HB JEWELLERY BLOG

'From Couture to Kasbah'

2010-05-04T00:32:00.000-07:00

GOOD GIRL -BAD GIRL

2010-05-03T07:07:00.000-07:00

If you have seen my video, you have heard me use and explain my Good Girl - Bad Girl "looks". I would like my jewellery pieces to make someone feel something.

Good Girl-Bad Girl, is a very black and white statement to provoke a feeling of style and to portray someone in a certain way.
Jewellery is historically pretty and show wealth

I believe and have learned that it is much more than that.

Statement jewellery can show confidence amongst many other feelings.

Hopefully my Good Girl-Bad Girl approach also helps women to feel sexy, attractive and a bit naughty, burlesque, but most importantly shows personality.

My identical twin picture, hopefully visualise what I mean by Good Girl-Bad Girl, and everything in between as well...

(Check out my video for more visuals)

What are you?

A Good Girl or a Bad Girl?

Jewellery is fun...

Travel: I can't wait

2010-05-02T04:08:00.000-07:00

Soon I'll have my bags packed and will be on my way to Indonesia, Bali.
I am going to stay in the middle of the rice fields in the creative hub of Bali, in a town called Ubud.
What I love about Ubud, is that wherever you go, you will encounter the artist or designer-maker working away in his/her shop. Pure and simple.
What is made on the premises is sold on the premises, by the maker. Hand tools are used and often age old techniques, only my grandmother would recognise, can be seen.
Okay..yeah...a couple of miles from all this, my romantic picture changes into a wholesalers paradise and a booming export trade....but you will still find, that the majority of goods are hand made.
Ubud is right up my Street. "Away from the High Street", as you can still visit small workshops and buy directly from the maker. Well...there are still many,many places where this can happen...I hope, because; I am going to travel and I can't wait!
Blog you soon, with more from Bali.
Of course I will bring lots of stones and perfect beads back, don't be so silly! I will take some pictures too.

Social Networking...I will eat my words! How wrong I was!

2010-05-02T03:07:00.002-07:00

When you are a " one-man-band", so to speak, and pride yourself in making every piece of jewellery yourself and by hand and then also have to try to find an 'audience' for it....well...you soon run out of time and energy for anything else.
So for years, I have used this as an excuse and have ignored the world-wide-web and what everybody now knows as social networking, or in my case my web site and Face book.

My studio location, is slightly of the 'beaten track', or what I mean by this: Not in a shopping area location. (However, still very well served by public transport.) So if you set out to buy a pint of milk, it is unlikely you will pass my studio at Creekside Artists in Deptford. Of course it is with this in mind that I now hope that my web site and my use of social networking (Facebook) will overcome this "Away from the High street" threshold. By using social networking I hope to bring my work to your PC and encourage you to visit a working Artist Studio.
I am now, going to quickly add, that this is not where my talents lie, I am still learning and thank everybody for their fantastic help and encouraging me to be a bit more 'with-it'!
To all of you, who I told it to be a whole load of cyber and un-real contacts...'I will eat my words' and apologise, I have met some fantastic people and have had many visitors to my studio! Once again, I am still learning to use all this, I still am a one-man-band and hope to spend the majority of my time making jewellery.

I can't believe it! I am now even blogging it!

Hopefully not 'blagging' it!
I do have something to say with my jewellery-designs and over the past few years I have made quite a few ladies, feel happy with the way they look. To get this feedback and have people come back for more, is of course my job satisfaction. For me the world is very visual, I need to see it, but for many they like to hear it or read about it. This brings me to blogging it. I hope to post some blogs from now on, of course with some visuals, but also write a bit more and start to tell the story about my work, before we meet in my studio. I have done two short films now, have a web site and am on Facebook, It sometimes feels like too much pushing my own ego...!! So hopefully: I will be blogging and not 'blagging'. Anyway...you can always tell me so, by leaving your comments.

My 2nd Video:...The making of

2010-05-02T02:26:00.000-07:00

My first YouTube video, was what I thought, just the filming of a bit of fun...and showing the family abroad, what I was up to. Little did I know that it was going to be a proper film!
So second time round...well..yeah, the nerves kicked in, when having to directly speak into the lens of a camera. Still, the whole video is unscripted and not rehearsed and hopefully tells my story and shows my work. Well..all thanks to the film maker, as at times it took a second take!

Now.......See, how well you know your London?
Right at the end of the video I am standing at a place in London, with the Big Ben in the background. Can you name the place, where I am standing? It is a much photographed place, that features in a major, blockbuster film. Make sure to check it out on your next visit to London, after which you just take a river boat to Greenwich and after a 10 minute walk, you are at my Studio. Just follow the Creek, to Creekside Artists Studios.

About the film maker:

Pieter Helms, is an established film maker and director, with many credits in the US, where he works for the major networks. How lucky am I to know him as my family! It was just for a bottle of fine Whiskey, that I have a fine short film about my work; Filmed, edited and directed, all by Pieter. (Normally he works with a crew of plenty.) I really hope we can continue to document my work using this medium. Thank you so much Pieter!

New Collection, work in progress

2010-03-11T04:16:00.000-08:00

Soon I will be able to post some photo's of my new collection, here on the blog and will update my website. At the end of this month I will be ready, but of course you can just pop in my studio at Creekside Artists for a preview.