Coryographies

Saturday, 27 October 2012

October MIA?

*crickets chirping* It’s been a bit quiet around here…!

This month I came back from Canada and immediately took on a temporary full time job in London! I thought, why not? It’s only the beginning of Christmas season when I should be stockpiling bookshelf necklaces and getting ready for craft fairs. Why not earn a bit of extra money? London’s not that far from Oxford, it’s only a 2 hour bus ride…

Yes, in my lunacy for the last month I’ve been back and forth Monday to Friday (that’s 2 hours each way!) to work in an alumni relations office in London. It’s great fun, and with people who I’ve worked with before, it’s just the whole “now I have no time!” combined with “2 hour bus ride, really??”.

The fallout from this is that I’ve severely limited the stock I’m selling online in my Etsy shop – only bookshelf necklaces and a few earrings at the moment! I should be free again mid-November to base my life solely around Coryographies, but before that happens – tomorrow in fact – it is my first craft fair of the Christmas season!! Hooray! Every evening I’m madly scrambling to finish orders so that I can also make a good amount of stock to take on Sunday.

I will be in Hungerford in the Town Hall, open 10-4. I’ll also post the other craft fair dates and times where I’ll be if you fancy stopping by! I could call it… Cory’s Christmas Tour! YAY!

Tuesday, 9 October 2012

I just thought of something...

I thought it was fitting that I'm now living in Oxford while I'm making my book-themed jewellery - you know, literary town, Oxford University Press, bookshops galore (the Blackwell's is so big they actually have Shakespeare performances on one of the floors, AMONG the bookshelves!!) and probably the biggest concentration of libraries per capita in the world.

Oxford Blackwell's, the best darn bookstore in the world

But then it just occured to me, as I wrote out my return address the zillionth time tonight. I used to live in READING. R-E-A-D-I-N-G! That must look like a pun on the envelope when I send out people's bookshelf necklaces! The thing is, Reading is pronounced "red-ing" and indeed, used to be spelled back in the day r-e-d-d-i-n-g. I'm not sure why it changed, and why we don't change it back... but I look at it and think 'town' not 'activity', and it didn't occur to me that it was a great town name for my business address.

But how fitting it that!

Saturday, 6 October 2012

The Sweet Bookshelf

Etsy shows me were the traffic to my shop is coming from, and I love checking it out because I end up finding blogs that have linked to me or posted one of my items! More often than not I find a great blog I'll continue reading as well, and here is one of them!

The Sweet Bookshelf is a great blog of book reviews - tons of them are by self published authors which really interests me (when am I going to join the Kindle group of self-published novel fans??). I saw my antique bookshelf necklace listed a few posts down as well so it looks like there's lots of goodies to find on this site :) Run by Mary from Scotland, you'll like her clear friendly writing style - and so do tons of others, judging by the 500 readers (through google) I just joined! I will be coming back to read soon...

Wednesday, 3 October 2012

I've been stalked!

http://etsystalker.com/2012/10/03/shelves-of-books-2/

Tuesday, 2 October 2012

I'm back from Canada, and in the workshop!!

I'm back from my lovely trip to Canada - pictures to soon follow! I was able to see the beautiful places where I grew up, as well as my beautiful new niece.

Now I'm back in good ol' Blighty and I'm ready to get to work! Thank you to everyone who took advantage of the 15% off discount while I was away, and I'll be starting on your orders NOW (like, right now!)

I'm happy I've come back to a big long list of things to make, and so the following week is going to be a bit of a rush to get things done! But I love being busy and I love making Coryographies jewellery, so I really couldn't be happier!

Sunday, 30 September 2012

My best review ever!

I made a pair of polkadot teapot earrings and teashop bookshelf necklace for author Lindsay Avalon recently. I custom made the bookshelf to be the same colour as the earrings, which I thought was a very sweet idea! I'm very happy to say Lindsay loved her order and gave me a great review on her blog! She said some very sweet things and I was so happy to read it. I wanted to share it here because it made me so happy!

http://www.lindsayavalon.blogspot.ca/2012/09/beautiful-handmade-gifts-by.html

She writes paranormal romance books, and her novel Breaking the Nexus will be coming out soon - in the meantime she has been posting excerpts and other tidbits on her blog to keep us in suspense! She also has a webpage here which logs the progress on her projects:

www.lindsayavalon.com

Tuesday, 25 September 2012

Make a felt Peter Pan collar

This is such a great idea for those of us still getting used to the sewing machine. I was browsing through videos on Youtube showing how to make your own collar to add to shirts, and I found this very cute one, which uses felt, a ribbon and a cute button. I think when I'm back home this will have to be my next project! I bet you can get quite creative with the colours, materials and buttons....

Saturday, 22 September 2012

Coryographies in Texas!

Coryographies is happy to announce that bookshelf necklace are now on sale in a great community book store in Houston, Texas! Katy Budget Books looks like a used book lover's heaven. I love getting lost in used bookstores, and never exit empty handed... if I ever get a chance to visit Texas, this place is number one on my list!

Visit the website at http://www.katybooks.com/, or visit yourself if you're in the area... and tell me how it is, since I'm half way around the world and want to go myself!!

Here is a video showing the bookstore - doesn't it look sweet? And it's huge! Although they do say everything's bigger in Texas...

Tuesday, 18 September 2012

Property Porn

Does anyone else search for their dream house recreationally? It's incredible fun... pop in a few search words in an area you like, and see what lovely houses come up! England is the perfect place for beautiful houses, especially if you like darling thatch cottages with beams and massive fireplaces and adorable names like "Buttercombe Cottage" and "The Cider Mill". I actually came across a cottage called Pooh Corner!

Pretty in Devon

...this one on the left for example is nice!

Try it out for yourself - on a sleepy Sunday afternoon (noting it's Tuesday here *cough*) grab yourself a tea and have a look through some pretty areas you'd like to live in - my favourite search spots are the Dorset coast, and North Yorkshire. Although I'm thinking I should pay a bit more attention to Wales...