Welcome to chapter three of The Jewellery Boat Blog on preparing for craft fairs. Feeling nervous? Worried about running a stall? Anxious...

Finding an oasis of calm is challenging in a busy city where the pressure to do, achieve, meet deadlines, and be seen to be highly...

Making fused glass jewellery is a pleasure in many ways, but it also requires care, effort and elbow grease to finish our pieces well....

A gloriously colourful brand of modernism is currently on display at the Fashion and Textile Museum in Bermondsey, London. The working...

Being able to copy is one of the ways we learn in life, being original is another challenge altogether for the artist. Hasn't it all been...

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...

How many of us have an old button box or tin stashed away in the sewing cupboard, perhaps inherited from our mother, grandmother (or...

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

One of my pleasures in jewellery making is finding different ways of adding colour. Today I am featuring kiln enamel, the process of...

"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...