jewellery

Filigree Design in Korcula

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Katedrala Sv. Marka, Korcula

Living in a medieval city we are surrounded by sources of inspiration for new designs for our filigree jewellery – today we are looking at our local architecture and stone carving.  

I can imagine the stone motif below making a very pretty filigree pendant.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Korcula is a fantastic place to live, we are surrounded by some of the clearest sea you could imagine and the sun shines almost daily during the summer months. 

We are currently working and living within the walls of the medieval old town, (Stari Grad), the town walls were built in the 14th century and it is said that 3,000 people used to live within these walls.  Today approximately 250 people live in the old town and it is very hard to imagine an additional 2,700 of us living here.  

I have been warned many times that I will find the winter very long here, (this will be my first full winter in Korcula)  with almost all of the shops, cafes and restaurants closed and very few visitors to the island, Korcula becomes a small ghost town.  I see the winter months as a great time for us to focus on new designs and create new stock for the 2012 season.   I will let you know how I feel about Korcula winter again when January rolls around! 

Questions & Answers

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On Thursday 28 July Seba Dizajn is hosting a questions and answers session – we can’t wait for this chance to interact with all of you….

What is it all about?

What would you like to know?

 

That’s a good question, it is all about finding out what you want from us;

What would you like to know about traditional filigree, modern adaptations of the filigree technique, the art and origins of filigree.  You ask it and we will do our best to answer it.

Maybe you are curious as to where the inspiration to create such beautiful pieces of jewellery comes from – I know I often am. 

 

It is endlessly fascinating to watch Adolf work, sometimes he sketches ideas on a page,  sometimes he will ask for my input, often it appears he is in his own creative bubble and things appear from his creative stem. 

Or, maybe your question is not related to filigree or jewellery at all – and that’s ok too.

Why the name Adolf? I know you’ve been dying to know, join our question and answer session and will share what we can with you.  How did I fall for someone named Adolf – I know my Mum was a little concerned when I first started talking about him!

So, please, stop by our facebook page

(www.facebook.com/SebaDizajn) and join the fun.

 If you do not have a facebook account leave your questions here and I will add them into our discussion panel on Thursday. 

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Cheers, Ruth

Unique Handmade Silver Jewellery

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Two Seba generations working together
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Have been feeling a bit like a naughty school girl this last week or so – todays incoming emails said 30 Day Blog Challenge Day 19 – and here I am on Day 10.  Woops! Hence the double blogging for today…
 
I wish to reassure you that every piece of jewellery here at Seba Dizajn is a unique piece, each piece is hand made and all of our jewellery is silver. 
We can guarantee you a piece that will be unique to you – we can even make something just for you if you let us know what you would like.
 
We currently have one piece heading to New Zealand and I can’t wait to hear from our customer there.  I am so convinced that she will love what Adolf has created specially for her, while at the same time a little anxious to hear from her.  Also a little anxious that her hand made silver jewel will be lost in the worlds postal system, that would be a sad thing – we do have many photos, but you cannae wear them!
I don’t want to spoil the surprise for our Hutt Valley customer but you can see below one of the pieces involved in her unique creation – I will post photos of the completed work once it has safely arrived in NZ. 
 
Once again, thanks for stopping by and please leave your feedback below –  it would be great to hear from you.
Something extra special for someone extra special
 
 

A Day in the Life

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Today has been a great day to write about, and it ain’t over yet – having visitors from abroad is the perfect excuse to play and I’m loving it.

The day started with coffee and cakes from Marco Polo bakery and a big blether in the sun.   Bikini on, ready to swim, what a great way to start the day.  Hilary and I swam at the bottom of the ‘street’  that we work on.  After this we purchased a small coffee machine, then back to the shop (www.facebook.com/SebaDizajn) to try out the new machine – it’s great.  Coffee on site is a good thing and hopefully a way to save us some cash as both Adolf and I enjoy our coffee a lot and regular stops at our favourite coffee shop (Caffe Stari Grad) throughout the day were adding up… 

Next mission was ‘save a cat’, Hilary being a keen animal lover had earier spied a wee poorly cat that looked like it wold barely make it through the week and decided that she would like to take it to our local vet and save his wee furry life. We spoke to the vet and he was expecting us at 12 so we had to go capture the cat, esier said than done it turns out.  Despite the cats apparent ill health there was no way it wnated to be transported in a box by us to the vet.  Oh dear, we made several attempts before speaking to the vet, 

“Do you have  a cat box we can borrow?”

“NO, sorry the box is not available today, it will be here again on Monday”.

Decision made to leave the cat till Monday, bring him some food in the mean time and monitor his condition – will keep you posted on his progress and try and remember to add a photo.

“What now?”

The decsion was to eat, and we sat at U Maje i Tonke & sampled their chickpea salad, hummus & fresh bread (all very good).  It is so nice to have visitors to blether with, Hilary and I sat for about an hour and chatted before me feeling like I really ought to give Adolf a break from the shop.  So we walked over to Seba Dizajn and watched some jewellery being created for a while before taking another stroll.

I am now on the afternoon/late shift, and have just sold one of our beautiful silver filigree beads and a matching pair of earrings to a lady from Chicago, lovely to talk with her and share some of the filigree story with her. 

Now I have a second pot of coffee brewing and I am catchin up on my ‘homework’ – I am two days behind on both of Nikki Pilkington’s 30 Day Challenges that I am currently signed up for – the Facebook Business Page Challenge and the Blog Challenge… Challenge 7, ‘A Day in the Life’ now completed.  Wonder what’s next?

Cheers

Ruth