Jewellery The Hand Web

So I was in a Maths exam musing about earning some money over the summer when it came to me - Craft Fairs. I've been making jewellery and craft-fair-suitable titbits like broaches and embroidered picture frames for a while so I might as well make a penny out of it whilst fighting my apathy. So hopefully this summer, on August 9th, I shall set up a small stall at Bath Craft Fair with my home-made merchandise. I was struck my so much inspiration that I had to start there and then. Here are some of my crazy brain thoughts scrawled and smuggled out of A2 Core 4 Comprehension:

And so it began..
After messing around with those Persian bracelets a lot I've started to use copper, a much more malleable metal than the whoknowswhat I was using before, and it's perfect for small chains. I dismantled an old silver chain necklace and gave up some of my swarovski crystals for this beautiful piece:

As you can see the silver coils around the wrist, index finger and pinkie. The copper chain then makes a Y shape with the two rings and the centre of the bracelet. As is not completely clear in the picture, the copper stem actually has two 4mm crystal beads strung into the wire which gives it a delicate and elegant touch.
I am so proud of this. It is so beautifully quirky and feels like heaven when worn - it's not at all intrusive as is only strung around two fingers and the wrist from palm-side up and the bicoloured metals balanced with the sparkly beading is complementary to any outfit. Yes, I realise I am sounding like some mental sales woman from an ad for fake tan, but I honestly think this is the start of something great. (I even though I could make one for each letter of the alphabet e.g. Y and A but then I thought about C and that idea went down the drain). I'm going to make more of these and every one will be different to the next - with semiprecious stones and other patterns and stuff. The more I think about it the more sense it makes to sell these online rather than irl but I don't really understand the whole mailing pricing system; but maybe someday I'll open an e-shop.
Oh and I christen this the 'Hand Web' because no other name really makes sense.

Fashion Some Old Things

So apparently I am too busy to run plural blogs. I try; but I fail. Anywhoo lest this be abandoned I must keep it alive with some sort of design. Here are some of the first garments I ever created:

The jacket was my very first project. I saw a similar one on the internet with a ludicrous pricetag, printed off a picture of it, marched over to my mum and she showed me how to sew properly - I made a pattern and two toiles for this; it's ever so simple and straight but fits so wonderfully.
The dress was for my 14th birthday, I was throwing a cocktail party, inspired by looking through 70s fashion encyclopaedias. Then came the layered skirt and the disco shorts. It was a time when they were on the runways but not in the shops so I got creative.
Looking back, I wish it were as easy now as it was then to just have an idea and spend a couple of days completing it- these days I have to plan and plan and then buy fabric and then I run out of time and never get to complete it.. I can't wait for a time when I can just design and sew all day instead of wasting time learning chemistry and maths. sigh.