Silver Jewellery & Exhibition

It's been a while since I've posted anything, but I've been playing around with silver casting and the results are just beautiful. A wax model is 3D printed from my design, which is then cast in sterling silver and polished by hand. 

I've also been playing around with finishes, polishing to a high gloss, buffing to a satin finish, and detailing with liver of sulfur which darkens silver to a subtle rainbow of Amber, blue, green and black. 

The silver pieces aren't available for purchase on the website yet, as I am taking them all down to Melbourne for an exhibition at the Brunswick St Gallery in Fitzroy. Here's a link to the Facebook event page https://www.facebook.com/events/770853992960304/

Opening night is Friday 31st October and it will be running for 2 weeks. 

New House Project Part 1

So rentals are always a bit of a pain, things falling apart and real estates never doing anything. The new place is pretty bad, half the vertical blinds are missing, there are water stains on the walls, and the carpets are horribly stained. 

But it has a lot of potential. It's so bad, that I don't think the owners could complain if we did a bit to fix the place up. First I wanted to rip up this square of carpet by the front door. Not sure what evils happened here, but it was already a replacement piece that was stained, so it was easy to rip up just that bit without ripping up the whole carpet. 

We bought some carpet tiles from Bunnings, I think they were only $2.00 each. I cut them with a Stanley knife into strips, and made a chevron pattern. To keep it all together, I stuck the pieces onto some heshan fabric with liquid nails. It fit in the hole left by the old carpet quite snuggly, and didn't need to be fixed down at all - if the real estate really has a problem, I can put the old carpet back when we leave!

Much better. Next I think I'll paint the door. 

Moving house

After a little bit of quiet time on the AskForOompa front, I have just moved into a new house (with a amazing workshop space downstairs) and I am ready to get back into building! I have set up my little reading nook featuring the Cut Lamp and super comfortable Lounge  Chair in Copper and Leather. I have added the leather chair to my shop on the website, I'll make these on demand so send me a message. 

The new place has a few little thing to fix up as well, so over the coming weeks I will try and document them here. First up, the horrible piece of stained carpet by the front door.