Models Needed!

New Knitwit bangles and rings modeled on me.

I really do need some lovely models, with lovely hands, and a lovely (edgy) look, to model for me. And a lovely photographer too. Volunteers?

more pics here

Making plastic Jewellery

I came home recently to find this book on my doorstep. There are a couple of my images used in the gallery section, which of course is very nice to see.

It was also great to see a book all about plastic and resin jewellery. I know when I started working with plastics exclusively I found it a little difficult to find information regarding techniques. Through months of research I had gathered a book on making resin jewellery, some old high school textbooks on working with plastics (mostly acrylic), a bit of info in various other books and online. But for the most part I just worked it out myself. Which was probably the best way to do it anyway. Trial and error takes you into those unexpected places. At times you want to hit your head against the wall repeatedly in frustration. At other times you want to jump for joy in the fact that you found your own way and created something truly unique.

Pretty Fun

Making these seems to take all my worries away. Well maybe not, but they are fun to make and pretty too. Sometimes a little distraction from all the doom and gloom is necessary. Who doesn't need that!

Tupperware Poster

The lovely and terribly thoughtful Di sent me an email regarding this Tupperware Poster she saw the other night. I think it is a fabulous poster. It really is a lot like me, reflects my feeling towards Tupperware, and why I love it as a material. It's the colour. It's the fun. And it's modern, but a little bit retro too.

Thanks Di!

Take a Ball of Thread

Take a ball of thread…
a jewellery project by Melinda Young
opens at Pablo Fanque tomorrow. If I was in Sydney I'd be there in a flash, for sure!

Melinda has created a really awe-inspiring collection of pink jewellery (oh so my favourite kind!) from a simple and brilliant idea. As she states at the beginning of her project, The plan is to use this entire ball of pink thread I found to make a series of new jewellery pieces .

Not only are the end result and concept fabulous, but so is the fact that Melinda has documented the entire process. Such insight into the creative process, although more common now with the proliferation of blogs/websites, can still unfortunately be hard to come by. Knowing how/why something was made adds so much to the experience of viewing/understand the work, and as importantly, the person behind the work. More of it I say!