January Birthstone Garnet

Are you born in January or have a loved one celebrating a birthday this month? Then you'll be thrilled to discover the fascinating world of garnet, the birthstone for January.

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T3 WeeK 1 - Chain Making

And we are back into the routine of the diploma. I am going to miss this once I am finished.

I have to say, I have thoroughly enjoyed my day today. Watching the videos, they showed us 3 different projects for chain making.

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Week 9 - Working with Gold part 2

Absolutley loved this week and I can’t wait to get these rings back from marking so I can wear them.

I did procrastinate most of the day with these as we had only a smalll amount of gold to work with and it is quite easy and quick to mess it up and it turns into a melted gold puddle.

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Week 7 & 8 - Copper Trinket box

We are skipping a week as week 6 was a business week and not a making week.

Again, I totally under estimated this week and how tricky it was going to be, I am glad we had two weeks to do this project and of course the big beast torch.

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Week 5 - Stone Setting - Collet setting

Again, I totally under estimated this week and how tricky it was going to be.

Having already done different sized bezels, flush setting and tube setting, I thought this was going to be a great week and I was going to really enjoy it. Well that wasn’t the case and in fact as I am writing this, the second collet is only just finished and I am due to start week 9 on monday!!!!

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