Jewellery Day Class

Hello there :) I was at a metal clay workshop last week, learning how to set glass into silver, kiln fire it and how to set semiprecious gemstones on to silver and gold plating silver jewellery. The class was awesome and the teacher is very knowledgeable and down to earth which makes her easier to speak to. She also doesn't mind people asking her questions, I'm full of questions and always want to know as much as I can about working with silver. There are plans to go to more classes, one I really want to attend is the ring making class. I've always wanted know how to make rings with silver there are so many kinds of rings I want to make. I'm not going to go in depth with the techniques as I think they are best kept to workshops or classes. 

Silver Semi-precious Pendant 

So here are some of the pendants I made at the class, this first one was how to put a bezel cup on to the silver. The technique I found quite easy to do and closing the bezel around the semi-precious stone was again quite simple. The teacher did say that sometimes the gemstone can fall out if not done correctly but because her instructions were very clear making this pendant was easy to do. I transferred a pattern on to the silver before I put the bezel cup in place.  

Silver Glass Pendant

The second pendant that I did was this one, I have to say this pendant was one of my favourites to make because I learnt so much just making it. From repairing the silver when a piece brakes to learning how to make proper bails and adding moisture to the clay when two pieces peel away from each other. When making this pendant I learned how to make professional jewellery bails from the silver. I even amazed myself! 

Gold Plated pendant

I was going to take a photograph of this pendant but because I wasn't to liberal with the gold it didn't show up to well on the silver. After the pendant had come out of the kiln the teacher did say I should have used more and not to be intimated by the gold, because gold is expensive. She did say you paid for the class so if you do want to make it again just go for it and put a good lot on the silver.

Along with going to a silver workshop I am also pleased to announce that I now have an Etsy page! 

I am currently planing my wedding so I had to take my jewellery out of the shop that it was in because my money is going towards my wedding. My sister set up my Etsy page and offered to run it while I plan for my wedding so a big thank you to her. I will pop a link below :)

My Etsy Page

Keep It Spooky!