Gin Gin Gallery Craft Market Show

For the month of November, I have closed my Etsy shop, cos everything is in our local gallery.

(The batteries in the camera were flat, so I took the photos with the phone, hence the less than good image quality)

The bracelet display is made from some reo mesh and a piece of timber, as is the earring display.

Two MDF boards with mat clear acrylic finish stand on two small easels for necklace displays.

Other necklaces are displayed on more MDF boards that are hung on the wall.

Hopefully this will make up for the craft market that didn't happen last month.

(Off to Brisbane tomorrow at the crack of dawn. Not a pleasure trip but a sad farewell for my daughter-in-law's mother who passed away last week.)

Market Find

Found this at the local Saturday Market for the princely sum of $3.

Look at the cool texture!

A beheading, a de-bottoming and a slice through the guts and voila I see some fantastic copper sheet for me to commit mayhem upon. 

(Puts on 'helpless-female-with-power-tools' look and hands hubby the grinder with the metal cutoff disk)

Bead Table Wednesday

Some of the brooches I made for the craft show that didn't happen.

So for therapy I made a new banner for my blog. What do you think? 

What treasures are on your bead table? Go on give us a peek!

Big Girls Don't Cry

The Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery hold an annual craft show. Have never done any shows or markets so I thought it was an ideal opportunity to dip my toe in the water so to speak.
Made some jewelery and some cheap and cheerful polyclay brooches and fridge magnets. Spent ages constructing some earring and bracelet displays from some wonderful rusty reo mesh and timber collected of the ground.
Then the fates aligned to conspire against me and due to a mix up my stuff was left behind at the Gin Gin Gallery.


Can I cry now?

Bead Table Wednesday & Honey Wine

From the chaos of this

comes this    



Fill your glass with the first of the Honey Wine and toast the season's changing.

More Earrings!

What's with all the earrings already????

CONFESSION: for years I have left a trail of yellow chicken feathers. Yep I was a total scaredy cat, coward, jelly fish, wimp and big girls blouse. I have totally avoided having my ears pierced, but, last week I DID IT! I screwed up my courage and did it! What on earth was I sooo worried about? 
Now I can't wait to remove the studs and put some 'real' earrings in.
Might start with these...

Persephone in Autumn

Persephone has begun her odyssey.
The annual journey, passing from the sight of this world and slipping into the realm of the Shades, and Hades, Lord of the Underworld. 

To mark her passing, the trees put on cloaks of gold, russet and crimson and soon will become bare. Traceries against the sky. Grass withers to pale cream and brown, flowers fade. Her mother Demeter, turns her face from the world missing her daughter and the world becomes dark and cold and plants sleep waiting.

These earrings are inspired by the legend of Persephone.

The bronze discs are torch patinaed for the leaves of autumn. The dark shaped copper is for the darkness of winter. Persephone has lost the brilliance of summer, and has become pale as the sunset in the winter fog. There is one final leaf with just a hint of the green it used to be.

Be patient world, she will return.