Giveaway Winners!

Thank you all for your lovely comments! 

Two numbers were drawn...

Number 33

Lottie

You win my bracelet

Number 5

PineRidgeTreasures

You win a 50% discount code for Grubbi

A big thank you to all for taking part! 

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Giveaway & A Sale - A Thank You!

Grubbi has now surpassed 1000 sales on Etsy!  To celebrate I'm having a sale and a giveaway! 

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The sale will last for 48 hours and you can save 40% on all items by using the code "FLASH40" at checkout.  The store is well stocked with lots and lots of ceramics, plus Czech beads and tutorials. 

I would like to thank all of my customers at Grubbi for shopping with me, I'm thrilled to have surpassed 1000 sales and to receive such great feedback from my customers. 

To thank you all, I'm also giving away one of my favourite pieces of jewellery that I've made. The bracelet below is made with the following components...

Bird house focal by Heather Powers of Humblebeads
Czech glass beads
Ceramic bead by Gaea

Sterling silver toggle clasp

2 x large sterling silver focal beads

The beads are strung on 49 strand soft flex and finished with sterling silver wire guardians, crimps and crimp covers.

The bracelet measures 8" and would suit a 7.5" wrist.

A second winner wull receive a 50% off code for my store.

Giveaway is open to everyone, worldwide.

To enter and win a chance at winning this bracelet, simply comment on this blog post. 

To earn more chances at winning, please do any of the following -

Blog about this giveaway (leave a link to your blog post)

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Favourite my shop on Etsy

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Remember to leave a separate comment for each thing you do!

The giveaway will close on Sunday June 30th.

Grubbi's Birthday! Ooo and a little sale to celebrate!

We'll get the good stuff out of the way first...

To celebrate Grubbi's birthday I'm having a sale! 40% off for the next 48 hours, so great savings to be made if you've had your eye on something in my store. Use code HAPPY2ND for 40% off at checkout

And if you're interested...


It's Grubbi's 2nd birthday!  I've gone through quite a journey over the last couple of years...starting out making jewellery, progressing onto wanting to create my own beads and becoming a polymer clay addict, playing around with metal smithing and MissFickleMedia's metal patina's (still the best ones in my opinion!), soldering, texturing metals, etching copper and brass, a very small dalliance with metal clay which left a lump of copper clay stuck to my fingers and finally, ceramics. 

I am totally in LOVE with ceramics. I tend to get bored very easily and flit from one kind of medium to another...nothing sticks with me for too long, I love to try new things and have learnt some fabulous techniques from the "beading community". I was content with Polymer for a long time...but they never gave me the clinkity clink satisfying noise that glazed beads do. 

I thought I would get bored but I haven't! I've finally found a medium that I want to explore with, try a million techniques with, progress and evolve with and I love it! I feel settled. 

I'm already wanting a bigger kiln, a much bigger kiln! I want a pottery wheel too. Unfortunately I don't have the space, so I shall be evolving on a very small scale. BUT there's so much to learn...I've touched upon a little bit of sculpture...something very basic but I found I was good at it, it wasn't difficult to master, it came easily...I also made a pot...that didn't turn out so well, but I think perhaps I need to remove the thought in my mind that pots NEED to be perfectly round. I love mishapen, odd looking things but when it comes to trying something myself, I kinda want perfection the first time I try something...have to get over that so I can find my own style...or evolve with my own style, something I feel I'm finding now as I progress with clay. 

The name Grubbi came about through a brainstorming session with a friend of mine...I was looking for a name that fit me. I love old worn looking things...always have. Old buildings, peeling paint, ruined castles, patinated metal, shabby furniture, aged jewellery, rustic beads...anything a bit different. I began playing with words and stumbled upon the word "Grubby", which means a bit dirty...worn looking, or the other less romantic meaning, infested with grubs!!

Anyway, less of the infestation...so I liked the word Grubby, I like words that end with an "ee" sound, they roll off the tongue and so I switched the Y with an I (cos the I makes it cool! :p) and Grubbi was born! 

Plans for the future...I'm sketching away with ideas for handsculpted pendants...it's difficult coming up with ideas that haven't been done before.  I have new glazes on the way, I plan more experiments with layering...maybe even adding a bit of copper clay into the mix.  I have some bead bundle kits in the making...and hopefully a bead club starting soon (limited spots!). I'm also experimenting with Sgraffito which is great fun (carving into underglazes). I have more doodle bead sets coming soon, I'm experimenting with metal clay (metal section soon to be updated) and best of all, I'm off on holiday with my amazingly lovely boyfriend at the end of the month! Scotland here I come! :D 

Oh and here's a picture of my claying buddy...Jelli (my favourite cat, but don't tell the others!)

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Giveaway Winners!

I used random.org to randomly choose 3 numbers...

First number generated was 56, which belongs to the comment made by "13"...you have won a £25/$38 spend in my store! 

Second number generated was 1, which is the comment made by SomethingUnique, you have won a 50% off code redeemable in my store!

And finally the third number generated was 28, which is the comment made by Cilla, you have also won a 50% code for my store! 

Big thanks to everyone for participating!! 

New Stuffs!

It's been a busy old week...repeated glazing and firing days...I need a bigger kiln! So, to give my customers some variety I added some larger bead sets, a few disk bead sets, a lot of new pendants and some of my new style of beads...

Below you can see some of them...these are heavily textured stoneware beads. I've applied the glazed with a sponge to get a multi-coloured mottled effect...then the textures are highlighted with a brown stain and covered in a clear or clear crackle glaze to finish them off. They take a lot more time to make, but it's fun seeing the final results! 

I'm running a 25% off code when you spend £60 or more. That means if you spend £60, you'll only pay £45!  Code is 25OFF60 and will run for the next week. 

Remember to sign up to my Newsletter for more great savings :)  

Giveaway time!!

So I finally surpassed 300 likes on my Facebook Page and to celebrate I'm having a giveaway!  Now, I was going to pick out some bead sets to give out to folks, but I decided that as people have different tastes that you may want to choose your own! 

So, I'm giving away a £25 "shop" at my Etsy store...you get to choose £25 worth of items from my store with free delivery!

I'm also giving away a further two 50% discount codes...

So that's three giveaways. Names will be drawn randomly from comments using a random number generator. 

Commenting on this blog post earns you one chance to enter...for futher chances to enter do any of the following below and add a new comment for each!

1. Share this giveaway on your Facebook  (personal/business page)

2. Share this giveaway on your blog

3. Like/Follow me on Etsy

4. Like my Facebook page

5. Follow my blog
6. Sign up for my Newsletter (on the right on blog page)

Winners will be drawn on April 1st.