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More NSA

I'm making more stock for the Christmas sale at NSA, I haven't used these beaded discs before so this is my chance to see if people will like them or not. Hopefully they get some sort of recognition, even if its some sort of feed back. I'm hoping to start getting people to help me with more of my stork making. This didn't work that well last year, hopefully all goes well from now on.

Very proud

I have put labels (for sale) for earrings like these, earrings that have the wire frames and by doing so I'm reminding myself that I might not have them by the end of the year due to them being sold.
I'm so proud of the way that these earrings have turned out :-), I think that I wouldn't be bothered if someone told me that they can also make them or make the same earrings.
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Next level

I have beading on these silver wire frames and very pleased about the outcome but I wanted to push the idea or the design to the next.

Links

I have been thinking a lot about my future lately, maybe its because I don't have a job anymore and next year we have to go out to the BIG BAD WORLD. I have beaded jewellery ideas but the problems is that none of them are complete. This is a chain idea, where I want to use different links to join everything together. Maybe I should include drawings of these ideas so as to make things clear for you guys. All these bits and pieces are not helping at the moment, I need more help. I say More because I have started teaching someone to bead but its not easy because shes a bit slow and keeps getting things tangled. Even though I'm running out of funds for her, I don't want to give up on her yet because she is willing to learn and works hard.

Make a plan

These are all bead shanks, 112 of them. The colours are bright and inviting. There is no way that you wouldn't have a ring to match any of your clothing. Instead of that silver shank I think these are the beaded rings that would go in its place. I plan to remove the silver disc that is in the middle so as to make it more affordable.

Bold ring

People have said that they like this ring, all of them like or love it for different reasons. So I put in the African Art Center for order, not for sale. I got more responce and had to make different colours and sizes.

Others that wanted to have it, thought it was a bit pricey and I wasn't shocked because the shops add their own mark ups and this ring, does have a lot of silver.

Even the shank is silver but that was the whole intention, to make something that will last. I have to think of ways that will make them cheaper but still look good.

Some more Work on the side

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Work on the side

After a short conversation that Chris (HOD) and I had, I got to realise that there is only one of me and that I can not split myself into many pieces, I say this because I think I have a lot of things going on outside my Btec. We spoke about how can these two worlds be put together so as to lift the load off my back. I'm busy making jewellery that can be sold in galleries or any other shop that feels that my jewellery fits in to sell. This is not that easy because I can not work as fast as I would like to work and I don't get that much of jewellery items made in a day. So I started to teach someone so that, that person could carry on with the work and I can focus on some of my research. At the moment I can not aford to have a lot of people working for me or helping me out but with time I'm hoping to have much more.
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Jabulisa

Even though this doesn't seem like anything,it is a necklace that I'm busy making for the Artisan JABULISE exhbition. Jabulisa means (make them happy), now some people asked me how does the colour black and white make people happy. The one thing that's on peoples minds and lips lately is the world cup and the colours of my piece are taken from the colours of a soccer ball. I hope other people can get or understand what I mean.