I ADORE hats!

Happy October everyone!

Maybe it's because I've been watching a lot of "period dramas" the last few weeks but I've been thinking a lot about hats...women's especially...and wondering when (and WHY) we stopped wearing them!

One of the thing that amazes me about hats is how endless the variety it! Colors, styles, feathers, materials! I wish we'd start wearing them again!

I suppose there's nothing really stopping any of us from wearing them so why don't we? Do I have the "nerve" or the "confidence" or the HUZTSPA???

Oh well they are sooooooooooo much fun!

Here are some of my fav hats from years past that I've owned. Some I still have, some have been transformed into other works of art and some have been sold. (single tear.....)

ENJOY!

These first few photos are of vintage hats I've purchased and re-made....either by cleaning, adding a new band and/or feathers, flowers or whatever strikes me as FUN! Don't you just LOVE the first hat?!?!?! I sold that one right before Easter of this year. The little bird is wearing an antique drawer pull "hat"!

These next ones are my steampunk hats! I bought some GORGEOUS handmade black wool hats (not cheap by the way) and had a great time making top hats for the steampunk crowd! The first photo is how they look before I "have my way" with them!

The next photo shows a hat I made for a wedding! Doesn't he look great??!??!

Just a few more steampunk hats that I had a great time with! (yes that IS a vintage leather belt!)

The next photos are all one hat BUT the customer requested 3 different feathers that would tuck down inside the band for different looks! Which one do you like best! (I LOVE them all but am partial to the pheasant feather!)

These last hats are hats I made from standard hat forms...most of them are mini top hats...which I love...and are held in place with two clips.

I hope you enjoyed this stroll down memory lane!

Send me photos of your favorite hats or hats you wish you owned and I'll post them!

LOVE YOU ALL!

Violette

Noble Studios Ltd.

FREE give-a-way and FABULOUS sale on STEAMPUNK jewelry

Greetings all you CUTIE PIES out there!

This is a pretty long post but I think it will be worth your while if you read it ALL!

What do antique bottle caps, olde postcards, antique buttons, retro milk bottle tops, brass crosses, watches, gears and clock parts have in common?

They all make FABULOUS One of a kind rings!

First of all, ONLY FOR MY blog followers and people on my mailing list I'm going to give you a great deal on the captivating jewelry I have in my shoppe! I got a little carried away last month with the RINGS and actually have far too many in my shoppe! Any ring that you see you can have for ONLY 19.00 AND if you order two or more jewelry items (they don't have to be both rings....just one) I WILL SHIP THEM TO YOU FREE! The rings range in price from 55.00 to 24.99 so that's a FABULOUS DEAL!

You can handle it one of two ways.

If you want to make sure no one else will get the item you want, just go ahead and purchase it and pay as usual. Then just as soon as I get verification I will credit the appropriate amount back to your paypal.

If you'd rather not do that just contact me at:

noblestudiosltd@london.com

Let me know what you want and I will put the SALE price on it AND put a reserve on it so no one else can snatch it from you!

Here's a link to my ETSY SHOPPE so that you can take at peek at all the goodies!

Noble Studios Etsy Shoppe

I'm going to post some pics here to whet your appetite BUT I have 122 pieces of jewelry in my shop so be sure to take a look at the link above!




















As a thank you to all my faithful customers I'm also going to give away 3, yes THREE....50.00 gift certificates this summer!

One in June, One in July and one in August. Just follow my blog and then leave a comment and I will put you on the list! BE SURE to give me some way to get in contact with you if you win. You can contact me at noblestudiosltd@london.com if you need to make sure I have your email address or have any questions!


Go ahead an enter now by leaving a comment here and I will put your name in the hat for June AND you can also enter in July and August!

Happy Summer!

Faithfully yours,
Violette Noble

NOBLE STUDIOS LTD.

I'm being featured on Making Jewelry Supplies.com!!

Greetings all you jewelry loving people out there!

I'm THRILLED! I just found out my blog and etsy shoppe is being featured on a great new site I discovered!

It's called "Making Jewelry Supplies" and they operate the largest Jewelry Supplies website featuring more than 30,000+ blogs!! I was simply AMAZED at the diversity of what they offer! Plan on spending some time there!!

I would be honored if you would take a peek!

Noble Studios Ltd. FEATURED!


THEN check out their site! It's FABULOUS!

Jewelry Making Supplies

Faithfully yours,
Violette Noble

www.NobleStudiosLtd.etsy.com

MOOOOOOO jewelry!

I was looking through my vintage ephemera and uncovered some FABULOUS antique milk bottle caps! I was so enthralled with them that I decided to create some rings featuring each and every antique milk bottle cap I owned!

They all have DELIGHTFUL vintage graphics in classic colors! I hope you will enjoy wearing them as much as i did making them!

Take a look in my etsy shop for the lot and lots more GOODIES!!

Noble Studios Ltd.












Each image was carefully mounted in a wonderful (adjustable) deep bezel silver ring blank and covered with two coats of collage medium. After that was dry, I mixed two part resin and carefully poured it in. The resin magnifies the image and looks futuristic but because of the antique images still look wonderfully vintage!

There are 10 in all (see last pics) and each one is uniquely different BECAUSE they are assembled by hand. Any slight imperfections are on the original bottle cap which only add to the vintage beauty and make these truly rings that will turn heads! (ie:the staple OR the pull tab that is on the original bottle cap)

Thank you so much for looking!

Faithfully yours,
Violette Noble

Noble Studios Ltd.

Prince the Mighty Bull Dog!

Greetings!

I thought it might be fun to share some of my jewelry pieces that inspired me to write tiny story "snippets"!

Here's the first one! Stay tuned for more tomorrow!




"Prince pricked his ears at the slightest sound or movement. He was the best guard dog The Melbourne Estate had ever had and he knew it. Whether it was a rustling leaf, a passing animal or a person who didn’t belong there, (which in his mind was everyone) he barked his low grizzly bark to let Lord and Lady Melbourne know of each and every occasion of possible impending doom.

He was a just a small bull dog but apparently he didn’t know that. He thought he was the biggest, baddest dog that ever roamed the earth and he was pretty sure that every creature in all of London was afraid of him. Once his masters had been alerted and danger had once again been averted, he settled back into his regal dog house directly inside the front gates of the estate waiting for the next time duty would undoubtedly call him name again."








If you'd like to take a look at my other pieces (LOTS AND LOTS OF THINGS ARE ON SALE!) just go to:

www.noblestudiosltd.etsy.com


woof woof! (have a wonderful day!)

Faithfully yours,
Violette Noble

Noble Studios Ltd.

How to receive $75.00 worth of FREE JEWELRY!!

November Greetings to all!


Can you believe it's November already? Each year passes more quickly than the last and before we know it The Holidays will be upon us! With that in mind I decided to offer a ENTICING give-away this Holiday Season!


(drum roll please....) It's a chance to win a shopping spree worth $75.00 at Noble Studios Ltd.!


It's FREE and easy to enter! Just do the following 2 things!



1) click the word "follow" on the dark blue tab at the very top of THIS PAGE


~AND~


2) put a comment on this blog!



On December 3rd I will take all the names of those of you that have entered and place them in my Antique Brown Velvet Top Hat and pick ONE winner! That lucky person will be notified by email and will either receive a paper certificate to give as a gift OR just be set free in my shop!


Mark your calendars to check my blog on December 4th to see who won!


Remember as Ed McMahon always said....You have to enter to WIN!!


Faithfully yours,
Violette Noble

Noble Studios Ltd.

www.noblestudiosltd.etsy.com
www.noblestudiosltd.blogspot.com