Tag: jewellery

Designing silver jewellery in Hoi An

Designing silver jewellery in Hoi An

When I travel I am constantly picking up bits and pieces of ephemera all the little bits no-one else wants. This could be receipts, scraps of paper or fabric, packaging, left over money or bits of plants to press anything that evokes that place for 

How to make pearls in three easy steps…

How to make pearls in three easy steps…

So I had a quick lesson in pearl cultivating. Seems quite straight forward really. Take an live oyster, prise it open insert a bit from another oyster and a plastic ball…leave for five years back in the sea and hey presto a pearl. How hard