OK. I’ve been spending a while thinking about the advice I would give rapt and interested would-be jewellery designers should they ask for it… Blogs seem to be for stuff like this so here we go. If you want to be a jewellery designer, here is a by no means exhaustive list of tips. …
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I spent a recent afternoon measuring, marking, stitching, measuring again, cursing, tying, threading and cursing. A couple of years ago I found 3 matching pale blue leather “skins” on etsy and happily imported them. And put them in a zip up bag with pictures of ice creams on it and ignored them. About THIRTEEN years…
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If you don’t follow me on twitter (and IF you don’t, it’s a shame. I have come up with something truly awesome for the advent countdown…. Follow me here!! – you’ll have missed me dying my hair orange and white earlier this week too. It’s too late now!! It’s back to blondish again, but I did…
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The story behind the Peacock bangle. spot the difference – the first Peacock bangle from 2006 and the new version available HERE. As with a lot of pieces, this started off as a competition entry. I had designed leaves and flowers at this point. Designing a peacock feather without colour felt like a strange thing…
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The Jewellery Story introduction. It’s fairly common to read a jeweller’s blog and see something about there being a story behind every piece. Surely sometimes though there are pieces you make to see if you can, just to get the stuff out of your head and into 3D? No… apparently there are stories. Lots…
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Having been told, then Told and finally TOLD to write a blog, it was fourteen whole seconds before I realised that I don’t have a single clue what you might want to hear about. Stuff that helps or entertains you, I guess. The odd thing you might want to keep for when that THING happens…
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