Do you want to see how I made this scorpion?
Get down to Lord Coconut on Friday 3rd August 5.30 - 7.30pm for the opening of 'I Made This' as part of the Craft Victoria Craft Cubed Festival satellite program.

I'm now stocking  Schtick a shop and gallery for design objects and contemporary jewellery, with a focus on Australian artists and designers. Check it out at 133B Lygon St, East Brunswick, Victoria.

It's auction time again for the NMIT Advanced Diploma students.  Here's the pair of earrings I've contributed to their fundrasing efforts this year.



From their Facebook page:

Please come along and support the Advanced Diploma students of 2012 at the NMIT Jewellery Auction Night on Wednesday the 9th of May at The Royal Melbourne Hotel 629 Bourke St, Melbourne 3000.

Handmade pieces of jewellery have been generously donated by students and estab lished Melbourne jewellers in a bid to raise funds for the NMIT Graduate Exhibition.

The Silent Auction commences at 5.30pm and the Live Auction will be starting at 7.00pm. So crack open your piggy banks and get your bidding arm ready for what is set to be a great night!!

Please note that the event is cash only ATM facilities available within the venue. We hope to see you there!

I've been a long time follower of The Carrot Box jewellery blog and my PacMan brooch that I made back in 2009 was mentioned in a recent post.  Thanks Alice!

The Charles T Fairthorne Travelling Collection of Natural History Curiosities Exhibition @ Lord Coconut opens tomorrow 5-7pm.

Charles T Fairthorne, old friend and travelling companion of Lord Coconut, amassed a collection of Natural History curiosities during his world travels in the 19th century. As a naturalist, entomologist, geologist and prominent member of the anthropological community, he subsequently travelled the world with his private collection of Natural History curiosities to raise money to fund one of his adventures which searched for the illusive ‘coconut head hunter’ tribe in New Guinea.

Celebrating his travelling collection of curiosities, our in-house jewellers and artisans have been inspired to create these wonderful pieces of jewellery, prints and sculpture.