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		<title>Happy new year!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:27:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the first day of the new financial year in Australia.  But for me it&#8217;s a day of new beginnings in more ways than one.
Yesterday I did my final day of work as an employee.  So today I am officially fully self-employed - finally (or self-insufficient as my friend Jodie describes it!).
I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A little bit of gold for a whole lot of money</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:23:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes it feels a tad depressing to be working in a field where the cost of your materials is down to the sometimes extreme whims of a market which has absolutely nothing to do with what you make.

At the moment both silver and gold are priced higher than they have been for a very long [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Back to the studio</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:17:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finally last weekend (which was a long one in Australia) I was able to get back to my jewellery bench, now set up in the studio space in my new home.

I spent the weekend completing an order for the National Portrait Gallery shop in Canberra, along with making some urgently needed jewellery for my own [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A time for change</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 04:14:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have now moved in to my Blue Mountains cottage with its very pretty garden.  There is still a lot of organising to do after the big move, but at least all of the boxes are unpacked and the rooms are each generally serving their intended function.
Flowers from my garden.
I feel this is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Farewell to my studio</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 10:38:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My studio is now fully dismantled and packed up, with everything ready to be moved to my new home.

If you&#8217;ve ever purchased any of my handmade jewellery online, then this is almost certainly the room where it was made.  
But with everything now packed, the very next piece of jewellery I make will be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Handmade jewellery on the move</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 09:21:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As mentioned in previous blog posts, I&#8217;m moving home and heading for the hills.
But it&#8217;s not just my personal life that is being impacted by the move as I am also moving my studio and my office, given that I work from home.
So if you&#8217;re considering purchasing handmade jewellery from me in the near future, [...]]]></description>
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