We’re off!
Just to Devon for the weekend to stay with my parents. It will be nice to get away and enjoy the beautiful seaside. The beaches round here are nothing compared to the south coast. We’re hoping to find some sea glass and pottery on the beaches near Lyme Regis, rumor has it that it’s a pretty cool place for finding things. Hopefully lots to blog about when we get back!

Have a lovely weekend everyone.

Steampunk Style Jewellery Workshop Sat 21st August 10.30am – 4.30pm Bristol

I will be teaching a workshop to make lovely steampunk style beads and then assembling them into a wonderful necklace and matching bracelet.

I’ve been featured in this month’s Making Jewellery Magazine!! It’s the first time my work has been featured anywhere, it’s exciting. I am writing a project for them which will be in the magazine later in the year. It’s really nice to have my work recognised and appreciated.

After a weekend of searching beaches for glass I now have the fun task of turning it all into pretty things. My drill has broken so a lot of my plans will have to wait but I can do other stuff, like wrap them in pretty wire. It’s so nice to have gathered the glass ourselves and sorted through it to find the prettiest pieces. We are off to Devon and Dorset next weekend to look for more (and visit my parents) so this won’t be the last of it you’ll see.

Daz and I went to the beach at Portishead today. I’ve never been looking for sea glass before and wasn’t expecting to find much but we were overwhelmed! Daz gathered 1.6lbs of glass before he went off with his camera and I found 2.8lbs of it! I was probably only looking for about 40 minutes! Now we’ve got to wash it, sort it and turn it into pretty jewellery

The last couple of weeks have been a bit stressful; a funeral, ill health, a few unsuccessful markets (due to lack of people there) and university issues left me feeling uninspired and fed up. Now things are looking up, I’m inspired again and getting back to work. I think it happens to all creative people every now and then, the ideas don’t flow and nothing seems to work. When that happens I think it’s best to take a step back, get on with something else and then when you go back to it, everything is ok again.

This bracelet is based on the first lesson I ever had at Shiney Rocks. I added my own personal touch with lots of swirls and spirals and a different catch. I love learning new things and then taking them a step further with my own personal touch to make it in my own unique style.

I’m really enjoying random, messy and tangled wire at the moment. I do however find it a lot harder than things with precise parts, set together in a certain way. Creating something to look random and unique is a lot harder than it looks. I had a few attempts at this before I was happy with it. I strung this crazy coiled and spiralled pendant on copper spirally links instead of plain chain as I thought it complimented the pendant more.

I’ve not made any new jewellery all weekend (which is rare for me!) because I’ve been at the circus! I do photography for the Invisible Circus which is great fun. They put on a show called The Last Resort and the whole place was turned into a seaside resort. It was brilliant. I’m exhausted now, need to recover and get back to the jewellery making.