easily distracted by shiny things…
Posted in jewellery on Mar 30th, 2012
Looking through my photos on Flickr, I realised that I made quite a lot of things towards the end of last year that I didn’t show you! These pieces were all made on a silver jewellery course at Maiden Erlegh School, with tutor Cathy Newell Price. The piece above is an adjustable ring featuring two [...]
Posted in costume, crafty things, jewellery on Jan 11th, 2012
Oh dear, I’m doing it again. Blogging all enthusiastically, then disappearing for a week. In my defence I’m still working on the costumes for Neverwhere which, as well as doing the odd day or two of overtime at work, is taking up every spare minute of my time and then some. These are three raven [...]
Posted in jewellery on Nov 8th, 2011
Still busy… and getting busier, as I’ve been offered the opportunity to attend an unexpected training session on Thursday. So this is just a quick little picture to show you what I made in last night’s silver jewellery class. It’s a pair of earrings made from reticulated sterling silver. You can’t really see the scale from [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted in jewellery on Feb 23rd, 2010
This is another of my experiments with polymer clay and tumbled stones. The pendant is made by simply wrapping the edges of a tumbled stone with polymer clay. The large bead at the top of the pendant has a third hole in the bottom, and this was pushed right into the polymer clay before it’s [...]
Posted in jewellery on Feb 7th, 2010
My friend Sarah saw the stamped Fimo pendants I made a few weeks ago, and asked whether I could make one for her Mum. The brief was simply “pale yellow, with an angel”, and this is what I made. The pendant is just less than two inches long, and made from pale yellow Fimo. The [...]
Posted in jewellery on Jan 7th, 2010
Today’s another snow day, so I had to cancel all the things I’d originally planned. Never short of something to make, I decided to dismantle a veritable mountain of old jewellery, and put together a new necklace. Once it was finished I thought it would be a nice idea to take some pretty photos of [...]
Posted in jewellery on Jan 4th, 2010
I was given a starter kit of PMC (silver clay) for my birthday, but decided that I’d rather try out a few techniques with polymer clay before I dive up to my elbows into the silver. I had a few blocks of Fimo in the house, so I’ve finally found some time to have a [...]