Edinburgh jeweller

Source I love learning new things and the summer break gives me more time to indulge in that! This summer I will be learning how to make polymer clay bangles make soutache jewellery make collage brooches carve with metal clay wax carve and cast The balance for me is to ensure I put my learning into practice and not just carry on to the next thing! But I have found that all of the things I've learnt feed into my design work and that can only be a good thing. 

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It's been over a year now since I gave up my full time job in a university to teach part time and work on my jewellery. When I first started out doing this I panicked about money. If there aren't enough students in my classes my teaching is cancelled and I'm not paid. I don't get paid more than statutory holiday pay and my main teaching college isn't open for over four months of the year. People buy my jewellery or they don't. So to start with I was saying yes to everything that came my way knowing that some of it would come off and some wouldn't. It has led me to weeks where everything was on and I was running myself ragged! It has also led me to do work I wouldn't normally choose to do because the offer was there. Now I am starting to say no to things that I don't really want to do even though they pay. And it leaves more time for me, it tells people that I am not always available, it tells people what I enjoy doing. There's always got to b...

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I was asked by the press officer at the London Jewellery School to come along to an interview with a journalist from Good Housekeeping magazine. This is the feature! Click here to read the whole piece

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