Find your Coordinates

How to find the Longitude and Latitude of a place

Find your coordinates so you can have a special place and time added to one of my custom items.
Find this one here:
https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/129955498/co-ordinate-location-keychain-longitude?ref=shop_home_active

First of all go to:

http://itouchmap.com/latlong.html

You will see the layout like this:

Then hit the Go button

Decide which is your favorite; normal coordinates or degrees minutes and seconds. Let me know and I can make up a customised keyring just for you.

REMEMBER

If your coordinates have a minus sign in front of them make sure you add it. If you don't it will give you the wrong place (on the other side of the world) 

For the UK it is usually a -longitude (as shown in the keyring example picture at the top of the page)

To find a more specific coordinate you can move the marker on the map

Troubleshooting

If you are having problems it may be due to a few things:

1. Blue markers coming up when you move the red marker

Sometimes if you click on the map it can show blue markers these can skew the red marker coordinate. If you click the Clear/Reset button it should center the red marker to the middle of the map view you have open, and clear all the blue markers. 

2. When you try and find your point in the longitude latitude finder it comes up with somewhere completely different. 

Did you miss out a number?

Did you miss out a minus longitude or latitude?

If you are having big issues just contact me and ill be happy to help you find your special place.

Quirk Book Feature and some exciting news

Hi all,

I haven't had time to post for actual ages as I've been crazy busy! I managed to book a stall for the last 9 days of the Edinburgh fringe festival from the 17th until the 26th August. Can't wait but its going to be mad!! Like crazy mad. I'm not sure what to take or make so I am making all of the things and keeping my fingers it will be enough stock!

So apart from building up stock for that I've been doing some stalls on the weekends and getting featured on some websites :)

Quirk books are a book publisher. They brought you Pride Prejudice and Zombies, among some other awesome books. 

Here is the link to the page if you want a nosey yourself: 

Quirk Books 9 Adorable Pop culture Bookmarks 

I'm pretty chuffed that my bookmarks got onto their website as I've been reading their books for a while. So its quite a big deal for me. 

Anyhoo off to go make some stuff (as per usual)

Mauve Magpie

Harry Potter Custom Bookmark

So this is one of the things I made last week. Its one of my favorite customs I've made for a long time, as I love Harry Potter and its was really fun to make. 

I love the way this photo just picks out the Expecto Patronum 

 If you would like a Custom bookmark just give me a shout. I love making new things and working with people to make something special for them.

First craft stall of the year!

So Yesterday Saturday 26th Jan, I rocked up to the The Kirk Centre in Ellon. With my magpie swag in tow! I had a few items on offer and some on sale as this stall was the first in January.

Here I am with my stall and a few goodies :D

There were about 20 other stalls as well as mine. From jewellery to cards, signs to fabric quarters, there was a vast range of things for the people of Ellon to have a gander at and purchase! Here are a few cheeky photos I snapped whilst I was there and the names of the people are underneath:

1. Buttons and Bows Hair Accessories

2. JoJos Crafty Cat Toys

3. Precious M Jewellery

4. Snowflake Creations

5. Wee Fat Quarters

6. Eve's Card Designs

7. Blue Wasp Creative

8. Handcrafted by AnotherOldNag

9. The Rubber Pinapple

10. Dee-Licious Finds

11. All wrapped up cupcake wrappers/Enchantment Cards and Gifts

12. Gingeface

13. SeaSpray Gems

14. Handmade Cards by The Card Fairy

15. Fizzy Parties

16. Hannah Bakes Cakes

17. Leonie Loves

It was a great day and I met a ton of fab people! Love to see the creativity of the crafters of Aberdeen. Just have to get cracking for the next two stalls I have next weekend so keep your eyes peeled for the next blog post!

If anyone featured would like their photos in full let me know and I can send them to you. 

Egg Ring

So this is my newest ring:

Its a Fried egg ring! Isn't it the cutest?!
You can find it on Etsy here

Let me know what you all think :D

There will be more different rings and jewellery coming your way soon!

First Post

Hi there,

This is my first blog post! 

So as you can probably gather this is my blog for Mauve Magpie. Which I am the creator of :D

I have been making jewellery and gifts for about 3 years but i have been making a living from its for a year and a half. I thought its about time I made a blog!

I make jewellery, bookmarks and lots of other gifts. This is one of my new range of bookmarks:

(click on picture to go to my etsy shop)

My bookmarks can be customised with different designs and even your own text. I love making up custom bookmarks making other peoples ideas into actual things. Ill be adding my custom designs to a page soon.....

I'll also be blogging on craft stalls in the future, new jewellery and bookmarks, custom items and new promos

First post over and out.......