February Playlist

February's been a pretty good month for music in my opinion. I'm so obsessed with the new Unknown Mortal Orchestra song Multi Love, can't wait for their new album to come out. Courtney Barnett's new song is also brilliant and Yay! to new music from blur, probably my all time favourite band.

I hope you enjoy my playlist, as always let me know if you've heard anything good recently!

Brighton Etsy Team Blog Hop

I've been nominated by the lovely Kate of Actually I do and Anna from the wonderful Anna's Drawing Room to do a blog hop post as part of the Brighton Etsy Team! Here we go:

What inspired you to start your business or Etsy shop?

I started making pieces of jewellery for myself when I was in school but didn’t truly discover a passion for jewellery design until around five years ago when I signed up for evening classes to learn silversmithing. Learning about different types of metals and gemstones and how to work with them was really interesting and made me realise the design possibilities with jewellery are endless. I'd been shopping on Etsy for a while and always dreamed of having my own shop so nearly three years ago now I got some designs together and thought I'd give it a go!

We're looking at goals in the Brighton Etsy Team this month (you can follow along with #btnetsygoals!) Can you share one of your goals for your shop for the next six months?

My goal over the next sixth months is to try out some new designs I've had in my head for a while now but never got round to making and to be better at every aspect of social media!

What are you working on at the moment?

I'm doing a couple of courses over the next month or so and working on my spring/ summer collection, hoping to have a few different designs to what I usually do ready by around May time.

If you could give other sellers or someone looking to start their own design/craft business one piece of advice what would you say?

I think my main advice would be to just go for it! You can spend too much time thinking about doing things rather than just giving it a go. Definitely educate yourself as much as you can as you can never learn too much, whether it be on different techniques and materials or on marketing. I would recommend joining a website like Etsy where it is relatively inexpensive and simple to set up a shop. There are great communities on there that can help you with every aspect of your business. Joining a local team can be really helpful too. I’m a member of the Brighton Etsy Team, I've found it so valuable and I’ve met some really lovely people through it, it's so important to be able to talk to people who are going through the same trials as you with setting up a small business. Etsy has also given me the opportunity to reach customers all over the world, which I think is really exciting knowing that there are people wearing my jewellery in countries that I've never even been to!

For the next blog hop I nominate Mooshpie, The Emporers Old Clothes and Forever Foxed

Daily Routines Of The Worlds Most Famous Creative People

I found this today via The Independent I think my day best matches Picasso's, not sure if that's a good or bad thing! Which one do you most relate to?

Word Of The Year

I've been reading on a few blogs recently about having a word for 2015 (my main source of inspiration was over at Harper & Finch's blog), I think this is a great idea as I decided against having any New Years resolutions this year as I never keep them! My word for 2015 is going to be: endeavour. This year I want to try new things, do my best and have as many adventures as possible! I'd love to hear if you've got any New Years resolutions, or if you're choosing a word for your 2015?

Here's To Getting It Right in 2015

Inspired by all the talk on Brighton Etsy Hour (#btnetsyhour) about blogs and New Years resolutions I have decided to start my own. This isn't my first blog attempt so hopefully it'll be 10th time lucky to actually posting regularly/ posting things that other people will be interested in, so here we go! Happy New Year everyone, here's hoping 2015 will be the best yet!

Photo credit Noel Shiveley