Well the inevitable happened – the hearts and the cats collided on my workbench and here they are ….The Love CatsPin ItDon’t forget you can find the free tutorial to make your own little cats here http://www.carajane.co.uk/2012/01/my-sleeping-cat-tutorial.htmlI am really happy to email you a PDF, couldn’t find an easy way to share the PDF for download – must look into that (feel free to let me know if you know...

Well people are starting to think about Valentines Day and I am seeing many other people creating hearts so I decided I would play with hearts too. I have a fair bit of work in progress but here are some finished earrings. They will be my earrings for my week 2 of the 52 pairs of earrings a year challenge I am taking part in on Flickr.  The middle ones are studs, I finally got round to ordering some earring posts! I often see people put little...

I was wondering what type of earrings I should make first – then it became obvious – little cats of course!(You can find my free tutorial to make them yourself here  – I wouldn’t recommend starting so small though, they are very fiddly small!)They  are 2cm across, I had to make 3 cats as I realised after I made the second identical to the first they would look better mirroring each other.If you like to make things why...

I am so thrilled that you are enjoying my cat tutorial and delighted with the results I am seeing! I have had a few suggestions for further improvement which I shall implement but they are fairly minor changes. I wanted to share some of the results that people have been kind enough to photograph and share, I loved seeing them! Please do let me see a photo if you’ve had a go.Beautiful little cat by Pippa – love the colours and the...

Here is the promised cat tutorial, I hope you enjoy it! It is also available as a PDF document which I can send to you if you email me, I am really happy to do so – just couldn’t find an easy way to have it as a download online. If you use it I would be really grateful for some pictures of your cats, and as always a comment, or like here or on my facebook page really makes my day. I would also appreciate any feedback you have to...

I have been very busy making things this week. Here’s a couple of my newest pendants. I am trying to always add a little extension chain and dangle, it means the length of the necklace is adjustable to some degree and the clasp is more likely to stay at the back.  I wrote a blog post a while ago about keeping necklaces in place – you can find it here