Blantons

29/05/2026

Loved my day at Hay-on-Wye yesterday - lots of colour around me - summer dresses - summer colours - cosmos plants and so much support from fellow traders and market management helping out as the WiFi was awful due to the festival and affecting people wanting to make card payments - but alls well that ends well - returning customers - new customers and my jewellery finding their forever homes!

26/05/2026

Ok - in this heat the best place to be is in the workshop with the lovely cold flagstone floor!
Kiwi jasper beads and a stretchy bracelet with sterling silver focal bead because the colours are very cooling and will be with me at upcoming markets: Hay Markets this coming Thursday (28th) and the festival is still in full swing!

30/04/2026

This Saturday (2/5/26) is Hay-on-Wye market - a wonderful mix of artisan food, craft and salvage. I’m in the Butter Market with lots of loveliness - mine and other traders!!
10-4 come visit and enjoy and say hello if you do!

22/04/2026

Love labradorite but it’s so difficult to photograph and capture the amazing flashes of blue, teal, green, purple and gold that I can see in these bracelets - made this week and coming with me to market 😍 Hay Markets

03/04/2026

Happy Easter everyone!! 🐣🥚 🐣

The first summer market of the year at Hay-on-Wye this Saturday(4/4/26) and I’ve got new top ups … photos show paua shell bracelets and earrings, paua shell pendant, amazonite stretchy and earrings and some new designs in the ‘fun range’ plus I’ll be bringing lots of pearls and gemstones as usual.

25/03/2026

Hay-on-Wye market tomorrow (26/3/26) find me in the Butter Market with pearls, gems and paua shell including this freshwater peacock blue pearl and focal labradorite necklace with substantial sterling silver clasp. Labradorite can be reversed - both sides have lovely colour flashes. Hay Markets

16/03/2026

09/03/2026

A weekend of paua shell and vintage coin jewellery finding new homes and the vast majority bought as Mother’s Day presents which although my mum is no longer around I appreciate the holiday for others - oh and of course I am a mother so bring on the spoiling son 😂

03/03/2026

This coming weekend I’ll be back at Ta**us Crafts (Lydney, Gloucestershire) for their annual event celebrating women makers for international women’s day - lots of different stalls and attractions and I’ll be there with pearls, gemstones and silver 🥰 Ta**us Crafts

28/02/2026

It was quiet at Hay market this week but that didn’t stop it being a good and fun one - got interviewed for the upcoming Hay Festival later this year (one of the questions asked was what am I currently reading: Here and Now by Santa Montefiore - novel about dementia - sounds depressing but it’s very readable). Cheryl of took some photos of me but I can’t behave so they’re all of me pulling faces/laughing or avoiding the camera but here’s one - excuse the windswept hair and bleary eyes - it’s an early start - I also got to catch up with other sellers which doesn’t normally happen but I did have a couple of long chats with people who stopped by the stall and woke up this morning to an order from one of these lovely people!