Design Book Cover...

New year, New design book!

For our first B-Tech project this year we're making ourselves design books, and we get to create the cover :)

Seeing as the cover will have to be 2D, I plan on using photos I have taken and using water colours to paint sections of my photos...


The colour and texture of the coral in the above picture is very interesting, i would like to explore this using watercolours in my cover.

Beach Holiday Pics...

These are some photos I took while walking along the beach up the North Coast...




The above funny little blue squishy thing was very strange. I've never seen one before! It was very pretty though. It looked alot like a glass bead, but felt soft and slimy.

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.