zippydoo

Hi, I'm a mother of a gorgeous two and a half year old girl, and love designing and making contemporary jewellery, also painting and printmaking. Although it's very hard to get the time to do anything that complicated these days. I also love creating and making all sorts of things and have fun sewing. I really love seeing what amazing people there are out there and what their imaginations can do when they create something new.

Silversmithing, jewellery design, sewing, printmaking, painting and learning/playing with new crafty things. I used to knit a lot many years ago, intricate jumpers etc. and have only just started knitting again. I'm obsessed with knitting scarves at the moment. My friends and family love it.

Mostly Classical, Bach, Dvorjac, Mozart, Hahn. Although I also love music from Crowded House, George, Angelique Kidjo, REM, to name but a few.

I've always loved biographies, especially those about artists. One of my favourites is "Dr Seuss and Mr Geisel". I also enjoy a good fiction, two that are fav's are "Carter meets the devil", and "The Flowerboy".

"La Belle Noisiesse", "The other World Cup", "American Beauty", "Love Actually" to name but a few.

Time Team, Grand Designs, Teachers, Collectors. American programs, some of my fav's are NCIS, West Wing, Numbers, House, Medium and Ugly Betty.

I love so many colours it's hard to choose. But some of my absolute favourites are all types of blues, deep reds/burgundy, sea green, teal, jade, olive/earthy greens, to name but a few.

I've always had a passion for art and design, and have a love of Art Deco fashion/art/design, Art Nouveaux, Impressionism, Bauhaus to name but a few.

Some of my all time favourite artists include Giacometti, Milton Avery, Matisee, Rodin, Camille Caudel, Picasso.

One of my all time favourite contemporary jewellers is Friedrich Becker. There are too many current day contemporary jewellers for me to list.