I recently took on a jewellery commission which was quite a challenge. I like to step out of my comfort zone every now and again and do something totally different from what I normally make. This commission was in another stratosphere. The commission came through The Jewellery Makers website and the customer had lost one […]
I got a lovely email in the run up to Christmas. A customer wanting to commission me to make a pendant for his wife that incorporated the initials of their children. He was open to ieas and that his wife would appreciate the recycled/reuse nature of my work. I had a look through my collections […]
Before I became a parent I used to work flat out all year round, but would take a few weeks off here and there to travel with my partner. As a parent that had to change, not initially as babies are pretty easy going, but once nursery and school got in the mix, things became […]
Every now and then it’s good to do something totally different, step away from the norm, challenge yourself and get out of that cosy comfort zone that you’ve been in for so long… I did just that recently when I took on an interesting brooch commission. All I was given initially was this very simple […]
I took a little bit of time out from my usual jewellery production last week as I had a pile of thin tapering strips of scrap silver on my bench. The scrap silver, something I would normally melt down, were the offcuts from long strips that I use to form my Seafoam Ring Bands. Instead […]