Studio tour

Last month I was approached by Michelle from the blog Roasted Montreal for a little Q&A and took the opportunity to send her some updated photos from my studio. As I have hardly made any update on that here, I though I'd show you the photos so you see how things look around here, at lear, how they look when it'd clean and tidy ;)

My studio is located in my home's basement which, thank goodness, is very bright, have lots of windows and during the day it doesn'tt look like a basement at all, with all the sun coming in. That may be my favourite part of it. On the downside, it's not very private. I share the space with my family: there's our tv space and library too. The idea is to close my space with a glass wall (we don't want to lose that light I told you about) but when is that going to happen? alas, I don't know. It's kind of a big project that won't come cheap and there are already other big projects for the house that are more urgent. But I'll stay positive and hopeful that this year I'll make enough dough to make my studio private! 

In the first pics you can see my desk, AKA packing station with all my bric-a-brac. Most of the time I work on my laptop there, too. As you can see window sill space is very well used with lots of curiosities and also tools and jewellery stuff. The there's my bench which I love to pieces. In the bench I do most work except soldering and oxidizing (for that nasty stuff I prefer to work on a restroom where we placed a special ventilating system for all the fumes from soldering) so it's always full of tools and current works and experiments. 

Overall, I enjoy this space so much and appreciate the fortune of having a place to make all the jewellery my heart desires. 

I hope you enjoyed the photos!

xx
Iveth

Bits of the new studio space

My new studio space is a work in progress, I'll begin with that. It lacks privacy (we are going to build a wall that separates it from the family room in the basement) but the brightness and spaciousness make it up for that. Overall I feel very comfortable working here and very inspired.

Here are some photos I took a couple of days ago.

Lots of windows and natural light. I couldn't be happier :)

Jewellers in action!

Two week ago (or was it three? hmmm...) I had the pleasure of being part of the Expo-Sale with Les Joailliers Du Dimanche as part of Montreal's famous Nuit Blanche. It was awesome as we were exposing at this gorgeous, gorgeous studio, making demonstrations, drinking wine all night (well, I was!), chatting, meeting costumers, meeting other jewellers and seeing old friends!

I took some pictures that I find really interesting, specially if you are not familiar with the process behind jewellery-making, as you'll see jewellers in action!

I hope you like them ;)

Isn't that studio amazing? I hope I'll have one like that one day! If you want to see a lot more of my photos, come to the joailliers's web site and enjoy!

Thanks so much for visiting and I hope you have a lovely day!

Iveth