week 28 - Necklace and matching earrings...

KS&W is semi closed for the summer clear-out, so I took the opportunity to do a few day courses in jewellery. The first one was beginners jewellery, I had no idea what to expect! Turns out it was a quite intensive course! In the morning we worked with bits of copper, sawing, filling, sanding, cleaning, etc...then after lunch we made objects in silver! I have never done anything like it before - but I went home with a very professional looking necklace and matching earrings!

It is quite hard on your hands, holding small bits of metal and filing or polishing, but definitely worth it!

Tools of the trade - those 4 bits of copper are my test pieces. You can see a few bows that I made from copper wire. These were placed on the flat pieces and then run through the metal roller, which is like a printing press for metal.



Our items as they came out of the ball-bearing polisher. (its like the kind of thing you would put rocks in to polish) Both the earings and my bow 3-piece were made using the metal roller.


Eh viola! I wore mine to work today!


And I've got another course next week to look forward to as well! This one is costume jewellery - so will use glass beads...I've got a purple necklace in mind, perhaps a few bracelets??