The Remake Challenge

 Kin has some brilliant ideas, and their latest one

 gave me the pleasure of taking part in the Remake Challenge.

They teamed 5 of their jewellery designers up with one of the fashion finalists.

I was partnered with Kelly Ricardo a edgy wild child and I loved her energy and ideas.

To pair with her collection I came up with these babies:

 

 

 Yes, they are all made out of pencils.

The irony being that I recycled into my designs just as Remake includes that in their brief.

Really loved this project and can't wait to take these designs further.

But best of all, love seeing the talent from the competition.

In collaboration with Kin, 

I've done a window exhibition.

More on that here.

And part of the exhibition I played around 

with a honeycomb of beeswax I was gifted.

I originally wanted to cast them,

but no success as it's just too delicate.

 So what happened is we had them electroformed.

It's a long winded explination, but basically

metal gets formed via an electric current over the actual object.

 So that means the beeswax is still inside the pendant.

These lovely copper shapes are strung on an oxidised sterling silver chain.

And they're a once off, set of 7.

Buzz buzz....

Buzzing bling

I've had the privilege to do my first window exhibition at Kin on Kloof this month.

This exhibition focuses on my use of bees in my jewellery.

Which I have a bit of an obsession with.

 This elaborate beehive structure (that I built by hand) houses 21 once off pieces.

Especially the honeycomb necklaces (more on that later).

Filled with facts about bees as well, I decided to inform people of these lovely little workers.

You know bees are currently dying out? And humanity would not be able to survive without them.

In fact we'd have less than four years before we follow them.

More than a 3rd of our food is produced by the help of bees.

Honeycombs  are the most efficient structures in nature -

the walls meet at a precise 120-degree angle, a perfect hexagon.

Go have a look:

KIN on Kloof
99B Kloof Street, Cape Town
GPS: -33.9314500, 18.4095900 | S 33° 55′ 53.22″, E 18° 24′ 34.52″
Mon to Fri 9.30am to 5.30pm
Sat 9.30am to 3.30pm

Earrings for all

 So I've been playing with stud earrings.  Loving my little dinosaur designs.

Do we like?

Available from Hello Pretty

Gems, so many gems.

Being the bad blogger that I am... I realised I need to blog again...

So just to warm up.

Here's a little preview of a some of the gems I recently acquired.

 Most of these are included, loving that.

Gives them more character.

Including this massive 3000 carat Blue Sapphire.

I'm not a big fan of using stones in my jewellery... but things need to change.

Bad blogger bad!

Whoops... I've been a very bad blogger.

I haven't posted in aaages.

You may whip me.

In between running a business and designing and teaching and managing help and exhibitions and doing this and that and trying to breathe and eat and just having a social life.... *breathe* I might have forgotten I have a blog...

I blame designing and being on the bench 24/7

So bad blogger bad!

We will return to our scheduled programming soon....

Commission: Rose Gold and Cherry Wood

This commission was such a joy and an interesting project.
A set of matching his and hers wedding rings.
 
Her ring.  9ct Unpolished Rose Gold with 0.5ct center Diamond.


His Ring.  9ct Unpolished Rose Gold with Cherry Wood