Even boys love our jewellery!

It makes you wonder what boys think sometimes! When my son was born, no one had given me any idea what children could be like. Luckily my son was better than textbook. Slept through the night at 4-5 weeks, hardly ever cried, was never sick on me and ALWAYS liked cars. When my mum and I started Purple Sorbet 9 months ago I thought my son would just 'automatically' know that jewellery was for girls and boy, (no pun intended) how wrong I was. Harrison was often around when my mum and I would make our jewellery and was always interested in the crystals and other materials we used but one day I was getting them ready to take to one of the hairdressers and he put 5 bracelets on his arm. Then declaring 'my like - mummy's'. I was like 'no honey their for girls. Well the look on his face said it all. It was like i'd taken all of his toy cars out of his hands and thrown them in a incinerator!! Well that taught me one thing - nothing is just for girls!

Clare, my sisters housemate, ordered out Sorbet Purple this week - for a guy at her work. Apparently it went down a storm! Not what I thought but apparently it did. The simple fact is, is doesn't matter what people think, it matters what your confidence exudes! I will quite happily wear any item of clothing or jewellery as long as I feel comfortable in it, everyone has their own sense of style. My son has quickly realised that as much as he likes the materials that we use, he now won't wear them (he's now 3) as he's decided their Mummy's and Granny's!

Our ranges are simple and sophisticated and we will ALWAYS try and accommodate peoples requirements. We make to size as we've realised one size doesn't fit all, we'll alter designs if you wanted something slightly different and the best thing, we're always here to help. So if you have any questions or queries, pop us an email to sales@purplesorbetjewellery.com and check out our designs at www.purplesorbetjewellery.com.

xx

Don't forget it Mother's Day 18th March!

MOTHER'S DAY

Now everyone gets their mum something special for Mother's Day, after all our mums will do anything for us, are always there for us and of course you want to thank them for all they've done for you. How about treating her to one of our choices for the special day?!?!

All mum's no matter how old love pearls! So how about one of our handmade Freshwater pearl necklace and bracelet sets.  Purity consists of 9mm Baroque freshwater pearls with a sterling silver clasp and sterling silver butterfly.  All our jewellery can be made to fit so you can tell us if you'd like to make it slightly smaller or larger.  Our standard sizes are 16.5'' for a necklace and 7'' for a bracelet 

All of our jewellery is sent out in purple tissue paper and purple velvet pouches. Purity bracelet is £27.50 and purity necklace is £45.00. Treat your mum to something really special this Mother's day and show her you love her!

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Personalised wine glass charms and our biggest promo yet

Hi everyone

Sorry it's been a while since my last post - been very busy! We've been doing a lot of orders for wine glass charms including one of my best friends hen do's and a friend of my sisters baby showers! Well, it will be a late baby shower as baby Emily decided to come 7 weeks early! So all our Purple Sorbet wishes go out to Sarah, Pete and baby Emily and wish them all a speedy recovery and hope they are home soon! We've done some very pretty pink and ivory pearls with everyones individually personalised with their names on so they can all toast to Emily.  For my friend Nicolas hen do we did hot pink glass pearls and black crystals with everyones name on and they look fab!

All out personalised wine glass charms are available on our website www.purplesorbetjewellery.com at £1.50 each.

We also were lucky enough to have a WHOLE PAGE in our local paper the Chronicle and Echo at the weekend. We had a good chat with Nicole from there and they were really interested in a local jewellery business run by a mum and daughter!

We're offering 10% off any order if you use the code CHRON when it comes to the payment stage! Happy buying everyone!

xxx

Venus is our Valentine

Saint Valentine was a Roman who was killed for his faith on February 14, 269 A.D. In 496, his 'saint day' was established. He is associated with love because he fell in love with the daughter of his jailer, and would pass notes to her. His final note, before he was executed, read 'from your Valentine'

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And so to this day. What does Valentine's Day mean in modern times? Well now it means showing the one you love how much you care for them with cards, presents or anything they like.  So at Purple Sorbet we have designed a few bracelets to represent the meaning of Valentine's Day but our favourite by far is Venus.

Venus is made up of Rose quartz nuggets (from Vegas no less!), Swarovski AB crystals, silver links, diamante spacer beads and 3 charms.  Rose quartz is known as love gemstone. Its pink colour signifies its meaning. It is all about ‘love’ in different forms like a love that is transcendental, love for the self, passionate love, love for the family, amorous love or universal love. Its high energy stimulate in intensifying love in relationships whether it is for a love between a mother and child, lovers and beloved or simply love for friends. So of course for Valentine's Day this stone is perfect! To compliment the pretty pink quartz we use Swarovski AB crystals. We use Swarovski over any other one as they are the prettiest clear crystals due to the  'AB' (Aurora Borealis) coating to create the sparkly rainbow appearance. The three charms which are used are a diamante heart charm, a pewter 'love' charm and a Tibetan silver cherub.

These bracelets are pretty and feminine and a perfect gift for Valentine's Day so head over to www.purplesorbetjewellery.com for £29.50. There's free postage and packaging until 14th February too. I wear my Venus all the time and i'll certainly be wearing it on the 14th!!

Bye for now! x

My wedding, my new cow and in the Red Jungle

hiya everyone! After a few very busy days I finally have time to sit down and write my blog! After another night out at a friends house on Saturday night and a whole day Sunday of being in pyjamas and having a good sort out of the house and HP's room I finally sat down to do our wedding photo album! It was strange but lovely looking back at them 18 months ago.  Whenever women get married I'm sure most would turn around and say that they could do that every weekend of their life! It's fantastic and everything about our day was perfect. we had THE best weather (thank god I'd chosen a dress which was light) our caterers got everything spot on and the music topped it all off. If I can recommend these companies because they really made my day what it was.  My dress was from Brides of Wellingborough and John Cable the owner did everything he could to assist me in choosing a dress or 3! The ladies there are very knowledgeable and they'll pick out a few for you to try on if you tell them the type of thing you want. The shop is very large and light and the dresses aren't all crammed together like in some wedding shops. The only slight quibble is that you have to park in the Morrisons car park behind and walk through the little alleyway to get through to the main road.  Anyway I ended up choosing a stunning silk dress by an English designer called Nicola Anne and the dress was Brooklyn in Ivory. I actually asked to have the dress skirt slightly changed so I actually had a bespoke dress for my day!

We used K & S Ball for our catering after being at a few parties where they had provided the food. As we had quite a small number of guests Ken and Sue allowed us to offer our guests a choice of main course as we knew that some people would really struggle with one thing or another.  Now I speak the truth when I say this when every single one of our guests have come to us since and said how outstanding the food was on the day. And to top it all off we had Lincoln Noel and his trio play in the garden for us at the start of the reception and DJ Matt Potter to take us into the evening.

Now we are attempting to potty train at the moment with little success! we've had quite a few accidents and one casualty, with the casualty being my beloved sheepskin rug!!  So after having to chuck it out as Harrison has slowly destroyed it over the last few years I started looking at cowhides! Oh my god I love them! If i had my way every piece of furniture in our living room would be cowhide or pony skin but warrens stopped me at the rug. So after trawling this one website http://www.citycows.co.uk/ for about 45 minutes and being on the phone to my mum just constantly reading out different codes of rugs checking the colour, size and pattern I have finally found my perfect rug!

Now as fussy as I apparently am with cowhides my mum is equally as fussy with her hair.  After as she would describe it, donkeys years of trying different hairdressers she has finally found one she likes and has got her hair right! Thanks the lord! And lucky she likes it too as it's one of my best friends! My friend Debbi owns Jungle Red Salon on Wellingborough Road in Northampton. http://www.junglered.co.uk/  Debbi hasn't been doing my hair for too long as I was very loyal to my previous salon however after some quite childish behaviour on their part I decided enough was enough and gave Debbi the chance to do my hair and I was very very pleased with it. Now my mum used to go to hairdressers, come back complain wash her hair straight away, cut her hair herself and even once she even made me cut it when I was about 13. She must've hated it then! But I suggested to my mum to try Debbi as she REALLY knows what she's talking about. Jungle Red have The Wella Master Colour Expert Award and I think there's only another two salons that hold it in Northampton. So my mum goes to Debbi yesterday, comes back via my house and she is elated it! She has finally got the colour she wants after about 6-7 years and simply because Debbi knows what shes talking about,. She'll guide you on the colour, shade and cut to suit you.  If you go on a Friday or a Saturday they have 'Cupcake and Cava weekends' where you can have a glass of fizz and a cupcake whilst you get your hair done, a very nice touch.  Speaking of which I must go and book my hair appointment with her now for the end of the month.

Be more in a couple of days! xx