On the west front...

Not making as much jewellery as I would like at the moment but that's because I'm just to busy getting ready for my once in a lifetime trip :-)
But when I have had the time I've been making brooches. Took some pics of the once I have at the moment...











I am trying to get as much of my jewellery as possible sold before I go so if you're interested let me know.
The brooches are £8 ($13) and £1.5 postage in the UK. If you live abroad let me know and I will check how much postage would be. I take paypal or cheques.

I've got a couple of shops I want to go to and see if they would be interested in displaying some of my brooches before I go, but need to print a catalogue of the brooches off first and I accidentally kicked the printer over last week and now it generally just coughs at me!

One of the shop I want to try is Moondogs who already display some of my silver jewellery.

Otherwise I am being very busy! Someone at my job is interested in buying 4 ring for her friends. So if she orders I only have until the 18th to make them since I'm moving out on the 19th and inbetween working over 40 hours a week, packing for trip, packing to move etc I am starting to run myself very thin indeed :-)

Bespokes jewellery

I haven't made jewellery for what feels like ages (and that's not counting the small beading project's I made at home because that's not really making jewellery now is it), but I just don't have the time with me working as many hours as possible & getting ready for my trip.

Adding in the normal hassles of live (cooking ,cleaning, sorting out bills) I just don't have the time!

And I'm starting to miss it something terrible, it appears I really can't go that long without making jewellery so I will just have to figure something out to be able to squeeze it in. Especially now when I need to make some extra money so anything I have time to make and sell would definitely help.

And working as much as I am is slowly melting my brain into this big pile of guu!

But on a happier note!
I have received a bespoke order on a ring! Will order stone today the when receiving it will work out material cost. That's because the customer in question is interested in having it in gold and I generally don't work in gold. This is for 2 reasons.
1: I prefer silver.
2: Gold is more expensive.

But if someone wants gold I will definitely look into it (because I can work in gold, that's not an issue).

Anyways once I've made it I will probably post some pictures. The customer made up the design herself so I hope it will turn out OK. :-)
Hopefully this will be start of me getting more time to make jewellery!

More resin...

Just felt I should post a picture of some resin pieces that turned out the way they should, just so you don't all think that it all goes in the bin ;-)

ofcourse these aren't finished pieces, I still have to file them into shape and make them in to actual jewellery pieces. But atleast they are halfway there!

Oh buggery!

Been working all week, when you work and you get home all tired and you still have to do the cooking etc it's hard to keep up with making jewellery. So try to have small jobs that I can either do quickly or easily. This week I've manily been doing resin peices. Been trying mostly to make brooches and it all looked well until I took them out of the moulds. For some reason the bottom layer (which is the front of most pieces) have ended up cloudy on a whole set of pieces.

So nothing to do but throw them away...

If you look closely at the pic you can see the cloudyness I'm on about, especially in the flower and the butterfly!

Luckily not all the pieces I made had to go into the bin, just the once above. I'm still trying to figure out what did it.

I think I either didn't mix the resin properly or mixed up the amounts (I do always seem to use to much hardner). Or it might be the vaselin I put in the mould to stop it from sticking (you are supposed to, I didn't just put some in for the fun of it ;-)).

But I'm already trying again!

I've also bought more glitter today so that all my pieces don't end just looking purple & gold. Also the reason they have so much glitter in them is beacuse I was making brooches and didn't want the brooch pin to be visible thru the pieces.

Oh and just for randomness I added a picture of where I sit at the dinning table making Resin, it's the best ventilated room in the house so it's better to use then when I normally sit. I try to not take up to much space. Oh and yes I am using the hammer that you can see in the background. I'll let you guess what it's for thou.

Today..

Got home around 18.00. Now it's 20.00 and I have had my dinner, done the dishes, and a load of wash.
wooho! How exiting ;-)
But aside from that I've also been making resin jewellery. I'm really getting into using resin. It's such a fun media to work in and you can make such a vide range of things, or just make things look really different.
Today I was making pieces using glitter. They aren't finished yet since I need to add atleast one more resin layer before it's finished, but now I need to wait for it to dry.

Oh how silly of me! For people reading this thinking what the hell is Resin? Well it looks like plastic and you make it yourself. And you can put stuff in it or colour it etc.
I'm still quite new with resin and is mainly just enjoying finding out what I can and what I can't put in it. Also trying to figure out why sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.
Made some really cool necklaces and brooches with it thou.
Hmm will need to take more pics...

Butterfly necklace

Finished the resin necklace and got a decent pic of it to so decided to post it :-)

Yesterday was good fun but the band got cancelled because the electrics blew so they couldn't play:-(
And today I feel a bit worn because I only got 4 hours sleep. But since it's self inflicted I expect no sympathy.

Oh and I wanted to show a picture of this Resin butterfly I've made. I took some pictures because I'm going to drill some holes in it to make it a necklace and I'm worried it will get ruined so thought I better take some pictures first.The pics didn't come out that well. One side I got good pics of but the other side reflects to much when I try to take a pic of it.it was made in a mould and I used clear resin and then mixed some red into it so it became quite a nice effect.






I only got good pictures of what's supposed to be the front but I think I like the other side more. Sadly since I have no good pic u can't see why, but it's got to do with the colour looking better from the back because it sank to the bottom (which is the front of the butterfly) making it clearer from the back.

And now that I have bored you with pics I will go and get ready because I am going out for dinner tonight.
Tomorrow I am going to London to check if some Galleries might be interested in my stuff so please wish me luck! :-)