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3:20 pm
Decidedly private, warm and entertaining, a knowledgeable collector who can talk on numerous subjects around the clock face of culture both past and into the future. Barbara and I were invited to breakfast recently and could have stayed the entire day only we were returning to Brisbane the following day. With so much in common, we share numerous personal friends and industry contacts. The kitchen we ate breakfast in holds a mass of Cornish Ware – more than every bit we have ever seen in both our lifetimes, all on show, I simply had to respond and create an Inseperable for George and his kitchen – entitled ‘moving/stationary’ – a Cornish Greeting from Barb & mal E.
My little play with the black snake inn and one more shot of another of his passions . . .
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6:55 pm
The cab collected the three of us at 6:45am – off to the airport. We just entered airline security and our own security firm called saying that the studio alarm was sounded. They called Juan and we called our neighbor, Bill who didn’t hear the alarm. Bill went around the house and yard and reported nothing out of the ordinary then Juan arrived – opened up and the smashed lock, plate glass window was taken off the runner and placed outside. As the white blinds were drawn it was only for the curtain whoosh when Juan opened the door that he noticed . . . the break-in. The alarm, back-to-base response, our neighbours, the police and our own security awareness all saved the day. The alarm sounded 7:28am – they spent quite some time trying to gain an access point in the back of the studio earlier but failed. Maybe 20 minutes after the cab collected us – makes you think?
The wide panorama shot is here. On the Midland Highway just south of Oatlands, September 2011. The corporate link is here.
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11:12 am
The first © Barbara Heath Necklace design came out of a ‘what-if’ using Sabine Schleicher’s four strands of semi-baroque Pearls.
Actually, we arranged a valuation of the four strands just to see if they were worth spending the time & money on to enhance them in a major way – Ralph Pownall our valuer provided the certificate detailing them and we were on our way . . . next a rather detailed ‘Lace Pebble’ design hand-made safety clasp.
The gestation period led to a further raid on the gem collection, adding antique carved pearlshell, butterscotch amber beads, clear strawberry amber with inclusions and faceted Mexican fire opal beads. 18ct Yellow Gold Lace Ball and Holbein Knot Infinity Symbol strung with Barbara’s own Bar & Ring Clasp and Sabine’s Gold Akoya Pearls – here is a detail of this enjoyable colour play.
And the final deep etched scan with a digital shadow – click here for the larger .pdf
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