opening celebration drinks - Christmas Showcase
People started arriving at 6pm. Photo taken by Sean O’Connell – thanks Sean!
We’ve had a wonderful response and lots of people into the space buying their handmade gifts for those special people in their life.
The Christmas showcase opened on Saturday afternoon. The work’s looked fantastic and we had a great response. See below for some images. The 4th image is our new wall display.
The hard work as always was all worth it in the end.
Bridget Ross and my mum in the background
There is no end to the skills we require. Graphic designers, accountants, sales people, photographer, web designer. Its either this or we outsource to other professionals. As you can imagine in our 1st year of running the studio we haven’t been in a position to outsource.
Its a great learning experience, although the experience always seems to come at a time when there are tight deadlines. As was the case with the Christmas showcase invite and our new studio cards
In my years of playing with programs like Illustrator and Photoshop and doing invites etc. I thought I’d finally reached a point where I had enough knowledge to get by, but as always a new printing company and new ideas mean a new lesson in graphic design.
After many attemps, trips to the printers and sleepless nights both projects were finally completed!!
See below for the Christmas showcase email PDF. If you would like to receive future invites send us an email and we can add you to our mailing list.
little melt - earrings
Finally found some time to take a (poor) snap of some new work. Based on snow melting around new Spring shoots, these limited edition series were inspired from the one off brooches made for our Winter brooch exhibition earlier in the year. Most are oxidised silver and cold enamel. I also made an 18ct yellow pair with white enamel……we’ve been busy in the studio recently……Mel and I have been getting lots of parcels of goodies in the post – the opening of our Christmas Showcase is getting close and all the wonderful work has been arriving. It’s great to see what everyone’s been up to and we’re looking forward to sharing a glass of bubbly with everyone!
