It's been a while.

It has been quite a while since I last posted anything here. I guess the main things that I've been up -aside from work - have been settling into the new flat and vacation in the Netherlands. NL was amazing - the perfect mixture of sightseeing, eating, drinking and chilling out. We got really lucky with the weather so we visited Zandvoort to spend a day sat on the beach in the sun. 

The new flat is totally awesome. I could just do with some more storage for bits and pieces. And there are more pictures to put on the wall but it feels like home!

Cocktails.

So I haven't been very productive recently but I did manage to leave my flat for long enough to shoot the new spring/summer cocktail menu for Wax Bar. I think these three shots are my favourites. I am all about blood oranges guys! They are amazing. 

York.

I have been so bad at blogging recently. And jewellery making. I've been working and procrastinating. I should've called Nexgen casting about my silver bones a week ago!! I'm terrible. 
I figure I'll get this weekend and the bank holiday out of the way and then hopefully I'll get back on it.


I took these photos in York last week. The weather was amazing! Next time I go I really want to visit the tower at the Minster. 

Sky.

Cemetery.

Standard 'I'm so goff' cemetery photographs. 
Crosses. Lots of crosses.

Sad times.

Today I had to say goodbye to a old furry friend. Sam has been a member of our family for 20 years and he will be missed.  


I headed back to Leeds and bought a few things to cheer myself up. Fancy juice, madeleines and a bunch of hyacinth. This evening I'm going to make a start on shooting images for my next look book. I'll be shooting in a different way to what I normally do so I'm hoping it turns out ok! Luckily I've got a friend helping me - if it goes well expect to see the images some point over the weekend!


Anyone who has a furry friend in their life go give them a hug please!

Ring... update!

Silver smithing update guys! Here's the ring that I mentioned in my other post... finished!

Ok that's two rings! And also a bracelet. The top ring is the same one that I showed you in the other photos. All of these were made from vintage sterling silver spoons. 

I've been doing some research and coming up with the best way of incorporating the quartz chunks into rings but unfortunately I couldn't work on it this week due to a couple of birthdays coming up that I wanted to make things for. I'll be in the workshop a couple of times next week though so hopefully I'll be able to post photos of the finished piece by next weekend! 

Etsy.

Yesterday I spent a couple of hours updating etsy - www.etrespicefinem.etsy.com
I've added some new pieces - next week I'll be shooting some photos of these guys being worn. I've also lowered the price of some older items that I only have one or two of. You can use the totally seasonal code SPRINGTIME to get 10% off everything!

Sea fret.

Leeds City Museum.

Yesterday I had a little wander around Leeds City Museum. I found it all to be a bit geared up towards kids for my liking but I enjoyed taking photos of the collectors gallery.   

The holy grail of nautical books....

On Saturday Dianne and I were lucky enough to attend a bloggers preview of the Caird Library at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich. It was pretty awesome - we got taken upstairs to the store rooms. The amount of documents and books they have in unbelievable! The lovely people there got out some old artefacts for us to look at which were really interesting but the best part was really just getting to look at their extensive book collection. Dianne spent some time looking over a shelf of colour coordinated books on polar exploration while I drooled over a beautiful bound set of Captain Cook journals. They had a really good selection of books on my two Navy favourites - Cook and Nelson! I copied a few titles down to search for at a later date to add to my own collection.    

Check out Dianne's photos over on her blog! 

Ooh Dianne's new Scott tattoo makes a cheeky appearance in one of the photos below!