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couture

May 19 2010

Filed under: News — Tags: aberdeen college, couture, couture collection, fashion, fashion show, jewellery, necklace, resin — SpoiltPig @ 2:47 pm

It’s been a busy month and the next fortnight is looking to be just as hectic :)

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

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Goth Giveaway!

Apr 26 2010

Filed under: News — Tags: freebie, giveaway, goth, jewellery, resin — SpoiltPig @ 8:00 pm

* Now Closed! – And the winner is….

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.

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Changes

Mar 28 2010

Filed under: News — Tags: commission, Folksy, handmade, jewellery, prices, shop, spoiltpig — SpoiltPig @ 7:37 pm

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.

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Bees

Mar 21 2010

Filed under: News — Tags: airyhall craft bazaar, bees, craft fair, Folksy, insect, jewellery, resin — SpoiltPig @ 11:07 pm

Who loves bees? I DO.

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 :)