Today in my studio.

I managed to make two new items to sell at open studio's next weekend. The first is going to be so hard to part with as it is very me. I have called the ring.

I get the point.


I also made some beads and a little vessel and liked them so much that I made them into a necklace.

Sterling silver bullet cab. This is going to
be so hard to part with :(

Hand made lamp work beads and sterling silver.

 

It's Summer

Well I am feeling so much better, this past week has been awful but finally today I was able to spend time in the garden and studio and here are the photos to prove it::)

Baby spiders so cute :)

My dear sister Laura chuffed with a couple of vessels
she made on my torch.

These are the beads and hollow I enamelled
I love them and now  I need to make a load of glass
spacer beads.

Polymer clay cuff.

I've been playing today and made a cuff out of polymer clay then gave it a nice polish, I think this will be mine for a while until I make another one LOL

Lynne not your sort stuff as your hands get really grubby :)

Its definitely my colours :)
I shall wear this a lot.

Towcester

Well I had a great time teaching at Towcester and am looking forward to doing it all again next year Yipeeeeeeeeee:D

Paul better known as Caroline LOL
He had a bad finger,  he chopped it off with a chop saw!!!!
YUK!!!!!

Here's some photo's.

Keith pretending to be teacher!!!! Get out of my chair.

Lynne Glazzard good friend and a fab enamel instructor:)

This is just a snip of what went on over the weekend but boy we had a blast.

Whats a girl to do!!!!!!!

Well what's a girl to do when she has no clay to play with. Get out all her metal working toys I mean tools and make new stuff. Yaahhhhh

So here's what I have been making.

I will make a chain to hang this from.

I think this will get worn a lot.

One to one workshop

Lentil bead with pearl.

Today I spent  the day teaching a lovely lady by the name of Jackie Sisson on a one to one.




Jackie wanted to learn how to make a hollow forms and one of the best examples is a lental bead. She learnt how to texture well and to attach a pearl. I think the best part of the class was how to polish to a good quality finish.

I love this little ring. Well done Jackie:)

Shinny Shinny Shinny :)

We then went on to make a ring with texture and BALL'S yes Phillipa Balls just like Gordon's. I loved that  little ring,and would have been quite happy to keep that one on my finger:)

Sterling silver clay

If you are following all the news about sterling silver then check Hadars page. here's a link.
http://artinsilver.com/blog/2011/03/31/sterling-silver-with-hadars-clay%E2%84%A2-quick-fire-copper/