Edinburgh jeweller

In March I wrote a blog post for the London Jewellery School blog about the Pass it Along Project , a jewellery collaboration project spearheaded and collated by my colleague, LJS tutor Penny Akester to challenge jewellers to work with others from around the world on the same piece of jewellery. I participated in the challenge alongside fellow LJS tutors Penny Akester , Hayley Kruger , Helen Walls , Annie Mason and Natasha Williams . The first iteration of the project is now complete so I thought I’d share some of the finished pieces. (This blog post was originally written for the London Jewellery School blog and has been adapted to post on my blog) What is the Pass it Along project? The Pass It Along project is a group jewellery making challenge – it is open to any jeweller who was interested in challenging themselves. It was designed to enable unexpected and unplanned collaboration between makers – to generate new ideas and inspiration, as well as connections with other...

Whether to rent a jewellery studio or work from home was an issue that has been at the forefront of my mind this year as followers of the blog will know. I was wanting to further develop my jewellery business and teaching and it was one option to consider. I looked at whether there were studios available locally as I knew it was unlikely I’d want the cost and time of travelling too far. I hadn’t found anything that I thought would work for me. Luckily, serendipity happened to help me out! I was working one evening at the London Jewellery School alongside tutor Penny Akester and it transpired that she was looking for someone to share a studio with at Craft Central ! It was great timing and a good opportunity to share the costs as well as to have someone to work alongside. The studio when we took it over! I got my keys at the beginning of May and Penny and I spent a day building flat packed furniture to furnish our studio (here we are in action!) We had a deadline t...

I now have the keys for my shared jewellery studio at Craft Central ! At the moment, as you can see, it is looking a little empty and bereft as the previous occupant has moved out! But this week Penny and I have the furniture and equipment coming in ready for the Made in Clerkenwell open studios event so there will be lots of building of furniture happening this week. I will be posting the after photos soon!