Blog | Canny Ellen

Jun 224 min read

Crafting Silver Stories: Unleashing the Magic of Scottish Handmade Art

Crafting silver is not just about bending metal and polishing it to shine; it's about weaving stories into the very fabric of the jewellery

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Jun 27 min read

Crafty Fairs - selling jewellery at craft fairs

...there is nothing quite as good as face-to-face human contact to market yourself...

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May 22 min read

Spring into action! (mostly)

...felt like going out for a walk in the sun however, walking up the stairs soon demonstrated that was a daft idea..

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Apr 212 min read

The Joy of Craft Fairs

I've been focusing on the website for my parallel career of jewellery making and forgot about Craft Fairs...

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Apr 62 min read

Silver Jewellery SEO is a thing

I have been around the internet long enough to know SEO is a thing - implementing it (or REMEMBERING to implement) is another matter...

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Mar 311 min read

Shop is properly live...at last!

I have to confess, I am the absolute best at procrastination - I have been making pieces of jewellery for six months now, and I have lost...

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Dec 31, 20233 min read

Jewellery Maker Learning Through Messing Up

The more I have taught myself the confident I have become, but I fell into a trap.....

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Dec 9, 20233 min read

Filing and Sanding (silver smith getting it mostly wrong)

Learning silver smithing has so many learning curves - filing and polishing is currently my steepest!

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Nov 25, 20234 min read

Adventures in Silver Smithing - Welcome to my blog!

The ability to form, work, melt, bend, pickle, heat and repeat was a huge moment of realisation for me.

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