Hey peeps, I am THRILLED to share screenshots of my Flower earrings featured on ITV’s This Morning!
As part of their summer florals fashion trends, the hand beaded flower earrings look BEAUTIFUL! Delicate bead flowers with sleek shiny gold hoops. LOVE!
Available in three colours, or customised with your own colours - the Flower earrings are exclusive to shhbysadie.com. Shop them here.
Sadie xx
I recently rediscovered these statement charm necklaces I made a couple of years ago - at the time I was obsessed with braiding brightly coloured embroidery thread with chains, and then add layers and layers of colourful, quirky charms. I used vintage, upcycled and new charms, crystals and wooden animals. The more, the merrier!
I made one of the necklaces below for myself, can you guess which one?!
I still have a lot of charms so think I might make a few new necklaces for 2020, I think they’d make the perfect statement necklace for a sunny evening, a festival, or a holiday - so watch this space! :D
Sadie xx
They’re here, my new LOVE earrings!!
My favourite ever design, I am SO happy with them, I can’t even believe I managed to figure out how to make them!
Pink and orange ombre love heart earrings with a beaded fringe. I am biased, but I think they’re the best things since sliced bread ;-)
Online and available now, along with a little friend - the new pink Pearl Heart brooch. Because pink hearts can only make your day happier!
Sadie xx
Here’s another trip down Shh memory lane for the creepiest time of the year - Halloween…
As I mentioned in my last blog post, I used to have a thing for skull jewellery - mostly bright, colourful skull jewellery! And in the theme of Halloween I had a little poke around in my old Shh by Sadie photos and pulled out a few pix of the skull necklaces, bracelets and goodness knows what else that I used to make….!!
Skull jewellery was quite popular at the time, in around 2010 - 2011, especially the colourful howlite stone skull beads, and I sold a lot of this kind of bracelet and necklace at markets and through stockists in New Zealand like Rex Royale, Emma and The White Room Gallery (these were some of my first ever stockists).
I also made beads from polymer clay and strung them into bones necklaces - they were super best sellers, too. At one point I couldn’t make enough clay bones - pink ones, blue ones, navy ones - glitter ones!!
These clay necklaces featured in editorial and advertising campaigns for New Zealand designer Emma, NZ magazine Thread, and fashion shows. I even remember being in Brisbane and people complimenting me on my bones necklaces and shyly saying “I made it”. Aww.
Another popular skull style was the “Skull N Rope” necklace. It was a combination of rope, which I wrapped with wire, and the colourful howlite skulls I loved so much.
Absolutely GORGEOUS style blogger Noha Nabil wore my pink and yellow Skull N Rope necklace and I nearly fainted.
One other memory of these good ol’ days was being in a bar in Wellington, The Southern Cross, and a staff member was wearing one of my Skull N Rope necklaces, but I was too shy to say “hey, I made that necklace” - and afterwards I wished I had!
Anyway, that’s today’s little trip down memory lane. What do you think of the skull and bone necklaces?
As you can see, I was still very much learning to take good photos in those days! ;-) But it was an exciting time for skulls and Shh by Sadie.
Sadie xx
Here’s a little trip down memory lane for this Halloween season. Here we have photos from the very first photo shoot that I collaborated with stylist Sopheak Seng for. And I can remember now how absolutely thrilled I was to be involved!
Sopheak styled this Day of the Dead fashion editorial for a New Zealand magazine, and when I popped in to take a peek behind the scenes I just COULD NOT BELIEVE how detailed and amazing the set was - there were flowers, candles, fruit, furniture and colourful props galore.
While I was there I saw hair and makeup artist Hil Cook creating the most AMAZING hair styles using wool and oh my goodness I felt like I was Ugly Betty sneaking a peek behind the fashion curtain. It was so flipping exciting.
At the time I used a lot of skull beads, spikes, charms and trinkets in my jewellery designs, and so the photoshoot was the dream collaboration. I loaned a selection of colourful necklaces and bracelets and couldn’t wait to see the final photographs.
Below you can see more photos from the shoot, and I’ve trawled RIGHT back into the depths of my computer and pulled out some pix of the skull jewellery I used to make, too.
Ahhh, such fun times!
