I love making new friends....

Today has been a good day and Im so excited to share it with you all!
I just have to write about the lovely Jena over at Modish
- a wonderful blog Featuring handmade gift ideas and product reviews, interviews with various artists as well as sections on building your home made business (hugely helpful) and gardening, cookery and sustainable living - its a treasure trove of creative genius!

A Big Thank You to Jena for featuring me in her super inspiring section of "Handmade spaces", where she features the different working spaces of artists from various mediums.
Its wonderful and so inspiring to see the creative spaces of people all over the world, who spend their days just like me - trying to feed their vice and inspire their own creativity!

P.S. I leave you with a little picture of my bench today
Have a good evening!Wherever you are in the world!
-S

Blogging from my new home....

Its such a thrill to be blogging from my very own apple mac!
Its taken a while to move in, there is so much I don't know as I have only ever used Microsoft programmes so I'm stumbling around in the dark, just need time to get used to it!

Have been quite busy with stock for my next showing as well as other orders and next week I start the platinum work shop,haven't quite perfected the final design- will be doing that on the weekend i think this plat competition will be a great reason to work on something new...... so Im looking forward to it!

for now I leave u with the only image i have managed to upload and size on my new computer,pls excuse the fact that its just boring stock....it was just a practice run

Bid u good weekend!
S.

Oodles of Doodles.......

I have been doodling quite a lot lately trying to get back into using pen and paper as a design tool and although these cant be used in actual jewellery pieces its easier and more relaxing to doodle for now....I'm really enjoying this process it feels quite liberating as the line flows so easily and effortlessly, nothing like the hammering, forging and manipulating one has to do in order to conquer the Beauty of metal....
Happi Wed wherever u r in the World!

I just cant get enough ............

Time!
Its been a busy start to the week and just got done with all my investing, so glad that's one thing less to do.Tomorrow is casting time but that's the better part as I will have more elements to play with! Cant wait!
Have been spending more time working on my research report and so many questions are popping up I almost don't know where to begin.Im greatful to have my journal more or less up to date so that I can go back and use it in my report especially last years work which seems so very far away and almost unnecessary to dig up... although I know it is.I'm much happier and confident with a more historical revival side to my work its much more tangible and I draw a lot more inspiration from this background as opposed to the more abstract,conceptual and poetical direction my work was going in last year.
I am almost convinced to move on to another element and have been playing around with some botanical motifs but cant quite come up with the perfect design!
Well that's it for now, am off to research some of the artists whose work I'm most interested in for my RR, like the wonderful and talented Marianne Anderson and the fantastic Scottish designer Donna Kaey whose work I absolutely adore and cant get enough of....
That's all for now...
haPPi TueSday wherever in the World u are!

P.S.
I took this photo in the "old city" in Dubrovnik, Croatia when I was there last year in August.Lovely isn't it?

The view this morning....

I have been having problems over the past few days uploading photos so I am trying out new shots jsut of the view this morning...the week has flown by and I have so much to do,hopefully next week will be more productive in terms of manufacture as well as other things!I really need to sort this picture problem out so that I can catch up on my blog postings!!!!

For now I leave u with a cloudy day in La Lucia.
Saw Dolphins playing in the waves earlier this morning it was lovely, I enjoyed the scene over a cosy cup of tea!

By the way thats Baby girl otherwise known as Buttercup the jack russell
and Sophie the Ridgeback both saying Hello!Flippi the other ridgback is probably off hunting something or anything from butterfly's to snakes....

The Vodacom Durban July Races......

Things have been sorted and have managed to save all my pics from destruction!!!
Hooray!
Have quite a busy week ahead but will still make extra effort to blog as much as I can in order to get ontop of everything.
I do have one last piece of interesting news before I tell u about the July though, I sent some pics of my bench and workspace over to Modish they have this wonderfully inspiring section called "handmade Spaces" I would love to be part of it ... so Im holding thumbs!!
This past weekend was the July and I just have to post some pics of everyone as we had such a great day I even won R400 on Dancers Daughter! who came in 1st place but tied wuth another horse! What a great day ..... so much fun !Megan Coleman Miss SouthAfrica 2007 wore one of my larger pieces for the day but dont have a picture yet!
So here are a couple of my friends and I enjoying the day .... note my gorgeous jewels.... as well as Kaitlins!

The Evening my jewellery and I went to visit "Bare".....

Last Wednesday evening we had a jewellery exhibition at a Local Art Boutique....it was a fantastic evening of friends getting together and displaying their individual work collectively.The wine flowed and hopefully the creative thinking did too!
Thanks to all my friends and colleagues for their continual support and inspiring conversations!