Happy 2012, everyone! I’ve done a little bit of goal-setting and resolution-writing, but my personal New Year is going to have to wait. We’re eighteen days away (not that I’m counting!) from the first night of Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere at Progress Theatre, and there’s still so much left to do on the costumes! You can [...]
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Well, it will be once I’ve soldered the bezel to the ring and set the stone! Last August I did a short silver jewellery course as part of a week of courses at my local high school. They also run silver jewellery classes during term-time, but they’re so popular that they’re always over-subscribed. I asked [...]
I’ve been saving my pennies for ages, and last week my copy of the Cochenille Garment Designer software arrived. I haven’t said too much about it yet because I’m still on the steep part of the learning curve. This means that anything I might have wanted to say was probably unprintable anyway. The first pattern [...]
My sister bought us a couple of mugs as a kitchen-warming present. Paul’s said “Keep Calm and Carry On”, and the one above is mine. She knows us well.
Precious Metal Clay
Posted in crafty things, design, jewellery on Aug 16th, 2010
These two little pendants are made from Precious Metal Clay. I’ve had the clay for almost a year, but was a bit afraid to make anything with it in case I ruined it. Janet (the silversmithing tutor) said that if I wanted to make something at home and bring it in, she’d show me how [...]
Silver Jewellery
Posted in crafty things, design, inspiration, jewellery on Aug 15th, 2010
The final two days of my Art Week were spent at a silversmithing course. I’ve been meaning to get around to going on a silversmithing course for more than ten years, and now I’m really cross with myself that I didn’t do it sooner. Silversmithing is brilliant! On the first day we made silver rings [...]
Violet Baudelaire.
Posted in design, inspiration on Dec 26th, 2009
Over Christmas we watched A Series of Unfortunate Events, the Lemony Snicket movie. We’d seen it before, but it’s a film that I’m always happy to watch over and over again, so that I can get a really good look at Violet’s costumes. There are so many things about the dress that I love. The [...]
Shiny new website
Posted in design on Jul 3rd, 2009
Whilst I’ve been designing and building websites since 1997, I haven’t really been keeping up with what’s been going on in the world of good web design during the past few years. Given that I’m looking for a job at the moment, I thought it would be a good time to get myself up to [...]