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Draw closes at midnight tomorrow and THREE prize winners will be pulled out of the hat and announced on Thursday.

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To celebrate reaching 600 fans on facebook and to say thank you for all the *likes* and lovely comments, I’m giving away one of the new Loveheart Lockets!

All you have to do is make sure you are a fan and leave a comment on this blog entry letting me know you’d like entered into the draw.
I’ll chose an entry at random on Oct 31st 2010.

Anyway…So, I blogged before about preparations for the Aberdeen College Fashion show and now it’s all over!  The clothes were fab, the wine was plentiful and SpoiltPig Jewellery got a great showing off on the runway.

See more shots from the night on Flickr and in the Facebook Album.

In the coming weeks I shall be finishing work and then assisting with the hanging  for the college exhibition, attending the opening and schmoozing people into large purchases(hopefully), attending final fittings for the HND Fashion Show and then erm, strutting my stuff on the catwalk!

On top of this, SpoiltPig is also providing the jewellery for the HND Fashion Show, yaay!  It’s going to be a fantastic night and I’ve decided it’s the right time to properly launch “SpoiltPig Couture” collection too.
Sooooo to keep SpoiltPig fans included and involved in the new happenings, I’m hosting ANOTHER giveaway!

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The Couture Collection will be launched and online on the 7th June 2010  so I’ll be drawing ONE lucky winner at random on the 1st June, to make sure they get their surprise Couture Heart necklace before anyone else!

I’m not unveiling anything until the very last minute, a little because it’s a huge secret and a little because I haven’t put the finishing touches to anything yet!  But be assured that you’ll be receiving a completely unique, One Of A Kind, designer Heart shaped necklace from the new range of SpoiltPig jewellery (which will retail between £20-£25!)….and all you have to do is leave a comment here to let me know you want to be entered!

Please also share this giveaway with your friends.  Link to the post from twitter, post it on your facebook/bebo/myspace or blog about it if you can!
SpoiltPig Jewellery is also now on Facebook.  Pretty please, take the time to look around the page and suggest us to all of your friends x x x

Helen Beaumont!

Thanks to all who entered, I shall make sure to update you with the next giveaway, which isn’t too far in the future! *

Wipe that imagery from your mind of teenagers dressed in black pouring out of cereal boxes or being handed out to communities like rations from a Red Cross van.

I’m giving away this Purple Leopard print and Spider necklace:

It has a sick sad story.  I couldn’t photograph  it properly but it has a little piece, of a single strand of (most likely) my hair embedded on the back. Woops?  Don’t fret, I’m sure this only adds to it’s value.  Preserved forever in resin.

All you have to do is leave a comment on this post and I’ll pick someone at random in a couple of days.  Bonus points for anyone who tweets, subscribes by the little orange box (top right), becomes a fan on facebook, tells a really good joke* or promises to use that strand of hair for cloning or voodoo.

*no racist, sexist, ageist, bigoted or ableist sick sad jokes please.

SpoiltPig jewellery is all going to be re-priced by the end of April.

I wish I could say its now all FREE but erm…nah, that’s not how it works :(

I’m not sure how much anyone’s interested in the ‘details’ but I figure I should be as transparent here as possible.

Currently, I don’t pay myself for my design work or the time it takes to put that idea to paper(many long hours cursing and swearing at photoshop and tearing up sketchbooks) or the time it takes me to promote, list and write item descriptions, the cost and time for promotional materials like flyers and business cards, travelling to and working all day at markets in the freezing cold, the cost of market stalls in the first place…this list goes on forever.

From the very beginning, I’ve been paying myself minimum wage for the time it takes to ‘make’ each item and then y’know, adding materials costs and rounding it up or down to the nearest quid. It’s not even the current legal minimum wage…I’m lazy at maths so when I say minimum wage I mean a FIVER p/h.

I’ve managed to keep it going this far with LOTS of help from lovely, awesome friends who’ve donated time and tools to help me.  I don’t have to pay for professional jewellery shots or expensive programs, I didn’t have to pay a web developer and I currently don’t have to pay for web hosting, all down to their generosity.   These people deserve to be paid though, right?  and I’d like to start doing that at some point this year…and maybe start earning a proper wage for myself too.

Folksy, the UK based site that I use to sell my work through are coming out of beta mode on the 1st May 2010 and as such, will be introducing a teeny 5% commission on my and everyone else’s sales,  so I figured that’s as good a time as any to re-launch SpoiltPig with some more realistic prices.

I hope this doesn’t piss anyone off, I hope that all my lovely customers will stick with me and I’m more than willing to answer any questions anyone might have and explain commission and fees in more detail if needed/wanted.

I got a great custom order to work on a while ago, the task being to create something with a cutesy bee theme.

SO – I got the thinking cap on and created a little smug bee character to embed in resin and turn into jewellery!

I unfortunately don’t have a picture of that very first Bee necklace I created but I went on to make some different colours for last month @ Sloans market (where they went down a storm!) and now have decided to share my little illustration(“doodle”) with my Folksy customers :)

Of course I did have some bright yellow ones but they all sold out today at Airyall Craft Bazaar :)

What’s your favourite colour? What would you like to see in the Spoiltpig Folksy Shop?

Completely one of a kind Couture Necklace, exclusive to SpoiltPig.
This heart comes from a print of my first exhibition piece.
£18

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Pink Rose Necklace

Hot Pink Necklace, handmade from glossy resin
and finished with a 16″ gold plated necklace.

£6.50

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