Showing posts with label course. Show all posts
Showing posts with label course. Show all posts

Thursday, September 27, 2012

recently...


I finished my first piece from the silver course - a simple silver ring. I measured, cut, annealed, shaped, soldered, pickled, sanded & polished my oval silver wire. Originally I was going to give it a brushed finish, but I've decided I like it shiny (plus I spent ages making it shiny, I don't want to undo all my hard work, lol). It's not perfect, but I'm really happy with it anyway.

Currently I'm working on some design ideas for my next piece - we're going to learn to rivet :)


I've also been enjoying the beginnings of some warmer weather - warm enough for sandals even. Although it will be cold again for the next few days - the joys of spring.

& been baking again - Sticky Gooey Lemon Brownies this time (a Pinterest find). Although given the lack of chocolate, we've decided to call them Lemon Blondies. They were pretty popular - let's just say I didn't need to find a very big container to store them in!


Saturday, September 22, 2012

working 925 {or, what I got for my birthday}


'twas my birthday last week & my lovely family was very good to me yet again. My big present (& the one I knew I was getting) is a seven week introductory silversmithing course, run by/at the Jam Factory. The first class was this week & although I don't have anything to photograph yet, it was good fun.


My sneaky family did sneak in a couple of surprises too - a lovely notebook from ShePinTea & a beautiful dish by Creativewithclay. Plus of course another awesome card, drawn by my brothers :)




Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Congratulations sis :)


My younger sister Kathryn had some wonderful news yesterday morning...she's been offered a place in the Advanced Diploma of Arts (Professional Writing) at TAFE. She's a wonderful writer, full of imagination & you can read some snippets of her writing on her blog.
If you have a minute there are some lovely things to read there & when she's famous, you can say you knew her when ;)
& I'm only slightly biased, promise XD




*top photo: Kathryn, taken by me
*bottom photo: Kathryn & Amy, also taken by me :)