A new twist on my treble clef brooch. I’ve varnished and modified a standard clothes peg so that the brooch fits on to the peg and hence can be used as a rather special clip on a music stand to hold the music in place. Picture here. It doesn’t stop the brooch being used without the peg either.
New for me anyway – simple clean style suitable for fingers, thumbs and toes. Watch for pictures on my main site soon.
It was a well staged show with some excellent work on show. I’ve done much better than previously, which is encouraging.
Now to start thinking about the new work and the lead up to Artweeks
No resolutions, but plenty of things to start work on this year.
Look out for a new range of rings made with a new tool my brother made for me for Christmas.
The Oxfordshire Craft Guild dismantled it’s selling exhibition on the evening of 23rd December, leaving just the Woodstock show runing until 3rd January 2012. The gallery at the OFS is excellent and the staff are very helpful, but it will need a little more time to establish a reputation as an Oxford gallery venue.
The Broad Street market is over and was quite successful – I’d definitely do it again. Preparations for the cold are crucial, but fortunately the weather was reasonable with only a short rain shower. Steve & Laura do a good job organising the overall market and are good ‘fixers’.
Just a few small jobs to complete before Christmas so time to think about the new ideas
Having got wet going to &/or from two out of three invigilation events this week, I’m hoping the weather prediction for Sunday for the Broad Street market stays good. I shall have lots of small items for sale – earrings, broaches, cufflinks and pendant, including some new designs of necklace with amber with insects and others with genuine Roman coins.
I’ve just sent out my final newsletter of 2011, using the HTML version rather than the text version. It looks better, but the free adds are more intrusive, however the small number of times I send oout don’t really justify the paid version.
I’ve been at the OFS most of today and will be there over lunchtime tomorrow. It was quiet today and my sort of work isn’t attracting any sales – yet. Maybe the torrential rain and sleet was a downer.
However it is a really nice gallery space and the staff are very friendly and helpful.
Woodstock exhibition on Thursday and Broad Street market on Sunday – then change to rest? No not really – I have work to finish and I need some new lines.
I’ve just had back from the London Assay Office, two ingots with the Diamond Jubilee mark and hallmarked for next year i.e. ‘n’ not ‘m’. These are trade samples and cannot be sold this year. I’ll load a picture soon.
I would do it now but my Seagate Goflex home network hard drive is not working properly on any of our machines and I’m waiting for the third attempt at a solution from Seagate’s customer support. Not buying another one from them!
We all set up for the Guild show at the Oxford Fire Station yesterday. I have an ‘Ikea’ display case of work, as do the other five jeweller in the show.
I was interviewed by Louisa Hannan this morning. You can hear the three minute clip for the next few days at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00lwtbf where my three minute of fame start 2 hours 26 minutes into the show.