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
Looking for colourful, bright and bold wedding decor inspiration? You’ve come to the right place!
This DREAM shoot was inspired by the little ol’ Shh by Sadie Pink Parrot earrings and Bananas cuff bracelet! Essex-based wedding photographer Chloe Lee saw the bright, bold jewels and had an amazing vision for a festival-themed photoshoot.
Teaming up with other independent creatives and businesses, Chloe shot this editorial at Browning Bros in Essex.
It has made me dream of warm evenings, colourful accessories and laid-back laughter.
See more colourful wedding photos below + scroll to the end for a list of suppliers involved.
You can also check out more Shh by Sadie bridal inspo here.
Sadie xx
Here’s the dream team for your perfect boho-bride festival style wedding!
Photography / @chloeleephoto
Venue / @browningbros
Glitter / @luxuriousglitter
Model / @emmzstagram
Backdrop / @wildernessprophire
Flowers / @rosedecorstyling
Cake / @tinysarahscakes
Makeup / @alexandrasullivanmua
Furniture & Props / @anthologyvintagehire
Dresses / @lucy_cant_dance
Jewellery / @shhbysadie
Last month I was rather delighted to see my second ever Mollie Makes tutorial published in their magazine! (Do you remember my first tutorial, the woven beaded necklace?)
This time I was asked to design a beaded purse pattern and tutorial, taking inspiration from the beautiful beaded bags and purses by Shrimps and Susan Alexandra. My biggest hurdle was not that fact that I’ve never created anything like this before in my life (which was SCARY!), but was actually finding ROUND glass crystal beads! LOL.
I specifically wanted to use glass beads rather than plastic acrylic beads because I wanted my purse to be fancy! Which did make it difficult. Not only are plastic beads much cheaper, but you can also find them in a wide variety of bright bold colours (which as you know, I am a fan of). But I wanted glass!
Glass crystal beads aren’t too hard to find, but they are almost never round! Argh. I spent hours trawling the internet using all kinds of varied search terms but kept coming back to doughnut shaped beads. Which are lovely, but just don’t work as well for the purse design as round ones.
Eventually I discovered that Beads Direct stocked round, glass beads in a handful of colours, and I chose ones that I thought would work well for my design. I mocked up my pattern on my computer, and then started to teach myself how to make it. Like I said, I had never made ANYTHING like this before so it was a bit intimidating, but I had to give it my best shot!
Little by little I constructed parts of the purse, and then many hours later I finished it (I did have to stay up very late a couple of times!). I had expected it to be a rough draft, but it looked so good that I didn’t have to make a ‘finished’ version, I could use the first one! Which was so surprising, and of course saved a lot of work!
I had to send my little purse to Mollie Makes for them to photograph for the magazine, and I was very sad to do so because I didn’t want to say goodbye to it (insert laughing emoji here!). I was so proud of it I wanted to keep it so I could keep looking at it :D
I have since accidentally bought non-round beads to make another purse for myself (dammit!), and then didn’t like the colours together, so have had to buy other non-round beads to replace the one colour I didn’t like. So I will get there eventually, and I’ll share it on here when it’s finished.
What’s something that you’ve been super-duper proud of yourself for making?
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
We are back with another independent business interview this week with the contagiously enthusiastic Jakob from Love Local Collective, or LLC. LLC is on a mission to support, promote, and strengthen local businesses by sharing awareness and encouraging consumers to shop locally.
So it will be interesting to hear what Jakob has to say from his experiences connecting with many, many small businesses, and what he thinks the future holds!
Describe Love Local Collective in three words: sharing the love.
How long have you been running your business? We set up as a company in June 2018.
What inspired you to start your business? And what keeps you going? I grew up in Liverpool, which has roughly over 500 independents. My family and I would often visit our local independents for coffee, brunch, lunch or dinner.
You will always get better services, quality and passions with independents. Corporate or chain places never have staff who care about what they do! Shopping locally benefits SO many more people. Spread love, shop local.
And what keeps me going? The face of people when I’ve given them access and help to our 30 thousand monthly readers. I just love helping local businesses thrive and grow!
What are a few of your fave local producers that you’ve seen since starting LLC? I’m in the fortunate position to have met many wonderful local makers. From jewellers to hairdressers. Makers to the best makers of food. A personal favourite of mine is V is for Veggies. She makes the most incredible vegan cakes ever! I'm not even vegan! :-)
What do you think the future holds for shopping? I think we have difficult times ahead, which is why I've set out to get even more businesses involved so we can get people to shop locally instead of spending their cash with the corporate giants.
What’s the best bargain you ever bought? It has to be when I got a load of pallets from a building site! I then made our bed out of them. Long story short I bought the builders some beers for their hard work! A pallet superking bed. Winning.
What’s the scariest thing you’ve ever done? I’ve had numerous surgeries on my back. And setting up this company and going away from “normal” life!
What’s your biggest fashion faux-pas? I used to work for AllSaints when I was younger. This was before I decided to start a local revolution! We decided to wear some women’s shorts for the day at work! Brace yourselves, photographic evidence below!!
Find Love Local Collective online here and on Instagram here.
