Shopping Time :)

My amazing friends Berna and Elmien have arranged this great event for us. I'm looking forward to next Wednesday, hope to see you there!

Sentimental Jewellery: Jan and Isabella

I love, love, love to make pieces like this. I love to take peoples memories and precious moments and turn them into a treasured little works of art that they can keep near and dear throughout their journey.

I Hold You In My Heart-Ultrasound Jewellery

Although I made my first Ultrasound Jewellery piece for a friend of mine over two and a half years ago, The Baby Expo was the official launch of the Ultrasound Jewellery to the public.

The pieces recieved a great response at the show and I look forward to meeting many beautiful little in utero babies and helping to make special keepsakes for their parents.

Baby Quinn

Baby Oscar



The Cape Town Baby Expo 2011

After much hard work and many late nights of preparation, The Baby Expo has come and gone. I had a really good time and I learned so many new things and met so many lovely people.

My super star sister helped me to set up and also to sell.

I was there too... :)

Frangipani Brooch/Pendant

This pretty frangipani (which is much prettier in real life than in the photo) can be worn as either a brooch or as a pendant.

I have a couple more frangipani casts locked away, waiting their turn to be turned into jewellery, but I can't wait till the trees are full of flowers again and I can cast many more! I have always and will always love a frangipani! :)

My lily in the September Ideas Magazine

My long awaited Ideas Magazine arrived today. I am very happy to have my work in Ideas, but I was a little disappointed with a few things. Firstly they printed my blog address as '.co.za' instead of '.co'. Secondly, they have a little icon at the bottom of the page that says 'go online to http://www.ideas.co.za/ to see how Andrea made this pendant' but if you actually go online and try to find anything related to me or the pendant, there is nothing there yet! (Apparently it will be online be by the time the magazine hits the shelves, but I feel it should be there in time for the subscribers, who get their magazines about 10 days before it's available in the shops.)

There are a few other things that leave me a little puzzeled, but I think some sleep would be more helpful than dwelling on these problems. Despite the errors and other little things that leave me wondering, it is always a lovely thing to have one's work in print, so thanks to Ideas for putting me in their magazine!

Marvelous Mushrooms

My sister came to visit a few days ago and she brought some mushrooms. I have wanted to try to cast this kind of mushroom for quite a while, so although mould making was not originally part of the plans of that day, I decided to steal a few and build a tree. It will probably be a week or so till I make enough flasks to fill my kiln, but I am looking forward to seeing the results of these mushrooms!

The lovely mushrooms