Time flies!

Where has July gone? Time has really flown by since new designers. It has been a strange month, with no more uni I have been working more and not really making, the need for regular money coming in has pushed making to one side. I have now sorted a fairly regular working pattern if that's possible with shift work and will now be able to do 2 or even 3 days in the workshop a week. This makes me feel better. 

I have made a start with some simple earrings, here they are, nearly finished 

I have also been out and about looking for inspiration, there are a lot of seed pods around and really interesting forms, I do live visiting the gardens in Cornwall.

So I am looking forward to getting back into the workshop next week. 

Right now however I am on the way to the airport, as I am off to Rome today :-) very excited :-)

Home sweet home

So I am back home in Cornwall after a rather hectic week in London for New Designers, it was an amazing experience and I met some great people and made some good contacts. 

I was really happy to find a letter with my work from New Designers saying that they liked my work and inviting me to apply for 1 year on next year.

I will share some of the amazing makers I met in the next few days 

Xx

Update!

So I haven't been very active on here, where does time go?
I handed my final module in at the end of May, then I had to prepare for a presentation about my work. After that I think we were meant to relax. I forgot! I've been working (my normal day job), spending some time in my workshop, making and have squeezed in some time at the gym!

Well, here is my work all handed in

Oh well!

So I haven't posted for a while as I have been really busy making. With only 8 workshop days left I'm putting everything I can in to the final pieces. Unfortunately today my bowl I was raising developed some air bubbles, after a chat with my tutors they think it could be caused by contamination. There's no fixing it so it will have to be abandoned. This makes me sad yet quite relieved, one less thing to be worrying about! Will post some new pictures soon :-)

Bowls

I'm a little behind in my making at the moment as I had a few issues when raising the silver, I have only ever made one tiny silver bowl so I'm learning how far I can push the silver when raising. So a few holes and splits and a little frustration later I have 2 almost finished bowls. 

Quick trip to London!

I caught the night train up to London last night so I could visit the Festival of Silver exhibition at the Goldsmiths' Centre. There are some amazing silversmiths' work being exhibited. It's good to see the work up close instead of images on the internet. I know I have a long way to go before I'm as good as these guys!  

Here's some of the work of Rebecca Joselyn. She is interest in unwanted throwaway packaging and its negative impact on our environment and has developed a range of tableware for the home. 

I love her little spoons, they are so perfectly made. 

progress

So I've been working hard to get all my work done. We have deadlines every 3 weeks where we need to have between 3 and 10 pieces made. for the last deadline I had a 4 pieces made that have been inspired by something I found in Mariposa Grove in Yosemite National Park.
Here it is....

A lot of my pieces have been inspired by this find, it was the only one in the whole of the grove that I could find. By using fold forming and doming I have created my first range of jewellery pieces.