Things about me

Hello. I’m Rachel.  I make jewellery.  Lots of different kinds of jewellery.  I’m addicted to making things, of all kinds – I have a shop at folksy.com and one at etsy.com .

A wee while back, I completed a year’s Arts Practice programme, which was great for lots of reasons.  Now, a couple of months after finishing it, I realised the most useful thing I learnt is what I DON’T want to do; what I DON’T want to be.

I want to have fun, and that didn’t seem to be an option.  That’s why I started doing this, because I enjoy it.  I want to have fun trying things out – new materials, new techniques, new styles.   I don’t want to be pigeonholed and bulldozed and bottlenecked and all those other odd metaphors.  If that means I don’t fit in with the conventional, accepted, universal ‘norms’ of what a designer should do, then so be it.  I make what I make because I enjoy making it, and I don’t intend to do the exact things that stop me enjoying it.  SO RAAARRR!!  ;)

One of the things the tutors scoffed about was that I said I wanted the majority of my sales to come via websites – I thought, “Hang on, I’m a mother of two, working part-time as it is; if that’s the most time-effective way to make MY practice work, then that’s how it’ll work. So nurks.”  It got me really angry…. and for various reasons it’s taken a while for me to get going with things, but now I’m on my way.

I also sing – me and my genius guitarist friend Ian are collectively known as Rachel & The Lawn Grower.  Look for us on Facebook - here we are

I hope you like my designs, I do.  If you’d like to contact me about anything I ramble on about herein, please do, I’m friendly; and if you bring me cake, I won’t even bite you.

Love and things,

Rachel.