New Charm Bracelets with Beads and Chinese Characters

Blackened sterling silver with Murano glass beads, topaz bead, honey jade bead, rock crystal bead, dapped and engraved flower charm and Chinese character depicting "happiness" charm. 6.5" long.

Blackened sterling silver charm bracelet featuring Murano glass beads that I bought on a trip to Venice, topaz bead, honey jade bead, rock crystal bead, dapped and engraved flower charm and Chinese character depicting "longevity" charm. 6.5" long.

Garnet Bead Ring

Garnet Bead Ring, originally uploaded by AlphabettiSpaghetti.

New range for Christmas

Labradorite bead ring

Labradorite bead ring, originally uploaded by AlphabettiSpaghetti.

Some new bits and pieces I hope will sell for Christmas

Joshua Tree Pendants

Joshua Tree Pendants, originally uploaded by AlphabettiSpaghetti.

Custom order. Sterling silver and bronze pendant featuring pierced out Joshua tree.

Why cats should eat meat and not grain...

Fabulous new Feline Nutrition Site

I stumbled across this really informative and beautifully laid-out website by the Feline Nutrition Education Society, dedicated to the proper feeding of cats. I, and thousands of other cat owners and vets believe that a grain-based diet is not suitable for an obligate carnivore like the cat and therefore feed a raw meat based diet. This diet consists of as many parts of an animal as possible, so as well as muscle meat, cats are fed raw bone which helps to balance out the phosphorus in the muscle meat. Too much phosphorus is bad for renal health. Hearts are rich in taurine, something that cats cannot produce themselves but die without, so are fed as part of the muscle meat part of the diet. The rest of the diet is made up of various "innards" such as kidneys, livers, etc. Thousands of cat owners can testify to much healthier pets with renewed vitality. Raw meat is also a brilliant teeth cleaner. Oral health is something that is very important in the prevention of kidney disease and obviously healthy teeth mean a happy cat with that beautiful and impressive set of teeth that characterises this little predator!
I have an article that the owners of this site very kindly published, outlining my experiences of raw-feeding and how I get on with it in Italy.

Two new sparkly pieces

Sterling silver necklace with two 3mm aquamarines, two 3mm iolites and one 3mm dark blue sapphire
11mm claw-set champagne topaz on 1cm textured sterling silver band. Bling bling!!