DUT Fashion show...

These are a couple of photos I managed to quickly snap backstage at the DUT fashion show in between the frantic wardrobe changes. One of the fashion students, Carmen Freeman, used my jewellery to accessorise her 3rd year range. The experience was definately interesting... the hectic rush of models changing, and designers quickly fixing garments made me really appreciate our calm exhibitions!

more enamelled earrings...

These are pairs of earrings I made to sell online in my new Etsy shop! While making these (and others in previous blogposts), I decided to solder the posts on with the enamel attached. In the past i have always set the enamel last so that no heat from my flame comes into contact with it incase it cracks or discolours, but this didnt seem to happen! yay! I am very pleased with how the enamel handled the heat while soldering. From a design point of view too, i think the enamel without claws holding it in place looks much nicer, and not as fussy.

Earrings for etsy shop

I am loving using patination in my pieces! I am really happy with how these patinated copper and silver studs turned out, I plan to sell them in my Etsy shop!

Enamelled Coral Earrings

These are the earrings I made for a lady from Denmark. She wants to sell them in her gallery, yay! They are the same as the earrings that i made last year which were inspired by colourful layered coral.

Enamel Coral studs

Finished Ring

I love the effect that the patina gives to the copper! it reminds me of the slimy mossy surfaces you see in rockpools. And the way the patina solution flows to the shape of the ring gives it that organic, unpredictable quality that you find in the natural world.

another chain...

...but this one doesnt tangle as much :)

with this chain i didnt make lots of forged twisted ends, because it turns out, those twisties hook on all sorts. Instead I folded the ends over and soldered them so that they can't be hooked.

Patina Earrings

Ring before patination

Patina Ring

For this next piece i want to make a large ring, like a showpiece. Using the copper and patina technique I'll get the same colours that can be seen on my patina necklace, the shank will be sterling silver. I would ultimately like for these pieces to look like a collection.

playful chain

These photos show the new chain that i recently manufactured. I wanted to try different links with this chain. I managed this by twisting, melting, and forging parts of the links. I think the chain looks lovely on its own, but i may add a pendant to it that won't be a permantent fixure.

the only hiccup with this neckalce is that the links hook on eachother, which would take time to untangle before wearing...