On holiday...

The school half term is here and I am away on a short holiday with my family. I will be travelling the roads in Wales but will be back to work on Monday 2nd November.

Feel free to drop me a message visit my websites or make a purchase.

All messages and purchases will be attended to upon my return on the 2nd Nov.

(The picture was a quick watercolour sketch that I did when I was last in Wales.)

Bye for now

Chris

It don't look much....

OK. It doesn't look a million dollars at the moment. This will hopefully be my new shop once all the legal stuff is done.

Some shopfitting, a lick of paint, new signage and it will be my new home.


-- Posted From My iPhone. Blogging when I am not stuck indoors.

Alarm bells ?

Off to meet with my Alarm company at my new shop premise. My business insurance requires the fitting of a state of the art, all singing, all dancing, makes you a cup of tea in the morning kind of alarm system. I still think my kids would be better !!!

So a quick chat with them at the new shop, where to install the trap door, the poisoned arrows, the 20 ton crushing anvil that drops from the ceiling.

I am slowly pulling together a colour/design board for the shop fitting which will hopefully commence in Novemeber. The shopfitting and then the moving into the new unit will probably take 2 weeks in total.

So I am very much hoping that I can move in by mid Novemeber, but this all hinges on the legal stuff being completed on schedule !!

Moving on…

Very excited as I will soon be moving shop.

I am currently in a smallish shop which suited my needs 2 1/2 years ago, but I have now outgrown it.

I have been negotiating with the agent for the landlords who own the shop. The shop is located smack bang in the middle of town. It is in the primary shopping center and on the main drag along with the big retail boys.

Located just yards from the likes of Boots, Argos , Whsmiths, and the Post Office. Not to mention a gaggle of other high street brands.

The move will mean that my retail environment will more than double in size and that my workshop space will quadruple in size. It will be really great as my current workshop is really cramped. And having the extra room for all my tools will be just ace.

Now we have agreed the terms for the new shop, the legal stuff will probably start tomorrow. Unless there is legal complication, I should be moving into my new shop in November.

Tis all very exciting.

-- Posted From My iPhone. Blogging when I am not stuck indoors.

Off on my Summer Hols.....

Welcome to my blog.

Feel free to have a look around and a gawp at my Flickr pages or personal website.

I am not around though. I am on my summer hols and will be back 4th September.

Thanks for stopping by.

Fingerprint Rings

Been away from the blog for a spell. Just hectic with work and with the family, but I am back to my old routie, so a little time to spend blogging.

Here is my latest creation. I take the clients fingerprint and using some special magic, I make a ring using their unique mark.

I can make these rings to any given width and in any metal. Silver, gold, palladium or platinum. The golds, I can make it in white, yellow or red gold.

EtsyMetal Blog Carnival

EtsyMetal Blog Carnival... So what is a blog carnival? I hear you ask.

A small group of Etsy Metal members with their own blogs write a short article on a given day subject. We will be doing this the first Friday of each month and our topic this fine May is

"What/who inspires you in making jewellery?"

I like drawing and I have more sketch books on the go than you can shake a stick at. Here are a couple of my brain storming sketches. These are largely derived from still life studies.

The whole point of sketching for me, is simply exploring ideas, whether they ever get translated into jewellery is a whole different matter.

I work largely to commission so I end up working on clients own pieces and therefore I am guided by their preferences.

I keep promising myself that I will get back to making one-off pieces that satisfy my need to play with materials be it platinum, concrete or wood.

Jewellery is about adornement but we get so hung up on perceived value by using precious items.

I have a whole stack of ideas and in all honesty I could probably make new items for a couple of years without taking a breath, but in the meantime bills have to paid and my commissions keep me off the streets.

So my inspiration for my personal work comes from distilling observational drawings.

That is my story...please go and have a look what the others have to say.....
http://ninadinoff.blogspot.com/
http://ninagibsondesigns.blogspot.com/
http://bcyrjewelry.blogspot.com
http://deliasstudioinc.blogspot.com