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Hello from Kysam!

This blog is a glimpse behind the scenes at Kysam, a visual diary to show our inspirations and share our creativity as it happens.  Kysam strives to produce jewellery and trinkets for lovers of all things quirky.

 

Every few weeks we will create a ‘Mini Treasury’ showcasing other handmade goodies we’ve found around the world that we admire and hope you will too.  We will also post sneaky pictures of new products and how they are made along with tips and the occasional tutorials (if the wonderful Hayley can teach me how to post photos on this blog!) along the way to help and inspire others who may be interested in the shiny, sparkly world of jewellery.

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Its been an exciting month for Kysam with the launch of the new website, thanks to the super talented Hayley over at minkidesign as well as being nominated as “Shop of the Week’ by Craft Britannia which resulted in Kysam being featured in a lot of treasuries here are just a few of my favourites: Gears Galore, A wholey appropriate treasury and As sweet as honey…  I also managed a cheeky mention on the lovely Laura’s blog.

 

I recently took part in a new Craft Fair for Sussex called Make Market, its great to see new craft markets popping up in Sussex and it means I get the chance to meet other crafty people and occasionally get featured in cool blogs: Space of mine own however, it also means I end up spending more than I’ve earnt!

 

Now as this is my first blog I won’t waffle on too much, but look forward to chatting to you all over time and feel free to post questions or comments for the Kysam team.

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Our launch

The launch of the website last week exceeded all of our expectations! A huge thanks to the ‘ever patient Hayley’ from minkidesign.com and for my ever suffering husband, for not yelling at me working till 3am on Saturday because I was so excited about the orders 😉  There are still a few freebies left for those ‘quick off the mark’ customers and let’s be honest… who doesn’t love a freebie!  My home is full of stuff I didn’t actually need but convinced myself I did because it came with something free.

 

My passion for jewellery and all things shiny started at an early age wandering around the stalls of Camden and Spitalfield’s Markets but it was only after moving to the wonderful city of Brighton that I decided to take a leap of faith and study silversmithing and I can honestly say I’ve never looked back.

 

When my grandmother passed I discovered a treasure trove of old forgotten jewellery, most of the pieces were costume jewellery but the designs were still amazing and the detail exquisite, one of my favourite pieces is this old moon shaped brooch

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which brightens up any outfit!  Sometimes we don’t always need new stuff, just ‘undiscovered treasures left lonely at the bottom of a box’.  Go on have a root around your home this week, you never know what you might turn up!!