Welcome

I very much enjoy crafting, I always have done. But it was not until after having children many years ago now that I discovered jewellery making. I found an evening course at college and decided to have a go. It was fabulous!
As a person who has dyslexia it was the most educational fun I ever had. I worked my way up from a BTEC level one to level three and gained my BTEC Level 3 Subsidiary Diploma with 5 distinctions. I would like to say I felt very proud of that.
I spent most of my working career working as a Nursery Nurse and later a Teaching Assistant. I also was a children's nanny and all this fitted in with my own two lovely boys. We were always making things and art was my favourite thing and I strongly believe in letting children find their own creative fun.

Now I'm older I happily work part time at home making jewellery on the out skirts of London close to Hampton Court. I take lots of inspiration from nature and its surroundings and I like the use colour or texture to reflect this. I visit lots of National Trust gardens for mindful walks where I gather my inspiration, as well as the local Royal Bushy Park. My jewellery pieces are often contemporary or rustic in their design and I consider them to be very unique. Jewellery making is something I have fun with and want other people through wearing my pieces to enjoy to.

I mentioned that I like colour, so flowers and the landscape give me this inspiration. I personally find the use of colour uplifting and try to represent this in my jewellery through the process of enamelling. This is called hot enamel where I melt powdered glass at high temperatures to produce wonderful colours.

But I don't stop there as I can occasionally be found experimenting with beads, stones and materials to make other pieces of mixed media jewellery including vintage tin. Basically I have the mind where the more mediums you look for then the more you will see to be creative. ...Sometimes I paint to x

Thank you for visiting my Etsy shop and I hope you enjoy what you see.

With thanks
karen Mary x