At the bench peg

Are you a"chucker"or a"bequeather"?

Letting go of things (and by things I mean "stuff") is not always easy. Dozens of books have been written on "How to declutter" to "Live...

Creativity is a strange gift! Here at the Jewellery Boat, I can struggle to come up with ideas of how to develop my collection all day...

I am continuing to develop my new jewellery collection on the theme of "Gather- river - breath" and these are my latest pair of earrings,...

"Off the shelf" or "of yourself"? So what am I talking about? Today I am thinking about glass making materials. There are so many types...

So what happens when you've drawn a design and decided on the materials you want to use? That's when the hard work really begins in...

What inspires you to make and create things? Is it your surroundings? Colour combinations? The patterns, shapes or forms of nature?...

This is a fragment of blue and white china I picked up on the beach at Lyme Regis last year. It has a beautiful blue thistle-like flower...

Sometimes launching straight into jewellery making with precious metals and stones is a scary prospect, so we spent time playing with a...

"Gather - river - breath" these were the three words I chose as a starting point for the development of a set of three earrings for a...

Part of my enjoyment in making jewellery comes from learning and finding new ways of doing things, the age old question of problem...