An Exciting Commission

I thought I'd take a break from the daily grind to say Hi...  This whole blogging thing is a bit new to me so you'll have to forgive any faux pas!  However I had an appointment yesterday with a customer asking me about designing "a cross that's not a cross"  She is a recently ordained minister and a friend of mine.  However I am still truly honoured to be asked to design and hopefully to go ahead and make this, her first cross.

Of course things went a bit haywire in the middle of the appointment when my daughter's school phoned to say she had a sore tummy...  I am afraid I was rather heartless telling them to send her back to class and I would come up to the school in due course to administer the appropriate painkillers.  However it did cut things a bit shorter than I'd liked.  Instead of going into the house for a coffee after the commission was discussed - I had to send my friend packing!  She has children the same age though so understood completely.

I am however really excited by the whole design process, and coming up with an idea that my customer will want to purchase.  Of course pricing the piece up I have just been given heart failure on finding out the price of gold these days.  You can tell its a few years since I last ordered any materials as the cost of them has more than tripled.  ZOIKS!!!

Wish me luck...

I'm Back

Hello there...  Well as the the title suggests that I am back!  Not on the internet - this is me as a newbie blogger.  No, but I am back designing and making jewellery...  Tea is ready so i'm off for now.  There will definitely be more to follow though