Diamonds are for Bloggers- A journey into the London Jewellery industry.
Last year I was specially selected for a unique jewellery making experience. It's a long story that ends with me talking nonsense to Vivienne Westwood and her husband and making something worth over £12,000, probably more than I've ever earned in a year! So let me take you back to the beginning. As I sometimes do I was on twitter one-day hash-tagging to my heart's content and retweeting as one does, when I saw a tweet from the Princes Trust. It was a competition run in collab
Orla Kiely- A Life in Pattern Exhibition Review
I recently went along to an Orla Kiely exhibition in Dove Cot Studios in Edinburgh. Formerly a Victorian Swimming baths the building is now a wonderful arts and crafts centre dedicated mostly to weaving with the pool itself now being were huge looms are set up and used. It's also got a bloody great cafe which made me want another sandwich even though I was full! Anyway. The exhibition. I was only familiar through Kiely's work through the odd bit of trendy homeware I see in Jo
