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A commission, lovely beads and a new design silver ring

February 20th, 2013 · 4 Comments · Jewelry, Latest Design, Meanwhile in our atelier, My Work

Today I would like to show you the result of an afternoon of photographing … the past weeks we designed a new silver ring, we made a necklace and a commission. As I mentioned here before Jan and I get a lot of assignments lately. From across the country people come to our studio with [...]

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Join us at the artshow!

November 17th, 2012 · 2 Comments · Jewelry, Life, My Work

A little more patience please the new pendants are finally finished but I have no photos to show yet. There was some serious delay because Jan sharpened our kitchen knives …  and as Jan sharpens the knives … well, I cut my fingers twice and was unable to work for a day. Another thing was [...]

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Coming expositions

August 24th, 2012 · No Comments · Jewelry, Life, Uncategorized

The beautiful warm weather is over … it’s a dark day today and I think it’s going to rain. A perfect day to photograph the new jewelry we recently made. Lots of new work for the three coming exhibitions where we, Atelier The Jewelry Story will show our latest jewelry. Next Sunday, August 26, 2012, [...]

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How to make a croissant

August 2nd, 2012 · 4 Comments · My Work, Work in progress...

Start by cutting the croissant shape from a  sheet of silver … … sprinkle with bits of gold … … needs to be 24 karat gold … make sure the pieces of gold are secure, I always use a rolling mill. Succeeded! Burn the edges to a nice color … Flatten the edges … So [...]

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Exposition of “The Big Brooches”

April 21st, 2012 · 3 Comments · Jewelry, Latest Design, Life, My Work, Uncategorized

Today our Atelier will be closed because of the launching of our series “Big Brooches” The exposition takes place April 21-22 and April 28-29, 2012 from 13.00-17.00 hours in Gallery Terbeek in Beetsterzwaag, The Netherlands. If you like to see a preview … please click over here to read the wonderful post Montserrat Lacomba wrote [...]

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New jewelry

April 17th, 2012 · 6 Comments · Jewelry, Latest Design, My Work, Uncategorized

A few last minute pieces … Last week we made a few more jewelry pieces. These pieces are the last ones we are making for the Jewelry Presentation we are having coming weekend. Two new brooches by my partner Jan Kerkstra of Atelier The Jewelry Story and the long necklace is a made by me. [...]

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Jewelry for Museum de Buitenplaats

March 2nd, 2012 · 8 Comments · Jewelry, My Work, Work in progress...

Today I like to show you the progress we have made with the assignment of  Museum de Buitenplaats in Eelde, The Netherlands. As I wrote here earlier, we were approached by the museum with the request to design some pieces of jewelry inspired by their logo. Logo of Museum de Buitenplaats. This is what we [...]

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Meeting in real life!

March 31st, 2011 · 4 Comments · Design, Life

What made our Open House very special was the amazing weather, the beautiful work of the artists, all the lovely visitors, the compliments we received about our jewelry and last but not unimportant; we made quite a few sales…. Thanks everyone of you for visiting and all your kind words! Oh … and yes we [...]

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