New Website!

After months of shaking my fist at Wordpress and despairing wails of "but I don't understand WHAT THAT MEANS!" my new jewellery website is finally (pretty much) finished, hurrah! I'm so proud that I didn't give up at any of the many hurdles, especially given my general lack of technical ability.
Thanks to my very patient first customer, who helped me iron out a couple of final glitches :)

You can see it here: www.laurengracejewellery.com

New Skate Necklace

I've had a few requests now for a derby skate necklace without the wings.

As the wings are actually a big pain in the bum to do, I am delighted to oblige!

Here you go:

Now available to purchase here on my website.

Spooooooky...

Given that it's Halloween today, I decided to go to work dressed as a sort of goth circus master.  Did think I may have been pushing it a little with lack of office-appropriateness of outfit, but no-one even batted an eyelid.

Check out my rather fabulous Halloween spider necklace.  The boy is afraid of spiders and does not like it at all!

I picked this up, along with some other gorgeous crystal costume jewellery, at a trade fair a couple of years back.  I'm thinking about having a costume jewellery section on my new website, so watch this space if you fancy having your very own giant crystal spider.  Everyone wants a giant crystal spider, right?  Right...?

Pandora Style Charms

I was recently asked to make one of my little silver bee charms to fit on a Pandora bracelet.

I carved a little ring from wax with an inside diameter of 4mm, to fit on the Pandora chain, and had it cast.  I had a mould made too, just in case anyone else ever asks me for one!

 

And here is my little bee:

 

I think it turned out really well – I might offer the ‘Pandora Style’ option for some of my other charms.

New Commission

I was recently asked to make one of my custom initial necklaces in gold - eek!  Working with gold always scares me.  It's silly really, it's no more difficult than working in silver but it's just the expense of the materials if it all goes wrong!

Anyway, my customer liked the Ornate font that I use, so here is the little gold initial - it's 15mm wide.

On the Workbench

You may have noticed that I appear to have done a bit of a disappearing act from my blog recently.  I have been a little bit swamped with work, hence not really having time to write about it!

Here’s a couple of shots of the current chaos of my workbench.

   

See, working really hard!

More roller derby goodness soon :)

Custom Roller Derby Helmet

I was recently asked to make a custom silver jammer helmet necklace, complete with the skater number, for a skater in Australia.

Slightly randomly, she actually skates in a league with one of my old team mates from London Rollergirls!

And here it is:

I didn’t have time to set up my lights and photograph properly, so I just took a quick shot with Instagram on my phone.  Turned out okay actually!