Questions I Usually Get Asked.

Hello there :) Hope your all enjoying the lovely spring weather, it's actually been rather warm here in Scotland. Now I decided to write this in a blog, because people tend to ask me these questions a lot when I tell them I make jewellery. So I decided since people ask me these questions I'm going to put them in to a blog. So lets get started.

Question 1. When did you first get interested in jewellery making?  

I get asked this one a lot. Well it was my mother in law who got me interested in it. She knows a lady who had a hobby making necklaces. Mind you when she first asked me I wasn't really interested, but she kept asking and finally I decided to give it a go. As I've said in other blogs I wasn't exactly impressed the first time I tried stringing some beads on a necklace. After a few times of going to this womans house to make some simple necklaces, my mother in law handed me a jewellery magazine. I saw the beautiful designs and different techniques these jewellery artists used and it was from that point I was hooked. 

Question 2. What influences your jewellery designs? 

A variety of things really. Science fiction and fantasy but nature and our universe would be my main source of inspiration. My swirl pendants are based on the colours of the universe. Also the swirly vines I use in my jewellery are inspired by creeping vine plants. Skulls, bats, spiders, flowers ect all inspired by nature.

Question 3. How long have you been making jewellery?

I started somewhere in October 2012, so not that long really. Just about three years. Mind you I have learnt a lot in three years, but I'm not yet a master. Some day I plan to be even better at making jewellery :)

Question 4. Who taught you how to make jewellery?

No one I taught myself most of what I know through books and magazines. However I did and still am being taught how to make silver jewellery using pmc (precious metal clay) I'm studying with the mid Cornwall School of jewellery.

Question 5. Do you teach jewellery classes?

No. Not yet anyway. I only teach people I know really well at the moment. 

Question 6. What do you have difficulty making or working with?

Seed beads, I don't have the patience for fiddly little beads and super intricate complicated necklaces. Probably because my eye sight isn't that great. Saying that I do have the patience for sculpting with polymer clay and working with wire.

Question 7. Do you wear any of your own jewellery?

This answer may seem vain but yes I do wear/make jewellery for myself. Its always nice to make something for yourself, it's even nicer to make something for someone else. :)

Question 8. What was the first thing you made?

That would have been a necklace made from purple seed beads, that's probably why I hate seed beads!. I don't have a picture of that necklace but I do have a photograph of the first pair of earrings I made.

Question 9. Have you made any custom jewellery?

Yes I have made custom jewellery for some family and friends. I have made my sister a few custom pieces and a two or three silver pendants for a friend. I don't tend to make custom jewellery that often though. 

Question 10. What is your favourite thing to work with when making jewellery? 

Oooh that is a tough one because I like working with polymer clay, pmc clay, different kinds of beads (except seed beads) wire work. I would say my favourite is working with the polymer clay just now. It's very versatile and the colours always make lovely colourful jewellery. 

Question 11. What is you favourite bit of jewellery you have made?

That would be a chainmail necklace I made. I had a lot of fun making it because I've always loved chainmail jewellery. It is durable and has a heavy feel to it, without being overly heavy.  

Bonus question . Do you make puppy pendants?

No..., Just no 

Thanks for taking the time to read this and keep it spooky children of the night :)