New pictures

New Pictures of Silver jewellery just arrived from the fabulous photographer (!) ready to create my portfolio so next time someone asks to see what I have available it's all in one folder - let the orders flow in!!

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Gift Vouchers Now Available

Gift Vouchers are now available for my fingerprint jewellery - please email me or come and see me at the Mr Bees summer fete on Saturday...

Glass Beads

I picked up my beads today from Ferri Glass & I am so proud of them! They are a bit random as the idea was to experiment with as many techniques and colours as possible so next time I make some I have a better idea of what I can make..... the picture below shows some of the beads, although (rather stupidly) not my favorite ones because they are already on my best charm links bracelet so I could show them off when I went out with some friends the other evening!!!

Glass Beads

I have had the best day today!!!
I learnt something new today & I also had brilliant fun doing it!! I went to a one to one workshop just down the road - it was run by Bev Ferri of Ferri Glass & I finally got to learn how to make beautiful lampwork beads. It took me a little while to get the hang of making the beads round (believe me there were a few wobbly attempts to start with!) but I think I got there in the end - I made several experimental beads to learn how to mix colours & add designs & detail to the glass. Obviously my favorite bit was adding silver to the beads but then I love anything that has silver in it!!!

Working with Bev was loads of fun - it was so inspiring to look at her work - which is really wonderful (I would recommend everyone who gets the chance have a look at her creations!) and it was such a treat to be able to make some beads that were a combination of her ideas and mine - I find it is always interesting that given the same materials 2 people can produce something so completely different!

Bev runs 2 different workshops - a 2 day course on glass fusing & a separate 1 day workshop on lampwork beads and I think the best thing about her workshops is that you could enjoy doing them if you had no experience of jewellery making or even if you had no intention of ever making jewellery again - it's a great day out and you get to take home some beautiful pieces of jewellery at the end of the day! Or you can use the day to learn an new skill to incorporate into something you are already interested in.

I cannot wait to pick up my finished beads once they are fired....!

Commissions

I love it when someone trusts your judgment and it pays off - one of my friends asked me to make her a necklace, not an uncommon occurrence, but she gave me no design ideas, no requests and no guidance as to what I was supposed to make. Just "Emily will you make me a necklace? you know what sort of things I like...."

So this was the result....


... and then she asked for a pair of matching earrings ...