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Plymouth events - make your own leather feather earrings at Ocean Studios, Royal William Yard

Come along and make your very own statement earrings in time for spring!

You’ll make two pairs of beautiful leather feather earrings. You’ll choose from a variety of leathers (vegan option available) to cut out and then paint your own feathers.

Go wild with painted polka dots and patterns or keep it simple like the examples shown here!

All materials provided. Suitable for all levels. Booking essential.

£20 per person and you will make two pairs of earrings to take home with you.
To book email hello@shhbysadie.com

Located at the Makers Table in Ocean Studios, Royal William Yard, Plymouth. Cafe facilities available (with amazing cakes!!).

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events, workshop / classesSadie Hawker29 January 2019plymouth events, devon eventsComment

Half-term kids activities in Plymouth - children's beaded jewellery workshop

Yay, we’re back in 2019 with more children’s bead workshops!!

After the success of the Illuminate workshops, and last year’s Easter holiday kid’s workshops, I’ve organised more beading fun for the February half-term holidays!

With two dates available, come along and join in the beading fun!

Full event information below:

Sunday 17th February, 1-3pm, Ocean Studios, Royal William Yard, Plymouth
Wednesday 20th February, 1-3pm, Ocean Studios, Royal William Yard, Plymouth

Come along, experiment and play with beads - you’ll make a beaded necklace and bracelet to take home with you! Adults are welcome to book, too!
A relaxing, fun half-term activity in Plymouth, Devon.

All materials provided. Suitable for all levels.

Booking essential. £10 per person. Maximum 8 people per workshop.
To book email hello@shhbysadie.com

Located at the Makers Table in Ocean Studios, Royal William Yard. Cafe facilities available (with amazing cakes!!).

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events, workshop / classesSadie Hawker19 January 2019Comment

Illuminate light festival in Plymouth - check out our Glowing Bead workshops!

Last weekend I was thrilled to be a part of Plymouth’s illuminate light festival.

Illuminate was a fantastic visual feast for the senses and showcased projections and light art installations from local, national and international artists. It was held in the stunning Royal William Yard, with light installations dotted throughout the buildings, archways and the Secret Garden, where the Glowing Bead workshops were held!

If you’ve known Shh for a while, you may remember that I ran similar bead workshops for New Zealand’s LUX light festival in Wellington (you can see pix here and here). Children make their own glow in the dark beaded necklace, bracelet or headband using a variety of neon strings, glowing and non-glowing beads. The sessions are always so much fun to run, so I was excited to be part of illuminate and run them again in Devon!

illuminate light festival glowing beads shh by sadie plymouth

The workshops ran every evening throughout the festival, in rain or, erm, non-rain, and I was amazed by the creativity and enthusiasm of each and every child (and adult!). Every person eagerly wore their beaded creation as they left the workshop, with a few little ones telling me they were going to “keep it on forever”. Awwww!

As usual, I was so busy running the workshops that I forgot to take any actual pictures of the beads! Whoops. THANK YOU to everyone who visited us this year at illuminate, and HUGE THANKS to the wonderful illuminate volunteers who helped you all make your glowing jewels!

Check out some of the fantastic illuminate light works here.

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Sadie xx

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behind the scenes, events, workshop / classesSadie Hawker27 November 2018Comment

Christmas events in Plymouth - Christmas Crafternoon Fundraising for Mind - Sunday 2nd December 2018

I’m THRILLED to be co-hosting a charity Christmas crafter noon fundraising event with Lizzie from Make at 140 this December!

We are working on some exciting simple Christmas crafts you can make on the day, including these cute button snowman and Christmas tree decorations! Eek!

And so - come and get your Christmas craft on with Lizzie and I in aid of the charity Mind.

Sunday 2nd December, at the Makers Table, Ocean Studios, Royal William Yard, Plymouth

Join us for an afternoon of simple Christmas crafts. No experience necessary – just plenty of Christmas spirit! Suitable for adults and children.

As well as fundraising for Mind, you’ll also have fun making Christmas crafts you can take home with you.

A donation of £5 per person would be greatly appreciated, with all profits donated to Mind.

Find out more about the Mind Christmas Crafternoon initiative here.

Limited places available, to book please email hello@shhbysadie.com.

Hope to see you there!

Sadie xx

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events, workshop / classesSadie Hawker23 October 2018

The beginnings of a small jewellery business part one... kitchen tables and Mighty Mighty Markets

Here I am at my very first market at Mighty Mighty Markets on Cuba Street, Wellington in 2011

Hi everyone!

This week has been a time of reflection for me. Today marks six years to the date that I released my first ever ‘official’ collection, Sueños del Sol. And on Friday I had the pleasure of talking to a whole lecture theatre (eek!) of final year marketing students at Plymouth University about Shh by Sadie and the journey that has brought me and my million beads to where it stands today.

In preparation for my talk I sat down and spent an afternoon trawling through my old Shh photo archives and, oh my goodness, it was amazing remembering some of the jewels I’ve made, markets I’ve attended, people I’ve worked with and all of the ups and downs along the way.

When I began teaching myself to make jewellery in 2011 I never dreamed that anything would come of it, let alone that anyone would buy it - it was simply a new exploration, a new hobby, and I enjoyed wearing the earrings and bracelets I’d made for myself.

Shh by Sadie handmade statement jewellery

Working full time in my ‘day job’, I soon started attending markets on Saturdays with my borrowed table cloth and vintage teacups and saucers to display my jewels on (the teacups often had more interest than the jewellery!). I just wanted to sell jewellery so that I could go home and make more. (Well, that hasn’t changed!)

I was also selling online via Etsy, and I still don’t know how I managed to actually sell anything with the terrible photos I took! I remember taking my first product shots late one Saturday night, on a badly lit kitchen table, balanced on teapots and teacups (the jewellery, not me), because I was so eager to get my Shh by Sadie Etsy shop up and open. Yet people did buy the jewellery (which was at that time mostly brooches made of felt and fabric, button and flower earrings, and simple bead earrings and necklaces), and often came back for more!

I ALWAYS appreciated it when my lovely friends visited me at markets and came and had a giggle with me :-)

Shh by Sadie at Matchbox Studios, Wellington

From there I went on to be stocked in my first few real shops - Rex Royale and Emma on Cuba Street, along with The White Room Gallery in Island Bay. Markets continued, stockists grew, and I was even featured in a few blogs, publications and the Mighty Mighty Market poster plastered across Wellington that I had to close my eyes every time I walked past because it was so hideous… :D

I’ve posted some photos of the early Shh days here - hope you enjoy looking at them as much as I did. You’ll see that there was always a love of pink! And a lot of skulls back then too!

If you remember any of these Shh jewels or markets, I’d love to hear from you or see your photos.

I’ll post the next phase of the Shh journey next week.

Sadie x