Marché de noel!! 30 créateur de Bijoux

!!! Je suis là !!!

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Du 30 Novembre au 30 decembre 2011

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Galerie Pôle Bijou

13 rue du Port
F-54120 BACCARAT

France 

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Hello non-french speakers/readers and jewelery lovers! This is a Christmas jewelery event in the Gallery Pole Bijou lasting just less then a month starting from the 30th of November-30th December 2011. There'll be 30 Creators'(me included!) pieces of a minimum of 15 pieces from each, yeah so get your train or plane tickets ready set go. The Gallery is located in the east of France, in a town call Baccarat – address as noted above.

Anyone interested in reading up further about the Gallery here's their website: www.polebijou.com
peace love and all that sparkle like jewels xx

Paris Ceramic Festival 2011

Saturday was such a unusually beautiful day, a hint of Spring appeared willingly greeting the start of the weekend with hope of warmth and some curiosity.  So I thought ok since you've made an effort Mr Sunshine I will! So why not make my way to this year's Ceramic festival 2011, not far from the famous Pere Lachaise.

I'd been to the one last year and was awestruck by some gorgeous work, work that awakens one's goose bumps and wish you could decorate your whole house with and take the artist home with you to have cups of tea with. This year I was surprise to find jewelry work by Violaine Ulmer; jeweller, sculpturist/installation-ist(if there's such a word). I've exhibited with her a few times at the Gallery Goutte de terre though this time I lucky enough to see a much bigger collection as a whole installed with her own signature style of display. I mean... who would've thought to combine silver with porcelaine/clay creating a granulation effect. One day I tell myself, I'm gonna have one of those tasty morsels on my many finger. 

Here are some pictures of her work from the show, and a handful of other ceramicists that I thought you'd enjoy.

Here are links, if not their contact details:
Violaine Ulmer

www.violaine-ulmer.com

05.61.20.22.44

Benedicte Vallet
tychen@wanadoo.fr
06.37.96.43.98

Beate Ronnefarth
oseramik@neuf.fr
06.28.22.52.07

Caroline Wagenaar
lesateliersceramique.com

Virginie Preux
virginie.preux@laposte.net

Maya Micenmacher
nicolas.rousseau19@wanadoo.fr
06.19.24.04.27

Goutte de Terre
06.98.63.77.32

Thank you to all those who have agreed to have their work taken.
Enjoy!

March 19-20th! 32 Creator's event at Hotel Boheme

Hopefully by then Spring will be upon us for real, and I'd be able to store my winter woolies away for at least a few months as winter in Europe seems to take up 90% of the year. To find out, why don't you pop around to see me and 31 other artists and enjoy some warmth and smile emanating from the handmade atmosphere.

It'll be the first of the quarterly event held by Hotel Boheme at the same location each time in the 2nd arrondisement near the metro 'Bonne Nouvelle'. Without fail one will be tempted in every way possible(trust me!); to adorn yourselves/friends, decorate your home, your kids or nieces/nephews, your husband/boyfriend etc etc. Your presence will show support to small businesses and without handmade our lives will be forever taken over by big shopping centers and big brands making huge unreasonable profits... making our connections with each other less and less humane. So, what are you waiting for? Go get yourself a train or plane ticket and lock in the date!

Below are some of the links of the participants involved:
• Japanese charcoal jewelry! http://www.eskimeit.com/
• Bags ladies!! http://www.sacadidie.com/
• Cold enamel brass jewellery http://www.marinedediesbach.com/
• Cutesy home deco http://www.pieddepoule.com/

Come hither...

Collective exhibition on 16th November...

... it's official! Flyer attached with dates, location confirmed. If you want to learn more about the artists involve please read the previous published article.

The dangling porcelain hand in the foreground is one of my creations, to have a closer look click here!

See you! x

Some of my favourites...

Some of my favorites from the Hotel Boheme, last weekend's 30 creator's expo where I also had a stall there :)

I have a new found respect for stall holders after doing this 2 day expo, where we all had to set up stall on preparation for a 2 day sale; with all the talking, looking, bonjour, merci, packing, moving, unpacking, dealing etc etc. gosh it ain't as easy as it looks. One would never consider the weeks or months preparation prior to the sale, working up day and night for a good quantity for presentation. Anticipation and excitement leads to lack of sleep and minor stress. Well, I have to say it worked out fine for me overall in the end; it's been fun, hard-work, interesting and educational. I'll sure do it again.... oh the best part was that I didn't have to photograph or ship anything!! They see, they buy, I pack and they take it away :)

Below are some of my favorites from it and they are not in any particular order:

ESKIMEIT: Japanese/Franco husband and wife (ex architects) team makes Japanese charcoal into funky faceted jewelry which I LOVE furniture to http://www.eskimeit.com

ASHIBA: French-japanese lady makes little kimonos for your wee ones... oh so adorable! www.kimono-rikiki.com

PIED DE POULE (basically means chicken feet!): modern funky ceramic wares, though at the expo she had brooches as well which you won't find in her www.pieddepoule.com

Enjoy
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