Category Archives: Other Blogs

ScrapHappy February 2023

Posted on Feb 15, 2023 by DawnGillDesigns

Back to silver scrap this month One of the things that happens with me more often that I would like, is soldering fail. I prefer to make many of my items in small batches; I find that it is a … Continue reading →

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Association of Contemporary Jewellers Conference

Posted on Jul 4, 2022 by DawnGillDesigns

I’m a member of the ACJ and this weekend was their/our conference. It was a special conference to celebrate 25 years of the guild and they chose to hold it in Exeter, my home town so of course I bought … Continue reading →

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ScrapHappy April 2022

Posted on Apr 15, 2022 by DawnGillDesigns

Remember this? Reusing old nails and champagne corks for setting tools? Well. I’ve found an even less effortful and scraphappy adapation*. This time I just sawed the end off an old toothbrsh – one of the flexible and soft plastic … Continue reading →

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Scraphappy April 2021

Posted on Apr 15, 2021 by DawnGillDesigns

ScrapHappy April 2021
In honour of #FirstContactDay a brooch suggesting warp travel to the moon and milky way Continue reading →

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Cross posting – That Which is Kept Locked Away — the fiction phial

Posted on Oct 29, 2020 by DawnGillDesigns

I do very little cross posting here, on WordPress – I mostly prefer to use Twitter to shout out about other people’s work, but this super-short story popped up in my feed today, and I thought the beautiful prose and … Continue reading →

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