Merry festive season to all and to all a good drink...

I'm not a big Xmas fan, but I feel I hate to wish those who love commercialism... I mean silly season, a festive time... Hope you l get great gifts and as I won't post till after new years:

Merry Commercialism day and a fantastic new year [which is my mothers birthday as well]

Be Good

working... working... working...

Working hard on some shiny things.

Soon new stock will be available, exclusively from The fringe Arts. And directly from me of course. Can't wait to hear what people think of the new stock... Trust me, very different from what I've done before.

I am working, I promise!

An exhibition came and went... A degree finished up... 7 years came to a close... All good things come to an end right? Correct and so the door opens for better and bigger things.... And with that I have to start bragging about the new member to my jewellery family... Florence the fly press.... Isn't she just too green? This is my absolute favourite tool by the way and I scored an old vintage one... YAY!!! Now to make things...

And I swear I am working.... Look at my design book... or rather my new one... Soon I will have an exciting new range of jewellery available... and guess what they will be exclusively available from the Fringe arts... okay and directly from me.... Keep an eye out kids... next 2 weeks... gonna be intensely exciting....

all good things must come to an end...

With a heavy heart, but also very much relieved mind, I have the pleasure of telling you all... I am now officially no longer a student. After 7 grueling years, 5 of which were spent at CPUT, I am finally done and will now devote my time fully to the making of pretty shiny things for you all to buy (hint hint).

It's been an amazing time and I've had a swell time, but the swelling has gone down.

So just to give you guys (and gals) the update of whats been happening, seeing as I've been a bad blogger...

These last few months, I've been working on my graduate body of work for my degree... I've been doing photo shoots, collaborating with a band, working with fringe and doing the odd commission. But most importantly, the degree...

I had to present my body of work in some manner (pictured above), to tie in with my thesis, my presentation was turned into a bar/nightclub. My photo shoot I did was set up to look like people having drinks, these you can see on my facebookpage

As of tomorrow you can also go have a look at the graduate exhibition at CPUT, it's open from 8:30 till 4pm and runs from 23 November until 27 November. Lemme know what y'all think...

Aftermath of the heart expo...

Thursday (14th Oct) was the I [heart] Hearts Exhibition at The Fringe Arts (at the V&A Waterfront). 20 Hearts were unveiled, each individually designed and artified by a designer that stocks the shop. The proceeds are being split between the artist (or Heartist as we are being called) and the Association for Visual Arts’ (AVA...) Artreach fund in partnership with Spier.

I love the hearts done by Inkheart, one by Nina and one by Kevin, as well as the hearts by Metaxia and Lauren Fowler.

Above is my heart, was gone before I could snap a pic of it with the others. It's awesome to be part of this project. I now have a love for gold leaf and have a hankering to make new stock for the shop. So much to do....

I ♥ Hearts

Tomorrow is the opening of the I <3>

I can't wait.

I did a heart, as did my friendlies at Inkheart (2, cause they are cool like that) and Metaxia.

This is gonna be exciting and I have so many ideas for heart jewellery.

I need to get a cracking...

Busy busy busy

So many things have been happening on this side, jewellery, life, money, love (okay not so much)

Between finishing Btech, trying to have a life and keeping up with my dear stockist, The Fringe arts, who are my exclusive stockists currently (besides from me directly)

Work has been going on, aside from the fact that I've had a nasty car accident, but that adds to manufacturing fun, put your heart into the art. So many designs in my head, Btech, for Fringe and for clients... Where to start?

So to date [4 October 2010] I now have 11 pieces done for Btech. Above is one of my pretties. you'll just have to come inspect this one at the exhibition. Oh dear I need to plan my presentation as well... Fun times!