7th June 2010

Our first jewellery making session ended with beads scattered across the floor, strings knotted together and a few highly creative bracelets, rings and necklaces. But aside from the mess and the few pieces of eccentric articles that probably weren’t fit for sale, our hard work produced a range of jewellery that would go towards our final charity sale along with our glass paintings and other creative pieces.

I particularly liked jewellery making as we all got to work in a group with the help of our arts teacher Ms Anisha, relaxing and messing around with a bunch of colourful beads and charms. But at the heart of it we were really doing hard work, and I distinctly remember the painstaking hours we spent creating the correct twirls of wire for earrings, and meticulously beading necklaces (which frequently fell apart and had to be restrung again.) I created quite a few earrings myself and taught the juniors how to make them in one of our later jewellery making classes.

When we finally did have our sale, during a teacher training workshop, our jewellery was extremely popular. It was nice to think that our hard work was going to go for a good cause. On top of that, I feel I learned a skill that I could definitely put to use in the future.