There were so many beautiful gemstones at IJL this year, but my eye kept being drawn back to some beautiful grey diamonds. They had unusual salt and pepper speckles and a beautiful sparkle
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Recently I have been busy. Very busy. Oh, so busy! Which is great! This week I have, rather appropriately, been busy making a lot of bees...
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Yesterday I went to the International Jewellery London show at Olympia. I try to go every year - it's really fun to wander around looking at all the amazing tools and machinery, and of course all the amazing sparkly gemstones!
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I was asked by a client to make a necklace for his girlfriend's 21st birthday. Sure, I said, no problem, I said, expecting them to ask for maybe an initial necklace or a diamond solitaire. Can I have a silver elephant hanging from an umbrella, they said…
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My new Electric Dreams collection is coming along nicely, just need to photograph and list everything on the website now. I've had some of my cloud and star earrings gold plated
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I've previously resisted making stacking rings from beaded wire, as you can buy them everywhere and I prefer to try and keep my designs original! I finally gave in
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My jewellery and I will be in the E17 Designers tent at the Walthamstow Garden Party again this year on Saturday 15 July 2017. It was brilliant fun last year, so we’ll be doing a little sun dance and hoping for lovely weather again
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After finally getting the bathroom renovated, our next task for the house wreck was planning the kitchen. Ours hadn't been touched since some time in the late 1950s
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My recent necklace based on the wonderful Gods Own Junkyard enter sign also gave me the idea for some more neon art inspired jewellery in sterling silver.
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My epic wax carving project is finished! Inspired by the neon art of God’s Own Junkyard, I wanted to make a jewellery version of their iconic Enter sign. Starting with a block of wax
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Rather excitingly, I now have my first bricks and mortar stockist for my jewellery. A lovely art gallery in Cambridge, The Art Hound Gallery, asked me to supply some of my weather pieces and biscuit jewellery.
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My epic wax carving project is still in progress, but has wound up inspiring a whole new collection of shiny things and a lot more wax carving!
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I have a slightly epic wax carving project in my head. I don't find wax carving easy, but I do find it strangely therapeutic - I think it's a type of mindfulness just sitting quietly filing bits of wax.
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I loved the rose gold plating on my little lightning bolts so much, I decided to give my silver party ring biscuit necklaces the same treatment. So pretty!
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Instagram is my favourite social media platform, so when I spotted Joanne Hawker’s March Meet the Maker challenge, I decided to get involved.
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My mini lightning bolt earrings have been very popular in both sterling silver and 22k gold vermeil finishes, so as an experiment I decided to get a pair plated in rose gold to see how they looked.
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I still love doing these little silver skate numbers! This one was nice to cut out and carve – lots of lovely curves.
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I recently decided to re-carve my little teacup charm from scratch. I carved my original a good few years ago and, being a wax-carving novice at the time, I made the setting edge too chunky.
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Mostly, I have been busy making bees this week. My silver mini bumblebees have enjoyed a flurry of orders recently
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I know, hearts for Valentines Day. Groundbreaking. But with Valentine’s Day dancing merrily over the horizon, I thought I would share some of my silver and gold heart jewellery
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