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Learn silversmithing from home

Jewellery School Online has just launched their most recent pre-sale class ‘The Silver Jewellery Workshop’ which teaches students how to make professional quality silver jewellery using traditional techniques from home, including how to make a fully soldered textured ring and silver charms & pendants. The pre-sale is a great offer as you can get the course for 50% off (from £89 to £44.50) for the next few weeks before the course is released on 16th April 2016. This course is perfect if you haven't tried silversmithing before or if you have done a course but can't remember everything! Take advantage of this limited time offer!

Mosaic weekend course

Gary and I attended our first Art course together! It was a fabulous weekend course at the Mary Ward Centre in London, UK called Mosaic taster course. It started on Friday evening 6-10pm and then continued onto Saturday 10-5. The teacher, Anna Sklovsky , is a very experienced artist in glass and mosaic. I found her very encouraging and supportive. She was quite intuitive in the way she encouraged everyone differently based on how they worked. On the Friday we were shown some examples of previous student work and techniques for cutting glass, mirror, ceramics and tiles. We had the choice of working onto glass, mdf or mirror. I chose to do my first project with a bronze coloured mirror on mdf so that I could mosaic a frame around it. On Friday I picked up bits of glass here and there and started to try to consider a design but it was a little frustrating. Luckily, I was had an epiphany whilst lying in bed! I suddenly had an idea for the mirror of a rainbow effect with glass with red at ...