Nic and Clay's Etsy launch...

(image from Etsy.com)

Nic and Clay is now on Etsy! We have just launched our site and have posted our first two items for sale. Follow the link to our store:

http://www.etsy.com/shop/nicandclay

(image taken by nic and clay. Wine Glass charms by nic and clay.)

Our first items for sale are our hand-made Wine Glass Charms. These Wine Glass Charms have evolved from the ones I hand-made for our Wedding. Everyone was so impressed with our themed Drink Charms so I just had to make more.

(image taken by nic and clay. Wine Glass charms by nic and clay.)

(image taken by nic and clay. Wine Glass charms by nic and clay.)

For those of you who are asking 'What's Etsy?" allow me to explain (and ask where have you been hiding?). Etsy is an online store that allow individual sellers to post their handmade, vintage or art and craft supplies for sale. It's a fabulous growing commumity of artistic and crafty people. Etsy is one of those really cool website I can get stuck on for hours browsing all the clever and interesting items that you will never find in your mainstream shopping centre. Common items include art, photography, clothing, jewellery, edibles, bath & beauty products, quilts, knick-knacks and toys. These are a few of my favourtie things...

(image taken by nic and clay. Wine Glass charms by nic and clay.)

Can you judge a book by it's cover?..

(image courced from Meet me at Mike's)

You may have seen these gorgeous covers in your favourite bookstore recently. Penguin have re-released some of their classics in this beautiful hard cover series. Titles include the ever popular Pride & Prejudice, Great Expectations, Sense & Sensibility, Little Women, Alice's Adventure's in Wonderland and through the Looking Glass and Lady Chatterley's Lover. The colourful and patterned covers were deigned by Coralie Bickford-Smith and are a matte foil design and clothbound.

(image sourced from Design Sponge Online)

I've always meant to start a collection the classics, and now I have my eye on collecting the whole colourful series. They would look great sitting in my bookshelf! (and I can't wait to finally read Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence)...

(image sourced from Penguingroup.com)