Tuesday, August 26, 2008

SPRING!


When you wake up and all you hear are the birds singing you know Spring is on the way. Its such an exciting time, you see and hear birds, the grass gets greener, the trees start springing to life and the flowers start to blossom. Things become brighter with colour, and peoples moods become brighter with day light. What I enjoy the most about Spring starting, is the house magazines, they start showing you how you can decorate your house with flowers and pot plants, they some how capture the beauty of the flowers in their photos, you just cant stop looking at these pictures, they just so stunning.
This is one of the magazines that I buy and enjoy their ideas. This is the cover of their Spring addition that just come out. Inside they have stunning photos of flower arrangements you could do to bring spring into your home. I love their main heading "Frolic with Flowers".

Holiday!

My family and I are going on holiday, I'm sooooooo excited. I remind myself of my father, he loved going on holiday to Port St John's in the Transky. I love it there to. Its the perfect place to be or live. Its such a lovely place. So peaceful, quiet and tons of nature to observe, not much to do but it helps get your mind off things that are happening in your life. The last time we went to Port St Johns was to scatter my dads ashes July last year. My father and I would sit outside where ever we where staying and just listen to the birds, water, and the sounds of nature around us. These are a few places that we stayed at last time we went to the Transky.


This year we going North, up country , I'm not to sure where but am just excited to think about going on holiday and getting away from real life, even if its just for 5 days.

Flower bracelet

The past few days I have been making a bracelet to match my earrings and my rings from my stylized daisies. So far I have made the flower but I'm battling with the clasp and which one is the best for this piece.

Friday, August 22, 2008

A Ring For A Friend!


I have had to put a side a my own work for a small amount of time to manufacture a 9ct yellow gold ring for a friend of mine. I hated it at first, 9ct yellow gold is so hard to work with, I had to start the square setting, ohhhh, about 4 times till I got it as perfect as I could. But the shank was just as much of a pain to make. But I think it turned out very well and my friend was over the moon with it.

Platinum piece!


A few weeks ago the fourth years had to enter the PlatAfrica competition, we had to design and manufacture the piece out of platinum that was given to us by our tech. The theme was Anniversary and we had ti design a piece that celebrated anniversary of some sort. I design and manufactured a piece that was a remembrance piece to my father. I decided to make a simple looking piece, I had never used platinum before, it was my first time, at first I hated it as you had to anniel the metal so often and it takes so long to pull wire. I then got to the forging part on my piece and started to like it, what I like was that you could roll the metal so thin and then hammer it even thinner and it is still so strong.

Friday, August 15, 2008

Thoughts!


My father died in 2006 just as I was going into my 3rd year at tech and just as we started our personal projects. My father and I had a song named "Butterfly Kisses" by Bob Carlisle. In my 3rd year I started creating jewellery with the shape and forms of butterflies and flowers. Starting my 4th year I found myself going in a different direction some unknown reason. A few weeks ago I was Helping my mother clean out a cupboard and found a drawing my father did of a rose and dated it 1982. I suddenly realized what I had been missing and that's my flowers that I had made.


I Started thinking about my flowers and looking at other flowers, looking at their shapes, forms and what they mean. I have been looking at the Daisy flower and have taken the simple shape of the petals and have created my own Daisy flower, except they out of metal. Daisy means innocence and purity, they use Daisie's to cheer people up, they cheer me up, Ive been looking at the normall white and yellow daisy flower but you can get different Daisies in a vibrant rainbow of colours.