A complete change of scenery for me this year. I am now working full-time making coffee and earning bugger all - but i am so desperate to be making and living jewellery now that my time for it is so limited!!! Every day i think about what i would rather be making and how i'm going to spend each evening and upcoming weekend. I feel like i'm overflowing with ideas and it is so great. It is almost the opposite to last year when i had almost unlimited amounts of time (was still earning bugger all though), but the ideas didn't seem to happen as freely.
There have been a couple of significant jewellery events so far this year, the first being JEMposium which happened in Wellington in February, and the second being the opening of Best In Show at Objectspace just last week which is showing work by my pal and fellow Hungry Creeker, Lisa Higgins.
JEMposium was a contemporary jewellery symposium which had well known international and local jewellers as speakers. It was a weekend full of making new friends, forming closer bonds with old friends, being completely absorbed in jewellery, as well as fitting in plenty of eating and drinking! I returned to Auckland feeling refreshed, inspired, and full of new ideas!
After JEMposium the next thing on my jewellery calendar was the Best In Show opening at Objectspace. BIS is a show that i have always looked forward to seeing as it is all work by recent graduates (which i am now!). This year's show was particularly exciting because my friend, Lisa, had her beautiful work displayed in the show. A massive CONGRATULATIONS to her! It was a fun night and the work looked fantastic.
Hopefully my next blog with contain photographic evidence that i have been working hard!
