sammy's wish: shiny & golden

a collection of beautiful shiny golden pieces
that have caught my eye


Plan B Cable Tie Ring Kit
by Ambre France

instructions for use:
Plan A*
1. Fall in Love
2. Get Married
3. Live happily ever after
*If Plan A fails resort to Plan B

Plan B
1. Cut ALL ties


Golden Jubilee Rings
adjustable jubilee clip rings
by Ambre France


gold plated metal vessels
by Adi Toch


left: hand carved oval Hawaiian black coral band
and brushed oval gold band
right: cloud ring
by Christina Odegard {at Matin Gallery}


left: cluster ring
right: puddle ring
by Christina Odegard {at Matin Gallery}

sammys wish: books

books are always on my wish lists
here are a few I want at the moment:

paris: made by hand
by
Pia Jane Bijkerk

the suitcase series
volume 1
by
Camilla Engman

snowflakes and schnapps
by
Jane Lawson

home is where the heart is?
by
Isla Crawford

and

etcetera
by
Sibella Court


{any other recommendations ?}

glenn's wish: emmeline hastings sculpture

another artist's work we saw at "wrapped up", when we went to
give The Devon Guild more of our mirror's,
was Emmeline Hastings stunning sculptures.

we both loved them, but Glenn spied them first and was
really taken with them - they looked beautifully fluid and light,
almost like tiny little feathers.

Emmeline's pieces are inspired by the visualisation
of sound and music - the sculptures are her interpretation
of hearing & feeling the vibrations of these sounds.

Using perspex, stainless steel and silver, Emmeline creates beautiful
tactile sculptures that give optical effects and the illusion of movement.

to see more of her work, you can visit her website {here}
and she has some lovely pieces on show at The Devon Guild
xmas exhibition "wrapped up", on until 3rd jan 2010.

sammy's wish: pauline edie jewellery

I totally fell in love with Pauline Edie's jewellery when I was
looking online to see what other makers were putting work
in The Devon Guild's xmas exhibition "wrapped up".

I did a post about the exhibition {here} and had to mention
her work because it totally intrigued me when I came
across her website.

We delivered work for the exhibition and then, about a week
and a half later, got a call to say that most of our mirrors
had sold already. So we delivered a few more and got to
see the exhibition set up and Pauline's beautiful jewellery!


Inspired by childhood stories and illustrations, Pauline uses
porcelain, white precious metal, gold glaze and

oxidised precious metal for her brooches, rings,
bangles and neck pieces.
Some of her pieces have her sketches transferred onto the porcelain too.

I love the whole collection but I think my favourite piece
is the rapunzel's hair neck piece.

You can see more of her work on her website .. {click here}
and also in the "wrapped up" exhibition which is on
until the 3rd of january 2010.


{a little wish came true - I bought one of Pauline's rings from the exhibition}

our wish lists

whenever we do a show or take work to an exhibition,
we always see beautiful handmade work from other
designer makers that we so want to buy.

we come back from a show or a gallery delivery and ask each other
what our favourite things were and what we would buy
(most of the time we love the same things)
and, sometimes,
if we are sneaky enough,
we buy each other a surprise gift from the show or gallery
while the other isn't looking.

so we thought we would share a few things from
our "wish lists" with you - hopefully they may even
give you a few ideas for xmas.

{1st wish in the next post}