspot.com I have a give away that is ending this lunch time. You simply leave a comment on the post and choose from these four bracelets... Open to Us and Uk readers.

I have also been updating my shop www.crystalvelvet.co.uk and have changed it's direction slightly to be more of a wedding and occasion site. I've been asked by a bride to create all their wedding stationary and have had lots of fun designing. This is a new venture for me, but one I shall embrace.
I have also been able to offer lots of advice regarding the service itself and have been privaledged to choose the music. You really can't imagine how much of a thrill this has been.

Finally, I have been out in the garden. Earlirt this year we dug a huge strip out of the front and have now planted loads of seeds etc. It's been great fun. few more weeks and we should be enjoying our organic crops.

So there you go, that's where I have been....