Window of Wonders

Today Liana and I installed our joint window at Craft Queensland to officially mark the launch of our websites tomorrow.

We each made some fabulous new jewellery for it- I have created louvreite swingers and shard necklaces, pendants and earrings using sea green, blue and clear tumbled glass from Bombay Sapphire bottles, louvres and heritage window glass. It is all for sale of course!

Go to my website 24 August 2006 to enter my competition and join us at Craft QLD 24 Aug from 6pm for the opening of the Pathways exhibition.

Also, I am speaking on Friday at CQ for Meet the Makers with Sharon Muir, Liana Kabel and Taryn and Elise Eales.
- everyone is welcome. I must say I'm not much of a performance artist, so I'm hoping that the others hog the limelight!
Date: 25 August 2006
Time: 10am – 12noon
Where: CQstore, Craft Queensland 381 Brunswick St Fortitude Valley Q 4006 T 07 3215 0808 F 07 3215 0802
CQgallery and CQstore hours: Tues-Sat 10am-4pm

Pyramidiot 2

Now you may remember a couple of postings back when I spoke of processing sharp shards of glass into wearable fragments by harnessing southern hemisphere reverse pyramid power to dull rather than sharpen materials such as glass and steel. Well, the pyramid, which I constructed from the finest grade bamboo skewers using principles of pure geometry tested by the Great Eqyptian Pharoahs of yore, has been sitting on my back deck for a number of weeks waiting for the full moon. On a few occasions I have noted (whilst answering the nocturnal call of nature) some very strange goings on under the dark cloak of night. And it wasn't just the possums getting stuck into the paw paws. So I decided to go on a stake out with my digital camera the night of the full moon. This is what I saw!
And lo, the very next morning this is what I found under the pyramid:

Some unique celestial glass jewellery fully formed and soon to be available for sale on my website. Astonishing you may say, but one must never be too surprised at the power of the pyramid which has not only given us the Food Pyramid nutritional guide, but also the lucrative delights of Amway style sales structures which have bought so many riches to humble folk around the world.

Big Red Wrecker

Wreckers are highly attracted to the colour red, so it is no surprise that one of my favourite places to visit in search of materials is the Big Red Shed in Kelvin Grove. The combined fact that half of the city is dedicated to demolishing heritage buildings to make way for apartments and McMansions while the other half is busily restoring the charms-of-yester-year to their old timber homes contibutes greatly to the success of salvage retailers like the Big Red Shed. Dedicated to carefully recycling all sorts of timber and fittings, it is the old glass that gets my attention. Stacks of old louvres and odd bits of heritage glass are available and while some of it is able to be sold for building works and reused by the skilled glazier on site, other bits get broken (it wasn't me!) or are not popular enough to retain. Especially the old louvres which don't go that well with modern security standards and airconditioning systems. And that's where I come in - you can see above some of the pretty blue and green pieces above that I got there this weekend - yum!
Perhaps you are wondering how I make this into the jewellery that you find on my website glass galleries. Here is an secret glimpse into the processes I use:

As you can see, I am harnessing the ancient power of the pyramid in my manufacturing process. In the northern hemisphere you may be aware that razor blades can be sharpened by placing them under a pyramid such as this. But down under, the opposite effect occurs, which is why I am treating these sharp shards to several days of pyramid power to smooth off the edges. Visit my blog next week to view the astonishing results. You will be amazed.

Green Blogosphere welcome mat

How excited am I? I have been tooling around trying to get my website Rebecca Ward Jewellery launched since new year and someone just mentioned me on their wonderful green blog GreatGreenGoods - shopping tips for the environmentally conscious consumer. This led to me being picked up by the TheDesignBlog as well!! Man- I'd better get cracking on the retail and the metadata!

So I guess it is official now even while I'm still fussing with image galleries and thumbnails. However the 'real' launch, in conjunction with Liana Kabel is not until August 2006 and there will be fun competitions and fabbo events listed on our websites that you will definitely not want to miss.