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Thanks to everyone who checked out my market on the weekend, I really appreciate it, and I’m glad some of you found some items that you liked!

I’ll keep the remaining items there for a while longer, and will host another market weekend with fresh products at the start of November.

Stay tuned!

Market Weekend is almost here!

Starts 5.00pm (Adelaide Time), Friday October 3.

Here is the link: Market Weekend.

I have to be honest….I love school holidays!

My daughter started school this year, and my husband is a school teacher, so school holidays are a great opportunity for me to get a little more time to make beads, because he is home to help out.

I also like the less hectic pace of school holidays, and the less yelling at the kids that I do as a result!  It seems every school morning is a battle to make it to school on time.  School holidays are great, there are no timetables!

We will get out and do things on most morning: a walk somewhere, a bike ride, a playground, maybe even feeding the ducks.  And the afternoons will be spent at home: reading books, playing in the sandpit, possibly doing a craft activity.

I hope you enjoy your holidays too!

A mixture of recycled glass beads ready to make new jewellery!  Stay tuned.

This is my current go-to necklace.  I can wear it layered so many ways.  Longer for a tunic dress, shorter for another outfit.  The black and white colours go with everything I own.

Ethikl.com.au is a great place to shop for all sorts of products.  I have just updated all of my recycled glass jewellery on there.  Free shipping globally.

Marketplace for Eco Friendly, Natural and Fair Trade products by independent producers and suppliers

OK, I promise this will be the final instalment of the trip to Melbourne!  We had a really wonderful weekend away, and I saw some amazing art while my husband took the kids to the zoo (and yes, he has received the husband of the year medal).

The other contemporary jewellery galleries I visited were: Pieces of Eight and e.g. etal.  It was awesome to see the work of people I have read about or seen in books or on websites in the flesh!

And then there was Craft.  What a great place for celebrating all things related to craft!  There were 4 exhibitions on while I was there.  These pictures are from my favourite one by Ben Taranto.  He has used glass to create these sculptures.  Glass he has found.  I thought it was really cool, similar but very different to what I do with glass!

 

We went to Melbourne on the weekend!  It was fantastic in so many ways.  The main reason for the visit was to see the Flame On exhibition at Kirra Galleries.  This was the weekend when they were having all sorts of flame-working demonstrations alongside the exhibition, so it was a great opportunity to see some other artists in action.

Plus I got to see MY work hanging in the gallery.  I was very nervous/excited/anxious to see it all really.  I wasn’t sure what to expect.  I was pleasantly surprised at the red sticker on one of the pairs of earrings!  I love the way the gallery hung my work.  I love seeing necklaces hung like this.

And I loved seeing the work of the other glass bead makers.  It was great to see such a diverse range of beads and jewellery being made.

I’ll post more about the trip throughout the week.

I have been busy re-distributing my work after my SALA exhibitions.  I am sending bits and pieces here there and everywhere!  This includes new galleries in Stirling and Warrnambool!