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Monday’s Jewellery making Class

  • Posted on February 23, 2010 at 10:04 pm
Jewellery Making Class
Everyone working hard on Monday

On Monday five ladies  from the Gran Alicant area attended a polymer jewellery making class at Tutti’s bar and restaurant. We started at midday  and after selecting the colours we wanted started making geometric canes for our jewellery. After forming our canes we shaped them into beads for bracelets. Whilst the beads were baking in the oven we formed pendants and matching circular beads. After 2 and a half hours we were starving so took a well deserved break and tucked into delicious sandwiches supplied by Sirus, the owner of Tutti’s.

After lunch the lesson continued using silver wire to make links for the bracelets and ear wires for earrings. Once the polymer beads and pendants were cool they were varnished and 15 minutes later we started to put our jewellery together. Five hours after the lesson began we were done, everyone had made a pendant with matching beads, bracelet with silver wire and polymer beads and a set of earrings. We even had time to make jazzy key covers and charms for our keyrings!

So at about 5 o’clock the ladies went home for a well deserved rest. My husband and I tidied up and had a quick coffee before heading home. In conclusion I have to say the lesson went really well and would like to thank Sandy, Sue, Denise, Jackie and Anne for being a great class and for all their efforts during the day. If you would like to see a selection of the jewellery they made it can be seen in the students gallery.

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Jewellery Making Classes

  • Posted on February 18, 2010 at 10:10 pm

I’ve spent most of this evening preparing for my upcoming polymer clay jewellery class which is on Monday. Five ladies are atttending the class at “Tutti’s” restaurant in Gran Alicant. The owner Sirus lets me use his upstairs room and supplies a delicious lunch as well. We are going to make geometric design polymer beads on silver wire;  bracelet, pendant and earrings. Everything is made from scratch, including the findings. The ladies have a jewellery class about once a month and have learnt, among other thing, jewellery making with art clay silver, silver wire and polymer beads. I always like to practice what I’m going to do beforehand as occasionally something crops up that I hadn’t thought about.

Tonight I had major problems conditioning some of the clay. Some colours are harder to condition than others and crumble a lot, my hands were really hurting afterwards. A good tip is to put just a drop of baby oil on your fingers when conditioning the clay by hand and this helps to soften the polymer. It shouldn’t be a problem on Monday as I am taking my husband and conditioning the clay is his job. Well enough of the talk, the beads are due out of the oven. I’ll post some pictures of the stuff we made on Monday.

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