Pat wants the recipe and Barb isn’t too sure about some amounts – we will figure it out
From the Sally Wise recipe book we have in Tasmania, (from memory) ‘a year in a bottle’ – our first crop of apples made into “apple cheese” Saturday, Mar 23 2013
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We are so delighted with studio sale results this year and I still have to deal with two emails from Texas Lady who is now back in the US of A Monday, Dec 10 2012
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. . .with a record commission and repair list for 2012 we have spent so much time working on client’s demands we despaired that we hadn’t given the retail range enough energy this year. Plus the fact that the three retailers don’t want to be robbed of sale opportunities (by us requesting consignment returns) but we slogged on. Thanks to so many supporters, many who just come once a year to snap up the latest makes. 37 emails in response to the mailout, 399 viewers on the blog the day before the weekend sale and now the paperwork. We are in the studio until December 21st December 2012.
Studio sale this coming Sat 8th and Sunday 9th December 2012 Monday, Dec 3 2012
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Wonderful feedback received so far, the printed invite we mailed to commission clients last week has resulted in post comments, emails and phone calls to the studio … lots of anticipation. Plus we managed to connect two old and dear friends in different continents. Jenny read through the list and emailed us to see if “young Alex” was in fact the daughter of Wendy, a client who resides in Hong Kong. So the client list is also a “friend finder” – I always knew that! The .pdf is downloadable here.
The French cabinet was originally all-over gilt but as its c1870 – it has been painted on the exterior maybe 7 times over its lifetime.
Originally purchased in London by the Brisbane antique dealer – Michael Allen for his own house . . . it proved to be too large and then was a wee bit too small for his shop. So we managed to procure it for the Jeweller to the Lost studio. We are being forced to have more articles to show the clients who visit to arrange commissions these days although we refuse to retail from the studio. It will double as a larger studio sale showcase and joins the other three period French wall vitrines that came from South America and were sourced from Salvage, ages ago. Here is a wider pic.
One fabulous multi-use Sautoir that took Barbara two days to just thread and knot Monday, Nov 5 2012
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© Bh Necklace Commission Michele Askin – adjustable length Sautoir of double strand of carved aquamarine beads (recycled as supplied) with shorter sections of Lambina opal beads =40cts and our Bar and Ring clasp set with a pair of cabochon Mandarin Garnets 2=0.96ct. Various pendant and in-line © Bh details along the necklace include; Lace Pea pendant, Lace Pod in-line and set with Mexican Fire Opal beads =10cts, Carnelian Gumnut pendant, Carved Aquamarine pendant.
Nine details of the different © Bh symbols, Bar and Ring clasp and add-ons as keepsakes that make this piece so special – 1000 mm in length using carved aquamarine from a previous necklace (we won’t say by whom), and fiery Mexican opals from our own gem collection. For a lovely repeat client that shares our interests in the good things: life, food, wine, gems, art, furniture, modernism, history and the future of the planet.
Our link came up first out of 16,200,000 results of an internet search for ‘skull love token’, we were both chuffed Monday, Oct 8 2012
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Barbara’s Skull Love Tokens have been made since 1987 and exposed in a big way during her one person show (patron, maker, jewell) at the Brisbane City Gallery at Brisbane’s City Hall back in 1999 when I first made a web site of the show. Search engines have had this link since that time but we were still surprised to come up on top of the results list. Pasted below are the original shot of the Love Token Barbara made for me and the first blog link to our directory showing the (his/hers) versions: (these have big currency now amongst young people and we are receiving search hits every day for these © Bh items).
Melissa Cameron sent a similar search result from Seattle, just now, see her comment below and spend some time on her blog – I’ve spent rewarding times there over the past few months . . .
Collected today, one older commissioned ring re-jigged and a new Moebius Band © Bh Thursday, Sep 6 2012
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This post needed the two shots to fully explain Naomi’s latest commission. The matted Onyx ring she originally commissioned has been now sculptured thinner and a newer Moebius ring now fits as an interlocking set. We loved this interaction, Naomi could have easily just not worn her ring now that it didn’t fit and also the fact that the band seemed too thick for her after the birth of her daughter. The studio is so happy to have facilitated this new, slinky set of rings for the Evans-Tracey family.
Naomi has recently curated an exhibition of film and video works called “narrative arc’ at Griffith University Art Gallery, her curator’s talk is at 2pm – 3pm, Thursday 20th September 2012 at 266 Grey Street, Brisbane.
Two ring designs signed off and we are ready to commence both makes Wednesday, Aug 8 2012
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I’ve matted the names until we have finished the makes, I’m posting mainly to show how busy Barbara has been designing and preparing documentation and then response amendments. Dialogue, meetings and processing is so essential to a great outcome and never goes by the book . . . one of the best parts of our business.
First day back at the bench and the first design completed after our return from Tasmania Tuesday, Apr 10 2012
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Our next recycle commission for M.G. using her oxidised silver owl in a gold setting and her large strand of faceted fire Agate beads. Barbara will make x7 roughly oval lace units with a large © Bh textured hook clasp. Each unit will have applied gold details using Mara’s spare gold as supplied – all oxidised 925 silver work by Jeweller to the Lost.
This was Barbara’s piece #203 in “ArtRight in the public eye” 1993, artworks for the visit of the Dali Lama to Brisbane Thursday, Feb 16 2012
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I remember Thomas Vale-Slattery was escorting his holiness around the exhibition, he stopped and looked and turned the head of the brooch and laughed (as he is known to do) it was certainly the only thing I saw him touch all evening, what fun!
The articulated bronze brooch © Bh with cubic zirconia set eyes and stainless steel brooch back, 1993.
The latest clock restoration – a circa 1820 French ‘Empire’ (portico) regulator by Le Roy a Paris Thursday, Dec 15 2011
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An earlier post detailed the before and after shots of the damaged dial, I enlisted four friends to assist with the recovery of this beast over the past four months and I have just completed bringing the movement to correct time. The case work had to have two elements turned (well completely remade in similar aged timber). This work was done by Allan Roberts, a machining genius who is the in-coming President of our local Chapter 104 NAWCC clock club here in Brisbane. The job then fell to me to clean and complete the assembly of the case work and finish the re-polishing with tinted waxes. The deadbeat escapement, the movement and both barrels was done by my mentor (92 year old master watchmaker), Alan Clauson who also worked with me to re-assemble the entire suspension from scratch (it was completely missing), the block, the chops and the pendulum rod to correct length. Further more, these antique cases are so flimsy and it fell to Allan Clauson to secure in the bezel and movement for me when I became so busy due to the end of the year sale preparation. I finished all the gilt metal cleaning and steel polishing, the reassemble and the fine tuning of the crutch and timing. The scan of what was left on the dial was taken into Illustrator and the vector artwork prepared, this was exported to film and Chris Fry did the silk screen work. The dial itself was cleaned to remove all the paint and the organics, the sunburst pattern was bead blasted and plated with 10 mircons of silver by another retired mate, Bob Flemming. Money can’t but this kind of dedicated work, it doesn’t pay anyone who charges by the hour (with business overheads), this is for the people with passion. Additional pics (1) and (2).
