Being as I am working on my mokume gane technique at the moment I used this weeks colours from the Color Palette a Week Flickr group to play about with it some more.  You may I have seen the sheets I made, here’s some of the jewellery I have made. Got some beads too but I haven’t polished or strung them yet.Textured domed disc with a centre from the stamped mokume gane sheetDomed disc pendant made with the shavings from the stamped...

A while ago I posted a tutorial for making these beads It never really occurred to me that people actually used it until recently when someone commented on another post to say thank you for the tutorial. If you have tried it out – how did it work for you? Did you get the crumbles? I haven’t tried it with new formulation Kato yet, I might need to do some leaching to get it to work. If you have photos of beads you made can I see them?...

Bracelet 672Originally uploaded by Angela.BFor a long time I have been admiring other peoples mokume gane but never quite managed to get results I was equally stunned with myself.Here’s one of the pieces I love by Angela.I was determined that I too was going to master this technique. I had already read several tutorials and played about with it a bit but still wasn’t quite getting it how I wanted it. I reread some tutorials and...

Whilst making up some pendants I thought I would be clever and try and do 2 jobs at once. Well it didn’t work out how I thought but I quite like what happened.I wanted to make a circular pendant with a textured back, I decided to cut out the circle whilst the clay sheet was over some rough sandpaper thinking it would get textured as I cut. As usual once I saw what happened it was obvious that’s what would happen but you don’t...

There are now gift vouchers available either for just workshops, just purchasing jewellery or one that is valid for both. This is what they look like. They can be purchased online and emailed to you, or bought from me in person. I will have some available at my next sale.

In my last post I told you about the Color Palette a Week Group on Flickr. Well here is this weeks colour palette – it’s bright and I didn’t think I liked it but you have to try these things.I mixed up the colours with some pearl clay included to make them a little softer and because I was in a shimmery type of mood. I also used the opportunity to try out some of the things on my ‘want to try’ list.Here’s...