Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair

Now on the Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair website. The show is in Manchester 22nd-24th October and I will be showing my new collection there...
Come for a day out, the work looks amazing!

http://www.greatnorthernevents.co.uk/jewEmilyMargaret_HillJewellery.html

Amazing..that's it.

These photos were shot between 1863 and 1944 and were taken by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii during a photographic survey of the Russian Empire. "He used a specialized camera to capture three black and white images in fairly quick succession, using red, green and blue filters, allowing them to later be recombined and projected with filtered lanterns to show near true color image". I can't actually believe some of them were taken over 100 year ago. The vibrancy of the fabric is just amazing, it is so rare to have any examples of colour of that period in time except in paintings.


http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/08/russia_in_color_a_century_ago.html

Amber Albrecht

http://www.amberalbrecht.com

Ok so I know I am a sucker for anything magical but these really are beautiful, I wish she would draw me some insects!

Amber Albrecht is based in Montreal and her surreal works are inspired by folklore, literature, topography and a struggle to remember stories and drawings she saw when she was young.

I am feeling very Russian/Eastern-inspired at the moment so expect more of this type of posts..If only I could fit this in with my Victorian style memorial jewellery..maybe some odd mash up?

Liverpool Deisgn Festival

Wohoo, now on the Liverpool Design Festival website. The show is on the weekend of 20th and 21st Novemeber in St.Georges Hall.

http://www.liverpooldesignfestival.com/exhibitors/emily-jones

New Pieces..

A few new pieces to peruse..collections solwly coming together....

Silver filigree pattern necklace with 9ct gold saftey chain

Silver victorian memorial hand with garnet and 9ct gold safety chain.

Glass jar with cork stopper, silver chain, 9ct gold safety chain and red cinnaber moth.

Another mad collector!

http://collectionaday2010.blogspot.com/

This is Lisa Congdon's blog, she collects..and collects..and collects. This blog follows her recording her collections each day as she categorises and documents...
Here are some of her daily collections

New Photos..some new work

These are a few photos taken by my new friend Anneka for a shows I would like to enter in the next few months. There will be more to follow but we just stlyed a few shots to see how they would look on an old mannequinn I borrowed from Tasty Vintage! http://www.tastyvintage.com/index.php

All are working progresses and need some sparkling touches but finally it feels like I am pulling a collection together! I am really pleased with the way they have come out....

Siver cast bones, hand formed.


Test tube, found insects, cork, silver.


Photo-etched silver scizzers, antique velvet, silver chain.


Photo-etched lace on silver, silk ribbon, quartz, silver chain.


Photo-etched map on silver, hand formed, recycled 9ct gold chain.

All photos by Anneka James
http://www.annekajames.co.uk/