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- rachel helen
- I am a jeweller. I have been designing and making jewellery since I was 12 years old. I began by playing with beads and wire until a few years ago when I decided to expand my skills and took up evening classes in silversmithing and jewellery. From here I gained a job in the trade and spent a year working under a very experienced jeweller. I now use my technical metal work skills and combine them with my beadwork experience to create unusual intricate and delicate pieces of jewellery that are designed to make people feel sparkly and special!
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Hi! I read your comment last week on Kate's Jewellery Making Blog so I had a little peak at your site, which is really lovely, professional and well-presented. I've just read your interview on Kate's site and I am very, very intrigued. Are there a lot of metal work courses out there? I would love to have a go one day. My creative journey is in its infancy. I've just discovered the joys of bead and wire and I think its great. At the age of 21, I feel like a little girl all over again. It may sound silly, but I had absolutely no idea you could make your own jewellery without some kind of professional qualification. So now, I can happily make some beaded earrings, I can struggle with necklaces and rings but I do have a very big imagination. I want to be able to make all sorts of things with metal eventually. For the sake of my bank balance, I'm not going to run before I can walk, so the beading is what I do now, keeping in mind I have many, many aspirations. I've figured out a natural progression in my head. It goes something like this, beads and wire, then Fimo clay which looks like a whole lot of inexpensive fun, then precious metal clay which looks fantastic. Then some kind of silver smith course. I think this may well keep me busy for quite a few years, particularly as my current occupation is student of modern languages at Newcastle. So, my two passions, arty crafty things and languages. It's a lot for now. But anyway, I wondered if you have any advice for me, being a very over-ambitious, fluttery brained sort of person. Also, do you ever make your own jewellery to wear for yourself, and is that usually like an occasional present or is it a perk of your job that you can have lots of exclusive jewellery? How do you get people to buy it when it's quite expensive? Do you market a certain kind of person?
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