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It’s been nearly a year since I started teaching silver clay jewellery classes in Edinburgh (time flies!). I’ve been so fortunate this year to meet and teach lots of enthusiastic learners. As well as my taster class and the beginners class I have already added a ring making in silver clay class to my schedule. And now I am pleased to share that booking is now open for my new intermediate class for those that are keen to learn more. Based on feedback from my students I have designed a class called Soldering silver clay jewellery . I’m not sure the name is that exciting but the class is as it covers what people have told me they want to learn next.  It's a class I've taught for the London Jewellery School and at the You Can Make It Metal Clay residential conference. The class is suitable for those who have used silver clay before either at home, in a taster or beginners class. Silver clay stud earrings, Jewellery School Scotland What will I learn? I’ve designed t...

I’m interested in the trend of stud earrings that have become known as 'front and back earrings'. The back of them is also designed, usually to hang down behind the ear. I really love this innovative idea. These earrings from Laonato on Etsy are my current favourites At the moment I am collecting some images using pinterest (an obsession of mine!) so do have a look!  Have you bought a pair of these? Have you made any like these? And let me know in the comments your favourite pair of front and back earrings Follow Anna's board Innovative and unusual earrings on Pinterest. Let's stay in touch! Follow me on instagram , twitter , facebook and pinterest

This is a reblog of a post I wrote for the London Jewellery School blog. The original post can be found here Recently I taught the first of a new class, ' soldering in metal clay '. I originally pitched the class idea to Sunita, the manager at the Jewellery School, because I feel there are a significant number of metal clay jewellery makers that don't have a traditional silversmithing background or who lack the confidence with soldering. This class helps to fill that gap in their experience. During this one day class you make silver clay stud earrings, cufflinks and a brooch. Sample pieces from the soldering on metal clay class at the London Jewellery School You then torch fire the cufflinks and learn how to sweat solder cufflink backs onto them. You will also learn how to sweat solder stud posts onto the back of your silver studs. Finally, you learn how to solder on wire to make a brooch pin. You practice first on copper so you can get a feel for the proces...

Examples of the types of pieces you can learn to make in the class The silver clay classes are one of my favourite to teach. It’s so magical when someone torch fires their clay for the first time and it turns into silver. One of the things I have noticed while teaching and talking to our students is that many of the metal clayers have no silversmithing experience. It isn’t necessary for making basic metal clay pieces. However, once the metal clay is fired it can be treated in the same way as any silver including hammering, shaping and soldering, so understanding what you can be done with the silver can really broaden horizons. Soldering is a traditional silversmithing skill that take a bit of practice and know-how but once you’ve got it you can make much more complex pieces. So I pitched a new one day class to the manager of the jewellery school and she has agreed to try it out!  In this new one day class, you will learn how to solder earring posts onto stud earr...