Edinburgh jeweller

I've been playing around with a free online photo editing programme called  picmonkey . You upload your own images, play around with them and then add quotes (like the one above). It's a fantastic, easy to use tool, particularly for blogging and pinterest . This is a photo taken by Gary  in my home town. I love it and am pleased with the quote I chose. It's actually harder that you'd think to choose quotes to go with an image! My tip is that I have found it best to find the quote first and then find an image to go with it. Do have a look at picmonkey. It's free (although there is a paid option we haven't used it for this image). We've enjoyed an afternoon playing with it! Let me know what you create by adding a link to the comments section below.

I have written a blog post for the London Jewellery School blog entitled Your January jewellery business to do list See the full post here

Sweetie shop jewellery by light boat jewellery , photo by Gary Ullah of craftywebsites  In 2012 I have noticed more and more interest in classes on how to use social media to promote fledgeling businesses. I've been teaching people at the London Jewellery School and at the Mary Ward Centre about how to set up an online business or an online presence for a 'bricks and mortar' business. I am also starting to teach these skills to individuals (for Crafty Websites ), charities etc. As a result of this interest I decided, along with the press officer from the London Jewellery School,  to write a series of blog posts for their  blog on preparing your jewellery business for christmas. I found it helped as a useful checklist for me and the feedback from readers is that it has been useful for others too which is fantastic. The links to the blog posts can be found below. Do you have any advice you would give jewellery makers on preparing for christmas sales? Please add ...